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Empire Biscuit in the East Village is about to become Manhattan’s premier destination…for comedy. For three nights during the first week of August, the small food joint will turn into an improbable performance venue, featuring more than 50 of the city’s top comics. As comedian Brandon Scott Wolf, a freelance contributor to SNL’s Weekend Update […]
City officials said Tuesday that judges will no longer set bail for misdemeanor and non-violent felony suspects in an effort to keep them out of Rikers, where they could end up stuck for too long or have something terrible and avoidable happen to them. Instead, suspects will be allowed to live at home and even […]
Hunter, Tribeca. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
What’s left of an old COST, SMELLS, & SET wheat-paste in Tribeca. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The only way mankind is going to be able to completely trash the Earth, move onto to terraform Mars, and then destroy that planet is to grow food in space. But like Terra firma, typical grow lights consume too much energy, take up space and generate lots of heat. However, scientists think that targeted LEDs […]
Committed Orange Is the New Black superfan Samantha Gardella, a 19-year-old film student, got the attention of the show’s cast and crew when she released a video of an unauthorized visit to the show’s exterior set in Orangeburg, New York. Days after the show’s third season dropped on Netflix, it was reported that the crew […]
Joe and Kate Bly live in East Elmhurst, Queens, in a house that used to belong to Joe’s grandparents. Shortly after they moved into the house in 2003, Joe started cleaning out the garage, and found a lot of his grandfather’s cool old stuff, which grandfathers generally have a lot of. They decided to embrace […]
By now, you have probably read about the Melbourne skyscraper inspired by Beyoncé. Mimicking the singer in her music video for “Ghost,” the 68-story Premiere Tower is tall and curvaceous. But you know what else that building looks like? A rocket, a snake gestating prey, and literally any and every other curvy building in a […]
Would you drink beer made from human piss? If you attend the Roskilde Festival in Denmark in 2017, you may have no choice. Festival organizers started an initiative at the festival this year, which ended on July 4, where urinal pee was collected and stored and will be used to fertilize barley, which will then […]
In the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, a wooded land somewhere between New York City and Philadelphia, scientists confirmed the existence of a previously undiscovered species of leafhopper, a type of colorful sap-eating bug that lives in a threatened grass called pinebarren smokegrass, EurekAlert reports. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys, was led […]
