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• Aging mobster acquitted in 1978 heist retold in 'Goodfellas'

  12-11-2015 23:57
  
  Aging mobster acquitted in 1978 Lufthansa heist dramatized in hit Mafia movie 'Goodfellas'
  
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• SF green lights $290,000 payout for Journey wedding

  12-11-2015 23:24
  
  SF committee recommends $290,000 payout to settle lawsuit over Journey guitarist wedding
  
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• Music Review: Wainwright Sisters keep it in the family

  12-11-2015 23:17
  
  Music Review: Wainwright Sisters showcase family ties on haunting 'Songs in the Dark'
  
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• Motorhead drummer Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor dies at 61

  12-11-2015 22:53
  
  Former Motorhead drummer Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor dies at 61
  
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• Natalie Prass Covers Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence”

  12-11-2015 22:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Natalie Prass bookended released her debut, self-titled album at the beginning of this year, and she’s closing it out with the Side By Side EP. We’ve heard her gilded Anita Baker “Caught Up In The Rapture,” and today she’s shared her take on Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence.” I love S&G but I think this is their most boring song — she lights a fire under the stately original. Listen here. The other cover on this EP is her tak
  
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• Going Abroad: Expanding Your Business Into New Markets

  12-11-2015 22:30 via bkmag.com
  
  On Tuesday, November 17, we’re partnering with our Dutch startup cohorts (who are in town for The Next Web Conference USA) to talk about expanding your business abroad. We’ll also be celebrating our own expansion abroad as we look forward to Northside Amsterdam 2016, Northside’s new sister festival that will take place next September.
  The Netherlands is a founding country partner of the Northside Festival; an impressive number of Dutch startu
  
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• Wet Make Despair Sound Iridescent On “It’s All In Vain”

  12-11-2015 22:18 via bkmag.com
  
  Self-deprecating synthpop trio Wet have roots in Brooklyn, even if they decamped to Massachusetts to record their full-length album Don’t You, which is out 1/29 on Columbia Records. The latest off that record is “It’s All In Vain” which they released via their Tumblr today. It’s a song about doubting whether or not someone actually loves you, and as usual, Kelly Zutrau’s voice cuts to the core. Wet make the soul-destroying force of insecurity sound like a rela
  
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• Latest Vitter ad for governor features 'Duck Dynasty' star

  12-11-2015 22:09
  
  Latest Vitter ad in Louisiana governor's race features 'Duck Dynasty' star Willie Robertson
  
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• Grimes and the Art of Internalized Misogyny

  12-11-2015 21:53 via bkmag.com
  
  There’s always that one fucking girl. You hate this woman; you love hating her, almost. It’s not like hating a man, which tends to be done cautiously and in private, or else loud and cartoonishly. It’s different to be a woman and hate a woman. We are expected to hate each other. So nobody is surprised when we do. Pop star, author, actress, neighbor–it doesn’t matter; it’s almost encouraged. We are born into an unfriendly plane that warms to us
  
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• Aging mobster acquitted in 1978 Lufthansa heist dramatized in hit Mafia movie 'Goodfellas'

  12-11-2015 21:19
  
  Aging mobster acquitted in 1978 Lufthansa heist dramatized in hit Mafia movie 'Goodfellas'
  
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• Singer making documentary on nightclub fire that killed 100

  12-11-2015 21:15
  
  Singer making documentary about Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people in 2003
  
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• Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole to star onstage in Chicago

  12-11-2015 21:03
  
  Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole to star onstage together in Chicago in 'War Paint'
  
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• T-Pain Is Playing a Massive Greenpoint Warehouse Party You Can’t Get Into

  12-11-2015 20:54 via bkmag.com
  
  You will not have the pleasure of seeing this man, tonight in Greenpoint
  As far as inaccessible warehouse-raves go, Greenpoint is having itself a moment. On Halloween came the disastrously 0ver-booked fracas planned inside a plastics factory and, yes, Superfund site, that got shut down before the fun could even start. The streets of north Brooklyn have never been so littered with so many sad party people very literally all dressed up with no place to go.
  But Greenpo
  
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• Go to the Nitehawk Shorts Festival and Remember to Never Go to the Movies Anywhere Else Ever Again

  12-11-2015 20:40 via bkmag.com
  
  Still from Marcel Dzama’s Une Danse Des Buffoons (2013), Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York/London
  For the third year, Nitehawk Senior Film Programmer Caryn Coleman has given us a great gift: the Nitehawk Shorts Festival.
  Why is a short film festival so awesome, you ask? Simple. Because, like any truly great gift, it will surprise you; it will surprise you in the way that something surprises you because it—the short film—isn’t something you think very much about, be
  
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• Betsy Drake, actress-wife of Cary Grant, dies aged 92

  12-11-2015 20:35
  
  Betsy Drake, actress and wife of Cary Grant, survivor of Andrea Doria, dies aged 92
  
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• Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concerts: Varian Fry Quartett

  12-11-2015 20:26
  Sunday, November 22, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterNamed after the American journalist Varian Fry, who helped save thousands of endangered refugees who were caught in the Vichy French zone escape from Nazi terror during World War II, the Quartet will perform Mozart’s String Quartet in B, KV 458, Brahms’s String Quartet op. 51, No. 1 in c minor and Webern’s Five Movements. Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts is a program of the Weill Music Institute. Children
  
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• Trump-hosted 'Saturday Night Live' draws 9.3 million viewers

  12-11-2015 20:15
  
  Donald Trump-hosted 'Saturday Night' drew 9.3 million viewers, most-watched edition in 2 years
  
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• Review: Chilean miners film resorts too often to formula

  12-11-2015 19:51
  
  Film review: With an amazing story to tell, Chilean miners film leans too heavily on formula
  
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• Brazil F1 interest fading with no great driver to follow

  12-11-2015 19:30
  
  F1 interest fading in Brazil: TV ratings down, no great driver to follow and racing boring
  
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• Golf Channel to use caddies in broadcast at Sea Island

  12-11-2015 19:07
  
  Golf Channel to use caddies for Mickelson, Kuchar as part of broadcast team at Sea Island
  
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• Chatting with Stacy Schiff, Author of “The Witches”

  12-11-2015 19:03
  
  Think back to American history class. What, if anything, do you remember about the 1600s? Puritans, pilgrims, Thanksgiving and the Salem witch trials, right? And how much of what you remember about the Salem witch trials is actually based on The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s very 20th century, allegorical play about control, power and governance?
  Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and scholar known for her fascinating and freshly framed biographies of historical figur
  
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• Madam Phung’s Last Journey: The Vietnamese Paris Is Burning, but Sadder

  12-11-2015 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Madam Phung’s Last JourneyDirected by Nguyen Tham ThjNovember 12-18 at Anthology Film Archives
  Madam Phung’s Last Journey resembles a Vietnamese Paris Is Burning, with all the exuberance taken out and all the tragedy left in. If the fight against homophobia is far from won in the US, it seems to have barely begun in Vietnam, and even gays’ understanding of homosexuality and gender identity is quite different from that of Westerners. I’ve seen reviews describe Madam Phung
  
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• For Sanders and Socialism Too!: A Political Anthem for Abraham Lincoln Gets a Brooklyn Update for Bernie Sanders

  12-11-2015 18:37 via bkmag.com
  
  “Bernie 2016” poster by Roberta Aviram. Image courtesy the artist and Armand Aviram.
  Recently, while looking out the window of my apartment, I was transported, body and mind, into the past.
  I was listening to a record of Civil War-era songs recorded in the early 1970s by a band called The Union Confederacy, which I’d recently purchased online. When the band’s version of “Lincoln and Liberty,” the former Illinois congressman’s campaign anthem in 1860, cam
  
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• Morris Opens Sandwich Shop at Brooklyn Children’s Museum

  12-11-2015 18:21 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo via Morris
  Reminiscent of its days when they only served gourmet grilled cheeses from out of the window of a food truck, Morris has set up shop at Brooklyn Children’s  Museum with a faux food truck. This is the second location the sandwich shop has established since expanding their four-wheeled eatery to include a store front in Crown Heights last winter.
  The shop will serve their full menu of sandwiches, soups, salads, and snacks from Tuesday through Sunday on the second f
  
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• Brooklyn’s 8 Best Bacon Dishes

  12-11-2015 18:11 via bkmag.com
  
  Photos by Alex Srp
  While we couldn’t be further outside of the “everything’s better with bacon” camp (that battle cry alone is enough to make us want to switch to seitan), our defiant, all-American spirit was nevertheless aroused by recent studies, declaring bacon and other processed meats as carcinogenic, potentially cancer-causing agents, essentially as harmful as cigarettes. Bah! So if you’re ready to carpe arvina (seize the bacon, obvs), thumb your nose at naysa
  
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• Vienna staging rare original version of Wagner opera

  12-11-2015 18:04
  
  Opera fans note: Vienna staging rare original version of Wagner's Flying Dutchman
  
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• Dena Greenbaum's Crazy Country Club doc 'Warm Beer Lousy Food' comes home to Brooklyn On Demand

  12-11-2015 17:55
  
  When you talk about Brooklyn's legendary Crazy Country Club, the phrase "you had to be there" definitely applies. Filmmaker Dena Greenbaum's father Steven worked at the club, and her 2012 documentary is a loving tribute to the long-gone Bay Ridge icon.Warm Beer, Lousy Food is the untold story of America's first comedy club, and its founder (and self-proclaimed nut) Lou Burdo. The film includes rare footage of the club throughout its nearly 50-year history and testimonials from the founder, staf
  
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• Blur share new clip from documentary 'New World Towers' that plays in NYC this weekend

  12-11-2015 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Blur @ MSG (more by Dana [distortion] Yavin)
  Blur's new documentary/concert film New World Towers will have its U.S. premiere this weekend as part of the DOC NYC festival, playing Sunday (11/15) at the SVA Theater. Tickets are still available. Here's the synopsis:Earlier this year, iconic Britpop band Blur surprised their legion of fans with the release of a new album, The Magic Whip, their first as a foursome in 16 years. Blur: New World Towers goes behind the scenes to reveal how an une
  
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• Hunger Makes Her a Modern Girl

  12-11-2015 17:39
  
   
  Carrie Brownstein’s new book, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, is an intimate, unapologetic welcome into the inner orbit of Sleater-Kinney, one of the most formidable rock bands of our time. Part bildungsroman, part self-portrait, Carrie (we’re on a first name basis, now, at least in my head) leads us along the winding, and often difficult path of her career to date–or should I say, careers. She is no singular talent, and her memoir makes it
  
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• watch Haybaby's new video for "Doored" & stream their LP

  12-11-2015 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew SacherBrooklyn's Haybaby recently released their debut album Sleepy Kids on Tiny Engines (order yours), a nine-song dose of hard-hitting indie rock. Now they've given the video treatment to its track "Doored," which premieres in this post. Check that out, and stream the whole album, below.Haybaby begin a tour in Virginia tonight (11/12) and it ends back in Brooklyn with an album release show at Shea Stadium on November 20 with Sharkmuffin, Dances and Melt. A few weeks later, they play
  
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• Motorhead drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, RIP

  12-11-2015 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  Sad news today in the rock world: Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, longtime drummer for Motorhead who was with them from their 1975 debut recording On Parole through 1992's March ör Die, has passed away. The news was broke by another former Motorhead member, "Fast" Eddie Clarke, on Facebook:My dear friend and brother passed away last night.
  He had been ill for sometime but that does not make it any easier when the time finally comes. I have known Phil since he was 21 and he was one hell
  
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• Pete Astor of The Loft releasing new solo album made with James of Ultimate Painting, shares "My Right Hand"

  12-11-2015 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill Pearisphoto: Pete Astor w/ The Loft @ NYC Popfest 2015 (more by PSquared)
  Pete Astor was in NYC earlier this year playing NYC Popfest with his old band The Loft. That band (and his other '80s band, The Weather Prophets) worked in a jangly, post-VU style that still sounds good today. (They were really good at Popfest.) In the '90s and on, he dabbled in jazz, electronics and other non-rock forms, but he returns to his roots on his new solo album, Spilt Milk, which will be out January 8 via
  
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• Music Review: Chris Isaak consistent, too casual on 'Night'

  12-11-2015 16:57
  
  Music Review: Chris Isaak draws from same well too often on 'First Comes the Night'
  
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• Christine and the Queens played a triumphant, packed show at Webster Hall (pics, review)

  12-11-2015 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos by Amanda Hatfield, words by Andrew Sacher"I cannot believe what's happening right now," said Héloïse Letissier, the force behind France's Christine and the Queens, after playing the first song of their set to a sold-out crowd at NYC's Webster Hall last night (11/11). The place was clearly loving her, cheering several times during that one song alone, when Letissier hit the high notes, when one of her dancers did a particularly impressive move, or when Letissier did herself. S
  
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• Very Fresh opening for Speedy Ortiz & playing other shows (stream their new 7")

  12-11-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew SacherSpeedy Ortiz recently announced their benefit tour for the Girls Rock Camp Foundation, including NYC shows on December 11 at Silent Barn with Downtown Boys, Eskimeaux and Very Fresh; and December 12 at Palisades with Aye Nako, Dirty Dishes and Gemma. When we last posted, the Palisades show appeared sold out and tickets for Silent Barn had not been posted yet, but now tickets for Silent Barn and Palisades are both on sale.You may already know about Downtown Boys and Aye Nako, but
  
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• Brooklyn Fictions: An Almost-Imaginary Conversation Between Five Brooklyn Writers

  12-11-2015 16:32 via bkmag.com
  
  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a writer in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a house in Brooklyn. You can’t move for writers in Brooklyn these days; in fact, there are so many of them that we have long since passed the point of excitement and fascination and entered a period of amusement, frustration and parody. The last thing you want to read is another article about Brooklyn writers, especially one that starts with approximately the 270,000th reworking of Jane
  
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• MPR, parent company receive $10 million donation

  12-11-2015 16:30
  
  Minnesota Public Radio, parent company receive anonymous $10 million donation
  
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• 'Hotels of North America' offers insights into aloneness

  12-11-2015 16:28
  
  Review: Rick Moody's collection of fictional hotel reviews offers insights into aloneness
  
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• Crazy & the Brains made a lyric video for "Brain Freeze," playing shows with Nobunny, Negative Approach & more

  12-11-2015 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew Sacherphoto: Crazy & the Brains at Baby's in January (more by Amanda Hatfield)
  NJ punks Crazy & the Brains are releasing a new single called "Brain Freeze" on November 25 and we've got the premiere of the intentionally grainy lyric video (dir. Brett Sullivan). The band inject classic punk of the Ramones/New York Dolls variety with a heavy dose of xylophone, and if that sounds weird to you, you just haven't heard how well it works. Watch the video below.They're a super fun live
  
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• An App That Answers, ‘What Should My Kid Read Next?’

  12-11-2015 16:22
  
  Beanstack, a new service at the Brooklyn Public Library, will inspire your kids to read with customized suggestions and learning tips emailed to your inbox. Photo courtesy of BPL/ Zoobean, Inc.
  Having an emerging reader means it’s necessary to have access to a ton of books. Although our local library branch doesn’t have air conditioning and is stuffy in the colder months and sweltering in the hotter months, we are there every week. We have our favorite books (Oliver Jeffers, Wanda G
  
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• Missy Elliott Returns With “WTF (Where They From)” Video Featuring Pharrell

  12-11-2015 16:18 via bkmag.com
  
  Missy Elliott has been off the grid for a while, and it wasn’t until she showed up for a a mere two minutes at the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year that it became clear how much we needed her to return. Today, she has done just that with the new Pharrell-featuring single “WTF (Where They From).” What would a new song from Missy be without a chaotic, dance-filled video? This thing even has puppets! It was directed by Elliott herself and Dave Meyers. Watch below.
  
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• Review: 'Love the Coopers' is a moving, starry holiday pic

  12-11-2015 15:51
  
  Review: Another unhappy family assembles at Christmas in affecting 'Love the Coopers'
  
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• Missy Elliott releases new song ft. Pharrell, "WTF (Where They From)" (watch the video)

  12-11-2015 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew SacherIt's been ten years since Missy Elliott released an album, and she hasn't put out a new song since putting out her Timbaland collabs "9th Inning" and "Triple Threat" in 2012, but a new song finally came out today. It's a collaboration with Pharrell Williams and the beat is about as Pharrell as it gets, which should bring you right back to the mid-2000s. You can watch the very Missy Elliot style video for the song, titled "WTF (Where They From)," below. What do you think?
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• Eleanor Friedberger played two small NYC shows (pics/setlist from Union Pool w/ Icewater)

  12-11-2015 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos by Jessica AmayaEleanor Friedberger @ Union Pool 11/10/2015
  Her third solo album, New View, isn't out till January but Eleanor Friedberger tested out the new material on live audiences at two small NYC shows this week. She played seven of New View's songs at Union Pool on Tuesday, November 10, which was the second of those shows. (She played Pianos on 11/9.) Setlist is below.Icewater, who have been Eleanor's backing band for a while, opened the night with their own set. Pictures from thei
  
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• Southwestern Standup Death Trip: Entertainment

  12-11-2015 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  EntertainmentDirected by Rick AlversonOpens November 13
  Fritz Lang famously said that cinemascope was only good for filming snakes and funerals. Rick Alverson has found both in one man in the apocalyptically bleak Entertainment. Gregg Turkington is Neil, a performer on a desperately sad tour of the southwestern United States. He visits airplane graveyards, novelty Old West towns and oil fields and makes phone calls to his daughter who never answers. By night he sheds his skin and becomes The Co
  
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• Basement & Turnover played two NYC-area shows (Emporium pics)

  12-11-2015 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos by Mimi HongBasement / TurnoverRun For Cover lablemates Basement and Turnover are on tour now together, opening for The Story So Far. The tour doesn't hit NYC, but it just swung through the area for shows at NJ's Starland Ballroom on 11/7 and Long Island's Emporium on 11/8. We caught the latter.For Basement, the UK band are touring ahead of the release of their new album Promise Everything (due Jan 29), which they did play a tiny bit of, but mostly they stuck to the stuff we know. And for
  
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• University play canceled over actors' race

  12-11-2015 15:18
  
  Clarion University forced to cancel production over actors' race
  
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• tickets to Ratatat, Jose Gonzalez w/ yMusic, and St. Germain NYC shows on BV presale (password here)

  12-11-2015 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tickets to the Ratatat show at Hammerstein Ballroom go on BrooklynVegan presale today at 10 AM. Use password VEGAN.Tickets to the Jose Gonzalez & yMusic show at Beacon Theatre go on BrooklynVegan presale today at 10 AM. Use password VEGAN.Tickets to the St. Germain show at Hammerstein Ballroom go on BrooklynVegan presale today at 10 AM. Use password VEGAN.Again, that password for all three is VEGAN. If you miss out on the presales to these three shows, tickets go on sale to the general publi
  
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• Review: Squeeze returns with inventive 'Cradle to the Grave'

  12-11-2015 15:04
  
  Music Review: Squeeze back after long layoff with familiar, inventive 'Cradle to the Grave'
  
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• Memphis' travel essentials include history, music and beer

  12-11-2015 15:02
  
  Essentials: Memphis travelers enjoy its rich history, its love of music, and plenty of beer
  
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