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• Clinton calls Trump Twitter tirade 'unhinged, even for him'

  30-09-2016 23:49
  
  Hillary Clinton is criticizing Donald Trump's Twitter tirade against a former beauty pageant winner, calling it "unhinged, even for him."
  
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• With grim topicality, 'The13th' opens New York Film Festival

  30-09-2016 23:22
  
  The 54th New York Film Festival kicked off Friday under gray autumn skies, cloaked by an unusual amount of topicality
  
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• Municipal-bond week in review: Yields sag then finish strong

  30-09-2016 23:19
  
  Yields on municipal and Treasury bonds sagged this week on concerns about the health of Germany's largest bank, before retracing their steps on Friday
  
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• Oh my! Enberg in final innings of long broadcasting career

  30-09-2016 23:01
  
  Dick Enberg spent many Midwestern nights and Saturday afternoons listening to baseball and football broadcasts on the radio
  
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• The Latest: Debate commission says Trump mic had 'issues'

  30-09-2016 22:53
  
  The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates says there was indeed a problem with Donald Trump's microphone during Monday night's first general election debate
  
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• Doctor: Concert promoter in $200 million fraud is bipolar

  30-09-2016 22:52
  
  A doctor has testified that a former concert promoter who staged tours worldwide by acts such as the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Fleetwood Mac suffers from bipolar disorder that colored his judgment in a $200 million fraud case
  
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• Lykke Li, Miike Snow, and Peter Bjorn & John members form LIV, share "Wings of Love"

  30-09-2016 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a new Swedish supergroup on the block. LIV has been formed, and features members Lykke Li, producer (and Lykke Li’s boyfriend) Jeff Bhasker, Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John, and Miike Snow members Andrew Wyatt and Pontus Winnberg...
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• Savannah Film Festival to open with Portman as 'Jackie'

  30-09-2016 22:02
  
  The Savannah Film Festival to open in October with a screening of the biographical film "Jackie," starring Natalie Portman as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy
  
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• Good is the New Cool: Lighting up the World at Solight Design

  30-09-2016 21:32 via bkmag.com
  
  Ever wondered how you could support ethical, sustainable businesses and nonprofits? Welcome to a new regular series highlighting products, services and organizations that are doing well by doing good.
  Solight Design creates beautiful and sustainable products that use renewable energy for a mobile and zero carbon lifestyle, including the SolarPuff, a flat-pack solar lantern. The company also allows you to gift the lanterns to communities in Syria, Ghana, Nepal and Haiti.
  We spoke to Alice Min Soo
  
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• The Latest: Trump says tweets show him ready for 3 a.m. call

  30-09-2016 21:27
  
  Donald Trump is defending his early-morning tweets attempting to shame a former Miss Universe, saying it shows he'd be awake for a 3 a.m. call.
  
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• John Legend to portray Frederick Douglass on 'Underground'

  30-09-2016 21:18
  
  Grammy-winning singer John Legend will play an iconic runaway slave-turned abolitionist on WGN America's drama series "Underground."
  
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• Stars line up for debut of Dior's first female designer

  30-09-2016 21:14
  
  The great equalizer at Paris Fashion Week on Friday was a chance to glimpse one of the year's biggest fashion spectacles: the hugely-awaited debut from Christian Dior's first female designer.
  
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• Swet Shop Boys (Heems/Riz) add 2nd NYC show, made a video for "T5″

  30-09-2016 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Swet Shop Boys (aka ex-Das Racist member Heems and Naz from 'The Night Of') have sold out their NYC show, and added a second.
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• Multiday music and camping festival planned for east Texas

  30-09-2016 21:06
  
  The brains behind such multiday music festivals as Electric Daisy Carnival and Lollapalooza are combining to create a new one in Texas called Middlelands
  
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• magician Ricky Jay schedules 3 NY shows (first in over 10 years)

  30-09-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. I’ve had experience with magicians my whole life. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field. Ricky’s a master of his craft. You know how there are those teachers of creative writing who can’t necessarily write but can teach? Well, Ricky can actually do everything.” - Steve Martin
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• SpaceX's Elon Musk turns to science fiction for Mars ship

  30-09-2016 20:46
  
  SpaceX's Elon Musk is turning to science fiction for the name of his first Mars passenger ship
  
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• A topical disc from rock 'n' roll's Southern conscience

  30-09-2016 20:34
  
  Rock's Drive-By Truckers make pointedly topic new work, and wrap it in the flag
  
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• Ten Acts To Catch At The Meadows Festival This Weekend

  30-09-2016 20:26 via bkmag.com
  
  The New York Mets are about to dive into a pennant race, hunting a chance to make it back to the World Series for the second straight year. However, baseball isn’t what’s going to be attracting thousands of fans to Citi Field this weekend; nope, instead, it’ll be the inaugural edition of The Meadows festival, put on by Founders Entertainment. The festival, which will take place on Saturday and Sunday, focuses on hip-hop and indie rock, with an occasional light tangent from
  
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• Le Tigre will reunite (for a one-off single)

  30-09-2016 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Le Tigre just got back together in the studio–you have the scoop–for a special song that we are going to release hopefully, like, early-to-mid-October," Kathleen says.
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• 30 Under 30: Loft Opera Co-Founders Dean Buck, Daniel Ellis-Ferris, and Brianna Maury

  30-09-2016 20:16 via bkmag.com
  
  Opera is one of the most enduring performance art forms, but, also, it is probably the most exclusive. A ticket to the Met can set one back nearly a hundred dollars (that is if you’re fine with sitting far away). And, it’s quite challenging—unlike mainstream musical theater, operas do not take their musical cues from pop music. The founders of LoftOpera—Dean Buck, Daniel Ellis-Ferris, and Brianna Maury—want to flip the opera world on its head, bringing a woefully e
  
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• Jimmy Eat World played 'Colbert,' shared acoustic version of "Get Right"

  30-09-2016 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They're also playing Vintage Vinyl on Saturday (10/1).
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• The Latest: Pence says too much made of Trump's tweets

  30-09-2016 19:29
  
  Mike Pence says too much is made of Donald Trump's tweets
  
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• Metallica played "Moth Into Flame" on 'Fallon' (watch)

  30-09-2016 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The show also included guests Joe Biden and Margot Robbie, the latter of whom is apparently quite the metalhead.
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• [UPDATE, BAY RIDGE] Dead woman found in Owl’s Head Park

  30-09-2016 19:17
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyA jogger discovered a dead woman in Owl’s Head Park near Colonial Road and Wakeman Place on Sept. 29.Officers responded to a 911 call reporting an unconscious person in the park at 10 am and found a woman with apparent head trauma, a department spokesman said.Policed identified the woman as 35-year-old Bay Ridgite Jennifer Cohen.Her body was discovered fully clothed with a purse nearby that contained hypodermic needles bu
  
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• Listen to This Now: Your Soundtrack for October

  30-09-2016 19:15 via bkmag.com
  
  Autumn signifies falling leaves, football, goddamn pumpkin spice and, perhaps best of all, an uptick in new music to wash away our summer sins and help us settle into new routines. A tip sheet, then, to soundtrack the season of turning leaves.
  BEST BETS FOR AN UNCONVENTIONAL DANCE PARTYDanny Brown
  Atrocity Exhibition
  (9/30 via Warp)
  Citing danceable nervy torchbearers Talking Heads, Björk, System of a Down (sure?) and Joy Division (see: album title) as inspiration, and digging into a well o
  
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• 30 Under 30: Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins of PWR BTTM

  30-09-2016 19:06 via bkmag.com
  
  There’s a long history of gender fluidity and drag in rock music, from David Bowie to Roxy Music, Twisted Sister, k.d. lang, Kurt Cobain, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Against Me! and many (many) others. But it’s always easier to put on a mask than to be yourself. This is what sets Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins’s band, PWR BTTM, apart.
  Even when Hopkins has half their face covered in blue glitter, or Bruce wears a dress and bright red lipstick, they don’t seem to be charact
  
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• Take the Money and Run: Woody Allen’s Lazy Crisis in Six Scenes

  30-09-2016 18:33 via bkmag.com
  
  Crisis In Six Scenes
  Amazon, streaming from September 30
  An early scene in Woody Allen’s Manhattan neatly summarizes Crisis in Six Scenes: Isaac, a TV writer, ceremoniously quits his sketch show gig: “It’s embarrassing, antiseptic… there’s not a laugh in there!” Unless it’s a ball game, Allen isn’t partial to television, and while Amazon’s digital arena permits opportunities not granted on airwaves, his interest in heading a series was prom
  
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• Opposition leader: Turkey is misusing its emergency powers

  30-09-2016 18:02
  
  Turkey's main opposition leader is accusing the government of using emergency powers intended to deal with the aftermath of a failed coup to clamp down on dissenting voices
  
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• 'Breaking Bad' star Aaron Paul posts tribute to Pearl Jam

  30-09-2016 17:54
  
  "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul has penned an emotional appreciation of Pearl Jam
  
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• The Latest: Trump Foundation not registered to solicit funds

  30-09-2016 17:48
  
  The New York state attorney general is confirming that the Trump Foundation is not registered in New York as a charity to solicit donations
  
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• Pittsburgh symphony musicians reject pay cuts, go on strike

  30-09-2016 17:48
  
  Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians are on strike after unanimously rejecting calls for a 15 percent pay cut, changes to their pension plan and staffing cuts they say management is proposing
  
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• Twitter storm: Trump shames former-beauty pageant winner

  30-09-2016 17:32
  
  Donald Trump shamed a former beauty pageant winner Friday for her sexual history and encouraged presidential voters to check out what he called her "sex tape," in an early-morning tweet-storm
  
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• Cops: Fight over 'Purge'-like mask led to death of teen boy

  30-09-2016 17:31
  Police say a dispute over a mask like one featured in the "Purge" horror movies contributed to the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy
  
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• Your October kids calendar: 12 things to do this month besides trick or treating

  30-09-2016 17:28
  
  A fire-breathing robot from last year’s World Maker Faire at the Queens Hall of Science. It returns this weekend, Oct. 1-2. Photo: Velleman Store
  Halloween takes center stage this month, but there’s more to do than just eat candy and get cavities. Here are 12 (dentist approved) kids events to fill your October with autumnal fun.Go: The Maker Faire at New York Hall of Science is a must for many Brooklyn families. This year’s schedule is chock full of Minecraft, drone racing, BU
  
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• After modernizing Pac-12, can Scott keep it competitive?

  30-09-2016 17:25
  
  After modernizing Pac-12, can Larry Scott keep the conference competitive?
  
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• Raising the Bar: At SHAKTIBARRE in Williamsburg, Affordable Yoga-Barre Fitness and Education for All

  30-09-2016 17:13 via bkmag.com
  
  I’m a runner. Neither yoga nor barre classes have appealed to me historically. On one hand, I prefer exercising outside, and alone, rather than with groups and indoors. And on the other, boutique fitness culture has also turned me off. The kind that idealizes unattainable physiques, feels interpersonally or socially inauthentic, and is, you know, very, very white—not to mention expensive.
  “I did the research, and 82.2 percent of the boutique fitness population are women,”
  
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• Documents show Hanson part of Tulsa, Oklahoma, redevelopment

  30-09-2016 17:13
  
  Documents from the development authority in Tulsa, Oklahoma, show the Hanson brothers are involved in the redevelopment of a building in the Brady Arts District
  
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• Judge: Bieber must sit for deposition or face arrest, court

  30-09-2016 17:08
  
  A Florida judge has ordered pop star Justin Bieber to sit down for a deposition within the next 30 days or face the threat of being arrested and brought to court
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Shorts By International Autuers

  30-09-2016 17:06 via bkmag.com
  
  The “International Auteurs” program, part of the short film lineup at the 54th New York Film Festival, screens October 1 and 2. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  Never the ones to steal headlines and instigate marketing pushes, short film programs are nevertheless among the highlights of any film festival in some ways, giving glimpses of works unlikely to receive theatrical distribution or even digital releases even with big names attached. The NYFF’s “International
  
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• Register for the Brooklyn Greenway Half & 5K Before Late Pricing Kicks in Tomorrow

  30-09-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Sponsored By Brooklyn Greenway InitiativeBrooklyn Greenway Initiative is the 501c3 non-profit committed to the development, establishment and long-term stewardship of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.Created By BlankSlateOn October 16, 2016, experience the wonder of the Brooklyn shoreline at the only half marathon and 5K exclusively held on the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.
  The Brooklyn Greenway Half & 5K, hosted by Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and produced by NYCRUNS will ta
  
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• How Do You Like Them Apples? A Guide to Brooklyn’s Best Fruit-Based Beverages

  30-09-2016 16:56 via bkmag.com
  
  Forget about that pumpkin-based beverage that must not be named: there are much better ways to get your seasonal drank on. Especially since—in case you’ve missed all those photos of your friends blissfully frolicking amidst the U-Pick orchards upstate—fall is actually all about apples, making it an especially opportune time to indulge in the following fruit-forward sips.
  Apple Cider from Brooklyn Cider House: It will be a while still before Bushwick’s very own Basque-styl
  
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• Austin City Limits fest announces livestream schedule (watch it here)

  30-09-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Weekend 1 of ACL happens September 30 - October 2.
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• US rapper Gibbs cleared of sexual abuse charges in Austria

  30-09-2016 16:29
  
  An Austrian court trying U.S. rapper Freddie Gibbs on Friday found him not guilty on charges of sexual abuse, ruling there was not enough evidence in a case involving a fan
  
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• Bon Iver reinvents himself again with the masterful '22, A Million' (stream it)

  30-09-2016 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Justin Vernon is almost never not up to something, but albums under his most-loved project Bon Iver are -- relatively speaking -- few and far between. The second Bon Iver album came four years after the first, and now five years after that album we get the third. It's always worth the wait though, as each album is a massive reinvention and a brilliant piece of work...
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• It’s time to party at The Green Building and 501 Union

  30-09-2016 16:20
  
  The year’s coming to an end. Time to plan that holiday party. Photo: Quyn Duong
  The holiday season is sneaking up on us—which means it’s almost time to party. If you’re the ringleader among your friends who always puts together memorable dinners or the person who plans your office’s holiday party, now is the time to reserve the space you want to celebrate your 2016.
  There are two fabulous venues we highly recommend (as we use them for our own events): The Gree
  
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• Trump shames ex-beauty pageant winner for her sexual past

  30-09-2016 16:02
  Donald Trump shames a former beauty pageant winner for her sexual history and encourages Americans to check out what he calls her "sex tape," in a tweet-storm that drags him further away from his campaign's efforts to broaden its appeal to women
  
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• The Top Five Movies of September 2016

  30-09-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Welcome to another installment of our monthly feature in which a rotating cast of film critics hold forth on the highs and lows of month of moviegoing.
  5. A Family AffairDutch documentarian Tom Fassaert certainly hit cinematic paydirt with this, his second feature, but of the sort that one hesitates to qualify as good fortune. Setting out to meet his estranged grandmother for the first time as an adult, Fassaert hopes to humanize a figure who loomed myth-like over his upbringing, and in so doing
  
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• Gerhard Richter painting owned by Clapton going up for sale

  30-09-2016 15:50
  
  A painting by the German artist Gerhard Richter owned by British singer-songwriter Eric Clapton is slated for auction
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Staying Vertical

  30-09-2016 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Staying Vertical plays October 11 and 12 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. Strand Releasing will release the movie in February of 2017. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  Staying Vertical is in many ways what many of us were hoping for and expecting after director Alain Guiraudie’s previous film, the excellent Stranger by the Lake (2014), transposing that film’s stylistic precision onto a loose and rambling narrative that recalls the amorphous and inc
  
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• The Meadows set times ++ new Weeknd song

  30-09-2016 14:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Inaugural Queens music festival The Meadows goes down this weekend, Saturday (10/1) and Sunday (10/2), at the parking lot at Citi Field, and the set times are now here...
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