Two of Vladimir Putin’s most high-profile critics have joined forces and announced plans for large-scale anti-Putin protests in Moscow on March 1st. Activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, currently under house arrest, announced the protest online this week when he published his letter to the government requesting permission for the march. The letter is cosigned […]
Artist, journalist and political activist Molly Crabapple has released an arresting new video illustrating the history of the “Broken Windows” policy and how it hurts people of color. Crabapple, a subject of the FBI’s intrigue, details the policy championed by William Bratton during his past and current term as NYPD Commissioner. Throughout the course of […]
Seven months after being recorded kicking the head of an handcuffed suspect in Bed-Stuy, Officer Joel Edouard has been indicted for misdemeanor assault, DNAinfo reports. The video of the incident, which takes place less than a week after the events surrounding the Eric Garner case, shows another example of the police brutality in the city. […]
Tonight the Oxygen Network debuts its terrible new street art-themed show, which was promoted just as terribly. KLOPS is a prolific graffiti artist in New York City who not only writes his name, but also draws characters. He makes legal art, too: Every week, be on the lookout for an original KLOPS comic with the […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile ELLE. Name/Alias: ELLE, or ELLE StreetArt Decade you were born in: The ’80s, yo! City you currently live: Brooklyn Drugs or natural highs? Mushrooms and pot sometimes, but I would say I’m pretty much au natural. 😉 How […]
A Pratt student’s sketch led to the arrest of an ex-con who was violating the terms of his probation. The New York Daily News reports that a 21-year-old woman noticed an older man, Christopher Thomas, lurking the hallways of Pratt last Thursday where he allegedly exposed himself and masturbated. The woman drew a quick sketch […]
A grand jury has dismissed terrorist charges against a Brooklyn teenager who was arrested for posting a Facebook status of gun emojis pointed at police emojis. According to the criminal complaint, Osiris Aristy’s multiple social media posts “caused New York City police to fear for their safety,” prompting them to show up at his Bushwick […]
Haim, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Hewes Street station in Brooklyn during last week’s boring blizzard. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Urban areas all across the planet are increasingly experiencing heat waves says a newly released study conducted by smart people at the likes of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, Northeastern University, University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Washington. The researchers studied 217 cities and found nothing good: The results showed that […]
