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• Review: Fun performances aren't enough to save 'Split'

  18-01-2017 23:58
  
  "Split" isn't a disaster; it's just all over the place and not nearly as effective as it should be for something with such a good premise and performances
  
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• Judge rejects bid by Aaron Hernandez to suppress cellphone

  18-01-2017 23:37
  
  A judge has denied a request from former NFL star Aaron Hernandez to suppress the contents of his cellphone at his upcoming double murder trial
  
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• Portland band Aan released 'Dada Distractions' and "Forever Underfoot" video, touring West Coast

  18-01-2017 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Portland's Aan released their new album, Dada Distractions, back in November. They make a loose, jazzy, instantly likable brand of indie rock (a little like their neighbors Unknown Mortal Orchestra)...
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• NBC renews hit drama 'This Is Us' for 2 more seasons

  18-01-2017 23:28
  
  NBC's hit freshman drama "This Is Us" will be sticking around for at least a couple more years
  
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• IndyCar drivers eager to keep momentum as season nears

  18-01-2017 23:16
  
  IndyCar looks ahead with hope to another season and potential for growth
  
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• Actor dishing up laughs, not roast beef, on new NBC show

  18-01-2017 23:13
  
  Nick D'Agosto was truly working for the man before he found success on the small screen
  
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• Philosophy for Kids

  18-01-2017 22:49
  Sunday, March 19, 2017 2:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterJoin us for the Brooklyn premier of this year’s workshop “Philosophy for Kids”.  Moderator of The New York Times philosophy column “The Stone” and celebrated author of The Book of Dead Philosophers, Simon Critchley will exchange ideas with the youngest of intellectuals, assisted by philosophers and top PhD students.The “Philosophy for kids” workshops are organized in collaboration with the B
  
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• Events for Youth and Families: Family Movie at the Library

  18-01-2017 22:49
  Saturday, February 18, 2017 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterJoin us for a fun, free Family Movie!
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• Events for Youth & Families: Erin Lee and the Up Past Bedtime Band

  18-01-2017 22:49
  Saturday, March 4, 2017 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterGet ready to hop, holler, sing along and sneeze along - NYC’s award-winning Erin Lee and the Up Past Bedtime Band are making funky family music for kids and their grownups. Featuring quirky songs and stories about zany families, field trips, Grandma’s cooking and bubble baths gone awry they’ll have you hoppin’ way past – at the very least – naptime!
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• Events for Youth & Families: Comic Con

  18-01-2017 22:49
  Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterBring the whole family to celebrate comics! Meet incredible local comic creators and other comic fans! Participate in panels, workshops, demo tech and games, win prizes and more!
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• Events for Youth & Families: Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series: Ensemble ACJW

  18-01-2017 22:49
  Saturday, March 25, 2017 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterMembers of Ensemble ACJW are alumni or current fellows of The Academy, a two-year fellowship program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education, designed to prepare the world's finest young professional musicians for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community outreach, advocacy, and leadership.
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• 9th Annual ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival

  18-01-2017 22:49
  Wednesday, March 8, 2017 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterKills on Wheels Dir. Attila Till 102 min, Hungary, Narrative
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• Beckham tops NFLer on Twitter, Kaepernick 49th

  18-01-2017 22:46
  
  Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr., had the most engagement on Twitter among NFL players this season, while Colin Kaepernick was only a surprising 49th
  
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• It's Alive! Brooklyn's Best Screenplay to Leap from Script to Stage at 2017 AoBFF

  18-01-2017 22:44
  
  Brooklyn’s flagship indie film event will cast and produce a live staged reading for its inaugural Best Screenplay category. The 7th annual Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is accepting entries of films, series and unproduced scripts until April 14, 2017.
   
  The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival has launched a new screenplay competition for its seventh annual edition, which will run June 7-11, 2017. The three Finalists will be awarded free listings on screenplay aggregator InkTip to help prod
  
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• Chrisette Michele cancels NJ to play for Trump (Questlove would pay her to NOT)

  18-01-2017 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It appears that Roots collaborator Chrisette Michele has agreed to play "The Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" in DC. Questlove said: "I'd pay Chrisette to NOT perform."
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• [CANARSIE] Sampson and deny ya! Judge ignores leniency plea, sentences disgraced pol to 5 years in prison

  18-01-2017 22:25
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThis once-powerful pol has lost his clout.Federal judge Dora Irizarry sentenced disgraced Canarsie state Sen. John Sampson to five years in prison on Wednesday — and a $75,000 fine — despite his attorneys’ pleas for a cushy one-year sentence for obstructing justice and lying to federal agents during an embezzlement investigation.Sampson, an attorney who was once the senate minority leader and chairman of the body
  
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• Mall of America to reopen movie theaters with gourmet food

  18-01-2017 22:12
  
  The Mall of America plans to continue showing movies, but in a renovated space that offers oversized reclining chairs, gourmet food and wines and cocktails
  
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• Esquire network will transition from cable to online channel

  18-01-2017 22:07
  
  Esquire Network is shutting down as a cable channel and will transition into a digital online outlet
  
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• Psychic Twin shares "Stop in Time" video, playing Brooklyn before STRFKR tour

  18-01-2017 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This is a song specifically about stopping time, poetically. It is about trying to make great and even unthinkable or nearly impossible change occur. The video itself is a beautifully choreographed piece about the strength of women working together." - Psychic Twin.
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• 'Blacklist' producers: Tom will be part of original, sequel

  18-01-2017 22:02
  
  Tom Keen will remain part of "The Blacklist" as he steps into "The Blacklist: Redemption," the spinoff's producers said
  
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• Staying Vertical: Freedom’s Just Another Word for What?

  18-01-2017 21:51 via bkmag.com
  
  Staying VerticalDirected by Alain GuiraudieOpens January 20
  French writer-director Alain Guiraudie deservedly won a wider international audience in 2013 and ’14 as the cruising-spot thriller Stranger by the Lake, a brilliant plein-air exploration of the dark side of desire, made the festival rounds and rippled on through some of the more adventurous commercial art houses. With his follow-up, Staying Vertical, Guiraudie seems less preoccupied with growing his audience than with continuing
  
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• Saba announces tour with Sylvan LaCue

  18-01-2017 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chicago rapper and Chance the Rapper associate Saba released Bucket List last year and he'll be doing more touring behind it this March/April.
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• 'Birds of Opulence' author wins Gaines literary award

  18-01-2017 21:47
  
  An African-American writer from Kentucky who explores several generations of women in a fictional Southern black township has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
  
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• Music Review: Delbert McClinton, at 76, brings it once again

  18-01-2017 21:39
  
  Few singers illustrate the gulf between live and recorded music better than Delbert McClinton, whose gruff voice and blues-infused rock have always sounded best in a beer-splashed nightclub
  
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• [►VIDEO, THE GREATEST STORY EVER] The ‘Hamilton’ of Clinton Hill: Local library storytime is the hottest ticket in town!

  18-01-2017 21:23
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt’s the reading-room where it happens!Tickets to storytime at the Clinton Hill Library are hotter than even the hottest Broadway show, according to the local parents and nannies who reserve their place online and turn up hours in advance to make sure they’re not throwing away their spots.“There are parents who come here and say this is worse than getting ‘Hamilton’
  
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• An Albatross are back, playing first NYC show in years

  18-01-2017 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They also play an inauguration protest/Planned Parenthood benefit with The Dead Milkmen in Philly this week.
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• Classical fuses with punk to kick off Paris menswear shows

  18-01-2017 20:52
  
  Subzero temperatures were an apt backdrop for fashionistas who arrived in Paris for the first day of fall/winter 2017 menswear fashion shows
  
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• Washington U. class focuses on Kanye West

  18-01-2017 20:49
  
  A new course at Washington University in St. Louis is focused on the world of Kanye West
  
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• The National, Sleater-Kinney, Ted Leo, Tig Notaro & more playing official Women's March afterparty benefit in DC

  18-01-2017 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plus: we round up other Inauguration Week protest shows happening in DC this week.
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• Strike, March & Look: The Best Art Things to See/Do This Weekend

  18-01-2017 20:07 via bkmag.com
  
   
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  A huge list of artists—including Mel Bochner, Marilyn Minter, and Barbara Kruger—have signed on to support this effort. “We consider Art Strike to be one tactic among others to combat the normalization of Trumpism,” declares the organizer’s site. Hyperallergic’s running list of galleries and organizations that will close includes The Hole, which will host a poster-making event from 12:00PM — 7:00PM (sounds mysteriously like being ope
  
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• 'Will & Grace' 10-episode revival set for 2017-18 season

  18-01-2017 19:57
  
  "Will & Grace" is making a comeback
  
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• New 'Star Trek' delayed again? Either way, James Frain joins

  18-01-2017 19:56
  
  "Star Trek: Discovery" may or may not land on CBS All Access in May, as previously announced
  
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• Hand Habits preps new LP for Woodsist (listen), playing ACLU/PP benefit tonight w/ Sharon Van Etten, Kevin Morby & more

  18-01-2017 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Wildly Idle feels incredibly intimate, like a secret between her and the listener. It hits soft, like warm water, and before you know it it is all around you – a bath, and Meg’s whisper has made its way inside you." - Kevin Morby.
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• Elusive Nigerian funk musician William Onyeabor dies at 70

  18-01-2017 19:40
  
  William Onyeabor, the elusive Nigerian musician who pioneered a stuttering style of electronic funk in the '70s and '80s before retreating from the spotlight to focus on his faith and business ventures, has died
  
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• Octavia Spencer is named Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

  18-01-2017 19:32
  
  Oscar winner Octavia Spencer has been named Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals
  
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• Eli Young Band's tour bus destroyed by fire; band not on bus

  18-01-2017 19:23
  
  A tour bus belonging to country group Eli Young Band was destroyed in a fire on the Kansas Turnpike near Topeka, destroying most of the band's electronic and sound equipment
  
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• 'Orange is the New Black' actress denies quitting show

  18-01-2017 19:11
  
  "Orange Is The New Black" star Taryn Manning and Netflix are shooting down a report that the actress quit the show
  
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• Sundance directors, actors find reteaming a winning formula

  18-01-2017 19:09
  
  Whether muse or friend or both, actors and directors choosing to work together again is a tale as old as cinema
  
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• The Latest: Woman charged in infant kidnapping denied bail

  18-01-2017 19:05
  
  The woman charged with kidnapping a baby 18 years ago and raising the child as her own daughter, appeared briefly in court was ordered to be held without bail
  
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• Woe announce 'Hope Attrition,' stream "No Blood Has Honor"

  18-01-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NY black metal's meanest band returns with the drummer from Krallice and Anicon.
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• It’s Not Too Late to Plan Your Trip to D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington

  18-01-2017 18:54 via bkmag.com
  
  Lazy protesters! You exist, and this is for you! You can still get to D.C. from Brooklyn for the protest this Saturday even if you don’t have an Amtrak ticket or a fancy hotel room. Here’s a guide to getting there, staying there, and what you should remember to bring.
  Before that, a little history and few clarifications.
  The march is not just for white ladies, although the evolution of the march suffered a series of growing pains that alienated everyone, including white la
  
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• Inside Damon Wise’s Sauvage + Maison Premiere Takeover

  18-01-2017 18:42 via bkmag.com
  
  Having made his name at Tom Colicchio’s Craft, and helped Andrew Carmellini launch Lafayette, Manhattan was sorry to surrender Damon Wise when he unexpectedly decamped to Charleston in 2014. But what emerged as both of their losses (he quickly tired of South Carolina as well), became Brooklyn’s considerable gain, when he was successfully wooed by the Sauvage and Maison Premiere crew.
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• Kevin O'Leary to run for Conservative leadership in Canada

  18-01-2017 18:41
  
  "Shark Tank" cast member Kevin O'Leary is running for the leadership of Canada's opposition Conservative Party
  
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• Review: Lovingly constructed 'Red Turtle' entertains slowly

  18-01-2017 18:33
  
  Film review: With a patience and leisurely pace rare for an animated feature, the lovingly constructed 'Red Turtle' entertains us slowly
  
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• Your Ideal Week: Jan. 19-Jan. 25

  18-01-2017 18:22
  
  Image: Shepard Fairey/We The People
  In this case, calling it an Ideal Week is a tad optimistic. We’re standing on the precipice of a momentous event and it is scary as hell. If I was at all mollified after the election by thoughts like “it can’t possibly be as bad as It seems, surely someone will keep him in check,” that hope simply couldn’t endure in the face of Paul Ryan dabbing while announcing that millions of Americans will lose access to health insurance or J
  
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• Power Trip share "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)," expand tour

  18-01-2017 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Power Trip's tour now also includes a West Coast run with Destruction Unit.
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• The Time Is Now for Patricia Highsmith, High Priestess of Sociopathology

  18-01-2017 18:18 via bkmag.com
  
  Based on a Book by Patricia HighsmithJanuary 19-23 at the Metrograph
  The time is ripe for Patricia Highsmith. Her greatest creation is a blond fraud and expert manipulator whose chief difference from the new American president is his infinitely superior taste in music, art, food, decorating and company (that and the openly documented murders). Toggling between identities to suit his current audience, Tom Ripley is a suave, chameleonic con artist and sociopath whose narcissistic tendencies are c
  
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• Fox hires British broadcast Kate Abdo as a soccer host

  18-01-2017 18:15
  
  After working for Fox Sports during the 2015 Women's World Cup, British broadcaster Kate Abdo is joining the network full-time as a soccer host
  
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• we highlight the 2017 Panorama fest lineup on today's BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU (playlist)

  18-01-2017 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today's show features songs by Frank Ocean, Nine Inch Nails, Tame Impalla, Spoon, Alt J, Angel Olsen, Belle & Sebastian, A Tribe Called Quest, Solange, Mitski, Cherry Glazerr, and lots more.
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• Tower of Power band members recovering after train accident

  18-01-2017 17:53
  
  Authorities say two musicians with the band Tower of Power remain hospitalized after being hit last week by an Amtrak train in Oakland, California
  
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