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• Column: HBCUs have a bowl of their own worth celebrating

  16-12-2016 23:29
  Column: AP's Paul Newberry says the Celebration Bowl is a chance to honor the legacy of all those historically black colleges and universities that played such a vital role in the growth of college football
  
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• First lady: White House needs 'grown-up' in times of crisis

  16-12-2016 23:06
  Michelle Obama says the White House needs a "grown-up," and that the nation will come to appreciate President Barack Obama
  
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• Pandora names Angel Olsen, Joyce Manor & more "Artists to Watch in 2017″

  16-12-2016 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The list also includes 21 Savage, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Amine, Denzel Curry, Lizzo, and more.
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• APNewsBreak: Two-star general demoted after affair

  16-12-2016 22:53
  
  An Army major general has been stripped of his stars and forced out of the military after a 30-year career because of a long extramarital affair and "swinger" lifestyle
  
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• Minneapolis band Uranium Club released 'All of Them Naturals' (listen)

  16-12-2016 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Uranium Club make the kind of hyperactive, angsty guitar music that's like Devo, XTC, The Fall, The Wipers, The Feelies and My Dad is Dead whizzed up in a blender.Continue reading…
  
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• Fred Armisen tells us his favorite drumming albums of 2016

  16-12-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "These are my favorite drumming albums of 2016. I have to categorize this as my favorites as opposed to the best, because I am not familiar with enough records this year from different genres to make a fair list. It may seem limited, but this is just in my listening experience." - Fred
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• Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali's personal photographer, dies

  16-12-2016 21:44
  
  The longtime personal photographer, confidant and close friend of Muhammad Ali has died
  
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• CMJ being sued by former employees alleging unpaid wages

  16-12-2016 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The drama surrounding CMJ continues, as Pitchfork reports that two former employees of the company, David DeKeyser and Jessica Levy, filed a lawsuit today in Manhattan, alleging that they are owed unpaid wages and overtime.
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• Darkest Hour share new song; NYC show now with Withered and Immortal Bird

  16-12-2016 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Darkest Hour like you've never heard them before.
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• Kenny of White Lung discusses his favorite albums of the year

  16-12-2016 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From big pop like Kanye and Rihanna to small post-punk like Soft Kill and Lust For Youth.
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• Aussie star of 'Place to Call Home' set sights on Hollywood

  16-12-2016 21:03
  
  Marta Dusseldorp, one of Australia's leading TV stars, is setting her sights on America next year
  
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• Nine Inch Nails releasing a new EP next week

  16-12-2016 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They're also reissuing 'The Fragile' on vinyl.
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• Want a hippo for Christmas? The story of a girl who got one

  16-12-2016 20:42
  
  It was 1953, and one of the hottest songs on the radio was 10-year-old Gayla Peevey's pleading with Santa Claus, "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas." Now it's Christmas 2016, and Peevey is still singing
  
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• Correction: Laura Branigan obituary

  16-12-2016 20:38
  
  Correction: Laura Branigan obituary
  
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• Thor Harris tells us his top 10 LPs of 2016

  16-12-2016 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thor offers up an eclectic list that shouts out fellow Swans musician Norman Westberg, both Jenn Wasner projects (Flock of Dimes and Wye Oak), Death Grips, Lawrence English, Hospital Ships and more.Continue reading…
  
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• [CLASS ACTION] Its not all white! PS 307 leader fears new Dumbo residents steering clear of minority-majority school

  16-12-2016 20:08
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperWhite parents living in Dumbo may be choosing to send their kindergartners to schools other than the newly zoned and mostly minority PS 307 in Vinegar Hill despite a controversial rezoning that many heralded as a crucial step towards integration, and a school leader is questioning whether the newcomers are avoiding it because of its racial makeup.“My fear is that despite the rezoning, white parents aren’t going to come t
  
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• [CLASS ACTION] Its not all white! PS 307 leader fears new Dumbo residents stearing clear of minority-majority school

  16-12-2016 20:08
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperWhite parents living in Dumbo may be choosing to send their kindergartners to schools other than the newly zoned and mostly minority PS 307 in Vinegar Hill despite a controversial rezoning that many heralded as a crucial step towards integration, and a school leader is questioning whether the newcomers are avoiding it because of its racial makeup.“My fear is that despite the rezoning, white parents aren’t going to come t
  
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• Governor wants tourism head to quit over rapper kerfuffle

  16-12-2016 20:06
  
  Gov. Rick Scott wants the head of the state's tourism marketing agency to step down after Visit Florida refused to publicly disclose it paid rapper Pitbull $1 million to promote the state
  
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• Anti-Flag doing a charity raffle for their LPs pressed with burnt American flags

  16-12-2016 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The charity LPs are a protest against Donald Trump's bigotry.
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• Chairlift Announces Breakup, Final Shows

  16-12-2016 19:35 via bkmag.com
  
  After a decade of music, the indie pop group Chairlift have decided to wrap up their time as a duo, they announced today. Consisting of singer Caroline Polachek and occasional singer and producer Patrick Wimberly, the group put out three records, most recently dropping Moth this past January.
  In their statement, the group’s decision seems to have been made on good terms: Polachek will move into a solo musical career, while Wimberly plans to move into music production fu
  
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• Julia Roberts to take on first-ever starring TV series role

  16-12-2016 19:32
  
  Julia Roberts is set to star in her first-ever TV series
  
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• First lady: White House needs a 'grown-up' to calm in crisis

  16-12-2016 19:32
  
  Michelle Obama says the White House needs a "grown-up," and that the nation will come to appreciate President Barack Obama
  
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• Newly Reopened, Bunk is Once Again Your Neighborhood Sandwich King

  16-12-2016 18:59 via bkmag.com
  
  Tell me: Are there many joys greater in New York City than ordering yourself, and then inhaling, a deli sandwiched stacked high with things? Meats, veggies, cheeses, and sauces savory, spicy, and sweet? I am seldom more happy than when visiting my local bodega and precisely detailing how I’ll take my sandwich.
  If that is an experience you, too, enjoy, I will go so far as to suggest that Bunk—newly reopened on Driggs Avenue and South Second in Williamsburg, af
  
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• Man facing murder charge in death of Olympian's daughter

  16-12-2016 18:55
  
  A grand jury has handed down a wanton murder indictment in the shooting death of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay's 15-year-old daughter
  
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• Gina Rodriguez creates, hosts inaugural Young Women's Honors

  16-12-2016 18:45
  
  Gina Rodriguez imagined a Hollywood-style awards show that recognized young women for realizing their dreams in science, public policy and community service, so she followed her own dream and made it happen
  
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] Sal Albanese: Our mayor is corrupt

  16-12-2016 18:08
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperIs Mayor DeBlasio corrupt or just a serial campaign finance rule abuser?That was the question that dominated Brooklyn Paper Radio’s official kick off to the 2017 election season. The jam-packed episode featured mayoral candidate Sal Albanese, Daily News investigative reporter Greg B. Smith, and our own columnist Lenore Skenazy (yes, it rhymes with “crazy”) discussing such d
  
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• Kendrick Lamar Is Playing A Show In Brooklyn Tonight

  16-12-2016 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  A few weeks ago, a new partnership with American Express found Kendrick Lamar, winner of many Grammys and mastermind of brilliant records To Pimp a Butterfly and Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, performing an intimate show in Miami.
  This week, Kendrick teased us with another stop on his AmEx tour: Brooklyn.
  next stop with @americanexpress… Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/4SNi3yFXBp
  — Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) December 14, 2016Excitement quickly grew, and b
  
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• The Year in Film: Ten Old Movies that Explain WTF Just Happened in 2016

  16-12-2016 17:27 via bkmag.com
  
  Editor’s Note: A Face in the Crowd, Idiocracy and The Manchurian Candidate were to this list as Isabelle Huppert was to the Best Performances list. Whatart isn’t “more relevant than ever” right now? When the world presses in, too oppressively to ignore, one comfort is that art is already there to meet it.Keep up with all of our Year in Film features here.
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• Rogue One: Striking Back at the Empire

  16-12-2016 17:01 via bkmag.com
  
  Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryDirected by Gareth EdwardsOpens December 16
  All seven episodes of the Star Wars saga have been about fighting (or, in the case of the underrated prequels, accidentally surrendering to) fascism. But by the time the series was revived in last year’s Episode VII, The Force Awakens, the movie’s insistence on reprising the structure of A New Hope (or, as the strident insist, Just Star Wars) put the Empire, er, excuse me, the New Order at something of a remove.
  
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• Even Rogue One Is About Fighting Fascism

  16-12-2016 17:01 via bkmag.com
  
  Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryDirected by Gareth EdwardsOpens December 16
  All seven episodes of the Star Wars saga have been about fighting (or, in the case of the underrated prequels, accidentally surrendering to) fascism. But by the time the series was revived in last year’s Episode VII, The Force Awakens, the movie’s insistence on reprising the structure of A New Hope (or, as the strident insist, Just Star Wars) put the Empire, er, excuse me, the First Order at something of a remov
  
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• The Talde Team’s Thistle Hill Tavern is Officially Closing This Monday

  16-12-2016 16:48 via bkmag.com
  
  Our condolences, vegetarian sports fans: as you’ll soon have to get your buffalo cauliflower fix elsewhere. After rising to the top of the Park Slope food chain with a trio of seemingly prosperous restaurants, the Three Kings Hospitality Group has steadily deconstructed their dynasty this past year—starting with Pork Slope in October, and as of Monday, Thistle Hill Tavern as well.
  Categorically the most sedate of the team’s numerous projects, the dark wood and stained glass-cla
  
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• Good is the New Cool: Chic and Natural, Simply Gum

  16-12-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Ever wondered how you could support ethical, sustainable businesses? Welcome to a new regular series highlighting products, services and organizations that are ‘doing well by doing good’.
  Did you know that the humble stick of gum is packed with artificial substances that are potentially toxic – like plastic, aspartame and BHT?
  One day after a healthy lunch of salad and green juice, Simply Gum’s founder  Caron Proschan unwrapped a stick of gum and was taken aback by t
  
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• Thai Red Shirt leaders indicted for referendum activity

  16-12-2016 15:23
  
  Prosecutors in Thailand have indicted 19 senior members of the anti-coup Red Shirt movement for violating a ban on political activities when they sought to open an office to monitor last August's referendum on a new constitution
  
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• Colorful NBA reporter Sager dies after battle with cancer

  16-12-2016 15:16
  
  Longtime NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager has died after a battle with cancer
  
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• Extra credit: Hits get added writers as lawsuits loom

  16-12-2016 15:02
  
  More and more, contemporary artists are giving credit to past songs in the wake of the infamous "Blurred Lines" case, a copyright dispute in which Robin Thicke and Pharrell were ordered to pay $5.3 million to Marvin Gaye's children
  
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• The Year In Film: The Ten Best Music Moments of 2016

  16-12-2016 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Keep up with all of our Year in Film features here.
  20th Century Women (“Don’t Worry About the Government”)The statement feels downright laughable in this hellish year, but in Mike Mills’s late-70s coming of age story, the Talking Heads song is used to memorable effect. The song, from the band’s debut album, has a stripped down, sing-song earnestness (an authentic quirkiness) that fits perfectly with Mills’s uncertain, creative band of protagonists. Abbey Bend
  
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• Scott Baio claims assault by Chili Peppers' drummer's wife

  16-12-2016 13:52
  
  Scott Baio's wife is speaking out following a report that the actor claimed he was assaulted by the wife of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith over his support of President-elect Donald Trump
  
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• Austrian soprano Lotte Rysanek-Doerle dead at age 93

  16-12-2016 11:38
  
  The Vienna State Opera says that soprano Lotte Rysanek-Doerler, a long-time ensemble member, has died
  
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• Top adviser to Rome mayor arrested in new setback

  16-12-2016 10:14
  
  Police have arrested a key adviser to the Rome mayor in a corruption investigation, dealing yet another blow to the 5-Star Movement's highest-profile office-holder
  
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• Church, state seeing eye to eye in Putin's Orthodox Russia

  16-12-2016 10:10
  
  President Putin is harnessing the power of faith to advance his own agenda in Russia, where the Orthodox Church is gaining influence in a once-atheist land
  
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• White House suggests Putin was involved in US hacking

  16-12-2016 09:08
  
  President Barack Obama is suggesting U.S. retaliation against Russia for its suspected hacking of Democratic officials' email accounts in the run-up to the presidential election, an accusation the Kremlin has flatly denied
  
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• Ex-Teamsters official sentenced in 'Top Chef' case

  16-12-2016 08:15
  
  A former Teamsters official who intimidated the staff and crew of the "Top Chef" reality TV show while it was filming in Boston in 2014 will serve six months of house arrest
  
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• Whittle kid! Sunset Park teen is a furniture-making phenom

  16-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyA local craftsmen is building a furniture-making empire — all before his 17th birthday.Sunset Parker Gabriel Pena began experimenting with crafts as a child — and now at 16 he runs The Boss Workshop in the basement of his family’s Sixth Avenue home. What started as a hobby morphed into a business when he realized he could make some scratch helping people maximize space in their cramped Brooklyn apartments, the
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Whittle kid! Sunset Park teen is a furniture-making phenom

  16-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperA local craftsmen is building a furniture-making empire — all before his 17th birthday.Sunset Parker Gabriel Pena began experimenting with crafts as a child — and now at 16 he runs The Boss Workshop in the basement of his family’s Sixth Avenue home. What started as a hobby morphed into a business when he realized he could make some scratch helping people maximize space in their cramped Brooklyn apartments, the
  
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• [PROSPECT HEIGHTS] A latke love: Festival celebrates the potato pancake

  16-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThese aren’t your bubbe’s latkes!A collection of chefs will radically redesign the humble potato pancake next week at the eighth annual Latke Festival, swapping out traditional toppings of sour cream or applesauce for short rib and oxtail jelly. Foodies will flock to the Brooklyn Museum on Dec. 19 to sample unique twists on the Hanukkah staple made from potatoes fried in oil. The f
  
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• [POLITICS] Queens and Kings: Queens pol comes to Southern Brooklyn to drum up support for mayoral run

  16-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyWhen you want to run for mayor, you come to Brooklyn.A Queens Democrat will announce his formal challenge to Mayor DeBlasio on Sunday, according to a Brooklyn civic leader.State Sen. Tony Avella held meetings with various civic leaders throughout Southern Brooklyn last weekend to gather support in areas outside his district where residents opposed over-development and who often think Mayor DeBlasio overlooks their needs, according to Madison-Mari
  
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• [MIDWOOD] Location, location, location! City should not move IS 381 in with ‘dangerous’ school, parents say

  16-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThe city must halt its plan to co-locate two Midwood middle schools, because one is known to be less safe, parents are demanding.The Department of Education wants to move IS 381 in with Andries Hudde because the latter campus is under-enrolled and has better facilities. But parents of IS 381 students say they picked the school in part because it did not have Hudde’s rough-and-tumble reputation.“Parents did not choose t
  
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• [DINING] A latke love: Festival celebrates the potato pancake

  16-12-2016 06:00
  
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• [CHANGING BROOKLYN] Taped off: Cult movie-rental store Video Free Brooklyn leaving Smith St., moving to Alamo Drafthouse

  16-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt is a rental hike!Cobble Hill’s last remaining video-lending joint Video Free Brooklyn is leaving its Smith Street home of 14 years at the end of the month, and will relocate to the lobby of Downtown’s newly opened Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. The store’s owner insists there’s still a demand for physical video cassettes and discs, but says the nabe has become too pricey to keep his niche business there open.
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• [BAY RIDGE NIGHTS] Bay Ridge’s holly jolly weekend!

  16-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe holidays never end in Bay Ridge!The cheer keeps on coming at Bay Ridge Nights, where the weekends are like stockings stuffed with holiday events, including an ugly Christmas sweater contest, a concert and carol sing-along, and a holiday art fair.Wear your holiday spirit on your sleeve for a party at Schnitzel Haus (7319 Fifth Ave. between 73rd and 74th streets) on Friday night. First, celebrate the tacky side of Christmas b
  
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