Mars (Planet)

Spacing Out With Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Mulhy

Space was the place for a pair of stellar yet utterly different multimedia works that enjoyed their New York premieres this week. Way Uptown, installation artist Rirkrit Tiravanija transformed the Park Avenue Armory into a sternly minimalist lunar viewing station for Karlheinz Stockhausen's eight-ch ... More >>

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Mars Looks Like Arizona!

Above is a shot of the terrain of Mars, taken by the Curiosity rover. Below is one of the landscape of Arizona. Looks to me like in the future, old folks are going to retire to Mars.

Q&A: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne On Stephen Colbert, Ke$ha, And An Inadvertent Game Of Telephone With Lightning Bolt

Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne dreams weird and hard and big. What often starts of as a whimsical vision might just end up as a new world record (for the most live concerts in 24 hours) or a limited-edition vinyl release infused with the blood of other artists (as was the case for 2011's The Flamin ... More >>

Total Recall at Film Forum: Paul Verhoeven's Bang! Pow! Pinnacle

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Oreo Celebrates Mars Landing With a Conceptual Cookie

The Web has been abuzz with the Mars rover landing, and Oreo has decided to tap into the craze with an Oreo cookie. Note that this isn't actually in stores. As the poster indicates: "Red creme currently unavailable." The image was posted on the company's social-media pages and has gotten more than ... More >>

Want Times Square to Be More Crowded? Air the Mars Rover Landing There Tonight

A few weeks ago, my roommate and I decided to take a late-night bike ride up the West Side Highway. It was around midnight when we hit 59th Street and headed east towards Central Park. Dangerous, yes, but the air was calm until we decided to advance on the brilliant idea of biking through Times Squa ... More >>

Total Recall

'Milk It A Little Longer For Me': Watching The Flaming Lips' Attempt To Make The Record Books

When news broke that the Flaming Lips were going to play eight separate shows in 24 hours in an attempt to eclipse a Guinness World Record set by Jay-Z, the collective response was something along the lines of, "Well, of course they are." The Lips have done so much bonkers shit up to this point in ... More >>

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The Final Frontier on Park Avenue

Google and James Cameron: Asteroid Miners?

Looks like Bruce Willis's mining team from Armageddon could be employed again. In a relatively strange press release, according to the Wall Street Journal, a new, fittingly named company called Planetary Resources, Inc. has teamed up with none other than the high officials at Goo ... More >>

A David Bowie Jazz Duet?

No, not with Iman. It would be with feisty singer/actor Lea DeLaria, who exploded out of comedy and surprised some people with her award-winning jazz stylings.

Wanted: Taste Testers of Astronaut Food

Calling all space geeks and food connoisseurs: Researchers at Cornell University are looking for volunteers to test out menus designed for astronauts on missions to Mars.

NYC's 10 Weirdest Restaurants

​Hmmmm, will flying to Mars for dinner make me seasick? There has always been an element of zaniness in the New York dining scene, ever since pretty girls started selling hot ears of buttered corn down on Delancey Street in the 19th Century - or maybe even before that, because a restaurant b ... More >>

Russian Mars Probe Will Probably be the Latest Thing to Crash into Earth

via Wikipedia​In September, NASA's UARS satellite plummeted back to Earth, scattering debris over the Pacific Ocean. In October, Germany's ROSAT orbiting telescope reentered our atmosphere and crashed somewhere in Southeast Asia. Following this pattern of space crap falling back to Earth comes ... More >>

White House Officially Denies Knowledge of Alien Life

"I wholeheartedly agree with the White House. Carry on."​The White House has officially responded to a petition signed by 12,078 people calling for the government to "formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race." The Office of Science & Technology Policy's Phil L ... More >>

Live: The Creators Project Brings Florence, Justice, And Lots Of Art To DUMBO

Benjamin Lozovsky​The Creators Project October 15-16 Better than: A representative of the Intel Corporation laboriously explaining to me the superiority of their microprocessors. If you're suspicious that The Creators Project is all just a way for the Vice Empire to class up its image beyo ... More >>

Was the Space Shuttle Program a Success?

​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we wake up, rub the sleep out of our eyes, roll over in bed and ask the Space Shuttle, "So, now what?" (We had sex with the Sp ... More >>

Robert Burnham Jr.'s 1983 Testament: An Astronomer-Recluse Inscribes His Universe (Part II)

Burnham in his Prescott, Arizona home lab, circa 1960.​ Yesterday, we published the first half of a 24,000-word "self-interview" by Lowell Observatory astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr. on what would have been his 80th birthday. Burnham died in 1993 at the age of 61. He was known not only for hi ... More >>

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NASA Asked to Fix New York's 911 System

​New York is asking NASA to fix their beleaguered 911 system, the Daily News reports. The space agency is better known for doing things like going into space, but city officials hope they can help troubleshoot the out-of-synch and over-budget Emergency Communications Transformation Program as ... More >>

They May Both Lack Charm, But Mars Bar Definitely Isn't Mars 2112

granvilleonline.caThis would be a good time to make a Uranus joke.​ EV Grieve points out a hilarious mistake from Canadian publication Granville Online in its article about the world's worst restaurant bathrooms. They confused divey Mars Bar with space-themed Midtown restaurant Mars 2112. Th ... More >>

Last Night: Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Waxing Erudite At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

In action at LPR. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Monday, June 21 Darcy James Argue would like us to know that CDs and "stylish T-shirts" are available for purchase, so as to "finance my big-band habit," which is "worse than crack." He then turns his attention back to co ... More >>

Catching Up with the Antenna Man

​"Hello, people of Earth! I have come to your world..." Wait a minute, we thought -- is that Antenna Man? Turns out it was. We hadn't seen him on the L train for years. He was slightly less eccentrically costumed -- the shades were less ornate, and he had lost the deely boppers that signaled ... More >>

Idiot Savant Travels to Foremania, What Once We Felt to Dystopia; The Understudy Goes Nowhere

A Message From Yoko Ono

​Yoko Ono, widow of the best Beatle, John Lennon, and legendary shriek-singer of "Walking on Thin Ice," is still radiating positivity after all these years. I'll never forget when, ages ago, I reviewed one of Yoko's albums and said the only good thing about it was the gurgling sound provided ... More >>

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