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Luc Sante Explains How New York Eccentrics Lost Their Color

“BLVR: One guy who really had that huge capacity for human behavior was former New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling, about whom you’ve written lovingly as a chronicler of the flotsam, riffraf...

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World’s Most Tediously Made Stencil in Poland

Italian street artists Sten and Lex made this giant stencil in Poland with meticulous diagonal slicing, peeling and painting. See them toil with flashlights in the night. See it hanging in strips, 65...

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The Softer Side of Haneke Wins at Cannes

“Journalists always try to stick a label on directors,” Michael Haneke says. “For a long time I’ve been the expert in violence.” So, don’t expect any cow-slaughter...

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Parting Shot

SEVR and IDEAL’s unauthorized endorsement by cartoon celebrities pops up in Chinatown. (Photo: Lulu Vision/Flickr)

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Dear Commissioner Kelly, Stop-And-Frisk Isn’t Worth Infringing Civil Rights

“In fact, the city’s murder rate started dropping long before Kelly’s current tenure as [NYPD] commissioner, and there’s no evidence stop-and-frisk had anything to do with it....

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Higher Cab Fares Bad For Us, Not Much Better for Drivers

Cab fares may be rising in the near future, but this may not be as good for cab drivers as it is for cab owners. Most drivers rent their cabs on a per-shift basis up-front, pay for their own gas, mai...

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‘A New Kind Of Beauty’ Is Nipped, Tucked, Pumped And Reconstructed

The subjects of Phillip Toledano’s A New Kind Of Beauty series have had some work done. They have had a lot, a lot of work done. Aren’t they gorgeous? Body modification this extreme has a...

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Hope You Had Fun at Prom, Here’s Your Condom

Ah, prom night. The night for corsages, freak dancing, awkward photographs, and, if you go to Bedford-Stuyvesant Prep, condoms. The school, which only has 130 students, will have 500 condoms ready at...

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Baltimore Orioles Players Flip NYC the Bird

Watch as partially-uniformed Baltimore Orioles center-fielder Adam Jones and second-baseman Robert Andino sticker-bomb New York City streets, vehicles, and pedestrians with their team’s bird ma...

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Beer Was Safer Than Water Thanks To Aaron Burr, and Other Brew Tidbits

As if learning that Pabst upper-ups contracted typeface luminary Frederic Goudy for PBR’s iconic logo wasn’t enough history for you beer nerds, Central Park’s got a sweet summer lin...

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‘Drivers Wanted’ Trailer Released

The new trailer for Joshua Weinstein’s Drivers Wanted features the diverse voices of New York City’s cabbies. The film follows Eric, a new immigrant from China with a fresh start in Ameri...

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Rabbit Hole: Edgar Oliver

This is our little social experiment. We started with a set of questions for New Yorkers about the city. Then we found a subject. We asked the subject to answer all of the questions and then recommen...

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Practice Makes Perfect: “Da Capo” Paintings by Elise Adibi

“Da Capo,” now on view at Churner and Churner, artist Elise Adibi explores small-scale repetition on 6′ by 6′ canvases, and the result is anything but tedious. Adibi minutely ...

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What Are You Doing Tonight? Chinatown

The premise is simple. Go to different areas of the city and ask people: What are you doing tonight? Vendors who’ll make a deal. Underradar teen fantasy card games. Unimaginably large crustacea...

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American Depress: Ron English’s Credit Card-Crucified Mickey

One of Ron English’s best loved themes is now a Kidrobot figure. English tells ANIMAL: “America is the greatest country. Where else can a debt-saddled impoverished citizen support a super...

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NY Teens Look at Newton Creek, Think: Hey, A Park Could Go Here

A group of twelve students from high schools in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx have big plans for one of our very own toxic waterways. The group beat thirty-six other teams at the Construction Indus...

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NYPD Raises Eyebrows Over Acquisition of Etan Patz’s Killer

Six-year-old Etan Patz vanished without a trace on May 25th, 1979 while walking from the bus to his Soho home. His disappearance sparked a nationwide protection campaign as Patz became the first miss...

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Ill Doctrine: Why Trolling Needs To Be Legal

New York legislators are trying to effectively outlaw all anonymous comments online. This is a bad idea for a bunch of reasons. Ill Doctrine is a video blog on music, politics and culture, launched i...

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Tim Burton Zoetrope Cake Is The Best Kind Of Cake

Is it too early for cake? Not if it’s this Tim Burton-inspired detailed desert miracle. Watch it spin and make the walnuts undulate like twitching little brains. Bones dance in rows. The entire...

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LES Teens Are BB Gun Snipers

What’s the matter with kids these days? First blow dart sniper attacks in Bath Beach, and now B.B. gun sniper attacks in the Lower East Side. On Wednesday, two teenage boys were arrested after ...

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NASA’s Trippy New Sun Video

This new video from NASA takes SDO images of the sun and its undulating, bubbling plasma and aplies additional digital enhancing of “no scientific value.” Just the visual wow. Let’s...

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Yayoi Kusama’s Lost Dirty Pictures: Don’t Reject the “Crazy” Ones

“To me, then, she was simply a kook,” Steven Heller of the Atlantic remembers. In the late ’60s, when he was a 17-year-old art director for the underground sex paper Screw, pre-fame...

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Parting Shot

Behold New York City’s “bravest pigeon.” (Photo: Abian Sacks/flickr)

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OWS Librarians Suing Bloomberg For Property Destruction, But It Was Never About the Books

On November 15th, 2011, under the cloak of night and with no warning, the NYPD violently evicted Occupy Wall Street’s encampment at Liberty Square in lower Manhattan. Other encampments across t...

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Test Post

This is a test post. We’re testing blockquotes which auto-italicize. Alexis Handwerker had been sitting on a bench beneath a towering elm in Stuyvesant Square Park in Manhattan â€...

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Look, Baby Tigers on the Lower East Side!

Yes, baby tigers! They’re here from Ohio, as part of the “Ideal Pole” group show curated Bjarne Melgaard at the Ramiken Crucible on the Lower East Side. I stopped by to ...

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Oh Hey, It’s Smog Globe, the Pollution-Filled Snow Globe!

Here’s a depressing little art thing. UK design team Dorothy created the perfect snow globe. Shake the power plant and clumps of black smog start swirling around. It’s all your fault. Ori...

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Fafi Opens ‘The Carmine Vault’

Last night, the New York Art Department debuted Fafi’s new Rizzoli-published book, The Carmine Vault, at the The Hole Shop in the East Village. We stopped by and briefly interviewed the French ...

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This Chelsea Resident is Real Mad

You know the High Line? That public park? That really lovely example of a civic structure? Well, this Chelsea resident is angry that it’s so, you know, beautiful. And that people really like it...

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