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• Singer Ciara, NFL player Russell Wilson tie the knot

  06-07-2016 23:41
  
  Singer Ciara has one, two stepped down the aisle with NFL player Russell Wilson
  
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• Connecticut judge OKs bankruptcy plan for rapper 50 Cent

  06-07-2016 22:57
  A federal bankruptcy court judge in Connecticut has approved a plan for 50 Cent to reorganize his finances and pay back creditors
  
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• The Pixies Release New Song With Promise of Upcoming Tour

  06-07-2016 22:53 via bkmag.com
  
  Back in the groove of things, The Pixies has an announcement–following their 2014 comeback album Indie Cindy, they’ll be releasing another new album, Head Carrier. While it’s often easy to assume that comebacks are one and done, the Pixies are making it clear that they’re back in music for good and the thirteen year gap between releases was a mere intermission. Though the band is largely of the same makeup as it was in the ‘80s and ‘90s, rather than playing wi
  
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• Sonic Youth remastering/repressing 'Murray Street,' 'Sonic Nurse,' 'Rather Ripped' on vinyl

  06-07-2016 22:49
  
  Sonic Youth's DGC/Geffen era records are all getting the remaster treatment this year.
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• The Latest: Mosque members say community is still on edge

  06-07-2016 22:44
  
  Members of a North Carolina mosque say the community has been on edge since an Army Reserve officer was arrested and accused of making death threats last month against its worshippers
  
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• Don Meyer film to be distributed on home video this year

  06-07-2016 22:32
  
  A movie about the late college men's basketball coach Don Meyer is coming out on video this year
  
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• stream Camp Cope's self-titled debut LP

  06-07-2016 22:29
  
  The Australian indie rock band have gained co-signs from Modern Baseball and others, and their sound is instantly likable. Stream their debut album here.
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• Paris couture reaches creative climax in Valentino, Saab

  06-07-2016 22:29
  
  Paris couture week reached a creative climax Wednesday with strong showing from Maison Margiela and Elie Saab
  
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• Khakis and cardigans are the uniform for class war waged in “The Assistants”

  06-07-2016 22:14
  
  The Assistants by Camille Perri could not feel more of-the-moment if it tried. Narrator Tina Fontana lives in a crappy apartment in Williamsburg and works as an underpaid, harried executive assistant to a media mogul with more money than god. Through an accounting quirk she receives a reimbursement check for a work expense that had already been refunded to her credit card, in nearly the exact amount of her outstanding student loans.
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• Prince backup band The Revolution to reunite for 2 shows

  06-07-2016 22:12
  
  The band that helped catapult Prince to international superstardom is reuniting in his memory
  
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• Rooftop Films & Summerscreen announce 2016 live music lineups

  06-07-2016 22:10
  
  If you've stepped outside lately you know summer is in full swing and in NYC that means lots of free outdoor movie screenings. We already posted about the 2016 film lineups of Rooftop Films and Summerscreen, but both have since revealed the live music portions as well...
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• Toking up while working out: Pair plan gym allowing pot use

  06-07-2016 22:02
  
  A former pro football star and an advocate for athlete marijuana use have teamed up to open a gym in San Francisco that they say will be one of the first in the world to allow members to smoke pot while working out
  
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• Culture Forward: a plan for future of BK culture

  06-07-2016 21:57
  60 / Sixty: the number of cultural organizations located in Downtown Brooklyn. 30 / Thirty: the number of cultural organizations that are members of the DBAA - The Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance. 50,000 / Fifty thousand: the number of square feet of cultural space in the new 300 Ashland place building now under construction, set to house MoCADA, 651 Arts, a new branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, and BAM Karen (named after Karen Hopkins, President Ermerita of BAM).30,000 / Thi
  
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• Ex-Boston Bruins Bourque apologizes in drunken driving case

  06-07-2016 21:56
  
  Former Boston Bruins star Ray Bourque (bork) has apologized to his family, friends and fans for driving drunk last month
  
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• Russian Circles share "Mota" (listen)

  06-07-2016 21:52
  
  "Mota" is one of the poppiest things that Russian Circles have ever done. If this and "Vorel" are a good indication, this new album will find Russian Circles prioritizing hooks to a degree that they never have before...
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• GØGGS (Ty Segall, Ex-Cult) expand tour, add 2nd NYC show

  06-07-2016 21:43
  
  They already had a Rough Trade NYC show with Cheena and Surfbort, and now they added a Baby's All Right show with Babes.
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• Syracuse names ESPN executive as athletic director

  06-07-2016 21:28
  
  Syracuse University has chosen a longtime ESPN producer and executive to be its new athletic director
  
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• Big Freedia playing RBSS show in NYC this month; LUH playing one in LA

  06-07-2016 21:16
  
  Cakes Da Killa will open Big Freedia's $3 NYC show.
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• Ryan Hemsworth recruits Mitski and Keaton Henson for "Wait"

  06-07-2016 21:07
  
  Ryan Hemsworth also recently remixed a Nothing song.
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• New series to feature LA Rams football and family life

  06-07-2016 20:41
  
  It didn't take long for the newly arrived Los Angeles Rams to go Hollywood
  
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• Pete Rose sues former baseball investigator over rape claims

  06-07-2016 20:37
  
  Former baseball star Pete Rose is suing the lawyer whose investigative report got him kicked out of baseball for betting, alleging the lawyer defamed him last year by saying on the radio that Rose had raped young teen girls during spring training
  
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• Portland trio Honey Bucket ready debut LP (stream "Devo Hat"), touring

  06-07-2016 20:28
  
  Portland trio Honey Bucket formed in 2012, citing influences such as The Clean, Television Personalities, and The Fall. If you dig those artists you'll surely be into Honey Bucket's charmingly shambolic sound. Having been championed by neighbors The Woolen Men, they've released a cassette, 7" and a few digital EPs...
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• Le1f playing shows, including Rough Trade

  06-07-2016 20:20
  
  NYC rapper Le1f will be playing a string of dates over the summer, beginning with performances in Europe and eventually swinging around to the US, including one show at Brooklyn's Rough Trade...
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• Mike Tirico to make NBC Sports debut in Scotland

  06-07-2016 20:18
  
  Joining NBC Sports after 25 years at ESPN, Mike Tirico has a busy schedule
  
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• Your Ideal Week: July 6 – July 13

  06-07-2016 20:03
  
  Get your petanque on at Smith Street’s annual Bastille Day celebration. Photo: Bar Tabac
  Welcome back from the long weekend, everybody! Hope you are really ready for summer, because based on the temperature outside we are fully, 100 percent IN IT this week. The good news is that we’re also 100 percent in the annual outdoor summer movie extravaganza that happens in Brooklyn. McCarren Park’s Summersceen kicks off tonight with a screening of the classic slasher flick Sc
  
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• The Revolution announce Prince tribute shows at Minneapolis' First Avenue

  06-07-2016 19:46
  
  We knew Wendy & Lisa were getting The Revolution back together for Prince tribute shows and the first of those have been announced...
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• In lawsuit, Gretchen Carlson alleges sex harassment at Fox

  06-07-2016 19:36
  
  Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has sued network chief Roger Ailes, claiming she was fired because she refused his sexual advances
  
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• Music teacher gets 2-year sentence for possessing child porn

  06-07-2016 19:01
  
  A former middle school music teacher found with child pornography is now headed to prison
  
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• Reel Brooklyn: Laws of Gravity, Williamsburg/Greenpoint

  06-07-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Reel Brooklyn is a biweekly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time.
  Where were you in ‘92? Maybe you were right in the northwest ‘hoods when Nick Gomez hit Metropolitan Avenue with a mere 30K and a skeleton crew to make Laws of Gravity, one of that decade’s rawest, most authentic indies. Call us old school, but in the ‘90s it was still possible to be riveted by and breathless about a DIY mini-movie
  
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• Ex 'Sabado Gigante' actor gets 153-year child porn sentence

  06-07-2016 18:48
  
  The comedic actor who played gray-haired grandma Dona Concha on Univision's "Sabado Gigante" has been sentenced to 153 years in prison for possessing child pornography
  
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• Courtney Barnett’s Comical “Elevator Operator” Video Features Sleater Kinney, Jeff Tweedy, And More

  06-07-2016 18:48 via bkmag.com
  
  Last March, Australian-based indie rocker Courtney Barnett released her breakout album Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit, and as the title of the album suggests, Barnett’s music is comical and expansive, managing to be both emotionally bare and humorous. The stories contained within her songs string the listener along, holding tiny truths within their carefully constructed, and at times overwhelmingly specific, contexts.Today, Courtney Barnett released the music video for
  
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• Paris couture week reaches creative climax in Margiela, Saab

  06-07-2016 18:30
  
  Paris couture week reached a creative climax Wednesday with strong showing from Maison Margiela and Elie Saab
  
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• Former Fox host Gretchen Carlson sues Roger Ailes

  06-07-2016 18:29
  
  Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has sued network chief Roger Ailes, claiming she was fired because she refused his sexual advances
  
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• Escalade adds communications and safety features for 2016

  06-07-2016 18:07
  
  Cadillac has added new communications and safety equipment to the outsized Escalade for 2016, making it the first version to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, allowing drivers easy access to their cellphone contacts, music and apps
  
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• Ex-Boston Bruins star due in court on drunken driving charge

  06-07-2016 17:46
  
  Former Boston Bruins star Ray Bourque (bork) is expected to appear in a Massachusetts court to try to resolve a drunken driving charge
  
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• 'Hamilton' names its replacements for departing actors

  06-07-2016 17:21
  
  Tony Award-nominee Brandon Victor Dixon will replace Tony Award-winner Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr on Broadway in the smash hit "Hamilton," and Lexi Lawson will take over from Phillipa Soo as Eliza Schuyler
  
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• Miranda Lambert's bed-and-breakfast closes in Oklahoma

  06-07-2016 16:33
  
  Miranda Lambert has shut down her bed-and-breakfast in rural Oklahoma about a month after she closed her clothing boutique in the town where she once lived with ex-husband Blake Shelton
  
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• 'Hamilton' names its replacements for Odom and Soo

  06-07-2016 16:25
  
  Tony Award-nominee Brandon Victor Dixon will replace Tony Award-winner Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr on Broadway in the smash hit "Hamilton," and Lexi Lawson will take over from Phillipa Soo as Eliza Schuyler
  
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• Messi given 21 months for tax fraud, likely to avoid prison

  06-07-2016 16:24
  
  A Barcelona court on Wednesday sentenced Lionel Messi and his father to 21 months in prison for tax fraud, with both sentences likely to be suspended
  
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• 'Big Bang' star Kaley Cuoco sorry for pic of dogs on US flag

  06-07-2016 16:09
  
  Kaley Cuoco has apologized for posting a picture on social media on Independence Day of her dogs sitting on an American flag
  
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• There’s No “Why” in “Team”

  06-07-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The 2016 presidential is a time to pick sides. You’re with us or against us. It’s our team or their team. Blah blah blah. (Get us out of here.)Follow Matt Lubchansky on Twitter, visit his Patreon page here, or check out his store here.
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• Mike and Dave did NOT bring crazy wedding dates

  06-07-2016 15:59
  
  The real Mike and Dave Stangle talk about parlaying internet dating fame into book and movie deals and why they chose not to bring the crazy to their cousin's wedding
  
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• Here Is Brooklyn

  06-07-2016 15:40 via bkmag.com
  
  Brooklyn is a funny place in summer. This is the season when it is best to be here, and it is also the season when it is best to escape. Of course, escape is only temporary; escapes are, to quote James Agee (who knew what was what when it came to Brooklyn), “relative, and bestow their own peculiar form of bondage.” There is, in other words, no escape. But this is already known, isn’t it? If you are in Brooklyn now, then it will always be a part of your story. It will almost def
  
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• I Saw Sparks: Why Fireworks In Boston Are Better Than New York

  06-07-2016 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  The trick is to get as far away from them as possible.
  Every Fourth of July, a barge loaded with fireworks–the most expensive, technologically advanced pyrotechnic display that money can buy–weighs anchor in the Charles River, the small snake of water that separates Boston and Cambridge before it bleeds into the Atlantic. It waits between the Longfellow Bridge, the one curving over the Charles like a brick-laid set of salt and pepper shakers lined up all in a row, and the Harvard Bri
  
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• Kaley Cuoco sorry for picture of dogs sitting on US flag

  06-07-2016 15:26
  
  Kaley Cuoco has apologized for posting a picture on social media on Independence Day of her dogs sitting on an American flag
  
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• In 'Captain Fantastic,' a Swiss Family Robinson for today

  06-07-2016 15:07
  
  "Captain Fantastic," a hit on the festival circuit, has resonated for audiences as a movie for its time: a heartfelt and comic exploration about whether our hyper-digital, cacophonous lives have strayed from more elemental things
  
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• Fergie hopes to empower with song and Kim K-starring video

  06-07-2016 14:56
  
  Fergie said the concept for her latest hit, "M.I.L.F. $," was in the works for 3 years, and she's hoping to inspire and empower mothers to balance motherhood, career life and "me time."
  
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• The life of Oscar Pistorius: Triumphs and trials

  06-07-2016 14:47
  
  A glance at the life of Oscar Pistorius who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a fall from grace for the disabled Olympian
  
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• J.Lo, Spears, Blige part of a song for Orlando victims

  06-07-2016 14:08
  
  GLAAD and Interscope Records have joined forces to release a song featuring Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Mary J. Blige in tribute to the victims of last month's massacre in Orlando, Florida
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, July 6-12

  06-07-2016 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The Mermaid (2016)Directed by Stephen ChowSony Corporation of America dumped Chow’s latest in a few theaters across North America during its theatrical run this February. In China though, The Mermaid was a box office smash. It’s one of the top grossing movies of all time in the country. It’s a pretty damn good film too, and now returns (in 3D!) to Metrograph following their retrospective on Chow the actor, the filmmaker, and comedy king of Hong Kong and now, mainland
  
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