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• Shopping are here, playing BV Saturday CMJ party and other shows ++ pics from Pianos

  15-10-2015 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos by Amanda Hatfield; words by Bill PearisShopping is The Best Band. They're also The Most British Band, sounding at times like the Slits, Wire, X-Ray Spex, or Gang of Four. Each instrument is played in a manner both elegant and sparse, which makes for nuanced, collaged melodies designed to get stuck in your head. These are three phenomenally talented people: They balance disparate and at times atonal instrumentation with beautiful, crisp vocal lines, and they can all sing. Few bands strike
  
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• Hollywood golden age ingénue Joan Leslie dies at 90

  15-10-2015 23:27
  
  Hollywood golden age ingénue Joan Leslie of 'Sergeant York,' 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' dies at 90
  
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• Forbes lists video gamer 'PewDiePie' as top YouTube earner

  15-10-2015 23:25
  
  Video game star 'PewDiePie' takes in $12 million, heads Forbes list of top YouTube earners
  
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• Book explains why Halloween attractions make us "Scream"

  15-10-2015 23:06
  
  Sociologist who studies fear at Halloween attraction explains it all in book called "Scream"
  
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• Governors Ball petitioning to stop AEG's new NYC festival

  15-10-2015 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Governors Ball 2015 (more by Gretchen Robinette)
  You may know that AEG, the owners of Goldenvoice, the people behind Coachella, are planning a new Queens festival tentatively called Panorama to happen during the same month as Governors Ball. The GovBall organizers are of course not happy with this, and they've now launched a petition asking people to tell the Major's Office and the CIty of New York to reject AEG Live's proposal. The petition reads:To the Fans, Supporters, and Fellow Music
  
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• ABC News doctor Jamie Zimmerman dies in Hawaiian accident

  15-10-2015 22:40
  
  Hawaiian vacation accident claims life of ABC News doctor Jamie Zimmerman
  
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• Nevada's legal brothels are the state's not-so-secret vice

  15-10-2015 22:32
  
  Lamar Odom case throws a spotlight on Nevada's not-so-secret vice: legal brothels
  
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• Workers accused of day care 'Fight Club' seek probation

  15-10-2015 21:52
  
  Workers accused of instigating kids' scuffles in day care 'Fight Club' seek probation
  
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• Khloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom's star-crossed TV reality love

  15-10-2015 21:46
  
  Khloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom's marriage fell short, but she's by his hospital bedside
  
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• Cable news pundit charged with fraud; ties to CIA disputed

  15-10-2015 21:23
  
  Cable news pundit charged with fraud; claimed on Fox News to be a CIA officer
  
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• Seahawks' Coleman arrested in hit-and-run investigation

  15-10-2015 21:20
  
  Seattle fullback Derrick Coleman arrested for investigation of hit and run
  
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• For total comfort, embrace these easy, potato-free gnocchi

  15-10-2015 21:20
  
  KitchenWise: Recipe for baked spinach gnocchi with Parmesan cream sauce
  
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• Willie Nelson cancels, reschedules shows due to illness

  15-10-2015 21:08
  
  Country star Willie Nelson cancels, reschedules shows due to illness
  
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• The Latest: Kardashians show support for Lamar Odom online

  15-10-2015 20:51
  
  The Latest: Kardashian family members show support for Lamar Odom on Twitter, Instagram
  
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• Brie Larson channels her childhood for 'Room'

  15-10-2015 20:31
  
  How Brie Larson channeled her own childhood as inspiration stirring performance in 'Room'
  
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• Mozambican theater commemorates Swedish author Mankell

  15-10-2015 20:17
  
  Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell is remembered in Mozambique, where he settled part-time
  
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• What is herbal Viagra? A look at the supplements Odom took

  15-10-2015 20:09
  
  A look at the dangers of herbal sexual enhancement drugs authorities say Odom took at brothel
  
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• Polish History As Phantasmagoria: Wojciech Has at BAM

  15-10-2015 20:03 via bkmag.com
  
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  The Waking Dreams of Wojciech HasOctober 15-27 at BAM
  The Polish filmmaker Wojciech Jerzy Has, subject of a comprehensive Brooklyn Academy of Music retrospective, is best known for intricate phantasmagoria. Among these, The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) is a babushka-doll of a film. Based on the novel by the 18th century Polish count Jan Potocki, the story details the escapades of one Captain Alphonse van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski). A story-within-a-story, spinning paralle
  
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• Online video competitors for new Comcast comedy service

  15-10-2015 19:47
  Comcast's NBCUniversal is launching a $4-a-month comedy service; Has many rivals for attention
  
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• Bedford Avenue Is the Most Expensive Place to Open a Business in Brooklyn

  15-10-2015 19:37 via bkmag.com
  
  As far as Brooklyn rents go, everyone has a pretty good sense of what constitutes a (relative) deal in a given hood. Cost of living conversations might be depressing, but depressing conversations have never scared New Yorkers, and all that comparing you’ve done with all your friends about how much money they hemorrhage every month has made you a pretty informed renter.
  If, however, you’re thinking about opening a business on a popular street in Brooklyn, you might hav
  
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• NBCUniversal launching online comedy service for $4 a month

  15-10-2015 19:06
  
  Joining a crowded market, NBCUniversal launches $4-a-month online comedy service in January
  
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• Mike D’s Cobble Hill Townhouse and Sometimes Porn Set Sold for a Whole Lot of Money

  15-10-2015 18:24 via bkmag.com
  
  photo via Curbed
  For the most part, news of a single Brooklyn home selling for more than five million dollars isn’t, you know, really news. But when that home belonged to Beastie Boy Mike D., and when it was also an ersatz porn set, well, then, it’s kind of news. Kind of.Via Curbed, “the Cobble Hill home of Beastie Boy Mike D. (alias Diamond) and director Tamra Davis has sold for just under its initial asking price. The Baltic Street townhouse, which the brokerba
  
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• Actor John Stamos charged with driving under the influence

  15-10-2015 18:23
  
  'Full House' star John Stamos charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence of a drug
  
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• Getting Apartment Insurance Doesn’t Have to Be Scary

  15-10-2015 18:00
  
  Sponsored By Gotham Brokerage Co., Inc.Let Gotham show you how getting NYC home insurance is fast, friendly, affordable, and easy.Created By BlankSlateHalloween is fast approaching, and with it come all sorts of scary scenarios, like a horde of tiny Minions banging at your door shrieking “trick or treat!” when all you have to offer them is a glass of merlot. Or Ricky’s is sold out of every single hot cop/fireman/doctor/superhero costume in your size. Or worst of all, the w
  
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• Your Invitation to Eavesdrop on Creatives in Conversation

  15-10-2015 17:44
  
   
  Bill T. Jones, dancer and choreographer, speaks with free-verse poet Mark Doty on Oct. 19. Photo: Bill T. Jones
  You know that old game where you come up with a guest list for your fantasy dinner party, choosing smart, weird and interesting people, living and dead? The New York Public Library and the Academy of American Poets have partnered on a fall series pairing contemporary poets with other creative thinkers that makes that game real, and puts the results on s
  
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• Neil Gaiman in conversation with Junot Diaz

  15-10-2015 17:25
  Monday, November 9, 2015 7:30 pmCongregation Beth ElohimNew York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman returns to The Sandman with a prequel story to his trailblazing series in The Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition, out on November 10. Rendered in artist JH Williams III’s lush panoramas, The Sandman: Overture takes readers from the birth of the galaxy to Morpheus’s capture, before the events of The Sandman #1, and sheds new light on Gaiman's rich mythological canon.read more
  
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• 'Homeland' attack: Artists slip criticism of show onto set

  15-10-2015 17:21
  
  'Homeland' attack: Artists slip criticism of popular Showtime series into background of set
  
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• Essence Festival to host event in South Africa in 2016, 2017

  15-10-2015 17:21
  
  Essence Festival will bring daytime experience, nightly concerts to South Africa in 2016, 2017
  
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• 'The Daily Show' comedian Hasan Minhaj puts his life onstage

  15-10-2015 17:14
  
  'The Daily Show' comedian Hasan Minhaj reveals his life in 1-man stage show in New York
  
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• Keeping things simple works for rock's Bottle Rockets

  15-10-2015 16:46
  
  The simple approach works for veteran Missouri rockers The Bottle Rockets
  
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• Strange, Persistent Pecking Noises from Chernobyl: The Russian Woodpecker

  15-10-2015 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The Russian WoodpeckerDirected by Chad GraciaOpens October 16
  A pecking came across the sky, and this was the Russian Woodpecker: an annoying radio signal that interfered with communications in Europe and even in parts of the Soviet Union, from which everyone assumed the signal originated. In fact the pecking sound was a byproduct of an early-warning system the Soviets had developed, so they’d know if anyone launched a nuke at them. More specifically, it came from an array near the Cherno
  
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• Tom Brady on Deflategate, Gisele and Trump

  15-10-2015 15:38
  
  Tom Brady talks about handling pressure, Deflategate, relationship with wife & friend Trump
  
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• Oscar Pistorius to be released from jail on Oct. 20

  15-10-2015 15:11
  
  Oscar Pistorius to be released from jail, moved to house arrest on Oct. 20
  
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• Tom Brady on pressure, Gisele and Trump

  15-10-2015 15:04
  
  Tom Brady talks about thriving under pressure, relationship with wife Gisele and friend Trump
  
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• Lawsuit: McEnroe tennis center failed to pay overtime wages

  15-10-2015 14:32
  
  Lawsuit: John McEnroe tennis academy in Kings Park failed to pay overtime wages
  
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• NY school principal reassigned over rap video appearance

  15-10-2015 14:29
  
  NY high school's assistant principal reassigned after appearing in raunchy rap video
  
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• Head of Hollywood academy: Diversity debate at top of agenda

  15-10-2015 14:08
  
  Hollywood film academy president says diversity debate a vital global discussion
  
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• Graffiti artists slip criticism of 'Homeland' onto set

  15-10-2015 13:35
  
  Graffiti artists slip Arabic-language criticism of 'Homeland' into background set of series
  
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• Teammates remember Lamar Odom's productive, selfless career

  15-10-2015 10:54
  
  Lamar Odom's former teammates remember the big man's sublime skills and selfless career
  
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• 2 more books planned in 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' series

  15-10-2015 10:41
  
  2 more books planned by new author in 'Millennium' series on tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander
  
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• DINING: Pastrami on wry: That deli from that movie is coming to Brooklyn

  15-10-2015 10:39
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Harry MacCormackThe Brooklyn PaperWe’ll have what she’s having!Iconic Manhattan eatery Katz’s Delicatessen will open an outpost in Brooklyn next year, finally offering King’s County residents a taste of a distant place some say they have only seen in movies.
  “What’s Katz’s?” said Gowanus resident Daniel Arriety, before recalling the delicatessen from it appearance in the c
  
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• DUMBO: Junior high and dry! Parents: Where’s our new Dumbo middle-school?

  15-10-2015 10:28
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Harry MacCormackThe Brooklyn PaperThe city hoodwinked families in neighborhoods between Brooklyn Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant by suggesting it would create a new middle school for their kids in Dumbo, then instead deciding to relocate an existing middle school to a new building at the last minute, say local parents.“We’ve got parents in Prospect Heights and Clinton Hill saying we thought we were going to get a new school,” said Rob Under
  
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• CHANGING BROOKLYN: Wait, that new building sounds familiar...

  15-10-2015 10:27
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Harry MacCormackThe Brooklyn PaperSeasoned Brooklyn Paper readers will remember the long and controversial history of the development at Dock and Water streets that is suddenly back in the news — one that involved both secret internal memos, first-rate investigative journalism, and documentarian Ken Burns — but for those who don’t, here is a refresher.Prolific Dumbo developers David and Jed Walentas of Two Trees Management first proposed e
  
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• Music streaming site Deezer launches share sale

  15-10-2015 09:55
  
  Music streaming site Deezer to raise $344 mln through share sale on Paris stock exchange
  
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• Deezer, BandPage to tailor ticket offers to listening habits

  15-10-2015 09:04
  
  In latest tie-up in music industry, artist profile firm BandPage teams with streamer Deezer
  
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• Oprah Winfrey explores faith and spirituality in 'Belief'

  15-10-2015 06:36
  
  Oprah Winfrey explores faith and spirituality in new OWN documentary series 'Belief'
  
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• Rihanna and Mick Jagger party as gold-rush mood grips Havana

  15-10-2015 06:11
  
  Rihanna, Katy Perry, Mick Jagger party as gold-rush mood grips Havana following Cuba-US thaw
  
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• THE DAD: The Dad’s reasonable discourse on gun control

  15-10-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Scott Sagerfor The Brooklyn PaperEvery school shooting, like the recent, tragic event in Oregon, immediately makes parents of students frantic, worried, and desperate for information, waiting interminable minutes or hours, not knowing if their son or daughter is dead or alive.
  My teenage daughters haven’t faced a gunman rampaging through their school, buy they are more likely to die from gun violence than any other cause except car accidents according
  
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• STANDING O: Snip, snip hooray!

  15-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyPark SlopeHip, hip, hooray! New York Methodist Hospital’s president and chief executive officer Mark Mundy cut the ribbon on the brand-new Outpatient Radiology Imaging Center, ushering in the latest, greatest, and most technologically advanced imaging center in the whole dang city. Helping with the snipping were Dr. Steven Garner, chairman of radiology; Lauren Yedvab, senior vice president; Dr. Prasad Gudavalli, president
  
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• STANDING O: She’s the teacher that has what it takes!

  15-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyProspect HeightsPut your hands together for Thania Hernandez, who has been named Teacher of Year. She received the award at the Sanford Education Collaborative anniversary celebration on Oct. 6 at Long Island University.
  The festivities are part of a nationwide initiative to introduce the Sanford Harmony program to schools and districts in the city.Standing O pal Thania was nominated for her dedication to the program and her stu
  
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