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Idiot with a Tripod Films the Blizzard of 2010

Richard Blakeley · 12/29/10 11:50AM

Sure there were many people out capturing the blizzard in the past few days, but how many of them had tripods? Here is a short film by Jamie Stuart, a self professed Idiot With a Tripod.

Off the Track

Brian Moylan · 12/28/10 07:00PM

[A crew shovels off the Q train track in Coney Island today. Plenty of New Yorkers are pissed that two days after the snow started their roads haven't been plowed and public transport is a mess. Image via AP]

Watch Sanitation Workers Destroy a Ford Explorer in Brooklyn Today

Matt Cherette · 12/27/10 06:13PM

Here's some amateur video that was taken today in New York City's Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. Watch as sanitation workers attempt to free a snowbound front loader—and destroy a nearby Ford Explorer in the process. 2010's blizzard claims another!

Great Blizzard of 2010 Thwarted at JFK Airport

Jeff Neumann · 12/26/10 12:54PM

Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday crushed the New Year's Eve plans of many New Yorkers when they busted two men who arrived on a flight from Puerto Rico with 92 pounds of cocaine in their luggage. Bummer. [NYP]

Enraged Blizzard Carpenters Protest, Prefer Universal Music's Unrelated Locale

RyanM · 11/14/07 05:32PM


Unsatisfied with Blizzard Entertainment's recent hiring of independent carpentry contractor All Star Installations in Irvine, Carpenters Local 1506 has strategically (albeit somewhat puzzlingly) staged a miniature "hired gun" protest outside Universal Music Group's Santa Monica office, a highly visible locale tangentially connected within the Vivendi family. It's always fun to see a protest unfold, but something's missing in the scene above given the whirlwind events of the last two weeks. Where's Ray Romano? Where's Picketing Baby!? Informational, rat-lingo-suffused flyers are currently being passed out in lieu of churros: