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Ah, it’s been a while since we’ve gotten any updates on metzitzah b’peh, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish practice that finds Rabbis using their mouths to suck the blood from infants’ freshly-circumcised penises and has led to fatal contractions of herpes simplex virus. Back in September, New York City’s Board of Health ruled that rabbis who wanted to […]
The recent legal blows to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk tactics may have department brass fearful for the policy’s future, as Police Commissioner Ray Kelly gave a fire-and-brimstone sermon on the dangers of ending the practice at a press conference yesterday. “The things that we’re doing here are working and I would hate to see them […]
Mac, Sunset Park. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Someone is putting up Super Mario mystery blocks all over Williamsburg. (Photo: Hrag Vartanian/Flickr) […]
As designer Andrew Lynch points out, though traditional Subway maps are extraordinarily useful, in the strictest sense, many aren’t really maps at all: proportions are skewed in favor of readability, so that the distance between two stops on the map may not truly reflect their actual proximity. With a passion for accuracy and an eye […]
Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers has a release date — March 22nd, da-da-dum. It also has this neat new poster as seen on the Vulture. Did you forget what it is? Did you forget that a shirtless James Franco will blast “Britney Spears’ ‘Everytime’ on a white piano at the beach as the girls dance around him […]
Despite the long and rich history of track cycling in New York, building a velodrome in any of the five boroughs is close to impossible. The plan to turn an armory in the Bronx in a bike racing facility was shot down and now a plan for multi-use sports complex with a 200 meter indoor […]
This brilliant, simple 8-bit web game allows you to play through one of Quentin Tarantino’s most beloved sequences: Kill Bill, Volume 1’s “Crazy 88” fight scene, in which Uma Thurman’s Beatrix Kiddo hacks and slashes her way through a seemingly endless stream of sharply-dressed opponents. The controls couldn’t be more straightforward–arrow keys to move, space bar […]
He’s back. Our favorite net art rapper Yung Jake — the maker of the original “Datamosh” video and the most amazing interactive experience “E.m-bed.de/d” returns with an augmented reality video you can only view as an app we’ve been dying to share with you. “Augmented Real” — it’s FREE, don’t stress. And it also… next level. Just find “Yung […]
