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• injured Drake postpones NJ & other shows to avoid playing 3 nights in a row

  06-10-2016 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even with the cancellations, Drake and Future still have three more NYC-area shows happening on the tour this month.Continue reading…
  
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• watch Doug Hream Blunt perform with David Byrne, The Rapture's Luke Jenner & more at BV-presented show at Baby's

  06-10-2016 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Check out the somewhat steamy performance of "Big Top."
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• Texas officers find people held against their will in homes

  06-10-2016 23:19
  
  Nine men have been charged with aggravated kidnapping after 41 men were found being held against their will in what were supposedly drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
  
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• Diane Keaton to receive AFI's Life Achievement Award

  06-10-2016 23:07
  
  Diane Keaton, who last year serenaded Steve Martin when he received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, will next year get the honor herself
  
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• Judge: Dead NY Rangers player a victim of organized sports

  06-10-2016 22:54
  
  A judge says a New York Rangers player who died of an accidental overdose of prescription painkillers and a minor league hockey player who supplied him with pills are victims of organized sports
  
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• "Birth of a Nation" is latest of several films on genre

  06-10-2016 22:43
  
  "Birth of a Nation," the biopic depicting the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, is the latest of several films about slavery in recent years
  
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• Study shows Trump airtime advantage on cable

  06-10-2016 22:30
  
  CNN, Fox News and MSNBC spent more time showing live coverage of Trump rallies than those for Clinton in September
  
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• Inspirational weekend? Authors hunker down ahead of Matthew

  06-10-2016 22:28
  Dozens of independent authors are gathered at a Hilton hotel outside of Orlando, riding out Hurricane Matthew this weekend
  
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• Canada pole vaulter Shawn Barber tests positive for cocaine

  06-10-2016 22:00
  
  Star Canadian pole vaulter Shawn Barber tested positive for cocaine before Rio Olympics
  
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• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sol LeWitt, Tells Us to Stop Horse-Shitting

  06-10-2016 21:49 via bkmag.com
  
  If you like Benedict Cumberbatch, this will make your day. If like Sol LeWitt, this will make your week; if you also love and adore Eva Hesse, your entire month will be made. If you know none of these people and are just having a bad day, all will be made right in six minutes or less.
  In April of 1965, artist Sol LeWitt wrote a letter of encouragement to his friend Eva Hesse, a sculptor. She had just moved to germany with her husband (who she later divorced) and felt what most people feel at so
  
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• [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS] Sacked! Grand Street fires football coach

  06-10-2016 21:36
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyThere’s a flag on his play.Grand Street Campus fired controversial head coach Bruce Eugene for letting a Long Island football player use his Brooklyn address to enroll in the school.“Mr. Eugene’s employment was terminated following an [Special Commissioner of Investigation] investigation,” said Department of Education spokeswoman Toya Holness in an e-mail. “[The investigation] found he arranged for a st
  
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• [COBBLE HILL] Workers injured by falling bricks at LICH — victims taken to LICH

  06-10-2016 21:31
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperCinderblocks fell from the former Long Island College Hospital complex and hit two workers on Wednesday, seriously injuring one of them.The blocks fell on the two victims at the old infirmary on Hicks Street at Atlantic Avenue just before 1 pm, according to a Fire Department spokesman and a New York University Langone Medical Center spokeswoman.
  New York University Langone and developer Fortis Property Group are preparing to demolish
  
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• Desert Trip brings boomer-style luxury to the music festival

  06-10-2016 21:30
  
  The Desert Trip music festival, which kicks off Friday, is shaping up to be the most luxurious, and potentially lucrative, event of its kind
  
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• Bruce Springsteen talks depression, family and new memoir

  06-10-2016 21:17
  
  Bruce Springsteen credits his music with helping him navigate depression and says playing marathon shows until he was exhausted helped chase away the blues
  
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• Review: Rick Astley re-emerges with surprisingly strong CD

  06-10-2016 20:56
  
  Music Review: Rick Astley, the soulful English pop star with the bouffant hair who sang "Never Gonna Give You Up" in the 1980s, has resurfaced with a new album that's fun, modern and surprisingly strong
  
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• Review: JONES' debut a delicious slice of smooth electro-pop

  06-10-2016 20:45
  
  Music Review: JONES is London-bred singer-songwriter Cherie Jones-Mattis, whose super debut album "New Skin" is a delicious slice of smooth electro-pop warmed by her inviting voice
  
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• The Latest: Woman testifies in Derrick Rose rape lawsuit

  06-10-2016 20:41
  
  The woman accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two of his friends of rape has taken the witness stand in the trial of her $21.5 million civil lawsuit
  
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• Julia Jacklin's strange but normal "Don't Let The Kids Win"

  06-10-2016 20:31
  
  Music Review: "Don't Let The Kids Win," Australian Julia Jacklin's captivating debut, features empathetic lyrics and her delicate but expressive voice, a folk-rock album that knows strange is the new normal
  
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• Jay Z, calling juvenile solitary 'inhumane,' backs TV series

  06-10-2016 19:59
  
  Rap superstar Jay Z is helping shine a light on prison reform by co-producing an upcoming TV documentary about a young man who spent 3 years behind bars without trial for allegedly stealing a backpack
  
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• Cliff Richard suing police, BBC over sex-crime investigation

  06-10-2016 19:49
  
  Singer Cliff Richard is suing police and the BBC after being investigated over sex assault allegations
  
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• HBO can't film Somali-American drama at Minnesota high rise

  06-10-2016 19:40
  
  Residents have barred HBO from filming at a Minneapolis high-rise apartment building for what the company describes as a Somali-American family drama series
  
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• Kim Kardashian West departs NYC apartment with kids & Kanye

  06-10-2016 19:38
  
  After spending 3 days holed up in a New York City apartment, Kim Kardashian West leaves with her 2 kids and husband Kanye West
  
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• Ex-Seahawk Derrick Coleman pleads guilty to charges in crash

  06-10-2016 19:12
  
  Former Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman has pleaded guilty to hit and run and vehicular assault in connection with a car crash last year that injured another driver
  
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• [CRIME] See it: Driver flips car in Sunset Park

  06-10-2016 19:07
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyPolice arrested a 37-year-old man for driving without a license after he slammed his Mercedes Benz into two parked cars and flipped his vehicle on 41 Street near Ninth Avenue in Sunset Park on Oct. 5.The Borough Park resident was driving along the street toward Ninth Avenue at around 10 am when he lost control of the vehicle and collided into a Toyota Prius with a 39-year-old woman in the driver’s seat — and a secon
  
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• Gina Rodriguez to produce, host new Young Women's Honors

  06-10-2016 18:50
  
  Gina Rodriguez is producing and hosting a new ceremony to honor young women making a difference in the world
  
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• Daniel Radcliffe cast in Stoppard play at London's Old Vic

  06-10-2016 18:28
  
  Daniel Radcliffe is returning to the London stage in a 50th-anniversary production of Tom Stoppard's verbally dazzling "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead."
  
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• Steven Brams and Melissa Schwartzberg on Why and How We Vote

  06-10-2016 18:22
  Thursday, November 3, 2016 7:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterWe regard voting as a sacred right, and disenfranchisement as a great injustice. But U.S. voter turnout is mediocre by international standards; many seem to think that voting isn't worth the time. This raises several questions. Why vote? How can we improve the voting system? What does it even mean to improve a voting system? In two short talks, Steven Brams (a mathematician and philosopher at New York University) and Melissa Schwartz
  
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• A Debate and Dialogue with Amy Baehr and Daniel Shapiro

  06-10-2016 18:22
  Tuesday, October 25, 2016 7:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAmy Baehr (Hofstra) and Daniel Shapiro (West Virginia) will come together to debate and discuss some of the central questions of political philosophy facing the nation today – questions of inequality, mass incarceration, healthcare, and more. They will show how their philosophical work bears on these questions; they will seek to understand the sources of their disagreements and try to find reasoned agreement where they can.
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• [STANDING O] Looking to the stars and beyond

  06-10-2016 18:17
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyKensingtonThree stars and a whole galaxy to Yancey Thomas, a brilliant teen from Kensington who co-authored an astrophysics study that was published this month in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The recent high-school grad worked alongside astrophysicist Nathan Leigh to study the “chaotic four-body problem” — a gravitational quandary that seeks to predict the movement of four part
  
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• Rumer Willis to debut new music during cabaret concert tour

  06-10-2016 18:13
  
  From "Dancing" to Dinah Washington: Rumer Willis channels jazz legends, debuts original music in upcoming cabaret concert tour
  
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• We Are All Made of Stars: Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

  06-10-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Voyage of Time: The IMAX ExperienceDirected by Terrence MalickOpens October 7
  Wonders truly never cease: Anno Domini 2016 will go down as the first year in history that not one but two movies by the once-dormant Terrence Malick saw commercial release, the glum LA story Knight of Cups preparing the ground for the grandiose nature doc Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience, another decidedly minor work, but one that’s nonetheless a lot easier to embrace. Packing the whole history of the univer
  
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• Your October culture essentials

  06-10-2016 17:32
  
  “Lost Man’s Creek” is a new art installation that transforms Downtown Brooklyn into a redwood forest, in miniature. Photo: Timothy Schenck
  Welcome to October. I mean, it’s been October for nearly a week, but we’re just now ready to accept that fact. Get ready for an onslaught of great movies and books coming out this month, plus art openings (and restaurant openings). Even if the cooler air and chance to start roasting squash and simmering stews again has you longi
  
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• What Will Emily Blunt Drink in The Girl on the Train Instead of Canned G&Ts?

  06-10-2016 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  On October 7, Paula Hawkins’ Gone Girl-lite mystery The Girl on the Train will drunkenly stumble into theaters, starring Emily Blunt as everyone’s favorite amateur detective/grim alcoholic/scary stalker. It moves the London-set book to New York, which presumably means a lot of changes beyond swapping London’s commuter trains for Metro-North. But the most important one is this: What is the main character going to drink instead of canned gin & tonics??!
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• Mother found not guilty of assaulting assistant principal

  06-10-2016 17:13
  
  A Virginia mother accused of hitting an assistant principal at her child's elementary school in the head, knocking her unconscious briefly, has been found not guilty following an appeal
  
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• Whitehead, Rep. John Lewis are National Book Award finalists

  06-10-2016 17:12
  
  Novels by Colson Whitehead and Jacqueline Woodson and a graphic novel by Rep. John Lewis were among the finalists announced Thursday for the National Book Award
  
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• Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, returns to Neverland

  06-10-2016 17:05
  
  Paris Jackson has returned to Neverland
  
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• McCullough book 'The Pioneers' scheduled for 2019

  06-10-2016 17:03
  
  David McCullough's next book will find him on new ground
  
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• Neighborhood Food Crawl: Where to Eat and Drink Along Fulton Street in Clinton Hill

  06-10-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Compared to the long-flourishing food hub of adjacent Fort Greene, slow to rally Clinton Hill has been traditionally considered a bit of a restaurant desert. But that’s certainly not the case today—while you’ll still find unbroken rows of brownstones in the thickly residential neighborhood, they’re circled by numerous edible arteries, from Mekelburg’s and Marietta on Grand Street, to The Finch and Aita on Greene, to Speedy Romeo and Alice’s Arbor on Classon. B
  
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• Lewis Del Mar Is Ready for Prime Time

  06-10-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Back in June 2013, Danny Miller and Max Harwood were a pair of friends selling grilled cheeses together as volunteers at Bonnaroo. News travels quickly in the sweltering heat of the Tennessee sun, and in this particular instance, it quickly made its way to the duo: Mumford & Sons, a headliner for Saturday night at The Farm, was forced to cancel their set due to a health issue that called for an emergency surgery. Scrambling, Bonnaroo almost immediately found its replacement headliner, someon
  
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• #NYFF 2016: The Death of Louis XIV

  06-10-2016 16:44 via bkmag.com
  
  The Death of Louis XIV plays October 6 and 7 as part of the Explorations section of the 54th New York Film Festival. Cinema Guild will release the film theatrically. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  A fundamental form of modernist naturalism seems to be what Albert Serra is reaching for in his new feature, The Death of Louis XIV. Jean-Pierre Léaud’s performance as the visibly decaying monarch could be described as “majestic” or “regal” in the sens
  
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• Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow

  06-10-2016 16:31
  Thursday, November 17, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterLaurie Wilson, an art historian and practicing psychoanalyst (NYU Medical School), discusses the life and times of abstract expressionism’s sculpture queen.
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• James D. Zirin and Anthony W. Crowell on Supremely Partisan

  06-10-2016 16:31
  Thursday, November 10, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterProminent attorney James Zirin and Anthony Crowell, Dean of New York Law School, discuss Zirin’s new book, Supremely Partisan: How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court.  Zirin explains how we arrived at the present polarization with so many decisions decided 5-4 or 6-3. He looks at the divide through the lens of its leading partisans Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, the late Antoni
  
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• Visit Luna Park’s Halloween Harvest Festival in Coney Island — It’s Free

  06-10-2016 16:30
  
  Sponsored By Luna Park.Get ready for spooktacular fun with Halloween Harvest at Luna Park in Coney Island! Join us every weekend from Sept 24 - Oct 30 for a family-friendly event.Created By BlankSlateReally, who doesn’t want to see a giant pumpkin? That’s just a small sample of the seasonal fun and games at Luna Park’s annual Halloween Harvest Festival, running every weekend from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. now through October 30.
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• [BROOKLYN IS ANGRY] Nobody cut footloose: Vinegar Hill residents warn planned dance club will lead to drinking, drugs, lower property values

  06-10-2016 16:21
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperKicking off their Sunday shoes is just the beginning.A plan to open a gay nightclub in Vinegar Hill that rages until 5 am would bring hordes of rowdy revelers to the area’s otherwise sleepy cobblestoned streets, and their footloose ways will only lead to more serious vices, the leader of a local civic group told Community Board 2’s liquor license committee on Wednesday night.
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• 30 Under 30: Morgan Parker, Poet

  06-10-2016 16:20 via bkmag.com
  
  An unwillingness to budge is a good way to put your stamp on the world, and Morgan Parker has managed to do so with a passionate, uncompromising voice that examines black femininity in our current American culture. Her poetry has appeared in some of the usual places poems do (Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, Tin House) and some in more surprising venues (BuzzFeed and Lenny Letter). That’s a testament to how her work speaks to readers who might not seek out sparse verses, but nevertheless
  
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• Glory Edim is the Future of Reading

  06-10-2016 16:15 via bkmag.com
  
  In a private room of the Central Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, a group of 20-or-so women sit around a table to ask questions of Yaa Gyasi, the debut author of Homegoing. In another hour, Gyasi will appear in front of a much larger audience in the library’s auditorium—to read and discuss the book with Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Tracy K. Smith, but for now she’s all theirs. It’s a privilege of being in the club.
  At the ninth meeting of Well-Read Black Girl, a monthly
  
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• NY press group protests prosecutor barring journalists

  06-10-2016 16:07
  
  An organization of New York newspapers and broadcasters is protesting a prosecutor's decision to exclude some journalists from a news conference following the acquittal of a former soccer coach charged with murder
  
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• Musical Map Of The USA: West Virginia—John Denver

  06-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  In the 4th grade I was assigned my very first “research project.” It was to write an eight to ten page handwritten report on one of the 50 states, excluding California because we lived there and had already done an extensive class unit on its history. I don’t remember which state I chose, but I do remember my dad accompanying me to the library to pick out a book about it. As we scoured the shelves, he directed me to a series of state history books written for kids. Almost every
  
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• Musical Map Of The USA: Vermont—Mountain Man

  06-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  I lived in Vermont for three years when I was a college student, from 2006 to 2009, and even then, just barely—Bennington is in the state’s southwestern corner, north of Massachusetts and east of New York. Pieces of its landscape still pop up in my dreams once in a while, especially the low-slung mountains that overlooked the field in front of the music building, the way they would light up in shades of purple and red as the sun goes down. You can see most of the campus from the high
  
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• Musical Map Of The USA: New York—Big L

  06-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  I never thought to question whether I even liked the rap I used to listen to until recently. Rap was a part of identity more than a voluntary cultural consumption choice. I identified with the other white boys dressed in dunks and fitteds in my high school in New York City, and music was part of that identity. There was no choice.In our opinion (I did not have opinions of my own back then), Biggie was overplayed, Nas was good–very good–but too intellectual to listen to at parties (sa
  
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