Sandy
Mitt Romney Needs to Go on an Apology Tour
Weeks later, the failed candidate should finally account for his wrongdoings, instead of continuing to blame his loss on “gifts” Obama supposedly gave minorities. Isn’t it time for Romney to do something truly drastic and redemptive? I think so. The...
Make It Rain on the South Sound
For the past six months I’ve been playing in an amazing studio space in Gowanus, Brooklyn called the South Sound. In addition to offering up 13 practice rooms, the space housed two meticulously built recording studios. Unfortunately, Sandy wiped it off...
An Open Letter to My Parents, Who Still Don’t Believe I Survived Hurricane Sandy
Dear Mom and Dad: Thank you for your continued concern about my wellbeing during and after Hurricane Sandy. To reiterate: I’m fine. You’ve got to stop calling to ask if I’m in the dark, in the cold, underwater, or dead. Please redirect your worry to...
Has Hurricane Sandy Made You Worry About Global Warming?
If the theory that homosexuals caused Sandy turns out to be false, the only other top fallback suspect has to be global warming, right? And that shit is supposedly only getting worse by the day.
LES in the Dark
The city felt so pervasively absent that it seemed to defeat the idea of taking any kind of aim. Maybe a Manhattan without light in a sense already is photography? I tried to cooperate.
NASA Explains How Frankenstorm Sandy Was Born
Now understand how Sandy was built. This is what it looked like from the inside.
It Was Halloween in the Lower East Side on Wednesday
Bonfires burning bright, pumpkin faces in the night. I remember Halloween. This Halloween, I DJed at Lit, one of the few bars with electricity below 38th Street.
Ladies, You Need to Masturbate. From a Girl Who Didn’t for the First 26 Years of Her Life
As Sandy hysteria hit New York last Sunday and everyone scrambled to hurricane-proof their lives, I kept getting text message after text message offering the same advice: Don’t forget to buy batteries!
This Is What the Worst of Sandy's Damage Looks Like in NYC, and How You Can Help
On the night Sandy hit New York City, intrepid and often wacky filmmaker Casey Neistat went out on bikes with a friend and made an incredible video portrait of lower Manhattan like I’ve never seen it before.
Taji’s Mahal – Sandy Halloween Roll
After sandy blew the city into a dark oblivion, the streets were somehow more crowded than ever. Cabin fever and the risk of accidentally drinking fecal water forced every vampire, ghoul, goblin, and freak out onto the darkened streets. With nothing to...
Lost in the Flood: New Jersey After Sandy
In Atlantic City, the shock of Sandy's impact had not yet worn off. Police imposed a 6 PM curfew. Once-busy intersections were virtually barren, though some traffic lights did somehow work, unlike the ones in lower Manhattan. The Atlantic City...
Ones and Zeros: Climate Change, China's Hipsters, Jony Ive's Apple
Our weekly round-up of the good guys and bad guys running rampant on the open Internet.