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• Kanye West, Jim Brown, Ray Lewis meet with Trump in NYC

  13-12-2016 23:50
  Several black celebrities, including rap mogul Kanye West, met Tuesday with Donald Trump to talk about issues facing inner-city African-Americans
  
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• San Francisco Symphony nixes Chapel Hill concerts due to HB2

  13-12-2016 23:28
  
  The San Francisco Symphony says it has canceled two performances in Chapel Hill because of North Carolina's House Bill 2, which limits LGBT protections in that state
  
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• Dolly Parton gives support to wildfire victims, 'my people'

  13-12-2016 23:16
  Country music icon Dolly Parton's home and businesses in East Tennessee were spared from deadly wildfires last month, but she's pitching in to help her neighbors recover from the devastation
  
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• Kid Congo Powers tells us about his Top 10 of 2016

  13-12-2016 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rock legend Kid Congo Powers, who spent time in The Cramps, The Gun Club, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, offers up his Top 10 of the year:a mix of albums, films, books and more, complete with his insightful commentary. "I’m no critic, just an insane person."
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• Shannon and the Clams playing two warm-up shows at Baby's before recording new LP (tix on sale)

  13-12-2016 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shannon and the Clams are getting ready to head back into the studio to record their followup to 2015's Gone by the Dawn. To warm up, they're playing two shows (with lots of new songs) at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right ...
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• Darkest Hour announce LP & tour with Ringworm, Tombs, Rotten Sound, Rivers of Nihil

  13-12-2016 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Veteran death metal outfit Darkest Hour are prepping a new, Kurt Ballou-produced album called Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora, due out on March 10 via Southern Lord. In preparation for that release, they've announced a big, stacked tour...
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• [►VIDEO, FORT GREENE] Young kids beat and rob man in Fort Greene

  13-12-2016 21:40
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperPolice are hunting for a crew of kids — one as young as 8 years old — who bashed and robbed an adult man in Fort Greene in the early morning hours of Nov. 25.
  The 30-year-old victim told cops he was on Willoughby Street between Ashland Place and Fleet Walk at around 12:30 am when the delinquents approached him and demanded his phone. The pint-sized punks then attacked the guy, punching him and throwing him to the ground
  
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• Ben Gibbard covering Teenage Fanclub, TPOBPAH/Titus covering Tom Petty & more for 'Sounds Delicious' vinyl series

  13-12-2016 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plus: Yumi Zuma covering Oasis' 'What's The Story Morning Glory' and more full-album covers as part of this vinyl subscription series.
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• King Woman announce new LP & tour, share new song, made top 10s of 2016

  13-12-2016 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  King Woman (and a bunch of other cool bands) were also added to Roadburn.
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• [►VIDEO, BORO OF NERDS] Boro’s first VR arcade opens in Park Slope: An in-depth investigation

  13-12-2016 21:01
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperPark Slope’s gaming scene just entered a new dimension!
  A Union Street storefront is now home to Brooklyn’s first and only virtual reality arcade, where digital adventurers can shell out $10 for 10 minutes of reality-bending play that the proprietor guarantees will melt your mind.“Everyone is blown away,” said Kishore Doddi of his new business VR Bar, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. “We haven’
  
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• '90s indie rockers Monsterland reissuing back catalog, playing reunion shows

  13-12-2016 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  '90s era band Monsterland brought a self-effacing sense of humor to their noisy, sometimes shoegazy brand of catchy indie rock. Shows in NYC and New Haven, CT will be their first in 23 years.
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• Movie of the Year? Toni Erdmann

  13-12-2016 20:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Toni ErdmannDirected by Maren AdeOpens December 25
  It’s been seven years in the making. German writer-director Maren Ade’s third directorial effort Toni Erdmann has arrived, and it’s certainly worth the wait. It’s billed as a comedy, and is surely uproarious at times, but the humor emerges from depths of sadness, frustration, and transcendence. While subtly dissecting the relationship between an estranged father and his corporate globetrotting daughter, often traversing
  
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• In 2016, politics dominated our pop culture _ and vice versa

  13-12-2016 20:42
  Our popular culture was infused with politics this year _ and vice versa
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Coney Islanders push back against planned shelter, citing land’s possible contamination

  13-12-2016 20:36
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe city must conduct full-scale environmental tests on the proposed site of a homeless shelter in Coney Island, locals are demanding.Shelter operator Women In Need plans to build a home four-story, 180-room home for women and children atop a former factory building on Neptune Avenue between W. 22nd and W. 23rd streets. But the structure’s industrial past could put future residents at
  
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• Iron Reagan share new song "Grim Business," made us year-end lists

  13-12-2016 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Iron Reagan singer Tony Foresta and guitarist Mark Bronzino made some pretty unconventional (and sometimes hilarious) top 10s of 2016.
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• Football, 'This Is Us' help NBC to another Nielsen win

  13-12-2016 20:02
  
  Another week of football meant another winning week for NBC
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Dec. 5-11

  13-12-2016 19:55
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Dec. 5-11
  
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• Will Smith channeled personal grief for his latest role

  13-12-2016 19:51
  Will Smith had already begun researching his role for "Collateral Beauty" when he learned that his father was terminally ill
  
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• Felicity Jones joins ranks of classic of Star Wars heroines

  13-12-2016 19:44
  
  "Star Wars" gets a bad rap for being a boy's club, and sometimes rightfully so, but the truth of the matter is that women have always been an integral part of the George Lucas-created world
  
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• The Year In Film: The Ten Unsexiest Movies of 2016

  13-12-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Keep up with all of our Year in Film features, including The Ten Sexiest Movies of 2016, here.
  Arrival      No film, science fiction or otherwise, is under any obligation to address sexuality, but some might’ve helped breathe life into the central bond between Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner’s characters here, serving better than the Hallmarkian platitudes blubbered by one of them towards the end. Considering the fate of Adams’s daughter, it might&rsqu
  
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• The Year In Film: The Ten Sexiest Movies of 2016

  13-12-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Keep up with all of our Year in Film features, including The Ten Unsexiest Movies of 2016, here.
  Everybody Wants Some!!
  Richard Linklater, like Robert Bresson before him, has a way with casting the hottest dudes on planet earth to act out his philosophical treatises. Linklater, however, is less coy about showing off the finer features of his strapping players. Here he has a whole floorshow of hotness—a college baseball team in the early 80s—just itching to invade personal, social and
  
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• Jake Gyllenhaal to star in 'Sunday in the Park with George'

  13-12-2016 18:53
  
  Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford will star in a Broadway revival of the musical "Sunday in the Park with George" starting in February
  
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• Rapper Lil Uzi Vert charged over Atlanta dirt bike ride

  13-12-2016 18:52
  
  Rapper Lil Uzi Vert has been charged with reckless driving and a host of other counts after police say he and another man raced through the streets of Atlanta on dirt bikes
  
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• [►VIDEO, WILLIAMSBURG] Fallen angel: Selfie-snapping buffoons break statue outside Williamsburg church

  13-12-2016 18:48
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperA pack of yahoos broke a religious statue while trying to pose for selfies outside a Williamsburg church on Saturday night, police say.At least four blasphemous bozos stumbled into a courtyard in front of Our Lady of Consolation Catholic Church on Metropolitan Avenue between Berry Street and Bedford Avenue just before midnight to yuck it up with the holy house’s Virgin Mary statue, according to security footage and a police rep
  
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• NYC police: Teen went to Trump Tower with knife, handcuffs

  13-12-2016 18:48
  
  New York City police say they've arrested a teenager who showed up at the Trump Tower security checkpoint with a knife, handcuffs, fireworks and a water pistol
  
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• University of Hartford names Gregory Woodward as president

  13-12-2016 18:44
  The University of Hartford has appointed Gregory Woodward as the school's sixth president in its 59-year history
  
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• So Trump And Kanye Are Hanging Out Now

  13-12-2016 18:31 via bkmag.com
  
  Let’s talk this through. We’ve just got to because, well, it’s a whammy. This morning, Kanye West—fresh off a hospital stay in the wake of some erratic behavior and canceled shows—showed up at Trump Tower.
  Omg, KANYE is at TRUMP TOWER right now pic.twitter.com/uFtVgbRgRz
  — Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) December 13, 2016Why was he here? Well, part of that erratic behavior that preceded his hospital stay included an on stage, mid-concert proclimation tha
  
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• Rowling's 'Tales of Beedle the Bard' sells for $467,000

  13-12-2016 18:28
  
  A handwritten and hand-illustrated volume of stories given by J.K. Rowling for the editor who launched her career has sold at auction for 368,750 pounds ($467,965)
  
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• Review: 'Rogue One' is a dark, exhilarating blast

  13-12-2016 18:01
  
  "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" is easily one of the best Star Wars films ever made
  
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• What Are You Reading? Recommendations from Here’s a Bookstore

  13-12-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Here’s a Bookstore—yes, that’s the name of the store—has been slinging titles in the heart of Sheepshead Bay since 1975. In addition to serving as an academic bookstore for neighboring yeshivas, it also has a robust stock of hundreds of thousands of used books across all subjects. Whether you want a kosher cookbook or an exhilarating thriller, here’s the place to look.
  Doron Levi,
  son of Sylvia Levi, Owner 
  The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
  by Lawrence  B
  
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• WGN America's 'Underground' set to debut new season in March

  13-12-2016 18:00
  
  WGN America's drama "Underground" is set to premiere its second season on March 8, the network announced Tuesday
  
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• Deliberations begin in Florida woman's murder-for-hire trial

  13-12-2016 17:58
  
  Jurors are deliberating the fate of a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to murder her husband
  
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• [DEVELOPMENT] City floats new 300-seat school for former Sunset Park market

  13-12-2016 17:56
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe city is building a new school in Sunset Park to ease overcrowding in the area.The School Construction Authority plans to erect a 300-seat, K–5 school over an old supermarket at Eight Avenue at 46th Street as officials try to chip away at a 2,600-seat deficit in the borough’s School District 15. The proposed new building wouldn’t reverse overcrowding in the area, but it is a sign that the city is making a s
  
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• Leaps & Bounds Beyond Brunch: Sunday in Brooklyn

  13-12-2016 17:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Sunday in Brooklyn
  348 Wythe Ave., WilliamsburgIsa may Have only been in existence for just shy of five years, but the Williamsburg restaurant still managed to cast a long shadow, serving as springboard for three of NYC’s most formidable culinary talents—Ignacio Mattos (of Manhattan’s Estela and Café Altro Paradiso) and his then sous chefs, Jose Ramirez-Ruiz and Pam Yung, the masterful duo behind the Michelin-starred Semilla.
  And though the brick boxed space it formerly
  
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• From 'oops' to DOE chief; Rick Perry is pick for Energy

  13-12-2016 17:41
  Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who famously forgot the Energy Department was one of the agencies he was going to eliminate, is President-elect Donald Trump's choice to become energy secretary
  
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• Frankie Valli not crying as 'Jersey Boys' prepares to close

  13-12-2016 17:16
  
  Frankie Valli, the guy who gave us the song "Big Girls Don't Cry," isn't tearing over the imminent closing of the Broadway show about his life, "Jersey Boys."
  
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• Wonder Woman dumped as a special UN ambassador after uproar

  13-12-2016 17:12
  
  The comic book heroine Wonder Woman has been abruptly fired from her honorary ambassador job at the United Nations following protests from both inside and outside the world organization
  
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• ESPN's Britt McHenry: Post-outburst stress caused eye damage

  13-12-2016 16:25
  
  ESPN reporter Britt McHenry says stress over a viral video that showed her hurling personal insults toward a towing company clerk may have led to a condition that caused permanent eye damage
  
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• 'To Sir, With Love' author ER Braithwaite dead at 104

  13-12-2016 16:15
  
  The author of "To Sir, With Love," E.R. Braithwaite, has died
  
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• Kanye West visits Trump Tower

  13-12-2016 16:03
  
  Kanye West visited Trump Tower in New York City on Tuesday morning
  
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• Something for every special snowflake: 2016 gift guide

  13-12-2016 15:48
  
  Although it is tempting to just make donations to the ACLU on behalf of all your friends and family this year, sometimes you really need a physical gift. This year, let Brooklyn Based take the planning out of the equation, so you can spend more time signing up for boycotts and protesting to save our planet. From ultra-serious Brooklyn dads to work spouses, and all the other special snowflakes in  your life, your holiday shopping is covered with our 2016 gift guide.
  What to get the woman in
  
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• Obama: President without briefings would be 'flying blind'

  13-12-2016 14:52
  
  President Barack Obama says any president who shuns daily intelligence briefings would be "flying blind" on national security matters, a stiff push-back against Donald Trump's suggestion that that he doesn't need daily briefings
  
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• No pictures, please: BJ Novak back with new kids book

  13-12-2016 14:01
  
  B.J. Novak is back to his old tricks: The actor and million-selling author is following up his all-words "The Book with No Pictures" with "The Alphabet Book with No Pictures," Penguin Young Readers told The Associated Press on Tuesday
  
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• An enchanted, and enchanting LA stars in “La La Land”

  13-12-2016 14:00
  
  La La Land, the modern day musical film from director Damien Chazelle that stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, does this rather incredulous thing–it actually lives up to its trailer. For all its hype, leading the Critics Choice Awards, winning TIFF’s People’s Choice Award, rave reviews, you still don’t expect to float out of the theatre on a cloud after seeing the film, and yet you do.
  La La Land is set in modern day Los Angeles and tells the story of Mia (Stone), a s
  
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• Short Stay and Ted Fendt’s DIY Stubbornness

  13-12-2016 13:28 via bkmag.com
  
  Short Stay + shortsDirected by Ted FendtDecember 16-22 at Anthology Film Archives
  In a time of shockingly bad faith—in cinema audiences and the electorate, and in anyone elected, and anyone considered the elect; in short, of everyone in everyone else—Ted Fendt is a loyalist. His three short films and one feature have all been shot by the same cinematographer, Sage Einarsen, on 16mm film. Broken Specs, Travel Plans, Going Out, and the 61-minute Short Stay all share a non-actor cast,
  
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• Madonna's emotional speech on feminism earns props from Gaga

  13-12-2016 12:55
  
  Madonna's emotional speech in support of feminism at Billboard's Women in Music awards has earned kudos from Lady Gaga
  
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• Obama: President without briefings 'flying blind'

  13-12-2016 12:26
  
  President Barack Obama, who's been complimented by President-elect Donald Trump for helping to smooth his transition to the White House, is criticizing Trump for saying he'll shun daily intelligence briefings when he takes office
  
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• The Latest: Obama faults Trump stance on intel briefings

  13-12-2016 10:12
  
  Obama raps Trump stance on disdaining daily intelligence briefings, arguing that a president who dismisses them is 'flying blind'
  
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• Paw-rouette: Dog named 'Pig' dances ballet in 'Mutt-cracker'

  13-12-2016 09:02
  
  A misshapen little dog named "Pig" is a featured performer in a canine version of The Nutcracker called "The Mutt-cracker."
  
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• India arrests 12 for not standing during national anthem

  13-12-2016 08:41
  
  Police in southern India have arrested 12 people for not standing while the national anthem was being played at an international film festival
  
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