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• Lower Dens playing inside an inflatable structure at Pioneer Works ++ other tour dates

  02-09-2016 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Pioneer Works show is part of the exhibit "The Present Is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST."
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• 'Birth of a Nation' star, rape survivor faces complex issues

  02-09-2016 23:02
  
  Gabrielle Union says she cannot take lightly rape allegations against Nate Parker, who directed her in "The Birth of a Nation" and stars alongside her in the film in which she plays a rape victim
  
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• Amanda Palmer shares funny "On The Door" dance track; watch Dresden Dolls' Coney Island show

  02-09-2016 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On the Door" features Sarah Silverman, Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt, Ben Folds, Craig Ferguson, Neil Gaiman, Mike Posner and more.
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• Fred Hellerman, member of Weavers folk group, dies at 89

  02-09-2016 22:37
  
  Fred Hellerman, a member of the influential folk music quartet the Weavers, has died at the age of 89. Caleb Hellerman says his father died Thursday at his home in Weston, Connecticut, after a lengthy illness
  
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• Eastwood movie 'Sully' to open Telluride Film Festival

  02-09-2016 21:44
  
  Clint Eastwood's movie about the "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot will get its world premiere during the Telluride Film Festival
  
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• Ex-Subway pitchman in suit: Victim's parents to blame

  02-09-2016 21:38
  
  Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's legal attempt to shift the blame onto the parents of one of his child pornography victims for the girl's emotional distress is a "bizarre" argument, one legal expert said Friday
  
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• The Revolution reunited at First Avenue (video, setlist); more Prince tributes planned

  02-09-2016 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Apollonia and Bilal joined the Revolution for their first show in five years, and first since Prince's death.
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• Goodbye, Secret Project Robot—for Now

  02-09-2016 20:59 via bkmag.com
  
  On Tuesday, Brooklyn said goodbye to OG DIY art space and music venue Secret Project Robot—for now. The final show of the weeklong “Doomsday Celebration: One Long Goodbye Until We Meet Again” featured Blob Dylan, King Pussy Face, and Call of the Wild, plus about 100 longtime friends and supporters there to see the space one last time before its doors closed forever.
  “But I don’t want this to be the same story all the DIY spaces get,” cofounder Rachel Nelson t
  
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• Amanda Shires releasing 'My Piece of Land,' touring (dates & stream)

  02-09-2016 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alt-country violinist/guitarist/singer Amanda Shires will follow 2013's Down Fell the Doves with a new album, My Piece of Land, on September 16...
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• Is Banksy a member of Massive Attack?

  02-09-2016 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is at least an interesting, compelling theory. Meanwhile, Massive Attack ready another new single.
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• Travi$ Scott drops new album ft. Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Young Thug & more

  02-09-2016 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Isaiah Rashad's The Sun's Tirade isn't the only highly-anticipated new rap album out today...
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• Jon Polito, prolific character actor, dead at 65.

  02-09-2016 20:20
  
  Jon Polito, the prolific and raspy-voiced character actor whose many credits ranged from "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Modern Family" to the Coen Brother films "Barton Fink" and "The Big Lebowski," has died at age 65
  
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• The Latest: Law expert: Ex-Subway pitchman filing 'bizarre'

  02-09-2016 20:11
  
  One legal expert says former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's attempt to shift the blame in a civil lawsuit filed by one of his child pornography victims onto that girl's parents is a "bizarre" legal move
  
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• White House hosting SXSW-style "South By South Lawn"

  02-09-2016 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Apparently President Barack Obama's visit to SXSW made quite an impression, as it's been announced that the President will be playing host to a SXSW-inspired micro festival of his own on the White House lawn...
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• Broad City soundtrack announced, ft. RJD2, Lizzo, more

  02-09-2016 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Comedy Central's great Broad City is getting an official soundtrack. Featuring the likes of RJD2, Lizzo, Ana Tijoux, Scooter Island, Zebra Katz, Tony Quattro Junglepussy and many more...
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• pot sitcoms 'Mary + Jane' (produced by Snoop Dogg) and 'High Maintenance' premiering this month

  02-09-2016 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There's a whiff of something in the air on fall TV this year.
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• Filmmaker Ava DuVernay conquers TV with 'Queen Sugar'

  02-09-2016 19:32
  
  The family drama "Queen Sugar" follows three estranged siblings in a Louisiana town as they struggle to make sense of their lives while preserving a family legacy: a failing sugar-cane farm
  
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• Dwyane Wade mourns cousin, urges tougher gun laws in Chicago

  02-09-2016 19:06
  
  Dwyane Wade tells ABC his hometown needs tougher gun laws; Bulls star speaks a week after cousin was shot dead in Chicago
  
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• Jon Favreau takes on virtual reality with 'Gnomes & Goblins'

  02-09-2016 18:59
  
  Jon Favreau has brought talking animals and smart-alecky superheroes to the big screen
  
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• Electric Forest Festival expands with events over 2 weekends

  02-09-2016 18:38
  
  The annual Electric Forest Festival in western Michigan is expanding next year with events over the course of two weekends instead of one
  
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• Feel the Burn: Inferno Hot Pilates is Your Newest—and Sweatiest—Fitness Obsession

  02-09-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  On a Friday at 6:30 in the morning, I lay on a yoga mat inside YO BK. The temperature of the room was 95 degrees. At that hour, the heat alone, consuming my body inside and out, was a shock. But soon, every centimeter of my frame would be wrung to the point of exhaustion: twenty seconds of work, ten seconds of rest, eight times in a row, for an hour, targeting every conceivable muscle cluster on my frame. This was the calm before the storm.Inferno Hot Pilates began in Las Vegas in 2012. After a
  
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• Fall Movie Preview: Highlights from September to December

  02-09-2016 17:45
  
  There's something for everyone in movie theaters this fall
  
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• The 9/11 Novel That Wasn’t: Talking with Kathleen Donohue about Ashes of Fiery Weather

  02-09-2016 17:29 via bkmag.com
  
  We are the only women in the bar, which to be fair, is kind of the point of Farrell’s, the 83-year-old drinking institution on the corner of Prospect Park West and 16th Street. A firemen’s haunt since its founding in 1933, when Windsor Terrace was full of working-class Irish, the neighborhood staple has held on to much of its original character even as the streetscape around it has changed. All glossy waxed wood, dim lights, tin ceilings, and long mirrors, Farrell’s still serve
  
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• The 9/11 Novel That Wasn’t: Talking with Kathleen Donohoe about Ashes of Fiery Weather

  02-09-2016 17:29 via bkmag.com
  
  We are the only women in the bar, which to be fair, is kind of the point of Farrell’s, the 83-year-old drinking institution on the corner of Prospect Park West and 16th Street. A firemen’s haunt since its founding in 1933, when Windsor Terrace was full of working-class Irish, the neighborhood staple has held on to much of its original character even as the streetscape around it has changed. All glossy waxed wood, dim lights, tin ceilings, and long mirrors, Farrell’s still serve
  
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• Love Disney's 'Dory' fish? Soon, you could get your own

  02-09-2016 17:12
  
  Someday soon, you might be able to find Disney's beloved "Dory" in your own aquarium _ and the beautiful blue tang fish will be bred in Florida, not the Pacific Ocean
  
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• Gabrielle Union speaks out on Nate Parker rape allegations

  02-09-2016 17:07
  
  Gabrielle Union says she cannot take lightly rape allegations against Nate Parker, who directed her in "The Birth of a Nation" and stars alongside her in the film in which she plays a rape victim
  
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• Amami Brings Vibrant Sushi Rolls and House-Fermented Soy to Nassau Street

  02-09-2016 17:02 via bkmag.com
  
  A wildly anticipated follow-up to Williamsburg’s Maison Premiere, Greenpoint’s Sauvage is one of the most celebrated newcomers of the season. Yet Amami (also a Williamsburg offshoot) occupies the same prime parcel of real estate–that would be Nassau Street, directly across from McCarren Park–and shares largely the same focus: seafood. Although instead of clam and leek terrine and squid garganelli, the Ako Sushi spin-off specializes in Japanese sliced fish, such as kampach
  
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• Holt, Wallace among presidential debate moderators

  02-09-2016 16:34
  
  NBC News chief anchor Lester Holt will moderate the first scheduled presidential debate on Sept. 26
  
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• The Way We Dress Now: Flatbush Street Style

  02-09-2016 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  For our September print issue—the style issue—we sent our photographers to ten Brooklyn neighborhoods (from Greenpoint, to Flatbush, and eight others in between) to document the way Brooklyn is dressing now. Style is different than fashion, and our goal was to capture the highly individual, creative, and inspiring styles representative of the people who sported them, and the spirit of the neighborhoods in which they walked. This is Flatbush.  Eazy-BmG ENT, 24
  
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• The Way We Dress Now: Flatblush Street Style

  02-09-2016 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  For our September print issue—the style issue—we sent our photographers to ten Brooklyn neighborhoods (from Greenpoint, to Flatbush, and eight others in between) to document the way Brooklyn is dressing now. Style is different than fashion, and our goal was to capture the highly individual, creative, and inspiring styles representative of the people who sported them, and the spirit of the neighborhoods in which they walked. This is Flatbush.  Eazy-BmG ENT, 24
  
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• Michael Phelps brings back angry face for Jimmy Fallon

  02-09-2016 16:01
  
  Michael Phelps has brought back his famous pre-race scowl for Jimmy Fallon
  
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• The Brooklyn 100: Kevin Nguyen

  02-09-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  This fall, Google brought Kevin Nguyen, and a substantial part of team from the recently acquired ebooks service Oyster, aboard to help recommend and sell ebooks. [NOTE: Nguyen has relocated to GQ since this interview was conducted] He’s a smart person to bring on, with time also spent at Grantland (as a critic) and Amazon (as an editor), Nguyen knows how books and technology and literary culture intersect.
  You just moved over to ~Google~. Tell me about the work you do there. Wha
  
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• Hip-Hop Continues a Dominant 2016 Showing: Travi$ Scott and Isaiah Rashad Drop New Albums

  02-09-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s already been a huge year for hip-hop, but as we make our way through more an more of 2016 keep coming, essential releases for some of the biggest and most exciting artists in  rap keep coming.
  So far we’ve seen Kanye West and Chance the Rapper’s masterpieces The Life of Pablo and Coloring Book; then there’s been high-profile and much awaited projects, including last week’s releases of Young Thug’s eccentric and exciting No, My Nam
  
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• The Way We Dress Now: Williamsburg Street Style

  02-09-2016 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  For our September print issue—the style issue—we sent our photographers to ten Brooklyn neighborhoods (from Greenpoint, to Flatbush, and eight others in between) to document the way Brooklyn is dressing now. Style is different than fashion, and our goal was to capture the highly individual, creative, and inspiring styles representative of the people who sported them, and the spirit of the neighborhoods in which they walked. This is Williamsburg.   Katie Dalla
  
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• Rihanna thanks Drake for 'touching' MTV VMA speech

  02-09-2016 15:09
  
  Rihanna is thanking Drake for his tribute to her at MTV's Video Music Awards
  
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• Larry Wilmore hopeful for another chance after cancellation

  02-09-2016 12:37
  
  Larry Wilmore says the cancellation of his late night Comedy Central talk show was like being in a relationship, but "you were the one who didn't know it was over."
  
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• [CLASS ACTION] Making a Khalil-ing: City may sell Boerum Hill Arabic-language schoolhouse to developer

  02-09-2016 10:44
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe city is looking to unload a controversial public Arabic-language public school in Boerum Hill to a developer — just as a real-estate company is reportedly buying up all neighboring lots for a new tower.The Department of Education put out a call to property moguls interested in the getting their hands on the schoolhouse at Schermerhorn Street and Third Avenue that currently houses Khalil Gibran International Academy high sc
  
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• [CHANGING BROOKLYN] Sources: Developer planning massive mystery tower in Boerum Hill

  02-09-2016 10:36
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe developer behind some of Brooklyn’s most expensive condo buildings is moving into Boerum Hill.
  Alloy Development is buying up properties on the triangular block bounded by Flatbush and Third avenues and Schermerhorn and State streets where it plans to erect a new high-rise, according to several community leaders who have spoken with the company about its tentative plans for the site.
  “There are a couple of moving par
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Cashing out: Prospect Park Residence landlord finally pays elderly tenants that $3.35M he owes them

  02-09-2016 10:15
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThey’re in the money — and out of the nursing home.The owner of beleaguered Park Slope old folks’ home Prospect Park Residence has finally coughed up the $3.35 million that he agreed to pay his golden-aged tenants in exchange for them packing up and leaving so he can sell the building — six weeks after it was due.
  But it is better late than never for the nonagenarians, who have spent more than a month on ten
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Cashing out: Prospect Park Residence landlord finally coughs up $3.35M for seniors he’s kicking out

  02-09-2016 10:15
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThey’re in the money — and out of the nursing home.The owner of beleaguered Park Slope old folks’ home Prospect Park Residence has finally coughed up the $3.35 million that he agreed to pay his golden-aged tenants in exchange for them packing up and leaving so he can sell the building — six weeks after it was due.
  But it is better late than never for the nonagenarians, who have spent more than a month on ten
  
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• DJ Paul van Dyk: Accounts hacked, racist messages posted

  02-09-2016 08:26
  
  DJ Paul van Dyk says his website and Twitter account were hacked and that he did not write racist messages that were posted Thursday on his Twitter feed
  
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• [THE RIDE] Brooklyn battles, but can’t grab win in Aberdeen

  02-09-2016 06:09
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By David Russellfor Brooklyn PaperAberdeen 5Cyclones 4September 1 at AberdeenThe Cardiac Clones staged yet another late game rally, but couldn’t come up with the victory on Thursday night, falling 5–4 at Aberdeen. Brooklyn came back from a three-run deficit to keep things interesting down the stretch.
  IronBirds starter Keegan Akin pitched three perfect innings and got a bit of run support from his offense in the fourth. Cole Billingsley started thi
  
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• [RIMSHOT] Get schooled: ‘School’s Out’ comedy show is in session

  02-09-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Adam Ullianfor Brooklyn PaperIt’s setting a high bar for comedy!The “School’s Out” comedy show at the High Dive bar in Park Slope started earlier this summer, hosted by Park Slope native Drew Dowdey and Jenn Welch. The hosts first met on an OK Cupid date — and though they didn’t find love, they did forge an artistic connection. The stand-up show happens in the back room of the High Di
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Get schooled: ‘School’s Out’ comedy show is in session

  02-09-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Adam UllianBrooklyn DailyIt’s setting a high bar for comedy!The “School’s Out” comedy show at the High Dive bar in Park Slope started earlier this summer, hosted by Park Slope native Drew Dowdey and Jenn Welch. The hosts first met on an OK Cupid date — and though they didn’t find love, they did forge an artistic connection. The stand-up show happens in the back room of the High Dive,
  
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• [KINGS HIGHWAY] Hammered! Jerk smacks guy with bag of beer bottles

  02-09-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyPolice are looking for the loutish lush who hit a 58-year-old in the face with a bag of beer bottles in Midwood on Aug. 7.The victim, who works for a private sanitation company, was cleaning the street on the corner of Kings Highway and E. 14th Street around 12:50 am when he and the attacker got into an argument — though it is unclear over what, police said.Things came to a head when the brute bashed him with a bag full of suds
  
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• [BENSONHURST] Fall guy: Injured cyclist fell into police car, officials say

  02-09-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyA 14-year-old cyclist is in the hospital after he “fell” into a police car on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst on Wednesday, officials aid.The teen was near 78th Street and riding in the direction of Mapleton along with three others at about 9:15 pm when a marked police car responding to an assault in progress came up behind the quartet with lights and sirens on, officials said.Three of the cyclists were able to get out o
  
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• [BAY RIDGE NIGHTS] Bay Ridge is taking it slow

  02-09-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyIt’s a change of pace for Bay Ridge Nights.Labor Day weekend is here, and we are choosing to honor the workers of this country by doing as little work as possible. There is very little rock in the Ridge during this long weekend, but a staycation in the nabe can still feature plenty of leisurely activity.
  Start the weekend off with a relaxing stroll — or spin for you rollerblading speed demons — along the three
  
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• [A BRITISHER’S VIEW] Star cower! Islamo-celebs are blind, deaf, and dumb to radical Islam

  02-09-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyHow ’bout it, Huma, Amal, and Gigi?Muslim hotshots and their descendants in the West should be using their star power to squash radical Islam, demand the Muslim world stop being a human rights fiend, and celebrate the ideals brave Westerners have died for on the battlefield and from which they profit more than most.Yet too many Muslim luminaries are ignoring their moral obligation to fight Islamo-extremism with the sword o
  
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• In front of Beyonce, Serena Williams not happy with Open win

  02-09-2016 04:27
  
  Maybe Serena Williams simply wanted to put on a better show with her pal Beyonce on hand
  
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• The Latest: Officials ID victim, suspect in outlet shooting

  02-09-2016 04:13
  
  Authorities have identified the victim in a shooting at an Atlantic City outlet mall and the alleged gunman
  
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