“One of the best rock albums ever f*ckin’ made,” a Genovese Crime Family associate is heard to say about “Never Mind the Bollocks.”
Marc De Pape’s recent project, The Chime, is an elaborate environmental ‘meter’ that translates local acoustic and kinetic data into lush musical compositions.
Built in 1862, the Petite Ceinture is a great way to see Paris from a different perspective as the railroad’s bridges peep over the boulevards every few hundred yards.
Instead of letting a building that used to house 17,000 Olympic athletes go to waste, a Qatar-based real-estate developer is turning the property into a brand new housing project for those in need.
Photographer Dave Bledsoe found a veritable payphone graveyard underneath the elevated West Side Highway at 135th and 12th Avenue.
Montreal's Mayor Michael Applebaum has been taken into police custody by the province's anti-corruption squad.
Jacob A. Riis arrived in New York in 1870. As the economy slowed, the Danish American photographer found himself among the many other immigrants in the area whose daily life consisted of joblessness, hunger, homelessness, and thoughts of suicide.
When Hurricane Sandy inundated Manhattan last autumn, the flooding corresponded almost perfectly to land reclaimed since the 17th century.
In a strange sequence of events, it seems that the Hugh Hefner Empire wants — and has recently obtained — a lease on 6,500 square feet of land west of Marfa, Texas, which is best known in the art world as the home of artist Donald Judd’s Chinati and Judd Foundations.
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