Category: Features
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who supported the Eric Garner protests and has admitted to smoking weed, continues to be a man of the people. On Tuesday afternoon, he performed a dramatic reading of an Onion article that gently mocked his preparedness for a storm that never arrived in New York City. Mayor de Blasio just […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. This week’s playlist comes to you from Brooklyn-based noise rock outfit A Place […]
Manolo, High Line. (Photo: Steven Severinghaus) […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Cosbe 1. Name/Alias: Kid Cosbe Decade you were born in: I caught the tail end of the 70s and grew up moving all over the world with my army dad. When my parents got divorced I was raised […]
Lao, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Navigating the ever-expanding sprawl of New York, a city that’s home to 8.4 million people, can be nightmarish to tourists and natives alike. Ben Wellington, a professor at Pratt, has found a way to make some sense of the chaos that surrounds us by using open data. By mining the city’s data in his blog […]
Daphne, Williamsburg. (Photo: Marina Galperina) […]
If you found the sardonic anthropomorphized animals in Bojack Horseman hilarious, and Adult Swim’s comedic experiments continuously excite you, then you’ll probably love Animals — an absurdist animated series about NYC starring talking horses, rats, and pigeons. There’s just one problem: it still needs a network. The LA Times has devoted a fairly lengthy article […]
Ernie, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Doomsday Clock is an invention by some of the scientists who worked on the atomic bomb. Its job is to give a metaphorical indication of just how dangerous various threats to civilization and mankind have become. At 11 AM on Thursday the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced the first […]
