Delightful Creatures Incredible human-like animal portraits Carla Sinclair

animation Watch this award-winning stop-motion short film about the second oldest man in the world Thom Dunn

art How to find a stolen Van Gogh David Pescovitz

art Noah Wall paints audio portraits using the structures of New York Gareth Branwyn

Shut In Sounds Shut in sounds: Richard Thompson—1952 Vincent Black Lightning Seamus Bellamy

art Van Gogh swiped last night during museum smash-and-grab David Pescovitz

crime WATCH: Pot shop clerk fights off robbers with bear spray Rob Beschizza

books Trump showed an inordinate interest in badgers, according to new book Mark Frauenfelder

music US Customs destroys the instrument of renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko Gareth Branwyn

Copyfight Brexit means the UK will shelve the EU Copyright Directive (for now) Cory Doctorow

privacy London cops announce citywide facial recognition cameras Cory Doctorow

art Self-portrait of van Gogh during psychotic episode, thought to have been a fake, deemed real David Pescovitz

homelessness Homeless man seriously injured after a cleanup truck scoops him up, along with his tent Carla Sinclair

nope Twitter CEO says "no" to an edit button Rob Beschizza

plumbing mishaps A broken water main in New York turns the Upper West Side into a lake Carla Sinclair

Funny Key & Peele: "If Hogwarts were an inner-city school" David Pescovitz

happy mutants Girl on Film: a graphic novel memoir of a life in the arts and the biological basis for memory-formation Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Ethnicity detection camera Rob Beschizza

recipe Vincent Price and Boris Karloff both used some weird ingredients in their homemade guacamole recipes Thom Dunn

nyc Pacifica Radio ignores injunction, continues to play canned content on NYC's WBAI Cory Doctorow