Category: Takeover
The enormously popular boy band One Direction is playing the “Today” show tomorrow. Some people are very excited about this. A select few are so excited, in fact, that they’re currently posted up on Rockefeller Plaza, camping to ensure they’ll be among the first in line to get in. Some of them have been there […]
This is not what a feminist artist looks like. I am not in a habit of trashing a show before I see it, so I won’t trash the 2-day “EXPLICIT” exhibit at Morgan Avenue Underground in Bushwick this weekend. After reading this Vice profile however, it’s clear that there is an ethical and intellectual fail in […]
Lee Daniels’ The Butler is simultaneously sprawling in its scope, and in-your-face, small-details gritty. Starring Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African American butler in the White House from the Eisenhower to Reagan administration, it jumps through two presidents in a single montage while slowing up to indulge strange tangents that totally aren’t pertinent to the […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week saw the release of Earl Sweatshirt’s long-awaited debut album Doris. We’re looking at early highlight “Centurion,” which shares a sample with the 1995 Kool G Rap track “Take […]
Edward Snowden: traitor to his country, true American hero, or video game protagonist? Pick two out of three. The man who blew the whistle on the NSA is no longer holed up in a Russian airport terminal, washing his hair in the sinks of public restrooms with travel-sized bottles of shampoo. Now he’s the star […]
Cher Ami, Downtown Brooklyn. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Lovelace (2013) There is this ancient celluloid scroll DEEPTHROAT w/LINDA LOVELACE w/clitoris not where clitorisies go, feat. many fellatios & v popular some half-century ago, important #censorship etc. But Linda’s story is #SAD so ☆ ENTER HOLLYWOOD ☆ Amanda Seyfried as “girl next door” HAHA James Franco as Hugh Hefner BAHAHAHA… but story SAD, so a […]
Hot Tea strikes again! The Minneapolis native took over the pedestrian pathway of the Williamsburg Bridge and strung colorful yarn from one side of the fence to another, about ten feet above the ground. Tall bikes watch out! You really, really shouldn’t be riding in the pedestrian path anyway, lest you want to get beheaded by a […]
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. Diner 85 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Black Tree 131 Orchard St, Lower East Side, Manhattan Tabare 221 S 1st St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Gallow Green 542 W […]
I’m the guy in a lot of those photos above. There’s me in college, studying abroad in Trinidad; there’s me goofing off with my best friend in high school; there’s (lots and lots of) me and my girlfriend. It’s a little unsettling having all those tiny, relatively intimate moments up there, but if I’m sharing […]
