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• "Ozzfest Meets Knotfest" is a thing that is happening (with Black Sabbath, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Dead Cross, & more)

  12-05-2016 23:47
  
  You've seen Ozzfest. You've seen Knotfest. But are you ready for... OZZFEST MEETS KNOTFEST???
  That's right. Ozzy Osbourne teams with mall-metal giants Slipknot (who have played various Ozzfests) for a joint festival this year...
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• Music-education CEO hits bad note on minorities, loses job

  12-05-2016 23:02
  
  The director of a national music teachers' association is out of a job after reportedly telling a diversity forum that blacks and Latinos lack the "keyboard skills" needed for the profession
  
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• Sony making series about life of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez

  12-05-2016 22:58
  
  The life of late President Hugo Chavez is coming to the small screen, much to the displeasure of Venezuela's socialist leaders who consider themselves guardians of the charismatic leader's image and of the revolution he initiated
  
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• Nicki Minaj playing this year's Adult Swim "upfront" party in NYC; watch Kendrick Lamar/'Rick and Morty' mashup

  12-05-2016 22:46
  
  You're probably not on the list. But you can get schwifty with Rick, Morty and Kendrick.
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• Dam-Funk playing One Step Beyond at the Museum of Natural History in June

  12-05-2016 22:25
  
  The One Step Beyond series at the Museum of Natural History continues in June with the great Dam-Funk headlining. It happens on June 10, and Dam-Funk will be joined by Wajeed and Shawn Dub...
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• The Adicts playing US shows around Amnesia Rockfest

  12-05-2016 22:14
  
  Theatrical British punk vets The Adicts recently announced that they'd be heading back to North America this year for the stacked Amnesia Rockfest, and they since added other dates happening around that festival...
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• Ende Tymes festival: 2016 lineup and tickets

  12-05-2016 22:08
  
  The celebration of "noise and experimental liberation" happens at Knockdown Center and Silent Barn in June.
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• Spike Lee, Nile Rodgers, Janelle Monae & more paid tribute to Prince at private memorial

  12-05-2016 21:59
  
  Spike says a Brooklyn memorial for Prince will be held June 7, which would have been the Purple One's 58th birthday.
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• Report details Russian system to evade Olympic doping tests

  12-05-2016 21:47
  
  Report details Russian system to evade Olympic doping tests
  
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• Speedy Ortiz, Hop Along, & Two Inch Astronaut played Warsaw (pics, setlists)

  12-05-2016 21:36
  
  photos by Amanda Hatfield
  Hop Along and Speedy Ortiz's co-headlining tour stopped by NYC for a show at Warsaw on Wednesday (5/11). The night began with an opening set from Two Inch Astronaut, with Hop Along ...
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• Live Nation selling $20 tickets to tons of shows (Black Sabbath included)

  12-05-2016 21:33
  
  Snoop Dogg too.
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• Yaa Gyasi with Tracy K. Smith

  12-05-2016 21:32
  Monday, June 13, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterA riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America.
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• Artur Solomonov: Art and Power in Modern Russia

  12-05-2016 21:32
  Monday, May 16, 2016 7:00 pmCentral Library, Trustees' RoomArtur Solomonov, Moscow-based writer, playwright, journalist and theater critic, delivers a lecture on paradoxical relationship between the artistic community and the state in modern Russia. He also discusses his novel "A Theater Tale" and shows fragments from a theater production of the play based on "A Theater Tale".
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• PODCAST: MEDIA: Anthony Weiner joins Gersh and Vince today at 4:45!

  12-05-2016 21:14
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Armand DiphthongBrooklyn PaperThe Midwood Mouth is back!Today on Brooklyn Radio, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose rise and fall in city politics (well, mostly his fall) dominated the front pages of New York’s two tabloids — and is documented in a soon-to-be release movie — joins Gersh and Vince to talk about what everybody wants to know: who will win the upcoming Presidential election.“Hey, we don’t want to regurgitate all tha
  
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• free 2016 Betsy Head Park SummerStage shows (Public Enemy, Duck Down BBQ & more)

  12-05-2016 21:10
  
  Last month, SummerStage announced its 2016 lineup of free concerts happening in city parks all over the five boroughs, including Central Park, Red Hook Park, Betsy Head Park, Crotona Park, East River Park, and more. Here's what's going on at Betsy Head Park (located at Dumont Ave & Strauss St)...
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• Review: Under the radar, Darrell Scott defies category

  12-05-2016 21:08
  
  Is it rock, folk, country or blues? With Darrell Scott, one of the unheralded singer-songwriters of the Nashville music scene, it hardly matters. It's really good.
  
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• listen to new Stone Roses single "All for One"

  12-05-2016 21:08
  
  First new song in 20 years, produced by Paul Epworth.
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• Acclaimed director Robert Wilson creates Hermes installation

  12-05-2016 20:55
  
  Director, visual artist Robert Wilson creates installation for Hermes that mixes housewares with live performance
  
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• Sports Arena closing after hosting huge 20th century moments

  12-05-2016 20:48
  
  The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is about to become just a memory
  
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• RushCard to pay $19 million to users for last year's outage

  12-05-2016 20:30
  
  RushCard, the pre-paid debit card company owned by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, is agreeing to pay at least $19 million to compensate its users who were impacted by the company's multi-day outage last year
  
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• Jodie Foster: Movie sets are 'healthier' with women on them

  12-05-2016 20:16
  
  Jodie Foster, one of only two female directors helming a major studio wide-release this summer, says Hollywood's risk aversion is contributing to its overwhelming male directors
  
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• Woody Allen tells Cannes crowd he won't read son's criticism

  12-05-2016 19:51
  
  Woody Allen says he doesn't read anything written about him, even if it's by his own son
  
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• Prince's autopsy, toxicology tests may resolve uncertainties

  12-05-2016 19:32
  
  Medical experts say the results of Prince's autopsy, particularly the forensic toxicology report, may clarify whether prescription painkillers played any part in his death
  
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• A local’s guide to Detroit

  12-05-2016 19:14
  
  In interviewing Amy Haimerl, author of Detroit Hustle, I asked her to name a few things I should absolutely do if I was visiting Detroit for the weekend. “The Detroit Hustle tour of Detroit? So many, many options,” she emailed back. “But I’ll give you my favorites. Of course, there’s probably too much for a weekend.”
  There is probably too much here to cram in during one visit. Just bookmark her recommendations, and do the best you can.
  Diego Rivera’s De
  
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• Filmmaker Duncan Jones still inspired by dad David Bowie

  12-05-2016 18:59
  
  Filmmaker Duncan Jones says his dad, David Bowie, inspired him to make movies
  
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• COBBLE HILL: Cobble Hillians slam civic group leadership in LICH fight amidst heated election

  12-05-2016 17:53
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperSquabble Hill is back!
  Simmering discontent within the ranks of the influential Cobble Hill Association boiled over at the civic group’s elections on Wednesday night, when several current rulers — who took over as interim leaders last year after deposing the group’s then longtime leader — mounted an 11th hour challenge against the presumptive nominees, and disgruntled members used the occasion to hold them to
  
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• Def Leppard meets Arkansas School for the Deaf Leopards

  12-05-2016 17:32
  
  British rockers Def Leppard meet with students from the Arkansas School for the Deaf, whose school mascot is the Leopards, of course
  
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• Detroit isn’t the new Brooklyn–take it from a Red Hook transplant

  12-05-2016 17:29
  
  Amy Haimerl’s Detroit home, mid-rehab. Photo: Amy Haimerl
  As the former organizer of the summer film series, Red Hook Ficks, Amy Haimerl’s name often popped up in our inbox with word of the latest lineup. Her emails quietly stopped a few years ago, and then a few weeks ago we got another one from Amy about her new memoir, Detroit Hustle, which details her move with her husband to the Motor City, and their rehab of a 1914 Georgian Revivalhome in its West Village neighborhood. (Curbed
  
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• Robert Redford sends thank-you note to Newport after filming

  12-05-2016 17:24
  
  Robert Redford has sent a thank-you note to the Rhode Island city of Newport, where he recently filmed a movie
  
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• The Latest: Trial begins for officer in Freddie Gray case

  12-05-2016 17:19
  
  A defense attorney for Officer Edward Nero told a Baltimore judge that the young officer cares deeply about helping people, and acted in accordance with his police training when he and two other officers chased Freddie Gray last year
  
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• Future's history: Shatner looks at 50 years of Star Trek

  12-05-2016 17:11
  
  "Star Trek" has always looked to the future, but Capt. James T. Kirk himself, William Shatner, can't help but be impressed by the franchise's half-century of history
  
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• In Cannes, Clooney vows Donald Trump won't be president

  12-05-2016 16:41
  
  George Clooney insists that Donald Trump will not be elected president, promising that "fear is not going to be something that drives" the United States
  
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• Farrell explores relationship dystopia in 'The Lobster'

  12-05-2016 16:00
  
  In the world of "The Lobster" being single is not only looked down on, it's forbidden by law
  
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• 3 veteran 'Roots' stars look back on making this TV classic

  12-05-2016 15:54
  
  A trio of stars from "Roots" _ Leslie Uggams, Ben Vereen and Louis Gossett Jr. _ look back on the making of this legendary 1977 miniseries, now being released in a newly re-mastered Blu-ray edition
  
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• Christian rapper Lecrae opens up about troubled past in book

  12-05-2016 14:51
  
  Grammy-winning recording artist Lecrae delves into his backstory of childhood abuse and his struggles with drugs and alcohol in his memoir, "Unashamed."
  
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• Departing chair leaves $55M to Curtis Institute of Music

  12-05-2016 14:40
  
  The departing chairwoman is leaving Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music with quite a parting gift: $55 million
  
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• Centennial celebrations planned for the late Roald Dahl

  12-05-2016 14:09
  
  This September marks the centennial of the late Roald Dahl, and 1 of his 5 children, Lucy Dahl, says he would have appreciated the attention
  
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• Chicago park group: Lucas Museum case shouldn't be dismissed

  12-05-2016 13:34
  
  A parks advocacy group that's trying to stop construction of "Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas' museum on Chicago's lakefront says it deserves its day in court
  
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• Lena Dunham mourns 'Girls' guest star's death

  12-05-2016 13:04
  
  Lena Dunham is mourning the death of actor Nick Lashaway, who appeared in an episode of Dunham's, "Girls."
  
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• Review: Clooney gets a conscience in 'Money Monster'

  12-05-2016 12:42
  
  George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-like television personality who's forced to grow a conscience when a disgruntled viewer holds him hostage on live TV in "Money Monster," a serviceable, if slight, real time thriller from director Jodie Foster
  
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• Kelly Ripa: Host search behind Michael Strahan's early exit

  12-05-2016 12:31
  
  Kelly Ripa says Michael Strahan is leaving their morning talk show earlier than originally planned so a search for his replacement can begin
  
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• Actress Diane Guerrero writes about her fractured family

  12-05-2016 11:51
  
  "Orange Is The New Black" star Diane Guerrero writes a memoire about the painful effects of the deportation that fractured her family when she was a teenager
  
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• No kitsch please, we're British: UK torn on glam Eurovision

  12-05-2016 11:43
  
  Britons are about to vote in a poll that cuts to the heart of their country's conflicted relationship with Europe
  
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• Alexie and Danticat host evening of words and music

  12-05-2016 06:29
  
  Award-winning writers Sherman Alexie and Edwidge Danticat presided over a two-hour "Selected Shorts" program Wednesday evening that included readings and musical performances
  
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• DeRozan scores 34 as Raptors beat Heat 99-91 in Game 5

  12-05-2016 06:13
  
  DeMar DeRozan matched a playoff high with 34 points, Kyle Lowry had 25 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 99-91 on Wednesday night to take a 3-2 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series
  
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• Items belonging to George Carlin to get new home in New York

  12-05-2016 06:11
  
  Items belonging to late comedian George Carlin will have a new home in New York
  
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• THE DAD: The only constant in life is change

  12-05-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Scott Sagerfor Brooklyn PaperThe parents of my younger daughter’s classmates — the ones who all have children graduating from high school in a few weeks — talk incessantly with me about our impending empty nests, as if in a single moment, one day in August when I walk in the door after dropping my youngest kid off at college, my life will suddenly be forever changed.
  You might as well say the Titanic hit an iceberg and immediately dropped
  
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• STANDING O: This grad is smart ‘n’ sharp

  12-05-2016 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBay RidgeHe’s smart ’n’ sharpDust off the mortar boards and give it up for Xaverian Class of 2016 graduate David Pena. This smart ’n’ sharp young man has been awarded the prestigious Smart Start Scholarship from JP Morgan Chase. The recognition is only given to the top of the top academic students in the city and carries a full tuition, stipend for books and supplies, and a paid internship at JP Mor
  
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• STANDING O: Mom’s rule at hair salon

  12-05-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyEast FlatbushA shout out to Erena Hair Center and Salon! The local hair palace opened its doors on May 7 and celebrated moms with entertainment, fab food, and loads of hair styling.
  The annual “Momabration” welcomed Kisha Johnson McRae (pictured above, left, with Mirielle Edouard), a 25-year-plus lupus survivor who inspired others fighting their own battles with her courage and determination. Entertainment was suppli
  
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• PROSPECT HEIGHTS: PC culture conquers Barclays! Stadium to host massive video game tournament

  12-05-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Tatiana HernandezBrooklyn DailyForget the Nets — the ’net is coming to Barclays Center!
  The organizers of an international video-game tournament circuit expect thousands of fans to cram into Brooklyn’s biggest area to watch a high-stakes “Counter Strike” contest in October. Staring at a screen might sound like something you can just do at home, but experts say it is genuinely thrilling to c
  
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