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June 19, 2015 Prachi Gupta

Organizers of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, exasperated by the lack of response from the Daily News over a misogynistic and racist misrepresentation of the cultural event, have pulled all marketing and advertising from the paper. The outrage is over the Daily News’ use of this photo to represent the parade: The photo was taken […]

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March 31, 2015 Prachi Gupta

Well, this is sad. Numerous outlets are reporting that Cablevision is putting in a bid of $1 to buy beleaguered New York paper the Daily News. The upcoming bid isn’t, apparently, a joke. Reuters reports that there is at least some financial justification for straight-up trolling: Cablevision’s $1 bid takes into account the New York […]

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October 20, 2014 Rhett Jones

Das Racist, the beloved Brooklyn hip-hop group, may be no more, but former member Dapwell is keeping busy and still hilarious. For just one of his many projects, he’s printing stop-and-frisk shirts featuring our former mayor and his infamous statement that the NYPD “disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.” At the time, 91% of those subjected […]

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