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• Wisconsin asks to keep 'Making a Murderer' inmate locked up

  16-11-2016 23:59
  
  Attorneys with the Wisconsin Department of Justice have asked a federal appeals court to keep a man convicted in the case featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" behind bars
  
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• Review: In 'Bleed for This,' a comeback times two

  16-11-2016 23:23
  Film Review: A melee has broken out in the boxing film
  
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• The Latest: Wisconsin appeals 'Making a Murderer' release

  16-11-2016 23:12
  The Wisconsin Department of Justice has asked a federal appeals court keep an inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" behind bars
  
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• Tis the season: holiday events in the neighborhood

  16-11-2016 23:11
  Tis the season in Downtown Brooklyn. Here’s a roundup all the holiday fun in the area, now through the end of the year.November 17th Downtown Brooklyn Lights Up the Holidays6-7pm Albee Square  Join us as we turn on the holiday lights throughout Downtown Brooklyn, including Fulton St and Albee Square, as well as our 30-foot Christmas tree and menorah. Special performance by members of the Mark Morris Dance Group and The Hard Nut Singers. November 19th Danc
  
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• Column: From Russia with love, Kovalev finds his place in US

  16-11-2016 22:58
  
  Sergey Kovalev was knocking out everyone put in front of him when his handlers went to HBO a few years back asking for a coveted spot on one of the network's boxing shows
  
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• Jacob Bannon's Wear Your Wounds releasing debut album, making live debut

  16-11-2016 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wear Your Wounds (also ft. members of The Red Chord, Trap Them, and Cave In) will make their live debut at Roadburn, which also just added My Dying Bride, Wolves in the Throne Room, Ash Borer, Emma Ruth Rundle, Sumac, and more.
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• Pink diamond steals show at Geneva auction, fetches $18M

  16-11-2016 22:15
  
  A 17.07-carat pink diamond sold for 18.3 million Swiss francs at a Geneva jewelry auction Wednesday, cruising past both its pre-sale estimate and the winning bid for the "Sky Blue" diamond billed as the event's standout piece
  
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• Ricky Martin is engaged to artist Jwan Yosef

  16-11-2016 21:53
  
  Ricky Martin is engaged
  
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• Top US civilian honor going to 21 artists, athletes, others

  16-11-2016 21:49
  
  President Barack Obama is honoring actors Robert DeNiro, Cicely Tyson, Tom Hanks and Robert Redford with the nation's highest civilian awards
  
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• 'Doc McStuffins' to keep practicing for a 5th season

  16-11-2016 21:46
  
  "Doc McStuffins" is keeping her medical practice open for another year
  
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• Kristin Kontrol playing Le Poisson Rouge with Starchild & NOIA

  16-11-2016 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kristin Kontrol (aka KristinbWelchez aka Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls) released her solo debut earlier this year on Sub Pop and toured with Garbage. She'll close out the year with a one-off show in NYC...
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• Into Another announce tour with Supertouch and High Disciple

  16-11-2016 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reunited post-hardcore vets Into Another have announced a quick east coast tour for early 2017. They'll be joined by Revelation Records labelmates Supertouch along with NJ outfit High Disciple...
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• Keep Seeing: Good Art Happenings & Shows This Week

  16-11-2016 21:36 via bkmag.com
  
  Keep seeing, keep looking! This is a weekly, mostly Brooklyn-based compendium of art happenings.FORTNIGHT INSTITUTE: DICKS — EXHIBITION & DISCUSSION
  It’s a good time to consider the dick, and no, I don’t think that statement needs qualifying. Look at a lot of them—trapped in rock, sketched, oiled, bent, squashed, hard, soft and more—at Fortnight Institute’s show, featuring eight artists (one of them male). Tonight, six of those women (E
  
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• Carrie Underwood surprises Crystal Gayle with Opry invite

  16-11-2016 21:29
  
  Country star Carrie Underwood had a surprise for Grammy winner Crystal Gayle during her performance at the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday night
  
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• TBS renews Samantha Bee's 'Full Frontal' for a second year

  16-11-2016 21:21
  TBS says Samantha Bee's 'Full Frontal' will come back for a second year, move to Wednesday nights
  
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• All Them Witches announce new album & tour, share new song "Bruce Lee"

  16-11-2016 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nashville psych-rockers All Them Witches have revealed that they'll release their new album, Sleeping Through The War, on February 24, 2017. They've also shared the first single and announced tour dates...
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• Gutter Twins, Eagles of Death Metal & more playing third benefit for Afghan Whigs guitarist Dave Rosser

  16-11-2016 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rosser has been diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer.
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• Chavez announce first new record in 20 years (listen to "The Bully Boys")

  16-11-2016 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  'The Cockfighters' EP is out in January via Matador.
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• Sinkane announces new LP & tour — watch the video for "U'Huh"

  16-11-2016 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  'Live & Livin' It' is out in February on City Slang.
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• Paint It Black playing one US show in 2017 (w/ Downtown Boys, Gouge Away, more)

  16-11-2016 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's the Philly band's first hometown show in four years, and also includes Praise and Soul Glo.
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• Review: Highly Suspect prove their rock chops on new album

  16-11-2016 20:46
  Highly Suspect's new album, "The Boy Who Died Wolf," is like an accomplished tour of rock, from the piano-driven "Chicago" that Elton John would be proud of writing to the hardcore punk of "Look Alive, Stay Alive" that echoes Black Flag's best
  
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• Mark Burnett, Roma Downey launching faith and family network

  16-11-2016 20:43
  
  Hollywood power couple Mark Burnett and Roma Downey are launching a faith-and-family entertainment network next month
  
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• Joyce Manor announce tour with AJJ and Mannequin Pussy

  16-11-2016 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In related news, Mannequin Pussy's label Tiny Engines is donating all Bandcamp proceeds to Planned Parenthood and Southern Poverty Law Center.
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• stream Pulley's first album in 12 years, 'No Change in the Weather'

  16-11-2016 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The skate punk vets sound as catchy and hard-hitting as ever.
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• Tom Brady mocks 'Deflategate' in new Foot Locker ad

  16-11-2016 19:56
  
  With his "Deflategate" suspension behind him, Tom Brady is making fun of the scandal in a new commercial for Foot Locker
  
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• Gift Guide: Choosing a streaming device without overpaying

  16-11-2016 19:38
  
  Streaming TV devices are getting cheaper and better, so there's a risk of overpaying for features you don't need
  
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• DNCE drops a super debut album. Prepare to dance.

  16-11-2016 19:38
  
  There's hardly a foot put wrong on DNCE's full-length, self-titled debut _ a bouncy collection of disco-funk that reaches into the past for inspiration and serves it up in a California-cool, carefree groove
  
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• Alicia Keys on her future goals: 'I already won'

  16-11-2016 19:32
  
  As Alicia Keys releases her sixth album and reflects on the 15 years since she put out her Grammy-winning debut "songs in A minor," she feels content
  
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• [MEAN STREETS] One-way? No way! WT residents: Change would turn Seeley St. into speedway

  16-11-2016 19:19
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThese Windsor Terrace residents are not one direction fans.A city proposal to calm traffic on Seeley Street by turning it one-way will actually make it easier for people to speed on the narrow road unless the changes also include speed humps, crosswalks, and stop signs to get in their way, said locals who came to rail against the idea on Community Board 7’s Transportation Committee on Monday night.
  “Without a stop sign,
  
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• Nobel no-show: Dylan not coming to Stockholm to get prize

  16-11-2016 19:18
  
  Bob Dylan won't be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony
  
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• Unusual tiff between Fox's Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly

  16-11-2016 19:12
  
  Fox News' Bill O'Reilly questions colleague Megyn Kelly's 'loyalty' for writing and talking about her alleged sexual harassment at the hands of former Fox News chief Roger Ailes
  
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• Wisconsin to appeal to feds over 'Making a Murderer' inmate

  16-11-2016 19:04
  
  Attorneys with the Wisconsin Department of Justice say they plan to ask a federal appeals court to keep a man who was convicted in the case featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" in prison
  
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• Old Friends: Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

  16-11-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have HappenedDirected by Lonny PriceOpens November 18th
  Ah, to be young and headlining a Broadway musical! That was the seeming stroke of luck for the group of teenage and early-twentysomething performers cast in 1981’s time-flipping Merrily We Roll Along, a musicalization of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1934 play of the same name. It was overseen by the Great White Way’s professional power couple Stephen Sondheim (music/lyrics) and Hal Pr
  
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• Your Ideal Week: Nov. 16 – Nov. 23

  16-11-2016 18:08
  
  Well, it’s been a week, huh? I don’t know about you guys, but I’m fried, emotionally and physically. I think I’ve put on five pounds and slept no more than five consecutive hours since last Tuesday, and my stress levels are through the roof. There’s a lot we can do to try to mitigate the effects of the president-elect’s already disastrous policy and personnel choices (look for tips on that in coming weeks), but the realization is setting that we are stuck with
  
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• Cold War 2.0: David Satter presents "The Less You Know - The Better You Sleep"

  16-11-2016 17:47
  Thursday, December 15, 2016 7:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThree years ago, in December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War.
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• No-show Nobel: Dylan not coming to Stockholm to get prize

  16-11-2016 17:45
  
  Bob Dylan won't be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony
  
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• [MANHATTAN BEACH] West side stories: Chita Rivera shares tales of stage and song

  16-11-2016 17:42
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyCall it dish of the Spider-Woman!Musical theater legend Chita Rivera will be telling behind-the-scenes stories from her iconic 65-year career at Kingsborough College on Nov. 19. In her show “Chita: A Legendary Celebration,” the two-time Tony-winning diva will sing some of her greatest hits, and give a guided tour of the pivotal performances and people in her career. The performa
  
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• Swedish Academy: Bob Dylan not coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature

  16-11-2016 16:52
  
  Swedish Academy: Bob Dylan not coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature
  
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• Prince's estate sues Jay Z's Roc Nation over Tidal streaming

  16-11-2016 16:45
  
  Prince's record company is suing Jay Z's company for copyright infringement, saying it streamed Prince's songs on the Tidal music service without permission after his death
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, November 16-22

  16-11-2016 16:34 via bkmag.com
  
  Daughters of the Dust (1991)Directed by Julie DashDash took it upon herself to create positive depictions of strong, independent-minded black women that were otherwise lacking in American film. Her first feature-length work became the first film directed by an African-American woman to receive US distribution. Twenty-five years and several Dash films later, Daughters of the Dust became a crucial influence on Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade and received a gorgeous 2K restoration (ov
  
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• Memorials planned for Leon Russell in Tennessee, Oklahoma

  16-11-2016 16:14
  
  Public memorial services are planned in Tennessee and Oklahoma for Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell, who died Sunday at the age of 74
  
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• “It Puts Real Faces to the Word ‘Refugees’”: An Interview with Human Rights Lawyer Masuda Sultan on Her Life in Afghanistan and Brooklyn

  16-11-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Three decades after arriving on the shores of the United States as a five-year-old girl escaping conflict in her native Afghanistan, Masuda Sultan reflects on what it means to be an immigrant in today’s global turmoil.Born in Kandahar, a historic city founded by Alexander the Great and now unfairly reduced to its identity as the birthplace of Taliban, and raised in Brooklyn and Queens, the 38-year-old often finds herself at the confluence of cultures, inspired by both the American and Afgh
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Beef-patty bandit case goes cold

  16-11-2016 15:08
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Paper78th PrecinctPark Slope
  Free meatCops have given up hunting for the meathead who nabbed frozen beef patties from a Fifth Avenue market on Nov. 3.An employee told police that the carnivorous crook was spotted browsing the shelves inside the store between President and Union streets at 7:43 pm when he suddenly reached into a freezer and then fled with the package of boosted beef.No arrests have been made in connection to the stolen p
  
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• A guided tour of 10 'Hallelujah' Leonard Cohen covers

  16-11-2016 14:56
  
  The late Leonard Cohen's epic cult classic "Hallelujah" has been covered more than 300 times since he first recorded it in 1984
  
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• Ty Herndon risked his career to come out, but he's a fighter

  16-11-2016 14:18
  
  Two years after coming out publicly as a gay man, country singer Ty Herndon is revealing much more about his lifelong struggle for acceptance in a new album that he hopes everyone can relate to
  
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• Miranda Lambert's album highlights duality as singer, writer

  16-11-2016 14:11
  
  Country star Miranda Lambert revives the double album tradition on "The Weight of These Wings," which emphasizes the duality of her personality as a singer and a songwriter
  
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• Pro wrestling's Big Van Vader says he has 2 years to live

  16-11-2016 13:33
  
  Former pro wrestler and NFL lineman Big Van Vader has announced that doctors have told him he has just two years to live due to his congestive heart failure
  
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• Carrie Fisher reveals 'Star Wars' affair with Harrison Ford

  16-11-2016 13:32
  
  Carrie Fisher has revealed that Princess Leia's romance with Han Solo in "Star Wars" extended off-screen, too
  
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• In Mexico, football _or "futbol americano"_is a passion

  16-11-2016 08:23
  
  The NFL returns to Mexico for the first time in 11 years when the Texans face the Raiders in a regular season game on Nov. 21 in a sold-out Azteca Stadium
  
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• 'Super Size Me' filmmaker brings restaurant idea to Columbus

  16-11-2016 06:33
  
  The maker of the documentary film "Super Size Me" is preparing to test out a new fast-food restaurant concept in Columbus
  
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