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• Stallone still packs punch with Rocky fans ahead of 'Creed'

  06-11-2015 23:32
  
  Yo, Philly! Stallone still packs a punch with fans ahead of another round in spinoff 'Creed'
  
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• 'Warcraft' film trailer unleashed at BlizzCon

  06-11-2015 23:16
  
  'Warcraft' film trailer unleashed at BlizzCon fan convention
  
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• 1 of these 9 men is the next World Series of Poker champion

  06-11-2015 23:03
  
  The last 9 men vying to be the World Series of Poker champ, $7 million richer are young, old
  
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• Man convicted of murder in deadly South by Southwest crash

  06-11-2015 22:45
  
  Driver convicted of capital murder in deadly crash at South By Southwest festival in Texas
  
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• Palin, Clinton, other politicians who've appeared on 'SNL'

  06-11-2015 22:26
  
  Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and other politicians who have made guest appearances on 'SNL'
  
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• Trump's unorthodox campaign takes new twist on 'SNL'

  06-11-2015 22:15
  
  Donald Trump's unorthodox campaign takes new twist on 'Saturday Night Live'
  
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• The Very Worst Thing about the November Heatwave

  06-11-2015 22:03 via bkmag.com
  
  Your worst nightmare
  The other night I met two of my friends for dinner and—though it was very early—we were yawning directly into our drinks and meals. It was not pretty but there was nothing to do about it. “I’m sorry,” I said, “Mosquitoes have been biting me mercilessly the last three nights and I have not gotten a wink of sleep.”
  After telling my friends about my waking nightmare, one of my friend’s eyes grew huge.
  “No way,&rdqu
  
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• Speedy Ortiz Announce All Ages Tour Benefitting Girls Rock Camp Foundation

  06-11-2015 21:49 via bkmag.com
  
  Speedy Ortiz released the glittering fuzzed-out Foil Deer earlier this year and have been touring behind it for the majority of the year. But to cap off 2015 the band has announced a series of all ages shows, and will be donating all the proceeds from these final concerts to the Girls Rock Camp Foundation. Here’s frontwoman Sadie Dupuis’ full statement on the series:
  We toured non-stop in 2015 and wanted to cap it off playing a series of all ages shows (which is always our favorite
  
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• Music Review: Steve Forbert's raggedly fresh 'Compromised'

  06-11-2015 21:43
  
  Music Review: Steve Forbert's ragged voice on fresh songs drives 'Compromised'
  
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• World Series of Poker champ to be crowned, win $7.6 million

  06-11-2015 21:01
  
  It's old vs young with a chip Goliath as World Series of Poker returns to crown $7.6M champ
  
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• 'Force Awakens' screened for terminally ill 'Star Wars' fan

  06-11-2015 20:52
  
  'The Force Awakens' screened early for terminally ill 'Star Wars' fan
  
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• Justin Warner Teaches, Then Breaks The Laws Of Cooking At Food Book Party

  06-11-2015 20:34 via bkmag.com
  
  Liz Clayman
  If the Food Book Fair is “the Coachella of writing about food,” then their new Food Book Party series is the equivalent of a food writing concert. The kick-off party in October featured Big Gay Ice Cream, and last night, the second party highlighted Food Network Star Justin Warner in conversation with expert wine entrepreneur Andre Mack of Mouton Noir.Warner’s first book The Laws Of Cooking: And How To Break Them came out in the middle of last month, and our own Sar
  
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• There Is No Good Answer to the Problem of New York Public Schools

  06-11-2015 20:30 via bkmag.com
  
  It would be hard to take a look at New York City’s public schools and think they’re anything but broken. On the whole, the city’s public school system is the most segregated in the country, with over 50 percent of the city’s school districts—including “every district in the Bronx and two-thirds of the districts in Brooklyn“—containing less than 10 percent white students. Beyond that, there’s enormous disparities even from zone to z
  
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• Bob Dylan Will Let You Remix “Like A Rolling Stone”

  06-11-2015 20:05 via bkmag.com
  
  An enormous new Bob Dylan box set called The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 is out today. It contains alternate versions of tracks from some of Dylan’s most critically acclaimed albums, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde On Blonde. Obviously, it also includes several different versions of his best-known song “Like A Rolling Stone,” and today they’ve released the song’s stems to the public to create their own remixes.Studi
  
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• Activision planning 'Call of Duty' film, 'Skylanders' show

  06-11-2015 19:57
  
  Video game maker Activision Blizzard planning 'Call of Duty' film, 'Skylanders' show
  
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• Actor-politician Fred Thompson remembered for wit, sincerity

  06-11-2015 19:51
  
  Actor-politician Fred Thompson remembered at public memorial for wit, sincerity, booming voice
  
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• Review: Billy Gibbons' Cuban buzz shapes 'Perfectamundo'

  06-11-2015 19:26
  
  Review: ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons adds some Cuban flare to his Texas guitar on 'Perfectamundo'
  
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• Have Your Say on the New Brooklyn Heights Library

  06-11-2015 19:18
  Fresh off preliminary approval by City Planning’s 10-0 vote, the Brooklyn Heights Library redevelopment project is now on its way to be considered by the New York City Council in the next few weeks. If approved, the neighborhood would stand to gain a state-of-the-art library with more public space than any other branch in Brooklyn.“This project will help to create a beautiful, modern library to serve the Brooklyn Heights community for years to come, and $40 million to invest in
  
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• Prosecutor: 'Goodfellas' heist defendant embraced mob life

  06-11-2015 18:41
  
  Prosecutor: Mobster accused in $6 million 'Goodfellas' heist embraced Mafia lifestyle
  
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• Review: Ellie Goulding's 'Delirium' polished, not memorable

  06-11-2015 18:40
  
  Music Review: Ellie Goulding's 'Delirium' delivers polished, if not memorable, dance tracks
  
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• Amos Oz won't attend events hosted by Israeli embassies

  06-11-2015 18:28
  In protest gesture, author Amos Oz won't attend events hosted by Israeli embassies
  
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• Police union threatens 'surprise' for Quentin Tarantino

  06-11-2015 17:42
  
  Police union threatens 'surprise' for Quentin Tarantino, pledges to 'hurt him' economically
  
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• Frankie Cosmos Shares Dreamy Reflection On Being “Young” And Fit Me In EP

  06-11-2015 17:13 via bkmag.com
  
  I saw Frankie Cosmos play an afternoon show during CMJ this year, and she hinted that a new album would be on the way shortly. Greta Kline (aka Frankie Cosmos, formerly Ingrid Superstar) is an unusually prolific musician, but the release of her full-length debut Zentropy last year marked her first foray on a traditional label instead of Bandcamp. Her follow-up EP Fit Me In will come out next week, 11/12, via Bayonet Records. Today she’s shared another track off the EP, “Young,”
  
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• Frankie Cosmos Shares Dreamy Reflection On Being “Young”

  06-11-2015 17:13 via bkmag.com
  
  I saw Frankie Cosmos play an afternoon show during CMJ this year, and she hinted that a new album would be on the way shortly. Greta Kline (aka Frankie Cosmos, formerly Ingrid Superstar) is an unusually prolific musician,but the release of her full-length debut Zentropy last year marked her first foray on a traditional label instead of Bandcamp. Her follow-up EP Fit Me In will come out next week, 11/12, via Bayonet Records. Today she’s shared another track off the EP, “Young,”
  
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• Beach House Cover Weezer’s “Undone — Sweater Song”

  06-11-2015 16:15 via bkmag.com
  
  Beach House put out not one, but two albums full of their gossamer, intimate dream-pop this year. Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars are both slow-moving, contemplative collections — though I happen to prefer one — but at a recent show in Luxembourg they decided to go in another direction. Pretend it’s 1994 again and you’re not wondering 21 years later if Weezer is actually kind of terrible band? Try to remember the first time you heard “Undone — Sw
  
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• T Bone Burnett to write songs for Roy Rogers musical

  06-11-2015 16:00
  'There's a lot to live up to' _ T Bone Burnett to write songs for Roy Rogers musical
  
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• Björk Confronts The Icelandic Government’s Plan To Build A Power Line Across The Entire Country

  06-11-2015 15:54 via bkmag.com
  
  Björk’s 2011 opus Biophilia was centered around the intersection of nature, music, and technology, and she has long been concerned with humanity’s relationship to the environment. Today, she’s released a video alerting the world to the Icelandic government’s plans to build a high-voltage power line across the entire island. Currently, Iceland has the largest stretch of untouched wilderness in Europe, and the construction of dams and power plants the government has pl
  
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• Meet The Woman With The Most Magical Fingers in Brooklyn: Alexandra Lecube

  06-11-2015 15:38 via bkmag.com
  
  Photos by Jane Bruce
  The other day I found myself prone on a table in Fort Greene wearing just my underwear. That morning had been stressful. I’d gone from being asleep, to being awake and in public doing things without a real transition between those stages. I know this is not an unfamiliar experience in the city, but I was more on edge than normal.
  So when I found myself, naked basically, on a table, the cushion soft beneath me, and on top of me, the sheet was light and ge
  
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• Meet The Woman With Most Magical Fingers in Brooklyn: Alexandra Lecube

  06-11-2015 15:38 via bkmag.com
  
  Photos by Jane Bruce
  The other day I found myself prone on a table in Fort Greene wearing just my underwear. That morning had been stressful. I’d gone from being asleep, to being awake and in public doing things without a real transition between those stages. I know this is not an unfamiliar experience in the city, but I was more on edge than normal.
  So when I found myself, naked basically, on a table, the cushion soft beneath me, and on top of me, the sheet was light and ge
  
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• Contest: Refresh with Two Hudson Valley Getaways

  06-11-2015 15:37
  
  We love New York. Love it. Especially this time of the year. But to truly appreciate this city, you have to leave it from time to time. And boy have we lined up a great way to refresh, recharge and explore the Hudson Valley. We have not one, but two getaway packages that are, no kidding, so good.
  Bet this isn’t what came to mind when you heard the word, “barn.” Photo: The Barn at Copake Lake
  The first package is a great way to get to know the area around Hudson, which is quickl
  
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• Behind Fat Boy: A Conversation – Behind the scenes of the creation of Leonard Ursachi’s Fat Boy

  06-11-2015 15:27
  Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:30 pmCentral Library, Info Commons LabSteven High, executive director of the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL will discuss with Leonard Ursachi, Brooklyn-based and Romanian-born artist, how Ursachi’s Fat Boy sculpture was produced in the artist’s studio, its meaning, and the exhibitions that followed in both Sarasota and Brooklyn.read more
  
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• Jolie Pitt turns grief over mom's death into 'By the Sea'

  06-11-2015 15:21
  
  Angelina Jolie Pitt turns grief over mom's death into new drama with Brad Pitt, 'By the Sea'
  
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• CC Sabathia says he realized in 2012 he was an alcoholic

  06-11-2015 15:08
  
  Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia says he realized in 2012 he was an alcoholic
  
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• Spectre and the Terminal Insecurity of the Bond Franchise

  06-11-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  SpectreDirected by Sam MendesOpens November 6
  It brings me no pleasure to report that Sam Mendes’s Spectre is a bloated, stodgy and on-the-large room-temperature affair, content to reiterate the same formulas that gave Skyfall a surprising, ultraluxx spryness even while its every narrative back alley was flushed with still more needless exposition. And exposition is that on which Mendes and his team of screenwriters (and, one has to assume, script doctors) have bet the house: Spectre take
  
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• CC Sabathia says he realized in 2012 he was alcoholic

  06-11-2015 14:33
  
  Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia says he realized in 2012 he was alcoholic
  
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• David Beckham plays soccer with Nepalese children

  06-11-2015 13:58
  
  David Beckham plays soccer with Nepalese children, visits school damaged by earthquake
  
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• CHANGING BROOKLYN: Hot sheets: Controversial developer plans hotel at Greenpoint Terminal Market

  06-11-2015 10:23
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperA hot-button real estate tycoon plans on turning a derelict Greenpoint warehouse into a nine-story hotel nearly a decade after a mysterious fire ravaged other parts of the complex.
  Joshua Guttman’s Pearl Realty will convert a vacant West Street property between Milton and Noble streets — part of the sprawling Greenpoint Terminal Market site that went up in flames in 2006 &mdash
  
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• NYC jury to hear closings in $6M 'Goodfellas' heist case

  06-11-2015 08:41
  
  NYC jury to hear closing arguments in $6 million heist dramatized in mob movie 'Goodfellas'
  
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• Clinton faces tough question: What to call Bill if she wins

  06-11-2015 06:34
  
  First man? First dude? Hillary Clinton ponders a title for Bill Clinton if she wins presidency
  
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• stream Grimes' new album 'Art Angels'

  06-11-2015 06:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew SacherGrimes released one of the most loved albums of the current decade with Visions, and now three years later its highly anticipated followup, Art Angels, is finally here. One of Grimes' greatest achievements has been battling the preconceived notions of "indie" vs mainstream pop (just check out her favorite songs list), and this new album follows through on that expertly. There are moments that wouldn't feel out of place on a Kelly Clarkson album, but others that wouldn't feel out
  
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• What's going on Friday? (Craig Finn, Peacers, Obnox, BEMF, Judas Priest, Flipper, Phil Lesh, Martyrdoom fest & more)

  06-11-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Craig w/ The Hold Steady in Queens in 2014 (more by PSquared)
  You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...Craig Finn, Esme Patterson @ Bowery BallroomCraig Finn has always had a Springsteen influence, but his new solo album Faith In The Future is the most head-on he's ever dove into The Boss' mid-'80s period.Brooklyn Electronic Music FestivalThe multi-venue Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival continues today. Check out the full sched
  
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• DEVELOPMENT: DeBlasio: Hotels are killing industrial jobs — and my new rules will bring them back

  06-11-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Allegra HobbsBrooklyn DailyThere is no room for the inn!Hotels pushed job-creating factories out of Williamsburg, claims Mayor DeBlasio, and now he is erecting bureaucratic barriers will make it harder for developers to open them in other industrial areas like Sunset Park.“In the space of just a few years, businesses supporting thousands of jobs were lost to developers,” said DeBlasio said at a press conference announcing his new plans on Nov. 3
  
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• CONEY ISLAND: Cops seek kid in Coney beatdown

  06-11-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyPolice have released photos of the teenage tough they believe beat and tried to rob another kid in a W. 12th Street elevator on Oct. 22.The 14-year-old victim was in a lift in the Luna Park cooperative houses between Neptune and Surf avenues in Coney Island at 2:45 pm when the pubescent punk punched him in the eye and demanded his property, police said. The scrappy victim fought back until the elevator stopped on an unidentified floor and the wou
  
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• BAY RIDGE NIGHTS: Bay Ridge falls to the art side

  06-11-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyIt is a weekend of firsts for Bay Ridge’s arts scene! A new gallery is opening on Senator Street, and a roving concert curator has a new home at a Ridge standby. Plus, there is plenty of live music happening at your other favorite haunts!On Friday, go welcome the Ridge’s newest artistic neighbor, Bay Ridge Art Space (509 Senator St. between Fifth and Sixth avenues). Thirty area artists will show their work in an opening e
  
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• A BRITISHER’S VIEW: Batty Bernie sacrifices dead Jews to mollify Muslims

  06-11-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyMazel sob! Desperate Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders tossed Nazi victims under the bus along with Uncle Sam to make a moral connection between the Holocaust, a genocide that gassed millions of Jews to death, and Islamophobia, an overblown yawn-inducer responsible for a measly handful of alleged hate incidents against American Muslims every year.Sanders unleashed his Islamo-pandering to mollify a kvetching M
  
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• Carson might have taken 'different approach' on rap ad

  06-11-2015 05:09
  
  Carson says he might have taken 'different approach' on rap ad
  
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• Review: 'On Your Feet!' is an infectious, earnest musical

  06-11-2015 03:05
  
  Theater review: 'On Your Feet!' is an infectious, earnest musical of Gloria and Emilio Estefan
  
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• George Barris, creator of TV's original Batmobile, has died

  06-11-2015 01:13
  
  'Kustom' car king George Barris, creator of TV's original Batmobile, other cars, dies at 89
  
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• Disney 4Q results allay concerns about cord-cutting

  06-11-2015 01:13
  
  Disney tops 4th-quarter earnings expectations with pay TV beat
  
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• Apache leader apologizes for wearing Bob Marley costume

  06-11-2015 00:25
  
  Apache leader apologizes for Bob Marley Halloween costume, calls it a 'poor choice'
  
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