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The most important news of the day in New York City, according to America’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper: A homeless woman with a lot of shopping carts who hangs out in Hell’s Kitchen. Good to know! http://tktk.gawker.com/the-new-york-p… This is not the first time the New York Post has mocked a person who sleeps outside…
Last week, the New York Times reported on a modern day, technological art heist. According to the Times, two artists snuck a camera and a Microsoft Kinect 3D scanner into the Neues Museum in Berlin and did a surreptitious scan of the 3,300 year old bust of Nefertiti. The artists put the purported results of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty-six-plus hours of televised debates in the 2016 presidential campaign have brought us Marco Rubio’s robotic moment, Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping sexual innuendo, Bernie Sanders’ dismissal of Hillary Clinton’s “damn emails” and Clinton’s denunciation of Sanders for an “artful smear.” Oh, and we’ve heard about issues, too. Is it all too much? Trump,…
Overcoming a consensus 21-point deficit in the polls, and odds against winning pegged at 99:1, Bernie Sanders stormed to victory over Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary Tuesday night. Sanders’ stunning upset win has altered the momentum of the Democratic race. Will it be enough to change the delegate math? Sidebar WTF Happened on…
In laymen’s terms, “kill boxes” sound like torture devices. In military jargon, they are almost incomprehensible; as defined in the Department of Defense Dictionary, they are “a three-dimensional area reference that enables timely, effective coordination and control and facilitates rapid attacks.” But despite their ominous name and complicated technical definition, kill boxes are actually relatively simple…
New York City’s first 4DX theater is opening this month, according to a press release that triumphantly appeared in our inbox today—but what is 4DX, even? Is it IMAX? No. Is it 3-D? Not quite. In short, 4DX is “an immersive theater technology featuring moving seats and environmental effects.” The experience will bring wind, fog,…
Bernie Sanders pulled off a shocking upset victory in Michigan on Tuesday, overcoming a double-digit deficit in the polls to win his largest state yet. Sanders had gambled big on Michigan, pouring resources and time in the expectation that the state would be receptive to his populist economic message and criticism of American free trade agreements….
Fifteen of the 16 negative stories on the Bernie Sanders campaign that the Washington Post ran over a 16-hour period. In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday, March 6, to 3:54 PM EST Monday,…
A Female Journalist Dared to Ask Peyton Manning a Serious Question and She Was Called a “Cunt” and “Bitch” For It On Monday, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning held a PRESS conference to tell everyone what everyone already knew – that he was retiring after 18 years in the NFL. At the PRESS event was…
What was meant to be a profile of a band—of British duo The Last Shadow Puppets, for Spin—instead became a thinkpiece: this happened because one member of that duo, Miles Kane, decided to sexually harass the writer, Rachel Brodsky, during their interview. The piece starts out relatively routinely, with the writer, the duo (which also…