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January 30, 2014 Citizen

Welcome to Monday night Vogue Knights, where ball culture lives and houses compete for glory, respect and pride. When I first came to Club Escuelita in Hell’s Kitchen on a bone-chillingly cold December night, the place seemed dead until 2:30am. Then the crowd flooded in and took over the dance floor. The MC roared into a […]

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Andy Cush

Wingman started as a joke. Gabe Whaley, creator of the forthcoming app, was getting off of a flight when he had a revelation: what if something like Tinder existed on airplanes? If you were bored in the middle of a long sojourn, you could pull out your phone, see if any fellow passengers spark your […]

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Michael Rougeau

ANIMAL’s Game Plan feature asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Kent Hudson of one-man studio Orthogonal Games about The Novelist, a thoughtful game in which players must find a balance between one character’s career and his […]

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Marina Galperina

Rust, East River Ferry. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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January 29, 2014 Marina Galperina

O Fortuna! Sometimes, you find yourself on the E train, at 7:30pm on a Friday, struggling not to vomit. Sometimes, you vomit anyway. ANIMAL friend Tom Grunwald captured this gentleman flailing desperately off the subway railing, clearly trying to hold back his vomit and not taking several opportunities to exit the train car and relieve himself […]

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Aymann Ismail

Super Bowl Boulevard™ opens to the public today in anticipation of Super Bowl XLVIII™, and though cameras aren’t technically allowed on the Super Bowl Toboggan Run™, we brought a GoPro along to document the experience. The ride was fun, but probably not worth the 45 minute wait to get to the top, especially in the cold […]

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Bucky Turco

A tipster sent in an image on of what appeared to be a piece of Kaws art hanging on his wall, but it was actually a counterfeit he made. So, we asked him if he would share his process. He agreed. Making your own bootleg Kaws is as as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. […]

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Bucky Turco

Kwai, Murray Hill. (Photo: @Bitch Cakes) […]

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January 28, 2014 Aymann Ismail

A conscious-minded vandal explains one of the hallmarks of rasta tradition to the public. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Marina Galperina

After weeks of civil unrest in Kiev, the fiery combat in the occupied streets and the storming of police stations and government buildings, the protestors seem to be winning. The prime minister of Ukraine resigned today. The government has repealed most of the tyrannical new laws on freedom of speech and assembly. The heavily criticized President Yanukovych […]

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