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• Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah each land a Showtime series

  11-08-2016 23:51
  
  Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah will each star in their own half-hour comedy series for Showtime
  
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• Stephen Colbert, Showtime in talks for live election special

  11-08-2016 23:50
  
  Showtime is in talks with Stephen Colbert to host a live election-night comedy special, the channel's chief executive says
  
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• Nickelodeon reviving 'Rocko's Modern Life' for TV special

  11-08-2016 23:39
  
  Nickelodeon reviving 'Rocko's Modern Life' for one-hour TV special
  
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• Pat Cummings: The Business of the Book: How to Break into Book Illustrating

  11-08-2016 23:37
  Saturday, September 17, 2016 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterLegendary book illustrator, Coretta Scott King Award winner and Katowitz-Radin Artist-in-Residence, Pat Cummings, offers the most direct pathways into the field, including tips on how to target the right agents and publishers, how to submit work, how work is evaluated, and more.  Check out her books from Brooklyn Public Library.
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• Daughter of Motown stars to Detroit students: Find your beat

  11-08-2016 22:37
  
  The daughter of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy and one of its biggest stars, Diana Ross, says young Detroiters should learn about their city's rich artistic legacy _ then forge their own path
  
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• Romania detains 1 for giving 'false information' to Sky News

  11-08-2016 22:22
  
  Romanian organized crime prosecutors have detained a man they allege appeared in a British television news report claiming that gangs are trafficking guns in Romania
  
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• CW's 'Supergirl' and 'The Flash' planning musical crossovers

  11-08-2016 22:11
  
  The CW's 'Supergirl' and 'The Flash' to air a pair of crossover musical episodes later in the coming TV season
  
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• A virtual-reality Olympics? It's OK, but TV is still king

  11-08-2016 21:56
  
  NBC and other television networks around the world are offering selected Olympic events in virtual reality for the first time, but television remains the go-to place for a truly immersive experience
  
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• Reports: Bombing in Thai seaside resort town kills 1

  11-08-2016 21:53
  
  Thai media are reporting that two small bombs have exploded in the popular seaside resort town of Hua Hin, leaving at least one person dead and 20 others injured
  
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• John Steinbeck's son, fellow author Thomas Steinbeck, dies

  11-08-2016 21:53
  
  Thomas Steinbeck, eldest son of Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and a prominent author and screenwriter in his own right, has died at age 72
  
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• Here's what Jamie Dornan really thinks of social media

  11-08-2016 21:51
  
  Jamie Dornan says social media trolls contributed to his dumping social media
  
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• Correction: Film Review-Pete's Dragon story

  11-08-2016 21:39
  
  Correction: Film Review-Pete's Dragon story
  
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• Silver Apples touring this fall, featured on new compilation, working on new album

  11-08-2016 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dates include shows at Market Hotel and WFMU Monty Hall.
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• Review: 'Florence Foster Jenkins' never nails the right tone

  11-08-2016 21:25
  
  Film Review: Inspired by the true story of a tune-challenged American socialite, "Florence Foster Jenkins" is almost as tone deaf as its heroine
  
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• Kevin Hart, as rapper alter-ego, signs with Motown Records

  11-08-2016 21:23
  
  Kevin Hart is used to entertaining audiences with his jokes, and now he's hoping to do so with his rhymes
  
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• True Widow releasing 'Avvolgere,' share new song, announce tour dates

  11-08-2016 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Grey-hued Dallas "stonegaze" band True Widow have announced a new album, the follow-up to 2013's excellent, depressing Circumambulation. This one is called Avvolgere, and it drops on September 23 via Relapse...
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] Brooklyn Paper Radio is back to day with Paul Steely White, plus a Donald Trump apostle who happens to be Gersh’s “Dad.”

  11-08-2016 20:55
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Vince DiMiceliBrooklyn PaperToday on Brooklyn Paper Radio, Gersh and Vince talk presidential politics with Donald Trump acolyte and Gersh Kuntzman “Dad” Ron Kuntzman, a lifelong sensible person who insists The Donald is the only choice for leader of the free world. We’ll find out why.Then, the boys talk about the most overrated foods of summer, previewing a column that will run in the New York Daily News tomorrow. As a bonus, calls will be
  
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• The Rolling Stones' 1960s mono recordings reissued for massive box set

  11-08-2016 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  'The Rolling Stones In Mono' includes everything from their self-titled 1964 debut up through 'Let it Bleed.'
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• Get Yours Now: Art Opportunities

  11-08-2016 20:37 via bkmag.com
  
  The relative slowdown of arts-related matters in August recently prompted me to put together a long, admittedly meandering list of items you might want to add to what could nonetheless be quite a robust art agenda for the month. It included notes about some current and forthcoming shows—visual art, dance, music, film, et cetera—at many different venues, and it traveled around NYC’s boroughs a fair bit before heading upstate. It even veered off at a fork in the road to include
  
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• CW talking to Nina Dobrev about 'Vampire Diaries' send-off

  11-08-2016 20:27
  
  The CW is in talks with Nina Dobrev about whether she will return for the series finale of "The Vampire Diaries."
  
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• Jamie Dornan is ready for life after 'Fifty Shades'

  11-08-2016 20:19
  
  Jamie Dornan is looking for a vacation after back-to-back projects that include two more 'Fifty Shades' movies, another season as a serial killer and some war drama
  
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• Disney's 'Elena of Avalor' gets second-season renewal

  11-08-2016 20:01
  
  Disney's first Latino princess will keep her throne, with the TV series "Elena of Avalor" earning a second-season renewal
  
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• Led Zeppelin reissuing 'BBC Sessions,' getting burlesque tribute in NYC, plus a Lez Zeppelin show & more

  11-08-2016 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There's plenty going on in the world of Led Zeppelin.
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• The Lemon Twigs announce details of 4AD debut, share "These Words" video, touring w/ Sunflower Bean

  11-08-2016 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Lemon Twigs have announced details of their debut album, The Lemon Twigs Do Hollywood, which will be out October 14 via 4AD...
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• Pity Sex touring, playing Northeast shows with Eskimeaux

  11-08-2016 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While Pity Sex co-leader Britty Drake announced she'd be leaving Pity Sex after their 8/18 show in Grand Rapids with Best Coast, the rest of the band already have more dates planned...
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• Check Out Olmsted’s Garden to Glass Cocktails

  11-08-2016 19:26 via bkmag.com
  
  A lot has happened since we last visited Olmsted. They received a two star review from the New York Times (which served to boost the mighty bump they doubtlessly received after our post), and they finally got their liquor license, allowing head bartender Mike Bohn to take full advantage of their entirely edible backyard.
  So unless a rush on reservations due to the former prevents you from scoring a seat this month, be sure to snag a taste of the latter before they entirely transform for fall.Rhu
  
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• Vetiver releasing new single, with Best Bits remix of "Current Carry" (listen)

  11-08-2016 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last year, indie folkies Vetiver released Complete Strangers. This Friday (8/12), the band will release a new single on Easy Sound Recording Co., which has a remix of "Current Carry" from that album...
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• Valley Queen releasing single, touring (dates, stream)

  11-08-2016 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LA's Valley Queen are releasing the "In My Place" b/w "High Expectations" single this Friday (8/12) via Canvasclub. Singer Natalie Carol has a real powerful voice, and the band's folk pop has gained comparisons to Fleetwood Mac, Florence Welch, and others...
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• Rihanna to perform and receive top honor at MTV VMAs

  11-08-2016 18:35
  
  Rihanna, who released her first album in 2005, will earn the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28 in New York City
  
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• Obama's summer playlist: A little pop to a little hip hop

  11-08-2016 18:33
  
  President Barack Obama has a wide range of music he's listening to this summer, including songs from Prince, the Beach Boys and Chance the Rapper
  
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• Wild Beasts celebrated 'Boy King' at Baby's All Right (pics, setlist, review)

  11-08-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wild Beasts have always dealt with primal urges lyrically, but their new album Boy King puts those themes into the music, a sexual thump and slap delivered with distorted synths. It comes across even more so live, with charismatic frontmen Hayden Thorpe and Tom Flemming...
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• Broadway and TV star Laura Benanti expecting a baby

  11-08-2016 18:30
  
  TV and Broadway star Laura Benanti is pregnant and she and her husband are expecting a baby girl this winter
  
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• The Well on Norman Reedus' AMC show, releasing new LP (listen to a new track)

  11-08-2016 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today we premiere the track "Black Eyed Gods" from the Austin band whowrote the theme song for "Ride With Norman Reedus".
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• Rihanna to earn Michael Jackson video award at MTV VMAs

  11-08-2016 18:11
  
  Rihanna, who released her first album in 2005, will earn the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28 in New York City
  
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• Ventura plans to take defamation case to US Supreme Court

  11-08-2016 18:02
  
  Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he plans to take his defamation fight against the estate of slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle to the U. S. Supreme Court
  
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• De La Soul & Little Dragon streaming "Drawn"

  11-08-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New single "Drawn" features Swedish electronic pop greats Little Dragon, who unsurprisingly sound great working with these rap legends...
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• RIP Gawker, You Made Media Worth Doing

  11-08-2016 18:01 via bkmag.com
  
  Well, kids, it’s come to this. It looks like Gawker is going out of business. Following a frankly hilarious post about Hulk Hogan’s sex tape, the company, its founder Nick Denton, and the post’s author AJ Daulerio have all been sued into bankruptcy (full disclosure, I wrote for AJ at a post-Gawker project). The court case was a joke–the prosecution’s argument was basically this crossed with this–but the verdict isn’t. Gawker Media will be sold at auctio
  
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• 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' actor Barry Jenner dead at 75

  11-08-2016 17:51
  
  Barry Jenner, who appeared regularly on shows such as "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Family Matters," has died
  
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• I’ll Give It Ten Years: My King

  11-08-2016 17:32 via bkmag.com
  
  My KingDirected by MaïwennOpens August 12 at Lincoln Plaza
  There is an old axiom that any relationship that begins in a bar is destined to fail. Appropriately, the protagonist’s brother (Louis Garrel) predicts “it won’t last” immediately after My King’s “Meet Cute,” set just outside a bar/club. So begins a ten-year amour fou between a criminal lawyer and a restaurateur notable not for its histrionics but for its subtlety; it feels neither hysterica
  
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• The Menzingers share "Lookers," planning new album

  11-08-2016 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Menzingers are finally ready to follow 2014's Rented World with a new album. It hasn't officially been announced yet, but a new single, "Lookers," just came out...
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• President Obama Released His Summer Playlist, And Unsurprisingly, It’s Pretty Awesome

  11-08-2016 17:21 via bkmag.com
  
  As we know by now, President Obama is one cool cat. He’s got a pretty refined taste in comedy, podcasts, and, perhaps most notably, music. He’s met with hip-hop stars in the White House on multiple occasions, slow-jammed the news with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, and even held a private show featuring Stevie Wonder and Prince at The White House. This morning, our 44th Commander-in-Chief released his official presidential summer playlist via the @POTUS Twitter account, and unsurprising
  
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• Green Day announce new album 'Revolution Radio,' share "BANG BANG"

  11-08-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's already been a great year for pop punk, and now a new Green Day album has been announced...
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• Pete’s Dragon: Disney via Malick (late Malick)

  11-08-2016 16:52 via bkmag.com
  
  Pete’s DragonDirected by David LoweryOpens August 12
  Pete’s Dragon may be the best entry so far in Disney’s worst ongoing franchise: the handsome, empty repainting of their catalog titles. It’s this movie in particular that necessitates the use of “catalog titles” rather than “classics”; the original 1977 Pete’s Dragon is, to my recollection, one of the studio’s more negligible and tedious hybrid movies of the 70s, with treacly songs a
  
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• Belly played Bowery Ballroom (pics, setlist, video), do it again tonight

  11-08-2016 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Dental insurance is involved in this song." That was Tanya Donelly's intro to Belly's hit "Feed the Tree" ("put silver where her teeth had been") Wednesday (8/10) at Bowery Ballroom, their first of two nights there...
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• Rooftop Films at 20

  11-08-2016 16:44
  
  Rooftop Films started showing movies at Industry City in 2015. Photo: Ethan Judelson
  It all started with a few flyers, a bed sheet and a rooftop.
  In the summer of 1997, Mark Elijah Rosenberg founded Rooftop Films on the top of his East Village apartment building. He and a few friends, he said, “used a 16mm projector, tied a sheet to the wall, opened the door to the roof, and we had a film festival.” The turnout to see the collection of short films that Rosenberg had selected for the
  
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• Vermont ballet group dances down on the farm

  11-08-2016 16:37
  
  Vermont ballet group delights with outside farm performances
  
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• Piebald brought their reunion tour to Webster Hall (setlist, videos, pics)

  11-08-2016 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Piebald are on their reunion tour, and they just played their first NYC show in years at Webster Hall last night...
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• Jennifer Lopez to play cocaine queen Griselda Blanco for HBO

  11-08-2016 16:10
  
  Jennifer Lopez is set to star as late drug lord Griselda Blanco in an upcoming HBO biopic about the woman known as "The Godmother" and the "Queen of Cocaine."
  
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• listen to "She'll Kill You" from 'Stranger Things' soundtrack

  11-08-2016 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "She'll Kill You" is neon blue, with big '80s drums and throbbing synth bass, and may have you considering watching the whole thing again just to figure out what scene this is from.
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• Twin Peaks soundtrack getting vinyl reissue w/ presale parties around the country

  11-08-2016 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I'm glad that after 25 years, Death Waltz Recording Company has re-released the original soundtrack for Twin Peaks for a new audience to enjoy. This is my defining work as a composer and I’m happy it will get a fresh listen." - Angelo Badalamenti
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