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• Thakoon Panichgul returns; Hadid and Hilfiger team up

  09-09-2016 23:16
  
  New York Fashion Week is in full swing, with a return to the schedule of Thakoon Panichgul
  
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• [DYKER HEIGHTS] Goons lead police on chase over Verrazano Bridge

  09-09-2016 22:47
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyFive yahoos in a black BMW packing a pair of pistols led cops on a car chase through Dyker Heights that ended in a wreck on Sept. 9, according to police.It started at 5 am on Staten Island, when a woman also in the car called a relative saying she feared for her life, and the relation called 911 and described the car, according to police.
  Officers tried to pull the driver over, but he fled
  
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• NOFX team with Funny Or Die to take on the pharma industry with new video

  09-09-2016 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fat Mike says: “I thought it was a long shot, but I sent our new song “Oxy Moronic” to my friend at Funny or Die to see if they wanted to use it for something. He played it for some people and next thing I know, they asked if they could make a video for it! Funny or Die made a fucking video for NOFX! How cool is that?!?!?! Plus, they recruited a bunch of their comedian friends to be in it too!!! There’s even that guy from ‘Sons of Anarchy' in it!"
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• Jane Fonda and Robert Redford team up on Netflix

  09-09-2016 22:35
  
  Jane Fonda and Robert Redford are teaming up on Netflix
  
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• Drugdealer (ex Salvia Plath) released debut LP ft. Ariel Pink, Weyes Blood & more (listen)

  09-09-2016 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Traces of Nilsson and Wilson are evident, or the touchstone of your choice, but Collins brings his own spin to things.Continue reading…
  
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• Wisconsin AG appeals ruling on 'Making a Murderer' nephew

  09-09-2016 22:14
  
  Wisconsin's attorney general is appealing a federal ruling that overturned the conviction of a man accused of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case documented in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer."
  
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• Father John Misty, Florence, Giorgio Moroder & more appearing on new Lady Gaga LP (listen to Tame Impala collab)

  09-09-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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• This Year’s Labor Day West Indian Parade in Photos

  09-09-2016 21:42 via bkmag.com
  
  Despite the tragic violence during J’ouvert this year, the Labor Day West Indian Parade itself went off without a hitch. With nearly three million attendees, it is one of New York’s largest parades. When it first began in the 1920’s, it took place in Harlem and, subsequently, in the 1960s, moved to Crown Heights. I am always overwhelmed by the incredible positive energy, friendliness, creativity, and diversity found among its participants. Here is just a small selection of phot
  
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• Kangol manufacturer brings hat-making machines back to US

  09-09-2016 21:35
  
  A Pennsylvania company that produces a style of hats made famous by actor Samuel L. Jackson and rappers has moved its hat-making machines from China to Lancaster County
  
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• new metal band Sumerlands ready classic-sounding debut LP (listen), making live debut at Union Pool

  09-09-2016 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Featuring members of Atlantean Kodex and Eternal Champion, Sumerlands' debut is a huge-sounding self-titled trip through classic heavy sounds.
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• How To Write The Best Wedding Vows Ever

  09-09-2016 21:00 via bkmag.com
  
  If you’ve already ignored the best advice you can get, which is to avoid marriage, you probably ignored the second-best piece of advice you can get, which is to let someone else do the talking on your “big” day (which is the same size as any other day), because you will be brain-dead. That’s right, your brain will be dead. (Go to the courthouse, you morons is tied for second-best piece of advice, and works on a similar principle).
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• Khemmis share new song "Three Gates," playing NYC & Chicago

  09-09-2016 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Denver doom outfit Khemmis are getting set to release their anticipated new album Hunted on October 21. We've already heard the slow crush that is "Candlelight," and now they've shared a new ripper called "Three Gates."
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• Jamaican ska pioneer Prince Buster dead at 78

  09-09-2016 20:37
  Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday
  
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• Rapper accused of moonlighting in violent gang pleads guilty

  09-09-2016 20:34
  
  An up-and-coming rapper accused of moonlighting in a New York City gang involved in violent drug wars will be heading to prison
  
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• What to Watch at US Open: New No. 1 Kerber faces Pliskova

  09-09-2016 20:31
  
  The last time the two women's finalists at this U.S. Open, Angelique Kerber of Germany and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic, played each other, it really was no contest
  
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• Jerry Lewis shows quiet, sensitive side in drama 'Max Rose'

  09-09-2016 20:18
  
  Jerry Lewis shows uncharacteristically quiet, sensitive side onscreen and off as star of the new indie drama 'Max Rose'
  
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• Ex-financial adviser accused of fraud using Tim Duncan funds

  09-09-2016 20:18
  
  A former financial adviser for retired Spurs star Tim Duncan is facing fraud charges over millions of dollars in lost investments
  
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• Amy Poehler and Ana Gasteyer hosting comedy benefit for Hillary Clinton in NYC

  09-09-2016 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A raucous night of comedy with the funniest, most awesome, greatest comediennes you've always wanted to see! Plus a token male or two."
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• Man charged after police say he struck teen crossing roadway

  09-09-2016 20:02
  
  Authorities have arrested a New Jersey man they say struck and killed a teenager crossing a roadway after leaving a carnival in April
  
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• Connick looks to Martin for inspiration on new show

  09-09-2016 19:49
  
  Harry Connick, Jr.'s new talk show takes inspiration from Dean Martin's old variety show
  
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• The Total Bed-Stuy Immersion September 24

  09-09-2016 19:25
  
  On Saturday, Sept. 24 we’ll be heading to Bed-Stuy (and a bit of Clinton Hill) for our last Immersion of the season with Brooklyn Brewery. If you haven’t yet been on one of our neighborhood beer and food crawls this is going to be a super fun one. And if you’ve joined us before, we’ve lined up some fab new bars for you.
  The day starts at noon, and there are two ticket options. You can choose to go “express” and get one free Brooklyn beer at eac
  
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• Booker T. Jones returns to Memphis for performance

  09-09-2016 19:25
  
  As a teenager growing up in Memphis, Booker T. Jones delivered newspapers house-to-house, saving all the money he could for organ lessons
  
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• Leaving on that L Train to Georgia, for Cheeseboat’s Khachapuri

  09-09-2016 19:19 via bkmag.com
  
  It certainly speaks to Brooklyn’s exceptional diversity that we’re reasonably knowledgeable about Georgia–and not just that it’s a Caucasian country, as well as the peach capital of America. We’ve actually had pretty steady exposure to its singularly comforting fare, transmuting our passion for pizza into a love of khachapuri–hearth-baked, cheese-stuffed bread–and more recently, embracing amber wine as well, fermented and aged in man-sized earthenware po
  
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• NYC police: Rapper Desiigner arrested on gun, drug charges

  09-09-2016 19:08
  
  Authorities say rapper Desiigner (dee-ZYN'-ur) has been arrested for brandishing a handgun at another motorist and having drugs in a car
  
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• The Way We Dress Now: Greenpoint Street Style

  09-09-2016 18:00 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 Greenpoint.Bryan Jabs, 29
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• Review: The Head and the Heart go pop on 'Signs of Light'

  09-09-2016 17:40
  
  The Head and the Heart reinforce their sunny pop tendencies on "Signs of Light," all but leaving their Seattle folk roots behind, in sounds if not themes
  
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• Breaking the silence after 911

  09-09-2016 17:39
  
  Illustration: Vinnie Neuberg
  My goal was to get my phone upgraded and walk home. I no longer took subways. I was too afraid. I saw a brown-skinned man turn around and look at me. He crooked his head and tilted his body closer to mine. I felt nervous. Why was he coming toward me?
  If you were in New York during 911 you remember the eerie days that followed the horrific attack. The smell of burned ashes still wafted in the wind. No one yelled. No sirens blared, just the deafeningly loud footsteps
  
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• Review: The Bad Plus go back to their roots on new CD

  09-09-2016 17:29
  
  After focusing mostly on original music on their last four albums, The Bad Plus go back to their roots on "It's Hard" with an album of distinctly original covers that recast an eclectic mix of rock and pop tunes in a modern jazz framework
  
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• Music Review: The Time Jumpers find joy in their work

  09-09-2016 17:18
  
  The Time Jumpers have long represented the best thing you could do in Nashville on a Monday night, but they stopped being a secret many years ago
  
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• Geraldo Rivera says he regrets backing Roger Ailes

  09-09-2016 17:10
  
  Fox personality Geraldo Rivera says he's "filled with regret" for discounting the harassment charges against former boss Roger Ailes
  
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• Frontman of Canada's Tragically Hip launches new project

  09-09-2016 17:07
  
  The lead singer and songwriter of Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip will release a new solo album with an accompanying graphic novel and animated film
  
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• The Way We Dress Now: Park Slope Street Style

  09-09-2016 17:00 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 Park Slope.
  Elena, 23
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• Review: Striking songs from Malawi on Zomba Prison Project

  09-09-2016 16:49
  
  A striking series of singing telegrams of regret and warning from an earthly purgatory, the Zomba Prison Project captures performances by inmates and guards at a maximum security penitentiary in Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries
  
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• Talking with Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch

  09-09-2016 16:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Jenny Hval has published two novels. Jenny Hval has fronted a gothic metal band. Jenny Hval has named her fourth solo album Blood Bitch. Any one of these accomplishments would be noteworthy, but the last is an act of particularly feminine defiance that marks the majority of her work, regardless of discipline. The Norwegian-born artist works in a variety of mediums, but has most recently focused on releasing music under her own name; she put out two albums under the moniker Rockettothesky prior t
  
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• Walking testimony: Tamela Mann gains faith after robbery

  09-09-2016 16:40
  
  Gospel singer Tamela Mann found comfort in her new single, "God Provides," after unexpectedly hearing it for the first time on the radio shortly after she was robbed outside an Atlanta restaurant in June
  
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• In This Shoe, I Thee Wed

  09-09-2016 16:20 via bkmag.com
  
  My fiancée and I were sitting in our living room one stuffy evening not too long ago, talking about her wedding dress. Out of some combination of tradition, laziness, and superstition, I’ve chosen not to see it before the wedding. Still, I’ve heard all about shopping for it, trying it on, and getting it fitted. I may not know how it looks, but I’ve had dreams about it. I guess we talk about it a lot, actually (but not too much! Hi, honey!).One day, she said to me, &
  
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• Geraldo Rivera says he regrets backing Ailes

  09-09-2016 15:20
  
  Fox personality Geraldo Rivera says he's "filled with regret" for discounting the harassment charges against former boss Roger Ailes
  
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• Lives That Matter: Talking to Charles Burnett About To Sleep with Anger

  09-09-2016 14:56 via bkmag.com
  
  To Sleep with Anger (1990) begins innocuously, as a portrait of a Black American family with Southern roots that has been transplanted for some time to Los Angeles. Older bearlike patriarch Gideon (played by Paul Butler) pines for the affections of his spouse, the midwife Suzie (Mary Alice), who disputes with him over how he treats their adult sons. Junior (Carl Lumbly), who has long been seen as the correct, hard-working one, is resentful of the softer treatment he sees as having been given to
  
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• James Cameron talks 'Avatar' sequels, Cirque du Soleil show

  09-09-2016 14:39
  
  The first "Avatar" sequel is still years away from hitting movie theaters, but fans of the blue-hued Na'vi can get their fix at a touring Cirque du Soleil show that James Cameron helped create _ without his having to reveal too much of what to expect
  
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• Deceitful Above All Things: Author Unravels L’Affaire LeRoy

  09-09-2016 14:21 via bkmag.com
  
  Author: The JT LeRoy StoryDirected by Jeff FeuerzeigOpens September 9
  A classic episode from the annals of truth-stranger-than-fiction gets the newsmagazine treatment in Author: The JT LeRoy Story. Late-90s scenesters will recall that JT was not an author per se but the persona adopted by one Laura Albert, under which she published two acclaimed books—and that according to the backstory Albert invented, Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy was a gender-fluid teen raised in truck stops by his prostit
  
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• Ukraine picks Kiev as 2017 Eurovision host city

  09-09-2016 13:36
  
  Ukraine has announced that next year's Eurovision Song Contest will take place in its capital, Kiev
  
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• On Russia-backed TV network, Trump doubts Russian influence

  09-09-2016 09:18
  
  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says "it's probably unlikely" that Russia is trying to influence the U.S. election
  
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• [RED HOOK] Marooned! City: Gov Island not busy enough yet for year-round Brooklyn ferry

  09-09-2016 07:32
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyNo sail!
  City honchos say they won’t be launching a hotly anticipated year-round, daily ferry connection between Brooklyn and Governors Island anytime soon, despite previously saying they could start one when their city-wide boat-transit service begins next year. Officials now claim the island isn’t popular enough to warrant the extra leg yet, and say they won’t weigh anchor until there are more year-round business
  
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• [►VIDEO, PROSPECT HEIGHTS] Steel-ing the show! Pan bands battle for $20K prize in borough-wide contest

  09-09-2016 07:31
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperThese drummers showed nerves of steel!Ten steel pan bands from all over Brooklyn competed for the title of best in the borough at the New York Steelband Panorama competition at the Brooklyn Museum on Sept. 3.
  The musicians sacrifice countless hours to rehearse for the big event — part of the West Indian American Day Carnival — but it was all worth it once they got to show off all
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Taking cover: Controversial homeless shelter turns reporter away from public meeting

  09-09-2016 07:01
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperCity officials and homeless shelter operators turned the press away from an otherwise-public meeting about a controversial Sunset Park men’s home, because they say the discussions were too “sensitive” for the news to attend.A so-called “community advisory board” for the publicly funded shelter on 49th Street met Wednesday night, but a worker refused to let this paper in, claiming that the meetings
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Full circle! Fifth Avenue sinkhole finally filled a year later

  09-09-2016 06:58
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperIt’s a whole new intersection!The city has finally finished fixing the massive sinkhole that swallowed the corner of Fifth Avenue and 64th Street last summer. Officials reopened the freshly repaved roadway to commuters on Sept. 2 after 13 months of construction — and much to the delight of those who live and work in the area, said one man.“It’s a big relief, that thing was just a pain,” said Ric An
  
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• [RED HOOK] Marooned! City: Gov Island not busy enough yet for full-time Brooklyn ferry

  09-09-2016 06:58
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperNo sail!
  City honchos say they won’t be launching a hotly anticipated year-round, daily ferry connection between Brooklyn and Governors Island anytime soon, despite previously saying they could start one when their city-wide boat-transit service begins next year. Officials now claim the island isn’t popular enough to warrant the extra leg yet, and say they won’t weigh anchor until there are more year-round business
  
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• [FUZZY BROOKLYN] Just in time for fall! Prospect Park Dog Beach back open

  09-09-2016 06:58
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperHowl-elujah!Prospect Park’s Dog Beach is back open after two months of reconstruction — and with a few weeks of summer still to spare!Kings County canines had to go without the popular swimming spot for the hottest part of the year while workers prettied-up the pond, but the park’s head caretaker says her crew finished in record time and are delighted pups can now enjoy an even-better lagoon for the remainder of t
  
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• Emblematic! Greece gives Johnnie Cats a ‘stamp’ of approval

  09-09-2016 06:58
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Shavana Abruzzofor Brooklyn PaperOpa, break open the ouzo, and dance the sirtaki to the twang of a bouzouki!He may not be a Greek god, but billionaire grocer and Brooklyn Technical High School alum John Catsimatidis was the toast of the town when the International Foundation for Greece immortalized the local on a commemorative stamp, celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit of the bus boy’s son who turned captain of industry.It was a fitting birthday gi
  
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• [CLASS ACTION] Brooklyn kids go back to school!

  09-09-2016 06:58
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperKids strapped on their backpacks and piled onto buses for back-to-school day on Thursday, and at least one precocious fourth grader was so excited to see his friends, his mom says he dragged her out of bed so they could catch up before class.“We were the first ones in the school yard, because Solomon was hoping friends would be there so they could run around before class,” said Jess
  
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