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• Fireside Chat: What is a Home?

  11-01-2017 22:41
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• Still got game? Ice Cube, Iverson back 3-on-3 hoops league

  11-01-2017 22:32
  
  Ice Cube and Allen Iverson are putting their star power behind a new 3-on-3 profession al basketball league
  
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• Arab on Radar guys in Doomsday Student not happy with author ex-bandmate?

  11-01-2017 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jeff Schneider of Arab on Radar is writing a book about the band. The band isn't too happy about it.Continue reading…
  
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• [MARINE PARK] Cops talk down suicidal woman from Kings Plaza garage

  11-01-2017 21:32
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyPolice talked down a woman threatening to jump off of Kings Plaza’s parking garage on Jan. 11.
  Officers responded to a 911 call of a large crowd gathering near the Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U mall and arrived at about 9:30 am to find an emotionally disturbed woman atop the five-story parking structure and threatening to jump, a police spokeswoman said.
  The woman sat right on the ledge with a cup of coffee, photos show.Offic
  
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• [BREAKING, BAY RIDGE] R train hits straphanger at 86th Street

  11-01-2017 21:32
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyA Manhattan-bound R train struck a man at the 86th Street station in Bay Ridge this afternoon.Emergency responders arrived on the scene at 1:17 pm and transported the man to Luther Medical Center in critical condition at 1:40 pm.
  It is unclear if the man was pushed, jumped, or fell in front of the train, said a police spokesman.Subway service at Bay Ridge stations was temporally suspended in both directions as police investigat
  
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• Vision posts statement on Dave Franklin; campaign launched for memorial service

  11-01-2017 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Also check out a tribute to Dave posted on The Stone Pony's marquee.
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• Maria Bamford has new comedy LP, touring, playing Bell House in August

  11-01-2017 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Maria Bamford, who mined some dark personal material into terrific (and healing) standup as well as her Netflix series Lady Dynamite, has a new comedy record out, titled 20%...
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• Tall Tall Trees (mem. Kishi Bashi) releasing 'Freedays' — watch the title track's lyric video

  11-01-2017 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You can also catch Tall Tall Trees on tour.
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• Major Lazer, Rae Sremmurd to perform at Middlelands festival

  11-01-2017 20:43
  
  Musical trio Major Lazer and hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd are set to perform at the medieval-themed Middlelands festival in Texas in May
  
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• Azoff's company signs Prince estate for performing rights

  11-01-2017 20:36
  Prince's estate has signed a deal with Global Music Rights, founded by entertainment industry powerhouse Irving Azoff, to represent the icon's songs
  
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• Yams Day returning with A$AP Rocky, TDE, Danny Brown, Joey Bada$$, more

  11-01-2017 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This year it takes place at the Theater at MSG.
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• Your Ideal Week: Jan. 12 – Jan. 18, the inauguration blues

  11-01-2017 20:10
  
  Every week as I think about what to write about in my intro to this column, I swear that this is the week that I’m going to finally stop ranting about Trump and move on to more pleasant topics like oh, I don’t know, literally anything. But man, I’ll be damned if that guy doesn’t cause some kind of brouhaha every single Tuesday (or really any other day ending in y) that is impossible for me to ignore when I’m writing on Wednesday morning! This week, I’ll l
  
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• Sharon Van Etten scored 'Strange Weather' which is screening in NY

  11-01-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She also appeared in The OA, with Big Thief at Bowery Ballroom, and is playing a benefit for Planned Parenthood and The ACLU.
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• My Father the Hero: Maren Ade on Toni Erdmann

  11-01-2017 20:00 via bkmag.com
  
  There are certain things which, as an adult, you just don’t want your parents to see. Being patronized by a client at work ranks fairly high on the list, serving wine stark naked at your own birthday party even higher. Winfried (Peter Simonischek) witnesses his daughter (Sandra Hüller) do both of these and more in Toni Erdmann, a film in which conventional boundaries of privacy, propriety, perhaps even sanity, break down completely. This is the third feature from German writer-directo
  
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• watch the trailer for horror film 'XX,' St. Vincent's feature directorial debut

  11-01-2017 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  St. Vincent's segment of the horror anthology is titled 'Birthday Party' and stars Melanie Lynskey.
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• The-Dream touring in 2017

  11-01-2017 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you missed it, stream his late-December EP, Love You To Death.
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• Pianos Become the Teeth touring, playing Brooklyn in March

  11-01-2017 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pianos Become the Teeth took most of 2016 off from touring, but then the Baltimore band squeezed in a hometown show in late December with Nothing and Creepoid. Now they're getting back on the road...
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• DirecTV Now: A trial is free, but it's a hard sell for some

  11-01-2017 19:23
  The latest cable TV replacement, DirecTV Now, hopes to attract millions of subscribers
  
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• Hamburg's spectacular Elbphilharmonie opens for 1st concert

  11-01-2017 19:17
  Hamburg's spectacular new Elbphilharmonie concert hall is finally hosting its first concert, several years behind schedule and far over the original budget
  
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• Minus the Bear announce new LP & tour with Beach Slang & Bayonne, share song

  11-01-2017 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Minus the Bear will release the followup to 2012's Infinity Overhead, titled VOIDS, on March 3. For this one, they're back on their original label Suicide Squeeze for the first time since 2007's Planet of Ice...
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• Antarctigo Vespucci playing one-off with Ian of Cheap Girls + new Menzingers song

  11-01-2017 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jeff Rosenstock released one of the best punk albums of last year with WORRY. and he'll be opening for The Menzingers on tour this year. Before the tour begins, Antarctigo Vespucci, Jeff's duo with Chris Farren, will play a one-off in NYC.
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• Jamie Foxx to host 'Beat Shazam,' an app-based game show

  11-01-2017 18:44
  Jamie Foxx is turning game-show host
  
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• Pre-Inauguration Weekend Sign Making Workshop

  11-01-2017 18:42
  Wednesday, January 18, 2017 6:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck Center
  Pre-Inauguration Weekend Sign Making Workshop
  Central Library, Dweck Center, January 18, 2018, 6-8pm
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• Save on unlimited beer and live music at the Best of Brooklyn Food & Beer Festival

  11-01-2017 18:33
  
  Start the new year off right — use our 15% discount for unlimited craft brews and celebrate the best food, drink, and entertainment your borough has to offer at the Best of Brooklyn Food and Beer Festival on January 28th.
  What’s to drink, eat and do? There’ll be 30+ Brooklyn makers serving up your favorites, including suds from Brooklyn Brewery, BBQ from Dinosaur Bar-B-Q, and sweets from Doughnut Plant… to name a few. Plus, enjoy special exhibits from MOFAD, entertainmen
  
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• Peter Hook going on book tour to promote New Order memoir

  11-01-2017 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The NYC stop on the tour happens at Saint Vitus.
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• Arcade Fire Have Completed Recording New Album, Huge Tour Planned

  11-01-2017 17:57 via bkmag.com
  
  Throughout their 16 years of existing as a band, Arcade Fire have consistently managed to reinvent themselves, from their 2004 debut Funeral all the way through to their fourth full-length, the 2013 James Murphy-produced Reflektor and their underrated but tremendous score for (one of my favorite films) Spike Jonze’s Her. In that time period, the six-piece band has gone from an imported Canadian gem to one of the biggest bands in the world, regularly playing&nb
  
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• Cherry Glazer's Clemetime Creevy loves her guitar in band's funny new "Nuclear Bomb" video; tour starts this week

  11-01-2017 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Like, really really really loves it. In a "why don't you marry it?" kind of way.
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• Loretta Lynn expands tour, being honored with Country Music HOF exhibit

  11-01-2017 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last year, country legend Loretta Lynn released both a new Christmas album and the new album Full Circle, which is up for a Best Country Album Grammy against Sturgill Simpson and others. She's still got it live too, as we witnessed at SXSW...
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, January 11-18

  11-01-2017 16:53 via bkmag.com
  
  Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)Directed by Éric Rohmer“Adventures” may be a bit of a misnomer here; in Rohmer’s four-part film, teenage girls Reinette and Mirabelle embark on the kinds of “adventures” that are more about navigating life’s mundane situations, from rude waiters to loud trucks disrupting rural idyll. It’s Rohmer’s peppering of subtle humor and his careful study of character—focusing his lens on two girls
  
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• “Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez” at Boerum Hill’s Gumbo Bros.

  11-01-2017 16:48 via bkmag.com
  
  Having quietly slipped into a pint-sized Boerum Hill space a few weeks back, you likely missed the opening of Gumbo Bros., a brick-and-mortar offshoot of a Vendy-nominated food stand. But blustery January is as prime a time as any to make an initial pilgrimage, for rib sticking bowls of signature soup, alongside other N’awlins fare.
  Run by co-bro’s Clay Boulware (a Louisiana native) and Adam Lathan (a LSU and ICE grad), the duo aims to bridge the city’s gumbo gap, by way of a t
  
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• Pavement's Spiral Stairs announces new solo LP, shares "Dance (Cry Wolf)" video

  11-01-2017 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  'Doris and the Daggers' features appearances by Matt Berninger of The National, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and Justin Peroff, as well as Kelley Stoltz and Shudder To Think's Adam Wade.
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• Ex-TV show contestant's video shows him rescuing choking man

  11-01-2017 16:11
  
  A western New York exterminator who has appeared on the TV reality show "American Ninja Warrior" put some different skills to use when he rescued a motorist who was choking alongside a street
  
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• Benefits and pitfalls of a 48-team World Cup

  11-01-2017 16:05
  
  As the soccer world digests FIFA's decision to expand the World Cup, a look at the some of the benefits and pitfalls of a 48-team tournament in 2026
  
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• We Are Not Broken: On Asexuality and Sarah Monette’s The Doctrine of Labyrinths

  11-01-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  You are not broken. Asexuals often repeat this tagline as encouragement to each other throughout the Asexual Awareness and Visibility Movement—where people like myself who experience no sexual attraction (or limited sexual attraction—asexuality is a spectrum)—, make our voices heard. You are not broken. This phrase could just as easily be the central theme of Sarah Monette’s fantasy quartet The Doctrine of Labyrinths.The novels are narrated by two half-brothers in alterna
  
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• 5 Ways Acupuncture Can Help You Conceive

  11-01-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  Planning on starting or adding to your family in 2017? Male and female factors contribute equally to fertility. Acupuncture can be an optimal way to prepare the body/mind not only to conceive, but for a healthy pregnancy and birth. Acupuncture is part of a larger system called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) which includes herbs, nutritional counseling, lifestyle adjustments and environmental recommendations.TCM works on the principles of cycles and homeostasis, just like on your body.Egg and
  
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• Quelle Horreur: Average North Brooklyn Home Sales Approach $1.5 Million

  11-01-2017 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Recently, I took a trip to Montreal. Sorry—Montréal. And, let me tell you: it was cold. I mean it. Very, very cold. The kind of cold that numbs any part of your body that is covered by just one relatively thick layer of fabric, rather than two to three relatively thick layers of fabric.
  However: It was beautiful. The streets were tree-lined and well kept and there were small businesses that were a mix of historical and cutting-edge and the people walking the sidewalks were friendly,
  
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• Prize-winning book chronicles history of racist thinking

  11-01-2017 14:43
  "Stamped from the Beginning," winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction, is a work of history very much rooted in recent events
  
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• U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd to headline Bonnaroo

  11-01-2017 14:02
  
  U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Weeknd are set to headline the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in June
  
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• New Jersey university to host Bruce Springsteen's archives

  11-01-2017 08:53
  
  While it takes Bruce Springsteen close to four hours to effectively revisit the four-plus decades of his career in concert, the Boss needed just 90 minutes to chronicle his life story at New Jersey's Monmouth University
  
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• Sunset Park business rings in Chinese new year early

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyMore than 100 people trekked from across the borough to celebrate Chinese New Year and the 18th anniversary of a Sunset Park business on Jan. 8. Revelers ushered in the year of the rooster at the Golden Imperial Palace on 62nd street near Sixth Avenue with Cantonese dim sum, a magic show, and dancing. The event was a festive spectacle that drew locals closer, said one dinner guest.“It was really lovely,” said Boroug
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] The Chuck stops here: Schumer’s Park Slope pad already a protest hotspot!

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThese protestors put the “civil” in civil unrest!Around 200 polite eco-activists rallied outside Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Park Slope pad on Monday, demanding he fight President-elect Trump’s nominees for key environmental positions — and the rabble-rousers were so well-behaved, even the counter-protesters were impressed.“This was one of the most civil groups of a
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Brute beat man in bathroom of chicken joint

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Paper78th PrecinctPark Slope
  Fowl playCops are looking for a brute who beat a man in the bathroom of a Flatbush Avenue chicken joint on Dec. 27.The 31-year-old victim got into an argument with the bruiser in the loo of the eatery near Atlantic Avenue at 11:27 pm, when the jerk socked him on one side of the face, and then again on the other, according to a police report.The restaurant has no surveillance footage of the attack, police sai
  
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• [NOT FOR NUTHIN’] FBI bungled Ft. Lauderdale shooter

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyAin’t Hollywood proud!Woo-hoo, Meryl Streep lambasted President-elect Donald Trump at the Golden Globe — basically a show that is supposed to honor the best in entertainment was used as a political podium for the Hollywood elite to insult the president.Yes the Hollywood elite — which accuses Donald Trump of being a bully — is the same institution that doesn’t let newcomers into the fold if they don&
  
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• [MUSIC] Future so bright: Upbeat Afro-future band funks up BAM

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperCall them funk Soul brothers.A funkadelic hip-hop duo plans to transport audiences to a futuristic utopia with a pair of free concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend. The members of Brooklyn band Soul Science Lab, which will play at BAM Cafe on Jan. 13 and 14, call their optimistic blend of musical styles “Afro-futurism” — a relatively new term for ideas with
  
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• [MARINE PARK] Thief takes airbags and other car parts

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn Daily63rd PrecinctMarine Park—Mill Basin—Flatlands—Bergen BeachHot partsA pirate stole airbags and other parts from a car parked on Coleman Street sometime overnight on Jan. 5.
  The car’s owner told police that he left his vehicle between Flatlands Avenue and Avenue P around 9 pm. The next day at 7:40 am he discovered his driver-side window busted in, according to police.
  Cops said the car’s driver- and p
  
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• [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS] Grand Street grinds out victory to stay perfect on season

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyIt was going to go in eventually.
  Shanice Graves knew, at some point, the ball was going to go into the net. She just didn’t expect to have to wait until the fourth quarter.
  The Grand Street Campus shooting guard drained her first jumper with just minutes left on the clock, and it was the most important shot of the game — a three-pointer to give her team the lead it wouldn’t surrender en route to a 52–47 vict
  
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• [FORT GREENE] Future so bright: Upbeat Afro-future band funks up BAM

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyCall them funk Soul brothers.A funkadelic hip-hop duo plans to transport audiences to a futuristic utopia with a pair of free concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend. The members of Brooklyn band Soul Science Lab, which will play at BAM Cafe on Jan. 13 and 14, call their optimistic blend of musical styles “Afro-futurism” — a relatively new term for ideas with
  
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• [FORT GREENE] Driver crashes into man’s car, then steals his phone and takes off

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn Paper88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillRoad rageA brawl broke out on Clinton Avenue on Jan. 4 when a driver hit another man’s car, and then attempted to take off his license plate to get out of having to take responsibility for the collision.The victim was driving on Lafayette Avenue around 3:09 am when another motorist hit his vehicle, police said. When he got out of his car, the driver who crashed into him was taking the
  
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• [CRIME] Police: Suspects rob man at knifepoint

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn Daily61st PrecinctSheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
  Manhattan Beach—GravesendOne got awayCops arrested two men who they say assaulted a guy and stole his phone and cash on E. Fourth Street on Jan. 2.The 29-year-old victim told police he was walking from Kings Highway at about 3:45 pm when three men approached him, and one struck him in the head from behind with a closed fist and swiped his cellphone saying, “Give me you
  
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• [CRIME] Police: Men rob women at gunpoint

  11-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Daily60th PrecinctConey Island—Brighton Beach—SeagateClose callPolice arrested one of two men who they say put a gun to a woman’s head and demanded cash on Bay 43rd Street on Jan. 7, authorities said.
  The victim told police she was between Benson and Bath avenues at 3 pm with her friend when two men approached them. One of the men grabbed her by the arm and stated, “This is not a game, give me your stuff,&rdq
  
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