Mad Skills Exercise Encyclopedia

Over 700 illustrations offer endless workout options from Portland-based athlete and physical therapist Ben Musholt

Gym workouts have come a long way since the days of sweatbands and Suzanne Somers’ ThighMaster. Today, zombie survival runs and obstacle courses like Tough Mudder have ushered in a new era of “functional fitness,” based on the concept that your daily workouts should help you perform real-life activities in real-life situations. Who cares if you can bench-press 300 pounds? Can you climb a wall …

The Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining

A new Abrams Books guide for making and drinking whiskey

In 2010, a former Kentucky rooftop moonshiner joined forces with the great-grandson of a Prohibition-era bootlegger. Kings County Distillery was born; the first of its kind in New York City since the national alcohol ban of the 1920s. Kings County produces highly awarded, small-batch moonshine, bourbon and other whiskeys at the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Paymaster Building—where naval officers once picked up their paychecks. Now, co-founders …

Torbjørn Rødland at Algus Greenspon Gallery

The photographer blends humor, eroticism and surrealism for his current solo show in NYC

Norwegian-born, LA-based photographer Torbjørn Rødland twists the commonplace into the uncanny in his first solo show in New York at Algus Greenspon Gallery. Babies in cages, mysterious naked biker chicks and people being tied up with sausages are just a few of the images that Rødland creates by blending traditional photography with humor, eroticism and the surreal. “You can wait around your whole life for …