Tonight in Atlanta, the Michigan Wolverines and the Louisville Cardinals will play to find out who is the greatest college basketball team in all the land. Will it be the Wolverines, who, behind the play of standouts Trey Burke and Mitch McGary, have ensured that your Facebook feed has been awash in ... More >>
In their first movie Unclear Holocaust, the anonymous crew of remix provocateurs who call themselves the Anti-Banality Union sliced up decades-worth of Hollywood disaster movies to create a troubling and frequently hilarious critique of the post-9/11 security state and Hollywood's own civilizational ... More >>
Oh wow: If you read our interview with the Anti-Bananality Union last fall, you know that the anonymous trio constitutes our very favorite situationist remix-cinema prankster collective currently active in Brooklyn. Their previous work, Unclear Holocaust, is not only the funniest 9/11 movie ever, bu ... More >>
Jack Frost and the Secular Pantheon
Judge, jury, and [insert explosion]
The pair teams up and confound expectations
In a wild shootout seemingly lifted from a TV cop drama, 48-year-old Ilya Iglanov shot his business partner, Semyon Levin, 52, to death at about 12:30 yesterday afternoon in Staten Island before cops came to the scene and gunned him down. Levin's wife, Marina Tartakovskaya, 45, was shot in the st ... More >>
On Friday, a link to three-minute making-of video for a scrapped, Hype Williams-helmed clip of "XXXO" appeared on M.I.A.'s twitter. The footage shows M.I.A and a small group of dancers (including Beyoncé choreographer Jonté) painted head-to-toe and gyrating to the song's hissing, whirling beat. Th ... More >>
Half man, half machine, all statuePatrick Cassels wrote an impassioned plea to the city of Detroit in Slate, imploring them to seriously consider the plan to build a Robocop statue. He says that the public arts work is worthy, as it depicts "a character who represents triumph over this sad la ... More >>
The city has agreed yesterday to pay $55,000 to settle a suit brought by the family of Stephen Cruz, which charged a school safety agent had kicked a bathroom door in on Cruz, cut his head, told him, "That's life, it will stop bleeding," and split. Cruz, a senior at Robert F. Kennedy High Sch ... More >>
Because if Kanye can, so can you
Charting our myriad obsessions, amusements, and confusions
Back in his native Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft one slick, quick WWII thriller
German producer drops echoes, crazy voices, bowling balls
Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riffs crotch
Trash Talking With Mad Scientist Paul Verhoeven
