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October 16, 2011
Rightbloggers Work on the Nixonization of Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread nationally and internationally, making it hard for even the American media to belittle it. This reality seems to have caught up to the rightbloggers who, as we saw a few weeks back, were at first eager to dismiss the phenomenon as a silly hippie effusion ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2011
U.S. Seizes $180 Million Worth of Cocaine From "Semi-Submarine" off Honduran Coast
Cocaine, but not this cocaine.The Coast Guard announced they intercepted and seized a semi-submersible vessel, its five-man crew and 7.5 tons of cocaine. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection airplane spotted the fiberglass semi-submarine and a Coast Guard cutter caught up to it off the Caribb ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
Bombs in Gravesend Bay Make Coast Guard Think People Should Not Go There
The Coast Guard has permanently barred boats from passing through a portion of Gravesend Bay that is apparently littered with bombs. While thisseems like it would be a good move for boaters, it also means that the 1,500 unexploded anti-aircraft shells sitting in the water may continue to sit ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2011
Nazi Sabotage Team Sent to America Was Hilariously Inept
"Hogan!"In 1942, a team of Nazi saboteurs armed with bomb-making supplies and instructions to perform multiple acts of terrorism emerged on the shores of Long Island and Florida. Details of this mission from a MI5 intelligence officer were recently declassified, Yahoo reports, and they paint ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Disney Cruise Line Worker Missing at Sea
A Disney Cruise Liner that left from Los Angeles on Sunday is reporting that a crew member on "The Disney Wonder" has gone missing. The crew realized that the unidentified worker was missing on Tuesday when he didn't show up for his morning shift. The boat docked Wednesday in Puerto Vallarta, ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2010
Oil in the Gulf is Not Quite Gone
Though the Louisiana oil spill has all but faded from the public consciousness, fishermen in the region have reportedly discovered "miles-long strings of weathered oil," despite the U.S. Coast Guard claims that little more could be done in terms of clean-up. The local Times-Picayune has a jar ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
BP Well to Be Sealed By Saturday, Says BP
The good old days.Hey, everybody, remember that well in the Gulf? The one that broke a while back, and leaked its oil everywhere, and got all over a bunch of birds, and fish, and shrimp, and people? Oh, come on, remember? Yeah, it was a long time ago that happened. Like, before the summer eve ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
Update: Another Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf
via WAFBNot even kidding, though we wish we were. An offshore oil rig owned by Mariner Energy exploded this morning west of the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, about 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay along the central Louisiana coast. Update: CNN reports that according to Louisian ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2010
"Squeezing" Is Not a Sex Move, and Other Things We Learned During the Summer of BP
via NYTWhen we look back at these hazy days of summer 2010, we'll remember oil, for sure, and birds and models in oil (thank you, Italian Vogue), and a smattering of strange, mystical, rather sexual-sounding phrases, like "junk shot," "top kill," "tar balls," "bottom kill," "annulus," "bullhe ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2010
Lightning Strikes BP Drill Ship; People Start to Wonder
First Jesus, now BP. Lightning is smiting things all over the place! A bolt struck a drill ship siphoning oil from the Gulf of Mexico today, starting a fire that stopped efforts to contain the leak. Temporarily, thank...ahem.
Blogs
June 9, 2010
The Other Gulf Oil Rig Quietly Spilling Right Now: Explained and Exposed
Here's a strange one: a filing by Ben Raines at the Alabama Press-Register on Monday evening shows up online with a headline announcing "Another Gulf oil spill: Well near Deepwater Horizon has leaked since at least April 30." Some bloggers may have noted it. But why aren't we hearing anything ... More >>
Theater
May 25, 2010
Summer Guide: Directors Ivo Van Hove and Peter Stein Anchor at Governors Island
The Lincoln Center Festival brings high art to the harbor
Blogs
May 18, 2010
Of Tarballs and Permission Passes: The BP Oil Disaster Rages Forward
BP's underwater oil geyser that's spewing the black bile of the earth into the ocean at a few thousand gallons a day is still working! In fact, it's working so well that byproducts have started to wash up on the shores of Key West: like those beautiful treasures of the ocean, sea shells, exce ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2010
Paterson Hands Control of Governors Island to City
New York's next hot tourist destination will have 87 acres of green space, a view of the Manhattan skyline, and a moat. Governor Paterson announced today that the state is turning over control of development on a 150-acre patch of Governors Island to the Governors Island Operating Entity, w ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2010
Cargo Ship Ruptures in Gravesend Bay, Causing Evacuation
A 443 foot cargo tanker, the Sichem Defiance, suffered an internal rupture yesterday morning in Gravesend Bay. The rupture occurred while the vessel was being loaded with 55,000 barrels of ethanol. Rescue boats from the NYPD, FDNY and the Coast Guard rushed to the scene, where they found the ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2009
Swimmer Feared Lost in Rockaway Waters
Another swimmer in the Rockaways appears to have died. Heyward Patterson, also known as Winky, had a few drinks and took a dip with friends near 15th Street Beach in the early morning hours and vanished. He was on disability and living with his mother. The Coast Guard has been searching the w ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2009
Lost Rockaways Swimmer's Body Believed Found
Monday night Anthony Bolden, his friend Jacob Ried, and his sister Sabrina Hicks were relaxing in Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways when Ried, who'd gone swimming, was seen to struggle. Bolden tried to assist him, and wound up lost. The Coast Guard went looking for him, then called off its se ... More >>
News
July 28, 2009
Pirate School, For the Merchant Sailor in You
The three Arrrrrs: Maritime schools tackle the seafaring menace
Blogs
July 2, 2009
S.I. Ferry Crash Hurts 15
The Coast Guard calls it an "allision." You know it as a crash. Last night around 7 p.m. the John J. Marchi, a Staten Island Ferry vessel, hit the pier a little too hard and too directly (glancing blows are common), injuring 15. Fortunately the worst casualty seems to be a man with a dislocated elb ... More >>
Music
March 18, 2009
The Hesitant Triumph of Britney Spears
Her fans scream, her circus-themed antics mesmerize, and her wardrobe functions just fine
Blogs
March 17, 2009
Man Saves New York, And Wants Everyone To Know
Man saves New York!The San Jose Mercury News took a moment today to profile a codger who back in the day put out a fire on board an ammo-loaded ship in New York City harbor, thus, according to the story, stopping the blaze from "taking out greater New York City.""It was a close call for New York Cit ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2008
Street Artist Swoon Deemed Pirate by NYC Cops
Man saves New York!The San Jose Mercury News took a moment today to profile a codger who back in the day put out a fire on board an ammo-loaded ship in New York City harbor, thus, according to the story, stopping the blaze from "taking out greater New York City.""It was a close call for New York Cit ... More >>
Art
October 16, 2007
Brooklyn's Captain Nemo
Famously busted for his Revolution-era sub, artist/mariner Duke Riley returns at Magnan Projects
Music
August 28, 2007
Joyful Yetis on the Open Sea
The sludgy, swampy delirium of Clutch is perfect for maritime marriage proposals
Blogs
August 3, 2007
A Submarine Found in the Harbor? Blame RISD
The sludgy, swampy delirium of Clutch is perfect for maritime marriage proposals
Film
September 19, 2006
'The Guardian'
The sludgy, swampy delirium of Clutch is perfect for maritime marriage proposals
NYC Life
May 23, 2006
Life of Riley
The sludgy, swampy delirium of Clutch is perfect for maritime marriage proposals
News
February 28, 2006
Anchors Way, Way Away
Port Security and the Politics of a Good Story
News
February 21, 2006
Ports: All 'Bout a Dealer Named Bout
A Russian arms merchant funnels money, guns, and dope through the United Arab Emirates
News
January 24, 2006
Barricading the Storm
Why the White House Won't Release Its Katrina Papers
News
December 6, 2005
Rotting Meat Still Litters Gulf Coast
Mississippi governor says federal Katrina response stinks
Film
November 22, 2005
'Yours, Mine & Ours'
Mississippi governor says federal Katrina response stinks
News
November 8, 2005
Feeling Insecure
There's no defense for some of the government's defense plans, even for D.C.
News
September 20, 2005
Rita in Texas, Protesters in D.C.
President Bush Seeks Shelter From the Storms
Blogs
September 14, 2005
Morning Report 9/14/05
Picking Up Pieces in Baghdad, New Orleans
President Bush Seeks Shelter From the Storms
Blogs
September 8, 2005
A Long-Simmering Stew
President Bush Seeks Shelter From the Storms
News
August 30, 2005
Bush, You Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do
Big-on-terror White House wasn’t ready for Katrina
News
August 30, 2005
Leisurely Bush, Bumbling Feds
Only the Coast Guard looks good after Hurricane Katrina
News
August 30, 2005
When the Levees Broke
Hurricane Katrina unravels the threads of a fragile New Orleans society
Music
August 31, 2004
Music
Hurricane Katrina unravels the threads of a fragile New Orleans society
NYC Life
April 13, 2004
Sleepy Hollow
Waking up is hard to do, though eventually they do and embrace life
News
June 11, 2002
Nation
Waking up is hard to do, though eventually they do and embrace life
News
October 2, 2001
The Next Attack?
Waking up is hard to do, though eventually they do and embrace life
News
September 4, 2001
Collision Course
Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis
Theater
June 19, 2001
Water Is Wide
Based on a True Story
Theater
May 29, 2001
Glazed and Confused
Based on a True Story
News
July 18, 2000
Nation
Based on a True Story
News
May 9, 2000
Nation
Based on a True Story
News
July 27, 1999
Eyes Wide Shut
Rating Death's Value in the Age of Celebrity Hype
News
April 21, 1998
Ships Ahoy!
Rating Death's Value in the Age of Celebrity Hype
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