Cops raided Assif Mayar’s Castro Valley, California home Tuesday, finding 34 pounds of weed and a five-foot guard caiman named “Mr. Teeth.” “We get guard dogs all the time when we search for grow houses and people stashing away all types of dope,” said Sergeant J.D. Nelson. “But alligators? You just don’t see that every day.” […]
ANIMAL favorite Rollin Leonard brings his group show “Parcel” to the Bronx this weekend. The traveling show’s conceit of keeping art shipping costs to a minimum bred a theme — all art is made of small parts — “bits & pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole” — folds flat and fits into cardboard tubes, including this GIGANTIC pile of MONEY by Anthony […]
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 […]
