NY Brooklyn news

• Divorce file: Prince, 2nd wife lived luxurious lifestyle

  13-01-2017 22:38
  Prince's unsealed divorce file from his second marriage shows the couple lived a luxurious lifestyle
  
  Read more

• Of Montreal releases surprise EP, 'Rune Husk' (listen)

  13-01-2017 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Four new phantasmagoric pop songs from Kevin Barnes.
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• Broadway's biggest stars to sing on Inauguration Day, in NYC

  13-01-2017 21:12
  Some of Broadway's biggest stars _ including Chita Rivera, Kelli O'Hara, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Betty Buckley _ will be spending Inauguration Day at a concert in New York City that raises money for human rights organizations
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Trump unconcerned if Cabinet picks disagree

  13-01-2017 21:06
  President-elect Donald Trump says he's unconcerned some of his Cabinet picks have contradicted him at their confirmation hearings
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Angel Olsen, HTDW, Whitney, Mitski & more contributing to protest comp ++ Inauguration Week protest shows

  13-01-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plus: Common, The National, Antibalas & more playing protest concerts in DC during Inauguration Week.
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• Process, Exposed: Inside The Creative Independent, a New Editorial Site at Kickstarter

  13-01-2017 19:50 via bkmag.com
  
  When I first started doing any journalism, there was one moment I arrived upon that felt very relieving. It was the moment I finally identified a process for pragmatically doing it—the steps I needed to take to get organized, and the moving parts that needed to be in place before I could start writing. Once I’d identified those, the world (of journalism, anyway) opened up to me. Before then, it felt more like I was struggling to tread in a chop
  
  Read more

• Behemoth singer Nergal shares new song with Me And That Man project

  13-01-2017 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Behemoth frontman Nergal is also now fronting the noir-folk project Me And That Man (a duo with Nergal and John Porter), who will release their debut album Songs of Love and Death, on March 24...
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• Madonna & Marilyn Minter speaking at Brooklyn Museum on Inauguration Eve

  13-01-2017 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plus: FKA twigs has been named Creative Director of Nike's Spring 2017 ad campaign (watch an ad she directed).
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• [CLINTON HILL] Man killed by A train in Clinton Hill

  13-01-2017 18:12
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperAn A train hit and killed a man who was standing on the tracks at Clinton-Washington Avenues station in Clinton Hill early Friday, according to authorities.
  The Manhattan-bound train struck the man around 2:30 am as it was pulling up to the platform at the Clinton Avenue and Fulton Street stop, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.Police say they still don’t know the victim’s identity, but say he was a man be
  
  Read more

• Sexual assault question part of math homework assignment

  13-01-2017 18:09
  
  A Pennsylvania high school is apologizing after students were given a math homework assignment that asked which family member had sexually assaulted a girl
  
  Read more

• 3 Doors Down playing Trump inauguration concert 😂 😂 😂

  13-01-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Trump, who's hated by most musicians in America, has finally put together a lineup for an inauguration concert and the jokes really write themselves.
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• Priests share "Nothing Feels Natural," playing protest show in DC the night of inauguration w/ Waxahatchee & more

  13-01-2017 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DC band Priests have shared the title track from their new album Nothing Feels Natural. Arguably the best song on the album, it's brooding and wiry but also pretty with singer Katie Alice Greer showing a more subtle vocal style...
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• UK soul singer Jorja Smith playing US shows this month

  13-01-2017 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stream her 'Project II' EP and three other great singles.
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• 'Exorcist' author William Peter Blatty dead at 89

  13-01-2017 17:45
  
  William Peter Blatty, the author of "The Exorcist," has died
  
  Read more

• Kodie Shane touring behind 'Zero Gravity'

  13-01-2017 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Atlanta sing-rapper Kodie Shane is part of Lil Yachty's Sailing Team crew and collaborates with him, and this February she's heading out on tour...
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• [SHOPPING] Sunset Park’s new mini-mall is a Bed Bath and Beyond

  13-01-2017 17:19
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThey hope you’ll never go beyond Brooklyn again.Bed Bath and Beyond is the latest big-name store to open along Third Avenue in Sunset Park — along with sister companies Buybuy Baby, Face Values, and Cost Plus Wold Market. The foursome is taking up two floors in warehouse-turned mini-mall Liberty View Industrial Plaza, and now Brooklynites who previously shopped on Staten Island
  
  Read more

• R Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner ready LP 'Make it Be' (listen to "I H8 Ppl")

  13-01-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The king of lo fi meets an orch-pop maestro on an inspired collaborative album.
  Continue reading…
  
  Read more

• Good is the New Cool: Bright Endeavors

  13-01-2017 16:50 via bkmag.com
  
  Ever wondered how you could support ethical, sustainable businesses? Welcome to a regular series highlighting products, services and organizations that are ‘doing well by doing good’.Bright Endeavors is a social enterprise providing paid transitional employment to high-risk adolescent mothers, as part of New Moms, Inc.’s Workforce Development program. We caught up with Allie Sundet from the organization to talk about the great work they’re doing.How did you get started wi
  
  Read more

• Five Ways Brooklyn Arts Organizations Are Preparing for a Trump Presidency

  13-01-2017 16:49 via bkmag.com
  
  “Our first speaker received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She probably received the last one ever, thanks to Trump.” Those were moderator Michael Reynolds’s opening remarks at NYC’s New Literature from Europe Festival on December 7, 2016. He chuckled at his own joke, but none of the artists in the audience laughed.
  Because of Donald Trump, the Republican Congress, and the very real possibility of a Republican Supreme Court, Brooklyn’s arts commun
  
  Read more

• Why Does Ben Affleck Look So Miserable?

  13-01-2017 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Is Ben Affleck America’s hardest-luck movie star? It’s a largely oxymoronic concept, of course, and the exceptions should probably be applied to those who had stardom in their grasp and lost it in a spectacular fashion, something that seemed within the realm of possibility for Affleck circa 2005 or so, but never became a permanent condition. Yet whether through bad luck, bad decisions, or some ineffable in-between state, Affleck can’t seem to hold fast to a good thing—an
  
  Read more

• UK's Sky scraps show with Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson

  13-01-2017 13:09
  
  A British broadcaster has canceled a TV comedy starring Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson
  
  Read more

• 2 members of R&B band Tower of Power hit by train, injured

  13-01-2017 09:59
  
  Two members of the R&B group Tower of Power were hit by a train as they walked across tracks before a scheduled gig in Oakland, California, but both survived
  
  Read more

• Playoff history for Packers and Cowboys dates back decades

  13-01-2017 08:27
  Two teams with a playoff history that dates back five decades will meet again in the postseason when the Dallas Cowboys host the Green Bay Packers in a divisional round game on Sunday
  
  Read more

• Exonerated! Hynes foe John O’Hara’s voter-fraud conviction finally overturned after 20 years

  13-01-2017 06:32
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperFree at last!A judge finally overturned Brooklyn attorney and former perennial political candidate John O’Hara’s controversial 1990s conviction for voter fraud on Jan. 12, after the district attorney’s office discovered that a witness provided false testimony during the original case.
  The exoneration is both a relief and vindication for the Sunset Parker, who has been fighting
  
  Read more

• Exonerated! Hynes foe John O’Hara finally cleared of voter-fraud conviction after 20 years

  13-01-2017 06:32
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperFree at last!A judge finally overturned Brooklyn attorney and former perennial political candidate John O’Hara’s controversial 1990s conviction for voter fraud on Jan. 12, after the district attorney’s office discovered that a witness provided false testimony during the original case.
  The exoneration is both a relief and vindication for the Sunset Parker, who has been fighting
  
  Read more

• [CHANGING BROOKLYN] Mini-mall coming to Atlantic Avenue with teen discount store Five Below

  13-01-2017 06:32
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe corner of Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place is fast becoming Downtown’s mini-mall district.A developer is constructing another shopping center on the site that will house an outlet of teen-targeted discount store Five Below — right next to a newly opened complex with a Michael’s and another across the road sporting a Marshalls.Builder Laundry Capital is erecting a three-story property between Boerum Place and Sm
  
  Read more

• [BAY RIDGE NIGHTS] Bay Ridge is keeping it cool

  13-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe mercury may be dipping below freezing, but Bay Ridge is heating up with sultry jazz and rock ’n’ roll!You may have survived the first storm of the season, but it’s going to be another cold one on the Ridge this weekend with plenty of snow flurries. Rather than going stir crazy for the second weekend in a row, we suggest you cozy up in a local watering hole and give yourself the illusion of warmth with a fe
  
  Read more

• [BAY RIDGE] Bay Ridge Towers lotto a hot mess, burned applicants say

  13-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperIt’s been a whole lotto trouble.The private company running the affordable housing lottery at the Towers of Bay Ridge bungled the drawing so bad that dozens of residents still haven’t even received their applications forms — even though the deadline to return filled-out applications was more than a week ago, frustrated housing hopefuls are saying.“It’s insane that after all this time so many of us
  
  Read more

• Guitarist who avoided Buddy Holly plane crash dies at 85

  13-01-2017 04:35
  
  Tommy Allsup, a guitarist who lost a coin toss that kept him off a plane that later crashed and killed rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, has died
  
  Read more

• China overtakes US in screens but cinemas sit empty

  13-01-2017 04:27
  China has overtaken the U.S. in terms of the number of its cinema screens, but many theaters sit empty
  
  Read more

Follow @NY_BrooklynNews on Twitter!