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• Brooklyn Mirage still closed; 'Greatest Day Ever' at Governors Island Saturday

  08-07-2016 23:43
  
  Bushwick's Brooklyn Mirage has been shut down multiple times by the city. Baauer and more can be found on Governors Island this weekend.Continue reading…
  
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• A gay Sulu enters 'Star Trek,' but Takei disapproves

  08-07-2016 23:19
  
  The USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu is portrayed as gay in "Star Trek Beyond," but George Takei, who originated the role, isn't pleased
  
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• Home of killer in 'Silence of the Lambs' sells for $195,000

  08-07-2016 23:15
  
  The western Pennsylvania house used in the film "The Silence of the Lambs" has been sold
  
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• [BRIDGE ‘PARK’] Heights Association suing to stop Pier 6 towers

  08-07-2016 22:54
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperA Brooklyn Heights civic group is hoping legal eagles can still swoop in to block Brooklyn Bridge Park honchos building more money-spinning towers in the park, filing a new suit against the development on Thursday.The semi-private organization that runs the park voted last month to go ahead with the controversial development, which is opposed by every local civic group and elected official, despite failing to secure the support of t
  
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• Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul & Jay Rock jump on Schoolboy Q "THat Part" remix

  08-07-2016 22:45
  
  Much of the country has been saddened and angered by the recent Philando Castile and Alton Sperling shootings, and as a response to this, Schoolboy Q got in the studio and quickly put out a remix of his Kanye collab "THat Part." In his final verse, Q references Sperling's death...
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] Activists camping in front of CitiStorage to demand sale for Bushwick Inlet Park

  08-07-2016 22:13
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperThis protest will be in-tents!Park activists and Borough President Adams are staging a “sleep-in” outside a Williamsburg waterfront warehouse on Saturday, camping out to demand the owner accept Mayor DeBlasio’s recent $100-million offer to buy the property so the city can turn it into parkland.Hizzoner made the offer on developer Norm Brodsky’s CitiStorage warehouses in mid-June — more than 10 years afte
  
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• For actor Kalani Queypo, Emmy Awards diversity is personal

  08-07-2016 21:33
  
  Kalani Queypo, who earned critical acclaim for his role as Squanto in the National Geographic miniseries "Saints & Strangers," is hoping for recognition when Emmy Award nominations are announced next week
  
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• Actress to open all November shows for Animal Collective (who paid tribute to Other Music)

  08-07-2016 21:18
  
  Animal Collective have been extensively touring behind their most recent record Painting With offering opening slots in their shows to experimental electronic artists Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, WIFE (who opens a number of fall dates), and GFOTY...
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• Mitski, Japanese Breakfast, and Jay Som on tour, played the Echoplex in LA (review)

  08-07-2016 21:04
  
  The crowd was packed in and rapt for the Mitski, who's been riding high behind her great new album Puberty 2. I was struck immediately by the fact that her voice is even more impressive live than on record, and she wields it skillfully...
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• Saying Goodbye To The Acheron: This Weekend’s Wild Viking Funeral

  08-07-2016 20:48 via bkmag.com
  
  Over the last six years, co-owners Bill Dozer and Dan Oestreich have built The Acheron into a punk oasis in the middle of concrete nowhere. On an empty strip of Waterbury Street in East Williamsburg, their venue played host to a impressive run of local, national, international, and legendary acts across the spectrum of dark, angry, passionate, or deranged music until two weeks ago, when they announced it was all coming to an abrupt end.Unlike other late, lamented Brooklyn spots like Glasslands o
  
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• In 'Ingredienti,' Victor Hazan channels late wife Marcella

  08-07-2016 20:39
  
  There's a story behind this story: Victor Hazan needed courage and time to complete his latest collaboration with his late wife, the famed cookbook writer Marcella Hazan
  
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• Athens Popfest: 2016 lineup & tickets

  08-07-2016 20:39
  
  This year's lineup includes Daniel Johnston, Deerhoof, Elf Power, His Name is Alive, the original lineup of Love Tractor, Bunnygrunt, Dressy Bessy, and more.
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• 15 Ways to Support the #BlackLivesMatter Movement Right Now

  08-07-2016 20:31 via bkmag.com
  
  Do not accept inaction:1. Donate to Alton Sterling’s Gofundme.
  2. Donate to Philando Castile’s Gofundme.
  3. Donate to Delrawn Small’s Gofundme.
  4. Donate to any of these black-led racial justice organizations.
  5. Rally in Union Square today.
  6. Join this conversation with Gwen Carr today:
  7. Rally from Brooklyn Bridge to Union Square this Saturday:
  8. Sign this petition for justice for Alton Sterling.
  9. Read about Campaign Zero and write you
  
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• Days left to bid on Verobten (Williamsburg club up for auction)

  08-07-2016 20:23
  
  The troubled Williamsburg dance club could be yours if the price is right.
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• Review: A fresh new voice in country leans into the moment

  08-07-2016 20:03
  
  With his new self-titled album, Sean McConnell unleashes the kind of forward-leaning, acoustic adrenalin rush that picks you up by the belt loops and carries you away
  
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• MNDR replacing Nick Rhodes on current Duran Duran tour

  08-07-2016 20:02
  
  It's only temporary, Durannies, Nick has to attend to an urgent family matter.
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• Five Notable Releases of the Week (7/8/16)

  08-07-2016 20:02
  
  Hard-to-pigeonhole heavy music from Inter Arma, a dark new Schoolboy Q album, more greatness from Kathleen Hanna, and more.
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• Ex-congressman Joe Walsh stands by 'Watch out Obama' tweet

  08-07-2016 19:45
  
  A former Illinois congressman is standing by a Twitter post he sent after the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas in which he warned President Obama to "Watch out."
  
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• Vince Neil facing misdemeanor battery charge in Las Vegas

  08-07-2016 19:38
  
  Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil is being charged with misdemeanor battery in a case alleging he grabbed a woman's hair and pulled her to the ground in April outside a Las Vegas Strip resort
  
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• Oya Festival 2016 lineup + Aiming For Enrike opening for Jaga Jazzist at LPR

  08-07-2016 19:24
  
  Oslo, Norway's Oya Festival happens August 9 - 13 and this year's lineup includes M83, Massive Attack (will Tricky be there?), Foals, New Order, The Kils, PJ Harvey, Jame xx, Travis Scott, Mastadon, Savages, Julia Holter, Lush, Whitney, and loads more...
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• Will 'Hamilton' suffer after the loss of key principals?

  08-07-2016 19:04
  
  This weekend, the Broadway smash "Hamilton" faces 1 of its biggest tests so far when it says goodbye to 3 principal members _ but experts say the show will survive
  
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• Crown Height’s New Tiki Bar, Super Power, Is a Tropical Oasis 100 Rums Strong

  08-07-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  When you walk into Super Power on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights, a few things will strike you: tropical hues of blue and green; wallpaper covered in fronds; palm tree shaped neon attached to the wall; and nearly 100 varieties of rum, stacked neatly behind the bar. Sitting on a cushy aqua marine stool at the L-shaped bar, you might order a vat of lime and pineapple juices mixed with three kinds of rum, which fill a vase-sized glass. This is the John the Beachcomber, a riff
  
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• Johnson to drive a backup car after Kentucky practice wreck

  08-07-2016 18:29
  
  Jimmie Johnson will drive a backup Chevy after wrecking his primary No. 48 car during Friday morning's practice at Kentucky Speedway
  
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• Jessy Lanza’s Journey From Jazz History To Oh No‘s Experimental Pop

  08-07-2016 18:21 via bkmag.com
  
  In May I wrote about Jessy Lanza’s luminous sophomore album, Oh No, a record driven as much by her skill as an experimental electronic composer as it is by her singular voice. The electronic music world is even more male-dominated than the rest of the music industry, and Lanza shines like a beacon in a genre that can seem particularly dark or uncreative. But even if both of her solo albums–2013’s Pull My Hair Back (which was short-listed for the Polaris Prize) and this year&rsq
  
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• HBO’s The Night Of Is Your New TV Obsession

  08-07-2016 18:13 via bkmag.com
  
  The summer tends to be a slow time for television obsessives. The sixth season of Game of Thrones just wrapped up, and most fans probably finished all 13 hours of Orange is the New Black’s fourth season within a few days of it’s release last month. For those of us who love serialized drama, dark plots, and grizzly details, there’s a big hole that needs filling. Luckily, it looks like HBO’s eight-part miniseries, The Night Of, officially debuting on July 10, could meet all
  
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• World champ Kiprop defends agent against doping allegations

  08-07-2016 18:03
  
  World 1,500-meter champion Asbel Kiprop defended his manager against doping accusations
  
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• The Latest: Platini not expected to be at France's final

  08-07-2016 17:49
  
  UEFA leaders do not expect outgoing president Michel Platini to accept their invitation to attend the European Championship final on Sunday
  
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• Image of Asia: Alicia Vikander takes a fan selfie in Seoul

  08-07-2016 16:12
  
  Image of Asia: Alicia Vikander takes a selfie with fans while promoting her latest film, "Jason Bourne," in Seoul, South Korea
  
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• I Saw Sparks: Brooklyn From Both Sides

  08-07-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Sometimes on nice days I skip my transfer to the G train. I walk from the 7 train stop at Vernon Jackson over the Pulaski Bridge and do the same on the way home. One night, instead of the usual throngs of bikers, runners and commuters traipsing over the bridge, I found everyone standing still, watching fireworks light up the sky over the city and murmuring to each other about what the occasion might be. It was summer and that was usually reason enough, so I too stopped to watch too, remembering
  
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• Missy Elliott: People don't know all the songs I've produced

  08-07-2016 15:52
  
  Missy Elliott is known for her oddball, trippy videos and colorful rhymes, but she says that if she were a man, more people would know about the songs she's written or produced for other acts, including Whitney Houston, Beyonce and Aaliyah
  
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• Jay Z releases song following police shootings of black men

  08-07-2016 15:04
  
  Jay Z has released an emotional new song in response to this week's fatal police shootings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana
  
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• Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Lil Kim to be honored by VH1

  08-07-2016 15:01
  Queen Latifah remembers being on set in 1997 for the music video for "Ladies Night," the female rap anthem starring Lil Kim, Missy Elliott and others
  
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• Historic Utica theater headed to auction block

  08-07-2016 13:25
  
  A landmark theater in Utica is headed to the auction block
  
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• WWE wrestler Heath Slater volunteers to help flood victims

  08-07-2016 13:15
  
  Professional wrestler Heath Slater has returned to his home state of West Virginia to help with flood relief efforts
  
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• The Past Isn’t Dead, It Isn’t Even Past: Men Go to Battle

  08-07-2016 13:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Men Go to BattleDirected by Zachary TreitzJuly 8-14 at Anthology Film Archives
  As stewards of the Kentucky farm recently bequeathed to them, the two adult brothers at the heart of the striking Men Go to Battle, a full-immersion period piece that takes place at the dawn of the Civil War, can’t seem to get it together. The film opens as the towering Francis (David Maloney) tries—and fails—to entice a prospective buyer in part of the property, an inauspicious plot of land strangl
  
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• Win a weekend of beer and food in Philly

  08-07-2016 12:53
  
  If you live in Brooklyn, then you already know Brooklyn Brewery through their beers on tap around the city, the events they host at their tasting room, and (of course) the neighborhood Immersions they help us produce. But for all the cities where they’re not the hometown brewery, they’ve created the MASH, an immersive event that brings good beer, food and music to cities around the U.S. and Europe every summer. The next stop is in Philly, and we’re sending one lucky winner
  
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• Michigan music therapist records young patients' heartbeats

  08-07-2016 08:46
  
  A music therapist at a Michigan hospital records the heartbeats of young patients and sets the thumping, rhythmic sounds to music as a gift for parents and other loved ones
  
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• Wine and song: Boston Symphony back outdoors at Tanglewood

  08-07-2016 06:33
  
  One of New England's most chilled-out rites of summer _ a series of outdoor concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra _ is about to kick off
  
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• [EVENT] Fast, feast, fest: Bay Ridge prepares to party for the end of Ramadan

  08-07-2016 06:00
  
  Celebrate a bazaar decade! Read more.
  
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• [EVENT] Fast, feast, fest!: Bay Ridge parties for the end of Ramadan

  08-07-2016 06:00
  
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• [CARROLL GARDENS] Back on track: Brownstone Brooklynites renew fight against express F

  08-07-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperSlow your roll!The Metropolitan Transportation Authority must scrap its planned express F-train service and work with straphangers to come up with a new scheme that also boosts service at local stops, thousands of residents are demanding in a new petition.“We refuse to accept the MTA’s current proposal as a done deal,” reads the petition, first started by Carroll Gardens resident Erin Lippincott then adopted by Cou
  
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• The Latest: Lakers announce signing Deng, Zubac, Clarkson

  08-07-2016 03:06
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers have formally announced their signings of veteran Luol Deng and second-round pick Ivica Zubac, along with the re-signing of guard Jordan Clarkson
  
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• Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor John McMartin dies at 86

  08-07-2016 01:45
  
  John McMartin, the versatile, gentlemanly Tony Award-nominated actor who starred on Broadway in such shows as "Follies" and "Sweet Charity," has died, according to his manager
  
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• The Latest: Bucks acquire Dellavedova from Cavaliers

  08-07-2016 01:43
  
  The Milwaukee Bucks have acquired guard Matthew Dellavedova in a sign-and-trade with Cleveland
  
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• Carl Haas, co-founder of Newman-Haas Racing, dies at 86

  08-07-2016 01:07
  
  Carl Haas, co-founder of Newman-Haas Racing with late actor Paul Newman, has died
  
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• NFL Hall of Famer Paul Hornung sues helmet maker Riddell

  08-07-2016 00:31
  
  Pro football Hall of Famer and former Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung is suing equipment manufacturer Riddell, saying its helmets failed to protect him from brain injury
  
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• US fencer Alexander Massialas in line to make history in Rio

  08-07-2016 00:26
  
  American Alexander Massialas has always been honored as much for his accomplishments as how young he was when he accomplished them
  
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• World champion cable car bell-ringer crowned

  08-07-2016 00:19
  
  Leonard Oats wowed the crowd with a bell-ringing rendition of Michael Jackson's song "Bad" and took home a giant trophy, a stack of cash, lots of Ghirardelli chocolate and a fair amount of bragging rights for his effort
  
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