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Jackie Rodriguez Peña prepares a frog smoothie at her stand at the Mercado de las Brujas in Lima, Peru. In Lima’s Mercado de las Brujas, or witches market, Peruvians gather to dicker for talismans and ancient medicines. Giant slugs larger than a water bottle sweat sticky slime. Dried llama fetuses hang from the ceiling, their…
Short-term rentals are not a significant factor in SF’s housing shortage. So why are people going crazy about this one company? Disclaimer: If you want to contact the author of this piece and accuse me of something, you can tweet at me. I also wrote a convenient FAQ for people who wanna call me “astroturf.” *** Last year,…
November 7th, 2015 at the Brooklyn Commons, 7pm Join us for a screening of Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner followed by a panel discussion in conjunction with our upcoming course Replaceable Parts: Becoming Cyborg in America. Panelists will discuss the film through the lens of contemporary technology studies, cybernetics, and cyborg theory while paying particular attention to questions of media, mediation,…
New Yorkers were out in their best zombie Mets uniforms, Swedish Chef costumes, and Pizza Rat outfits last night all across NYC, with the Halloween Parade alone a cornucopia of audacious and colorful get-ups. But there was no question what the best costume in NYC was last night, and you couldn’t see it anywhere in…
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announces the firing of Ben Fields, a senior deputy who forcibly removed a female student who refused to leave her high school math class at Spring Valley High School on Monday. Alex Sanz/AP hide caption itoggle caption Alex Sanz/AP Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announces the firing of…
Watch how the Syrian civil war became the mess it is today. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO After four-plus years of fighting, Syria’s war has killed at least 250,000 people and displaced 12 million people. And, though it started as a civil war, it’s become much more than that. It’s a proxy war that has…
A US Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed close to China’s man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday, drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it warned and followed the American vessel. The patrol by the USS Lassen was the most significant US challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China asserts…
On Monday, a case against the Church of Scientology went to trial in Belgium, where the Agence France-Presse reports the international celebrity church faces a possible ban for fraud and extortion. According to the AFP, Belgian authorities opened an investigation into the church’s financing in 1997 after a number of former members came forward to…
Just in time for Halloween, here’s another vermin-eats-food-themed costume to take the wind out of pizza rat’s sails. Redditor connierubirosa has snapped what they deem the “most New York Photo” they’ve ever taken, words likely uttered by other notable urban life photographers. Hey look—it’s a pigeon with a bagel around its shoulders! The story of…
Every Halloween, western kids look forward to dressing up in scary costumes and going door-to-door trick-or-treating around their neighbourhoods. But if you’re a kid living in a certain district in Kobe, Japan, the spooky highlight of your year could lie in receiving a big bag of candy from Japan’s largest yakuza group. Trouble is,…