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• Review: Videogame pic 'Assassin's Creed' is anything but fun

  19-12-2016 23:05
  
  Film Review: Justin Kurzel's film "Assassin's Creed" attempts to give a serious narrative origin story to the popular video game, ostensibly setting up interest in possible future films, but it's hard to even feign interest in this one
  
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• Q&A: Sigourney Weaver on an unexpected life in sci-fi

  19-12-2016 22:11
  
  Q&A: Sigourney Weaver has an almost queen-like status on today's movie landscape, particularly in science-fiction
  
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• Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood's Favorite Music of 2016

  19-12-2016 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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• Actor gets probation term over prop pellet gun used in film

  19-12-2016 22:04
  
  An actor who played a bit part in an independent gangster film and used a prop pellet gun without a New Jersey gun permit likely won't have to serve a prison term
  
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• Wisconsin conservative talk show host ends 23-year run

  19-12-2016 21:54
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan is among political leaders and others bidding adieu to conservative Milwaukee talk radio host Charlie Sykes as he leaves the air waves following a 23-year run
  
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• Will Sheff, Lee Ranaldo, Cassandra Jenkins, Josh Ritter & more playing Leonard Cohen tribute in Brooklyn

  19-12-2016 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Proceeds from this tribute benefit the Preemptive Love Coalition
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• Stephen Brodsky's (Cave In, Mutoid Man) favorite music, books and TV of 2016

  19-12-2016 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From Converge's 'Blood Moon' ensemble to Matt Taylor's Metallica book, here's what Stephen Brodsky loved most in 2016.
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• Sad13 playing Southern Poverty Law benefit in NYC

  19-12-2016 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It takes place this January.
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• Psycho Las Vegas announces more bands (Carcass, Melvins, Chelsea Wolfe, Sumac, Oathbreaker, Inter Arma & more)

  19-12-2016 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Psycho Las Vegas has announced a big new round of bands to join already-announced headliners Swans, Neurosis, Abbath. The lineup, which is now officially completely stacked, will also include Carcass, Melvins, Chelsea Wolfe, Wolves in the Throne Room, Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas, Weedeater, Khemmis, Buzzoven, Oathbreaker, VHOL, Cough, Pelican, Sumac, Myrkur, Gatecreeper, Cult Leader and many more...
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• A&E to air 'Generation KKK' docuseries exposing Ku Klux Klan

  19-12-2016 21:14
  
  A&E network's "Generation KKK" aims to expose the missions of this racist, anti-Semitic organization and show its impact on American families as Klan members grapple with the consequences of breaking free
  
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• Max & Igor Cavalera playing Sepultura's 'Roots' on tour w/ Full of Hell, Immolation

  19-12-2016 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Max and Igor Cavalera of the seminal Brazilian metal band Sepultura have announced a new run of tour dates where they'll be playing the classic Sepultura album Roots in its entirety...
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• 'What a Joke' comedy festival happening in 20 cities on inauguration day weekend

  19-12-2016 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What a Joke is a comedy festival happening Inauguration Day Weekend (Jan 19 - 20) in 20 cities across the U.S. with proceeds going to benefit the ACLU...
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• Nile Rodgers says 'It's About Time' for a new Chic album (coming in 2017)

  19-12-2016 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new LP will coincide with Chic's 40th anniversary (and Studio 54's).
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• [GOWANUS] RIP: Gowanus’s beloved Morbid Anatomy Museum abruptly closes

  19-12-2016 19:46
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey’ve been talking about death for years, and now they’ve finally gone through with it.Gowanus’s beloved life-size cabinet of curiosities the Morbid Anatomy Museum abruptly closed over the weekend after more than two years of educating Brooklynites about Sicilian sex ghosts and how to make dioramas of bugs posed as humans, according to its website.
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• Action Trumps Hate: Week five, support Syrian refugees

  19-12-2016 19:38
  
  Infographic: U.N. Refugee Agency
  The Electoral College votes today. Unless something crazy happens we won’t know the results until Jan. 6, when Joe Biden reads the votes out loud to the members of the Senate and the House. This New York Times article explains the whole process in depth, the takeaway of which is that the only good thing about Jan. 6 is likely to be Biden’s complete lack of a poker face when he delivers the news, good or bad.
  While the Electoral College has dominated
  
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• Mastodon, EODM, Russian Circles & Devin Townsend join Opeth/Gojira Philly show

  19-12-2016 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Philly stop of the Opeth/Gojira show just became a hugely stacked show.
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• Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford Get Us Excited for Blade Runner 2049 in First Trailer

  19-12-2016 19:31 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s the midst of December, so much of the attention of the film world is focused on the closing window of eligibility for this awards season, with movies like Fences, Martin Scorsese’s Silcence, and La La Land, starring Ryan Gosling beating the deadline and hitting your screens. But, today, it seems, that attention will be ever-slightly diverted (but still remain on Ryan Gosling, of course), as the first teaser for Blade Runner 2049, 
  
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• New Order's production work highlighted on new 'Be Music' compilation

  19-12-2016 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the early days of New Order, after they broke camp with Martin Hannett, they produced their own albums under the pseudonym Be Music. The various members of the band also produced a lot of other acts on Factory records under the Be Music banner as well...
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• Cam Boucher (Sorority Noise, Old Gray) lists his favorite albums of 2016

  19-12-2016 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cam Boucher has had quite the year, with his band Sorority Noise releasing an EP, signing to Triple Crown, and releasing a split with TWIABP, plus his band Old Gray just released their new album Slow Burn...
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• New Compilation Remembers Greenpoint’s Independent Music Hub

  19-12-2016 19:04 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s already a little hard to remember, but as late as 2012 in Greenpoint—before Transmitter Park opened at the end of Greenpoint Avenue, before construction of ten waterfront towers began along West Street, and certainly before Northern Territory invited scores of loud drinkers to a rooftop above Franklin Street—the neighborhood still felt mysteriously forgotten. Photographers, graphic designers, artists, small fashion labels, jewelers, woodworkers, and many more took advantag
  
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• Brooklyn’s Independent Record Labels Debut Ghost Ship Benefit Mix

  19-12-2016 19:04 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s already a little hard to remember, but as late as 2012 in Greenpoint—before Transmitter Park opened at the end of Greenpoint Avenue, before construction of ten waterfront towers began along West Street, and certainly before Northern Territory invited scores of loud drinkers to a rooftop above Franklin Street—the neighborhood still felt mysteriously forgotten. Photographers, graphic designers, artists, small fashion labels, jewelers, woodworkers, and many more took advantag
  
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• Passengers: Forced Seduction in Space

  19-12-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  PassengersDirected by Morten TyldumOpens December 21
  Pity poor Jim Preston (Chris Pratt). All he wanted was a new life on another world. But when a meteor shower causes his hibernation pod to malfunction, he wakes up ninety years too early on his one-hundred-year deep space voyage. Now he’s alone on a high-end corporate spaceship that can cater to his every whim except companionship. (The comically cordial android bartender played, brilliantly as ever, by Michael Sheen can only provide so
  
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• Second Avenue Subway Line to Launch First Phase On January 1st

  19-12-2016 18:53 via bkmag.com
  
  After approximately hundreds of years of waiting and lots of construction, there will finally be a direct line from the hot dog-filled, boardwalk haven of Coney Island, through the metropolitan venue of the Barclays Center, through midtown, and all the way up to 96th street on the Upper East Side, as Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed that the first phase of the Second Avenue subway line—which will bring Q train stops to 72nd, 86th, and 96th Streets, with a new, open-design station (said
  
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• Ablebody released debut LP (listen), tell us their Top 10 YouTube Finds of 2016

  19-12-2016 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you're in Los Angeles, you can catch Ablebody tonight for free.
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• Super Furry Animals played 'Fuzzy Logic' & 'Radiator' in London w/ Teleman (pics)

  19-12-2016 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Super Furry Animals are currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Fuzzy Logic, and just wrapped up a UK tour where they played it, and their 1997 album Radiator, in full...
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• Your wafels and hot chocolate are on Verizon this Wednesday

  19-12-2016 18:00
  
  To celebrate being named the #1 Overall Network NYC and the Tri-State Area by Rootmetrics, Verizon is inviting New Yorkers and their neighbors across the Hudson to partake in FREE wafels, hot chocolate and savory treats at food trucks throughout the boroughs and in Jersey City this Wednesday, 12/21.
  The details and locations are below. When you do nab one of their complimentary treats, be sure to share a photo with the tag, #ItsOnVerizon.
  Locations and times:
  Wafels and Dinges from 11:00 AM &nda
  
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• Kevin Abstract touring behind 'American Boyfriend' in 2017

  19-12-2016 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rapper/singer Kevin Abstract is touring in 2017 in support of American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love, which he dropped in late November...
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• David Lynch enjoys a damn fine doughnut in new 'Twin Peaks' teaser (watch)

  19-12-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  'Twin Peaks' returns in 2017 on Showtime.
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• The Way We Ate: Looking Back at the Most Pervasive Food Trends of 2016

  19-12-2016 17:14 via bkmag.com
  
  Not that we think the industry gathers en masse at the start of each year to determine the du jour dish is going to be hot chicken, but there’s no denying—a handful of food themes tend to dominate the restaurant world every 365 days or so. And these are the trends that shaped 2016, from wood-fired everything, to a campaign against waste.
  Waste Not Want Not
  Dan Barber set the stage with his WastED pop-up last year (featuring menus showcasing overlooked byproducts within the food
  
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• XXYYXX playing shows in February

  19-12-2016 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His schedule includes Brooklyn's Warsaw.
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• Day For Night Day 1 in pics: Aphex Twin, JAMC, Blood Orange, John Carpenter & more

  19-12-2016 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a "preview night" on Friday, Houston's Day for Night festival -- now in its second year -- got properly underway on Saturday (12/17) with performances by Run the Jewels, Blood Orange, The Jesus & Mary Chain, John Carpenter, DJ Windows 98 (aka Win Butler), Tobacco, Chelsea Wolfe...
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• Jesca Hoop announces 2017 tour

  19-12-2016 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The tour is in support of her first solo album for Sub Pop.
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• Action Trumps Hate reading list, Dec. 19

  19-12-2016 16:43
  
  No, soup won’t save Syrian, but it may humanize the conflict.
  Chances are there will either be some travel, some time off, or both in your life this week. Here are a few articles and books, a novel even, to sink your teeth into.
  • Aljazeera published this explainer on Syria’s civil war last week and it’s incredibly helpful if you’re trying get your head around what’s going on there, who the players are and why this has become such an intractable and bloody con
  
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• Jimmy Eat World played Webster Hall with Prawn (pics, setlist)

  19-12-2016 16:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jimmy Eat World played most of their new album and basically everything else you'd want to hear, and sounded totally professional doing so.
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• [SUNSET PARK] No-tel! Sunset Parkers: New hotels will be glorified homeless shelters

  19-12-2016 16:04
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperSix new hotels sprouting up in the industrial portion of Sunset Park are just wolves in sheep’s clothing that will end up housing homeless people instead of tourists, claims a community activist who fears the surge in hotel construction in the neighborhood is a thinly veiled attempt to shoehorn more shelters into the area.
  “These are not hotels. I don’t care what they say, they’re going to be used as she
  
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• SNL Update: Sturgill Simpson hosting; Chance the Rapper/DMC celebrated Obama's Last Christmas (watch)

  19-12-2016 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The last Christmas with Barack still here...
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• The Pop Group release "Little Town" video ++ Mark Stewart's Top 10 LPs of 2016

  19-12-2016 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The video was made by Douglas Hart, the onetime Jesus & Mary Chain member who went on to be a very successful video director, working with The Stone Roses, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and more.
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• Player to sue UConn over punishment for giving middle finger

  19-12-2016 15:52
  
  Former UConn soccer player who lost her scholarship for obscene gesture to sue school
  
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• Japanese Breakfast, Eskimeaux, 100%, & Gobbinjr @ Shea Stadium (pics)

  19-12-2016 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The solo tour had Japanese Breakfast and Eskimeaux on stage at the same time and alternating songs, and they collaborated on a Bjork cover.
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• Bouncing Souls wrapped up Irving Plaza run (setlists & night 3 pics)

  19-12-2016 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Recap of night two (with Off With Their Heads and Crazy & the Brains), pics of night three (with Anti-Flag and Up For Nothing), and setlists from both.
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• Review: 'Perfume' by Lizzie Ostrom a solid pop culture guide

  19-12-2016 15:33
  
  Book Review: "Perfume" by Lizzie Ostrom is solid pop culture guide that incorporates fragrance fashion into shifting tides of society
  
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• Reel Brooklyn: Blast of Silence, East New York

  19-12-2016 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Reel Brooklyn is a biweekly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time.
  Whatever else you make of it, Allen Baron’s indie uber-noir Blast of Silence (1961) is undoubtedly the sourest Christmas movie ever made—not before or since have the beloved New York iconography of the season, up to and including a stroll past the tree and ice skaters at Rockefeller Center, been sneered at with such cynical derision. That suit
  
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• Oh shoot! I got killed in and NYPD simulation

  19-12-2016 14:10
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyGame over.I lived my own version of the Tom Cruise movie “Edge of Tomorrow” last week when the NYPD let me take part in an officer training program that has recruits walk into a restaurant where a bad guy is shooting up the place.Thankfully, it was just a video game-like simulation, because I couldn’t help but get killed.So let’s just say I’m glad I’m a reporter and not a cop.I suited up with a
  
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• Oh shoot! I got killed in an NYPD simulation

  19-12-2016 14:10
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyGame over.I lived my own version of the Tom Cruise movie “Edge of Tomorrow” last week when the NYPD let me take part in an officer training program that has recruits walk into a restaurant where a bad guy is shooting up the place.Thankfully, it was just a video game-like simulation, because I couldn’t help but get killed.So let’s just say I’m glad I’m a reporter and not a cop.I suited up with a
  
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• [DEVELOPMENT] No-tel! Sunset Parkers: New hotels will be glorified homeless shelters

  19-12-2016 14:10
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailySix new hotels sprouting up in the industrial portion of Sunset Park are just wolves in sheep’s clothing that will end up housing homeless people instead of tourists, claims a community activist who fears the surge in hotel construction in the neighborhood is a thinly veiled attempt to shoehorn more shelters into the area.
  “These are not hotels. I don’t care what they say, they’re going to be used as she
  
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• Photos show dad and son at Duncan's debut, jersey retirement

  19-12-2016 12:58
  
  A San Antonio Spurs fan's Facebook post featuring side-by-side pictures of him and his son at Tim Duncan's first game and the one Sunday night in which Duncan had his jersey retired is a testament to the legendary big man's longevity
  
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• Fifth Harmony becomes quartet after Camila Cabello quits

  19-12-2016 12:02
  
  Fifth Harmony has announced that Camila Cabello has decided to leave the girl group
  
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• Films in which Zsa Zsa Gabor appeared

  19-12-2016 08:24
  
  Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor appeared in films from the 1950s to the 1980s
  
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• Kettle call: Cowboys ride Elliott's stunt to bounce-back win

  19-12-2016 08:00
  
  Ezekiel Elliott probably has a fine coming from the NFL for jumping into an oversized Salvation Army red kettle to celebrate a short touchdown run in a bounce-back win for the Dallas Cowboys
  
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• [MEAN STREETS] Riding high: City wants to green-light illicit bike path across Court Street

  19-12-2016 07:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperLegalize it!The city will finally sanction a popular but illicit route for cyclists trying to get across Court Street from Amity to Dean streets under a proposed overhaul of the Cobble Hill intersection, and easy riders are stoked — they say they’ve been blowing that joint for years anyway, and it’s time The Man let them bring their habit out in the open so they can do it safel
  
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