The world’s rarest creature died in 2012. His name was Lonesome George, and he was the last Pinta Island tortoise, a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise. By most estimates, he was 100 years old ...

LED lights—bright, cheap, and efficient—have steadily been replacing older types of bulbs. They’ve devoured what was once the cornerstone of the neon industry, backlighting covered signs ...

Signs at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the Apollo Theater are among the latest to lose their vintage glow in favor of LED lighting. Neon lettering on the vertical sign and atop the marquee at the ...

He bummed around and did odd jobs until finding his calling at a small company that makes signs ... that neon's rehabilitation started to take root in the 1980s, led by the counterculture ...

NYCLandmarks voted 7 to 1 to replace Rockefeller Center’s historic neon signs with LED fakes. I vote we replace ... Manhattan’s Community Board 5 found the exchange reasonable earlier this ...

That’s likely why Community Board 5’s landmarks ... eliminate it), and that’s bad. LED manufacture requires problematic ingredients, like arsenic. Neon signs are pretty straightforwardly ...

The Pima Community College Governing Board voted in November to demolish ... Cook, who is also a prominent advocate for preserving Tucson’s neon signs, expressed frustration.

Today, the Toronto-based musician is announcing its follow-up, Humanhood, and unveiling the lead single “Neon Signs.” “I wrote ‘Neon Signs’ at a moment of feeling confused, upside down ...

Sunil Shah, president of the Dadar Vyapari Sangh, said that in their locality as well, a hotel was given a notice for having an illuminated sign board ... it was only an LED light supporting ...

"By the early to mid-1930s, every small town had at least one neon sign." By the late 1960s, the introduction of plastics led to a decrease in the popularity of glass-tubed neon signs. LED lights came ...

The 22-year-old from Stirchley is the founder of NeonCow, a company specialising in personalised LED neon signs that American ... drilling holes in her chopping board." Major American rappers ...