Results tagged “lastnight”

The Gotham Gazette has a fairly comprehensive overview of the unpleasant byproducts associated with densely populated living: garbage. The details are illuminating, 64,000 tons of weekly garbage that amounts to 7 billion pounds every year. The feature is an examination of the accumulation of daily decisions that New Yorkers make every day about the things they consume and dispose of. Paper, plastic, food waste, electronics, and other things we throw in the trash add up...

Earlier this year one New Yorker decided to document something we pass by every day: the trash. The website Last Night's Garbage looks at what most of us try to avoid and matches up the photo with some verbal witticisms, knowledge or "deep thoughts." Underneath a photo of a public trash can are the provisions of proposed INT. NO. 110-A. What, never heard of it?:

This bill would amend subdivision (e) of section 16-120 of the Administrative Code to change the term open mesh basket to public litter basket. It will also amend subdivision (f) of section 16-120 of the Administrative Code to increase penalties for a violation of paragraph (e) to $100-$300 for a first offense, $250-$350 for a second offense within any twelve-month period and $350-$400 for a third or subsequent violation within any twelve-month period. The bill would also create a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name or other identifying information is found on the commercial or household waste deposited it in the public litter basket. Section two states that this local law will take effect thirty days after it is enacted into law.

In other words, don't toss that offer for a new credit card in a public litter basket. The Sierra Club suggests you use the site as a platform to ponder post-consumer waste. And we suggest Freegans take note, this site could serve as an online shopping platform pointing you to all the best trash in town. Free bytecode verifier knowledge (pictured) spotted in the East Village!

READINGS: Russell Simmons has written a self-help book and will be at Border's today promoting it (okay, now all of this recent noise he's making makes more sense)! It's called "Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success." None of the laws include any of these three words.

One week ago around this time, Nicole Atkins found out her band was stuck at an airport in Ohio. With only a few hours to her set time at our show in Austin, she decided to play without them. Below is one song from her stellar set (a cover of Lead Belly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"), which she performed with spontaneous backup band The Parlor Mob.

(pic via tammylo's flickr)

Yesterday, the Post revealed the season premiere of Law & Order (Friday, September 22 - new night, people!) would center around "a wannabe rapper - who happens to be married to a wealthy young starlet with a reputation for being careless with her newborn baby - becomes the prime suspect in the killing of an NYPD detective." Ah, it is so great when it's so obvious who they are ripping from the headlines.

- Stephanie Adams' cabby says she's a vampire!

Mark Kassen, writer and producer

One of our readers left us a link to the picture above on our Contribute page, along with this comment:

Hot on the heels of last week's LA Times piece about the Cobra Snake, the New York Times Sunday Styles section gives us a two-pager on Merlin Bronques, the wigged-out dude behind Last Night's Parties. Just in case you don't follow the hipster party scene, here's a basic summary: Merlin goes out to parties each night, snaps some hotties (preferably showing some nipple), and posts them on his website. Same goes for the Cobra Snake-- although he is based in Los Angeles, while LNP seems to be a New York institution. Gawker has even gotten into the act, picking their weekly favorites from both sites. What do we think? Well, nipple pix are always a nice way to start the day-- and this may be a sign of how old we've become, but don't all these kids look exactly the same?

There's more information about the mysterious deaths of Mellie Carballo and Maria Pesantez, the two 18 year old women who were found unconscious at a Lower East Side apartment and later died. The girls' families say they were not drug addicts, but friends and the two men who were last with the girls say they had been using drugs. The police think uncut heroin or cocaine may have led to overdoses. One of the men, Roberto Martinez, told the Daily News that he only met the girls when Alfredo Morales called him to come to the apartment because the women were having seizures. The NY Times has an extensive article about the conflicting thoughts from family and friends about the deaths and how the women met the older men (at Ludlow Street Bar, Dark Room). The ME's office is still working on toxicology tests.

cast member from his lack of Academy Award accolades this year, but really the continually overlooked one is Sandra Oh.

Merlin Bronques, Nightlife and Pinup Photographer