JJ Brine. (Photo: Nicole Disser)
This past weekend, Bushwick occult store Catland put yet another hex on Brett Kavanaugh. If you’re wondering whether it’ll work, consider this: JJ Brine, founder of the “Official Art Gallery of Satan,” is taking credit for the defeat of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to marry same-sex couples.
JJ Brine. (Photo: Nicole Disser)
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(Photo via @dagesjuvelierkeates on Instagram)
If you thought the line for a last-minute Halloween costume was as bad as it got, you may have learned otherwise when you headed to the polls this morning. As if the soggy weather wasn’t bad enough, New Yorkers reported downed scanners and waits of up to four hours. (Gonna need those free drinks!) Even Mayor de Blasio had to wait in line; he emerged from his Brooklyn polling location calling for voting reform and saying “NYC deserves so much better.” The state Attorney General’s office announced that as of 3:30pm, it had received roughly 100 complaints about New York City poll sites with broken scanners. Here’s a look at this morning’s carnage in the B+B area.
You don’t have to watch SNL’s Midterms ad to know you’re going to need a flower vase full of booze this Election Day. Luckily, some bars are giving it away. And you can score free food, rides, and coffee on Nov. 6, too (even if some of these promotions are of dubious legality). Here’s our growing list of discounts and freebies.
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With Georgia investigating an alleged hacking attempt into the state’s voter registration system, we’re reminded of just how easy it is to hack an election. And that’s just one thing we have to worry about. Hackers are stealing private Facebook messages, inserting malicious microchips into household items and military systems, and now they can even control your brain.
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You may not get a chance to see Josh Cheuse’s classic shots of Run-D.M.C., currently on display in a Greenwich Village shoe shop, but it’d be hard to miss this. The Queens hip-hop legends are the subject of a massive new mural by Eduardo Kobra, the Brazilian artist who gifted the East Village an epic portrait of Michael Jackson back in July. This one has been going up at the corner of 12th and A, exactly 16 years after Jam Master Jay was gunned down in a recording studio in Jamaica, Queens.
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(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
