So-called “Cannibal Cop” Gilberto Valle seems to be having a weird couple of days: on Monday, the documentary about his life, Thought Crimes, premiered on HBO. On Tuesday, his case was debated at an appeals court panel, where he was repeatedly compared to a leprechaun by the people who have the power to send him […]
There are few places in New York where you can you get as satisfying and delicious heaping of daal chawal than at the Punjabi Deli, and that’s not even considering the cost — under $5. But for the past 5 years, the Indian food joint has been hurting; owner Kulwinder Singh says that the food […]
On Tuesday, Bowery Boogie posted a rumor that retired NBA great Steve Nash offered to pay to repair a decrepit soccer field in the Lower East Side’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park, but the city turned down his offer due to “bureaucratic bullshit,” according to Bowery Boogie’s inside source. The soccer field on Stanton Street was […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Over two decades after the last Storm Rave, Frankie Bones, progenitor of the […]
The Wall Street Journalreports that artist Pierre Huyghe has nixed a sculpture that contains a dead cat from his installation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop garden, as well as another piece that would have contained live ants. The installation, which opens Tuesday, was slated to contain the two pieces as part of the […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Buff Monster. Name/Alias: Buff Monster. Decade you were born in: The end of the ’70s. City you currently live: Brooklyn. Drugs or natural highs? Never done drugs. Never even smoked a cigarette. How did you get your name? […]
The woman struck by a piece of wood that fell off a Soho building on Friday is shaken but recovering, according to DNAinfo. Marie Dehrehndorf, a 19-year-old tourist from Germany, was hit in the head as she walked on Broadway on her very first day in New York. She has some staples in her scalp […]
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, more commonly known as MDMA, is a psychoactive drug that makes dancing to house music extra fun. Patented by a German company in 1912 and rediscovered by hip chemists over fifty years later, it was popularized in the form of cooly-branded ecstasy pills by the pioneering club kids of the ‘80s and ‘90s and […]
On Prospect Park West at 9th Street, there are four parking spots that are off-limits to drivers between April and September. The stated purpose is to allow parks department vehicles access to the park during summer event season. But the ban has a side effect of being a nice little source of parking ticket revenue […]
Bruce, Astor Place. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
