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• Japan, Uchimura win team gold in men's gymnastics

  08-08-2016 23:54
  
  The Japanese men's gymnastics team is back on top at the Olympics
  
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• Diplo touring, playing NYC's Flash Factory

  08-08-2016 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Diplo was just in NYC over the weekend for his label Mad Decent's Block Parties (which included a surprise Drake appearance)...
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• Ichiro Suzuki donates 3,000-hit souvenirs to Hall of Fame

  08-08-2016 23:46
  
  Ichiro Suzuki has donated to the Hall of Fame some of the gear he wore when he collected his 3,000th hit, including his jersey, a pair of cleats, his arm guard and batting gloves
  
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• Eluvium announces new LP 'False Readings On,' (listen to "Fugue State" & "Regenerative Being")

  08-08-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  False Readings On is a fantastic follow-up to his epic 2013 masterpiece Nightmare Ending and a perfect amalgamation of the sonic themes he has created throughout his previous seven studio releases.Continue reading…
  
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• Snoop Dogg's son leaves UCLA football again

  08-08-2016 23:11
  
  UCLA wide receiver Cordell Broadus, son of rapper Snoop Dogg, has left the program for a second time, coach Jim Mora said Monday
  
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• Top dirt-track racer Clauson remembered as 'true ambassador'

  08-08-2016 23:09
  
  Bryan Clauson was cut from the mold of old-school racers: He'd race anything, anywhere at any time. He died late Sunday after a weekend crash during a Kansas race.
  
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• Fox's 'Pitch' isn't just a baseball show

  08-08-2016 22:47
  
  Fox's upcoming drama 'Pitch' is about the first female Major League Baseball player, but it's about much more than baseball, says its co-creator
  
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• The Latest: Australian rider taken on stretcher after crash

  08-08-2016 22:44
  
  Australian rider Melissa Hoskins was taken from the Rio Olympics velodrome on a stretcher after her pursuit team crashed hard while doing a training effort at race speed
  
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• Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart to cohost new dinner party series on VH1

  08-08-2016 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Who wouldn't want to attend a 'Dinner Party wth Martha and Snoop.'
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• With Neymar struggling, Brazilian soccer fans turn to Marta

  08-08-2016 22:29
  
  The frustration with Brazil's soccer team is so great that fans are jeering Neymar and wishing women's star Marta could come to the rescue
  
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• The Shacks now less strange with 'Strange Boy' video release, album details, dates

  08-08-2016 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not to be confused (in my brain) with 'Stranger Things' by the Slacks.
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• Kllo released 'Well Worn' on Ghostly, making NYC debut at Baby's All Right

  08-08-2016 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Melbourne duo Kllo have been around for a couple years now, and just recently released their new EP Well Worn on Ghostly International. It's cool stuff, with Simon Lam's IDM-inspired beats meeting Chloe Kaul's smooth neo-soul vocals...
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• Slowdive have finished recording their new album

  08-08-2016 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Slowdive have finished recording their new album, according to an interview with drummer Simon Scott in Dutch magazine Undertoner...
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• B.E. Taylor, known for Christmas concerts, dies at age 65

  08-08-2016 22:09
  
  A musician whose annual Christmas concerts and recordings made him well known in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia has died of complications from brain cancer at age 65
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' music to tour America with full orchestra

  08-08-2016 22:07
  
  "Game of Thrones" composer Ramin Djawadi will be leading a 28-city tour across North America
  
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• Fox's 'New Girl' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' mashup planned

  08-08-2016 22:00
  
  Fox comedies 'New Girl' and Brooklyn Nine-Nine' to cross over in back-to-back episodes airing Oct. 11
  
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• Guarantee yourself a plate at TASTE Williamsburg/Greenpoint

  08-08-2016 21:55
  
  Dirk the Norseman is one of the 50+ vendors returning to TASTE Williamsburg/Greenpoint this Sept.
  TASTE Williamsburg Greenpoint, one of NYC’s best neighborhood food festivals, is back for its seventh year on September 18, with over 50 of North Brooklyn’s best restaurants, bars, breweries and wineries. The outdoor block party set up on the Williamsburg waterfront at East River State Park includes live music, activities and of course, some of the best things to eat in NYC.
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• 'The Simpsons' to air first one-hour episode; poor Mr. Burns

  08-08-2016 21:27
  
  "The Simpsons" is doubling down with an hour-long episode in January guest-starring Taraji P. Henson as Praline
  
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• Jury sides with surgeon in bone cement trial

  08-08-2016 21:26
  
  A lawyer says a jury has found in favor of a University of Washington surgeon who was sued by the daughter of a patient who died after the doctor used a non-FDA-approved bone cement during the woman's spinal surgery
  
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• The Latest: Australia, New Zealand in rugby sevens final

  08-08-2016 21:22
  
  World series champion Australia and longtime women's rugby front-runner New Zealand will play off for the first rugby sevens gold ever awarded at the Olympics after convincing semifinal wins
  
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• Amy Schumer to guest voice on Fox's animation block in Sept.

  08-08-2016 20:59
  
  Amy Schumer to lend her voice to 3 of Fox's animated shows as 3 different characters
  
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• Mariah Carey to guest as superstar singer on Fox's 'Empire'

  08-08-2016 20:58
  
  Mariah Carey will guest star on Fox's "Empire."
  
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• NBC announcer says he regrets tweet about Biles' parents

  08-08-2016 20:29
  
  NBC announcer Al Trautwig says he regrets tweeting that the adoptive mother and father of American gymnastics star Simone Biles were not her parents
  
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• Man faces drug charge after 24 stricken at Ohio music fest

  08-08-2016 20:05
  
  A Michigan man has been charged with felony drug trafficking after 24 people were sickened at an Ohio rap music festival when they ate candy laced with the marijuana ingredient THC
  
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• Adult sons sue over actor-politician Fred Thompson's estate

  08-08-2016 19:57
  
  The widow of actor-politician Fred Thompson is denying any changes were made to his will that would affect his adult sons from a previous marriage
  
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• North Dakota State president: Some texts 'not appropriate'

  08-08-2016 19:37
  
  North Dakota State University President Dean Bresciani says text messages he sent regarding now-rescinded media guidelines for covering Bison athletics were "not appropriate."
  
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• QUIRK ALERT: Syndicated Is Hosting Wes Anderson Week

  08-08-2016 19:19 via bkmag.com
  
  Fans of Futura type font, symmetrical shots, and Bill Murray should be pleased with the schedule at Bushwick’s Syndicated this week, as the watering hole/eatery/cinema hybrid is holding a ‘Wes Anderson Week,’ screening the eccentric director’s films each night through Sunday.Beginning tonight at 6:00, Syndicated will show Moonrise Kingdom, which will repeat at 8:15 and 10:30. Tomorrow night The Grand Budapest Hotel, an Oscar nominee a few years ago, will screen&
  
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• QUIRK ALERT: Syndicated Bar Is Hosting Wes Anderson Week

  08-08-2016 19:19 via bkmag.com
  
  Fans of Futura type font, symmetrical shots, and Bill Murray should be pleased with the schedule at Bushwick’s Syndicated Bar this week, as the watering hole/eatery/cinema hybrid is holding a ‘Wes Anderson Week,’ screening the eccentric director’s films each night through Sunday.Beginning tonight at 6:00, Syndicated will show Moonrise Kingdom, which will repeat at 8:15 and 10:30. Tomorrow night The Grand Budapest Hotel, an Oscar nominee a few years ago, will scr
  
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• Nightclub fire families upset over Pokemon Go stop at site

  08-08-2016 19:14
  
  Some survivors and family members of 100 people killed in a 2003 nightclub fire are upset that the site is a stop in the mobile game "Pokemon Go."
  
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• 'Ipanema' song jumps 1,200 percent after Olympics ceremony

  08-08-2016 19:12
  
  "The Girl from Ipanema" has won a gold medal in music streaming following the opening ceremony at the Summer Olympics
  
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• New Orleans-flavored funeral for jazz musician Pete Fountain

  08-08-2016 19:04
  
  Famed jazz musician Pete Fountain, who died Saturday, will get a New Orleans-flavored send-off during funeral services next week
  
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• Escape rooms get an upgrade into a deeper theatrical show

  08-08-2016 18:37
  
  These days, escape rooms are being stretched into several rooms, with actors mixed among the clients, expensive props and movie special effects
  
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• Lorenzo Lamas to hit a New York stage in 'The Fantasticks'

  08-08-2016 18:29
  
  Lorenzo Lamas, known for starring in such soap operas "Falcon Crest" and "Renegade," is going into one of the longest-running shows on earth: He's jumping into the off-Broadway "The Fantasticks."
  
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• Martha Stewart, Snoop Dogg to host dinner party show on VH1

  08-08-2016 17:54
  
  Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg are teaming up to throw celebrity dinner parties as part of a new VH1 reality show
  
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• Harry Potter and the Story That Did Not End: On The Cursed Child and J.K. Rowling’s Ever-Expanding Universe

  08-08-2016 17:48 via bkmag.com
  
  I believed J.K. Rowling, back in 2007, when she said to Meredith Vieira on the Today Show, “I think I’ve kinda done the Wizarding World.”
  Vieira pushes Rowling on this point–the series had by then taken up seventeen years, nearly two decades, of her life. How could a project of that scope be over?“You can look out at these sweet innocent faces,” Viera asks, “and say ‘There will never be another Harry Potter book’?”
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• NBC analyst criticized over comment about Simone Biles

  08-08-2016 17:42
  
  An NBC analyst set off an uproar on Twitter over a comment about the adoptive parents of gymnast Simone Biles
  
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• Hulu dropping free video as it prepares cable TV alternative

  08-08-2016 17:29
  
  Hulu is dropping the free TV episodes that it was initially known for as it works on launching a cable TV alternative
  
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• Boom in live video helping some creators make a living

  08-08-2016 17:21
  
  Facebook, Twitter and Amazon-owned Twitch are pouring resources and money into live video streaming
  
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• At a Glance: Livestreaming apps beyond Facebook Live

  08-08-2016 17:16
  
  Several apps let people livestream events as they happen using your smartphone, so families can share big moments and artists and athletes can connect with fans
  
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• Romania: exiled King Michael will miss funeral of wife Anne

  08-08-2016 17:13
  
  Romania's royal house says former King Michael, who has cancer, will miss his wife's funeral on the advice of medics
  
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• Jimmy Buffett brings hope of good news for Atlantic City

  08-08-2016 17:06
  
  Tourism officials in Atlantic City hope Jimmy Buffett can start to turn around a summer of headlines about casino strikes and another closing
  
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• Inside Brooklyn Sweetups: A Brain Trust of The Borough’s Top Dessert Purveyors

  08-08-2016 16:59 via bkmag.com
  
  Running the length of the room, an expansive table is set as if for The Last Supper. Although in addition to bread and wine, it’s arrayed with quinoa salad, faux gras and quiche, and instead of apostles, attendants are the pillars of Brooklyn’s dessert community–including delegates from Blue Marble, The Good Batch, Megpies, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Baked, Granola Lab, Whimsy and Spice, Raaka Chocolate, Salty Road, Liddabit Sweets and Bien Cuit, and–holding court on eit
  
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• Brokenness, Paul McCartney, And Letting It Be

  08-08-2016 16:53 via bkmag.com
  
  Lately I’ve been feeling broken. It’s lasted long enough that I don’t think it’s unique to me anymore. You try to do good and you fuck it up. People who you’ve never met hate you. People who love you stop, turn on you–it happens every day. Broken in the way that doesn’t get fixed. At 74, Sir Paul McCartney knows a thing or two about brokenness. Maybe when people are as successful as he has become, we forget to acknowledge their humanity. We forget to ack
  
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• Four Horsemen serves a brunch even a pancake hater could love

  08-08-2016 16:13
  
  This is not your average breakfast sandwich. Photo: Annaliese Griffin
  The Four Horsemen, the Grand Street restaurant owned by LCD Soundsystem frontman and wine lover James Murphy, has become one of Williamsburg’s best crowded rooms at night. The wine list is exciting and ever changing, the food is eclectic and it’s the kind of place you tend to run into friends you haven’t seen in awhile. Hop on a stool at the bar, ask the server what you should drink and then order some
  
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• Bow Wow retiring from rap, says next album will be his last

  08-08-2016 15:20
  
  The rapper formerly known as Bow Wow says his upcoming album will be his last
  
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• Japan's emperor suggests he would like to abdicate

  08-08-2016 15:16
  
  Japan's emperor has expressed concern about fulfilling his duties as he ages, in a public address that was remarkable for its rarity and its suggestion that he would like to abdicate
  
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• Robert De Niro to get key award at Sarajevo Film Festival

  08-08-2016 15:07
  
  Organizers say Robert De Niro will present Martin Scorsese's restored "Taxi Driver" at the opening night of the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival and receive the festival's first life achievement award
  
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• Top dirt-track racer Bryan Clauson dies from crash injuries

  08-08-2016 14:52
  
  Bryan Clauson, considered the top dirt-track racer in the country, has died from injuries suffered in an accident at the Belleville (Kansas) Midget Nationals USAC midget race
  
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• Review: 'Behind Closed Doors' is gripping domestic thriller

  08-08-2016 14:47
  
  Book Review: "Behind Closed Doors" by B.A. Paris is a gripping domestic thriller
  
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• Review: Love is complicated in 'Ugly and Wonderful Things'

  08-08-2016 14:26
  
  Book Review: Love, drugs and good intentions prove complicated in Bryn Greenwood's "All the Ugly and Wonderful Things."
  
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