Results tagged “challenge”

The Figment festival is set to take over Governors Island for its 3rd consecutive year this coming June. Last year David Koren, the festival's organizer, had discussed with us the City of Dreams 9-hole minigolf course designed by a team of artists (photos of full course can be found here), and now the good word is that it will return! And the fest announced that this year they plan to double the fun by expanding the course to 18 holes. It will once again be free, and accessible to the public on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays while the island is open from the end of May to early October. First things first, though, it still needs to be designed, and you can be a part of that. Head here for full details on the challenge to build the course, and maybe watch Overboard for some inspiration. In fact, maybe they ought to just recreate Dean Proffitt's Wonders of the World miniature golf course!

At Harlem eatery Ottomanelli Brothers, customers are encouraged to enter the "Hulk Steak Burger Challenge": A diner who consumes the 24-ounce steak burger (three "normal" hamburgers stacked with cheese and bread on a bun topped with fried onions), plus fries, plus a 20-ounce soda within 20 minutes, gets the next lunch special free. According to co-owner Nick Ottomanelli, only two men have won; a mysterious dark horse from Britain and a big cop who "ate it with his bulletproof vest on, and had a piece of cheesecake afterward." Yesterday former New York Knick Cal Ramsey (pictured) gave it a shot and after ten minutes announced, "I'm already out of gas." According to City Room, neither he nor his two friends came close to winning because nobody could "finish their huge goblets of soda, which really makes this challenge a gut buster." Sure, blame the soda, not Ramsey's sub-par performance; there's always some excuse for a Knicks loss, isn't there?

              

WNYC explores street photography through the eyes of six New Yorkers (including our own Jake Dobkin); they call the medium "a uniquely New York art form" that dates back to the days of Weegee the Famous. Weegee's site holds a quote from Naked City that sums it all up pretty well: "He will take his camera and ride off in search of new evidence that his city, even in her most drunken and disorderly and pathetic moments, is beautiful."