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• One of the best films at Sundance is a VR experience

  25-01-2017 23:57
  
  The Sundance Film Festival is all about the shared experience of the theater, so imagine the surprise of realizing that one of the most moving films at this year's fest, "Dear Angelica," is something that can only be seen inside of an Oculus Rift headset
  
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• Pioneering TV actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80

  25-01-2017 23:52
  
  Mary Tyler Moore, the star of TV's beloved "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" whose comic realism helped revolutionize the depiction of women on the small screen, died Wednesday. She was 80.
  
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• Megan Mullally's band Nancy & Beth releasing new LP, touring

  25-01-2017 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You'll soon be able to see Mullally in new 'Will & Grace' episodes as well.
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• Review: The McConaissance reaches its limits in 'Gold'

  25-01-2017 23:27
  
  Film Review: "Gold," starring Matthew McConaughey, is a fictionalized account of the notorious Bre-X Minerals swindle of the 1990s in which a Borneo prospector falsified core samples of an Indonesian site's richness in gold
  
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• Notable reaction to the death of Mary Tyler Moore

  25-01-2017 22:45
  
  Celebrities and news professionals react to the death of Mary Tyler Moore at age 80
  
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• Best Brooklyn Art Openings, Closings, and Events This Weekend

  25-01-2017 22:41 via bkmag.com
  
   ORTEGA Y GASSETT PROJECTS — ABOUT LOOKING: MATT PHILLIPS + TRAVIS FAIRCLOUGH
  Catherine Haggarty curates two wistful, quiet painters at this Gowanus space—it’s like a blanket against terror. The title, About Looking, is borrowed from the late John Berger’s book of the same name. “The field that you are standing on appears to have the same proportions as your own life,” he wrote. Haggarty uses this show as a time to become more aware of the field
  
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• Day Five in Trump’s World

  25-01-2017 22:20 via bkmag.com
  
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  We’ll be keeping tabs on all of the (mostly alarming) shit that happens under Trump’s watch: Here are today’s highlights.
  Trump has announced he is issuing a temporary ban on travel from Muslim dominant countries, including Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and the Sudan. He has also ordered a temporary ban on refugees.
  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was issued an order that all research by their scientists will face a ‘case
  
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• Damon, Affleck hope 'Bending the Arc' inspires millennials

  25-01-2017 22:17
  The story of Partners in Health is the story a few young idealists _ Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim and Ophelia Dahl, who couldn't have started any smaller
  
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• Boxing great Oscar De La Hoya suspected of DUI in California

  25-01-2017 22:00
  
  The California Highway Patrol says boxing great Oscar De La Hoya has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving
  
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• pics/videos: Richard Thompson, Lenny Kaye, Will Sheff, Lee Renaldo & more @ Leonard Cohen tribute at MHOW

  25-01-2017 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tuesday night (1/24) was the "Sincerely L. Cohen: A Celebration of Leonard Cohen" tribute at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg, which featured loving renditions of his songs as well as readings of his poetry.
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• Thao (of the Get Down Stay Down) going on solo tour

  25-01-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last year, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down released their tUnE-yArDs-produced album A Man Alive, and this year Thao Nguyen is going on a solo tour...
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• Carnegie Hall's 2017-18 season features festival on 1960s.

  25-01-2017 21:46
  
  Carnegie Hall's 2017-18 season will be highlighted by "The '60s: The Years that Changed America," a festival that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert A. Caro helped program
  
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• Will Protesting Work In A Polarized Political Climate?

  25-01-2017 21:05 via bkmag.com
  
  For a fleeting moment this morning, I woke up with my mind completely blank—the sun shining through my window blinds and the sounds of New York City leaking through my walls. Then, as a reflex, checking my iPhone and logging into Twitter, it all came rushing back: the jarring turmoil that the new presidential administration is bringing to our country at a rapid-fire pace. We’ve been attempting to track it here at Brooklyn Magazine, but, really, it’s moving so fas
  
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• Actress Mary Tyler Moore is dead at age 80, publicist says

  25-01-2017 21:05
  
  Mary Tyler Moore, the star of two of TV's best-loved sitcoms, has died
  
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• Swet Shop Boys share "Zayn Malik" video, playing Webster Hall before Coachella

  25-01-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The powerful, politically charged rap duo Swet Shop Boys (aka former Das Racist member Heems and actor/rapper Riz Ahmed) continue to rise in the world. Towards the end of last year, they sold out two small NYC shows and now they just announced a much larger one...
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• Test your knowledge of the Dow Jones industrial average

  25-01-2017 20:59
  
  How well do you know the Dow Jones industrial average?
  
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• Mark Twain House hopes for boost from 1879 fairy tale

  25-01-2017 20:30
  
  Notes that Mark Twain jotted down from a fairy tale he told his daughters more than a century ago have inspired a new children's book, "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine."
  
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• Celebrating nine years of Wedding Crashers, our annual wedding fair

  25-01-2017 20:29
  
  Inside 501 Union at last year’s Wedding Crashers. Photo by Alison Brockhouse
  We are coming upon our ninth annual Wedding Crashers, the city’s best wedding fair (in our not-so-humble opinion!), held this year on March 19. Not only will you meet all the talented, creative people who will pull your day together, capture it in photos and videos, decorate it with the most beautiful florals, and dress you and your partner in bespoke suits and custom gowns, we also have the most
  
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• Trial begins for man accused of killing uncle with cousins

  25-01-2017 20:21
  
  The trial has begun for a third man accused of killing his uncle to avenge his grandmother's death _ even though prosecutors say she died of natural causes
  
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• Madonna denies Malawi report she plans more adoptions

  25-01-2017 20:08
  
  Pop star Madonna on Wednesday denied a report that she filed for the adoption of two more children from Malawi
  
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• Frank Turner on tour, adds UK dates with blink-182 ++ check out pics from Chicago

  25-01-2017 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Frank Turner wrapped up last year with a cover of The Mountain Goats' "This Year" and he kicked off this year with a powerful new song that takes on the 'next four years.' He began a tour a few days ago...
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• Butch Trucks, founding member of Allman Brothers, dies at 69

  25-01-2017 20:03
  
  Drummer Butch Trucks, one of the founding members of the Southern rock legends The Allman Brothers, has died
  
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• Apollo 1's crew: a Mercury astronaut, spacewalker and rookie

  25-01-2017 20:03
  
  The three astronauts killed 50 years ago this week in the first U.S. space tragedy represented NASA's finest
  
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• Rolling Blackouts C.F. releasing EP on Sub Pop (listen), touring w/ Tennis after SXSW

  25-01-2017 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The five-piece make sparkling, literate guitar pop in a post-Smiths kind of way.
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• School district considers removing racial slur from musical

  25-01-2017 19:31
  
  A New Jersey high school is weighing whether it should allow students to utter racial slurs during performances of the musical "Ragtime."
  
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• Bowie & Beyonce top 2016 Pazz & Jop poll

  25-01-2017 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The annual Pazz & Jop poll tallies top ten lists from over 500 music critics around the globe.
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• Your Ideal Week: Jan. 26- Feb. 1, the Year of the Rooster

  25-01-2017 19:04
  
  Happy Wednesday, and congrats on making it through another week! This one felt particularly major, what with a historic transfer of power, a massive, worldwide display of resistance, a Nor’easter, and a fresh barrage of anxiety-producing tweets from The Joker, Bane, the leader of the free world.Now that the sun is finally giving us a little love again, it’s a great day to get outside for a walk, run, or bike ride to clear your head. A few weeks ago, I spent an hour exploring Green-Wo
  
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• Day 6/100: Suuns – "Native Tongue"

  25-01-2017 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Suuns have always been good at making creepy, evil-sounding music and this is like a black fog inching your way. It's the latest in the 'Our First 100 Days' series.
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• Death of a Marriage: Farhadi’s The Salesman

  25-01-2017 18:26 via bkmag.com
  
  The SalesmanDirected by Asghar FarhadiOpens January 27
  Asghar Farhadi’s absorbing, Oscar-nominated seventh feature, The Salesman, opens on a theater set: neon marquees and living room furniture. The production is Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, a play many Americans read in their teens, between a biology textbook and a driver’s manual. It’s also well-known in Iran, where Farhadi’s film is set, among his usual milieu of educated, unhappy couples. Emad (Shahab H
  
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• "1984" publisher orders new printing as sales soar

  25-01-2017 17:43
  
  With "alternative facts" the latest catchphrase, George Orwell's "1984" is No. 1 on Amazon.com and the publisher has ordered an additional 75,000 copies
  
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• You Should Know About Pinto: An Ambitious Thai Restaurant on Montague Street’s Middling Restaurant Row

  25-01-2017 17:31 via bkmag.com
  
  Although admirable eateries have inched their way up Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn Heights’ other commercial corridor, Montague Street, has remained an enduring anomaly—bordering the borough’s poshest of neighborhoods with a succession of low-grade restaurants. Which is why even locals would be forgiven for neglecting to register a changing of the guard, on the subterranean space cornering Henry Street.Having housed interchangeable Chinese takeout joints over the years, such as Veg
  
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• Jill Scott follows Maya Angelou's footsteps with quote cards

  25-01-2017 17:17
  
  Jill Scott is following in the footsteps of Maya Angelou: She's creating a Hallmark Mahogany greeting card line
  
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• Kevin Wilson’s perfect little book

  25-01-2017 17:05
  
  As I sit here writing this, my son is home with strep throat. I haven’t left the house in two days, and I’m inundated with having to care for, entertain and feed my little one, while also meeting work deadlines. What I wouldn’t give for another set of hands? Or how about 20 extra sets of hands?
  This is the premise of Kevin Wilson’s new novel, Perfect Little World, the story of an utopian experiment that promises its participants a return on the “it takes a village&r
  
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• Brent Musburger is retiring from sportscasting at age 77

  25-01-2017 17:01
  
  Television's Brent Musburger, the folksy voice behind the mike at many memorable sports events, says he'll call his last game later this month for ESPN
  
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• “The Hustle Knows No Genre”: Manjula Martin Talks Writing, Money, and Scratch

  25-01-2017 16:52 via bkmag.com
  
  Earlier this month, I found Scratch in another writer’s to-read pile. I was immediately drawn to the names on the cover: Leslie Jamison, Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, and Jonathan Franzen. Then I read what the cover illustration’s little black pen said: “Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living.” I had just graduated from college, and felt lost as to what my next career move would be. The book was a revelation. Writer, editor, and co-creator of Scratch
  
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• The Latest: Pamela Anderson visits migrant camp in France

  25-01-2017 16:19
  
  Actress Pamela Anderson has made a surprise visit to a refugee camp in northern France, distributing children's books, food and other supplies
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, January 25-31

  25-01-2017 16:16 via bkmag.com
  
  Dogs in Space (1986)Directed by Richard LowensteinSet in 1978, Dogs in Space evokes a time when bands formed overnight in Melbourne. The film, which stars INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, focuses on one such band, the name of which is the name of film. Along with friends and friends of friends, they live in a shared house. It’s communal living, and Lowenstein conveys this with a flowing, mobile camera, maintaining spatial relations, and picking out people, or groups of people, before movin
  
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• Madonna applies to adopt 2 more children from Malawi

  25-01-2017 15:20
  
  Madonna applies to adopt 2 more children from Malawi; would make total of 4
  
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• DeVoe: BET miniseries tells 'authentic' story of New Edition

  25-01-2017 15:15
  
  New Edition, one of the originators of the modern day boy band, with legendary music _ and drama, is telling its story in a 3-part miniseries, "The New Edition Story," airing this week on BET
  
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• Bruno Mars will perform at the Grammy Awards next month

  25-01-2017 13:33
  
  Bruno Mars will bring his upbeat, funky swag to the Grammys stage: The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that the singer-songwriter-producer will perform at the Feb. 12 show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles
  
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• Music teacher dies after collapsing in Pennsylvania class

  25-01-2017 13:26
  
  Officials say a 53-year-old music teacher has died after he suffered a medical emergency and collapsed while practicing with students at a high school in western Pennsylvania
  
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• Belgian authorities detain 7 during anti-terror raids

  25-01-2017 12:18
  
  Belgian police have detained seven people in a series of anti-terror raids in the Brussels area relating to an investigation into the possible return of fighters from Syria
  
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• Founder of popular, 'R-rated,' hip-hop website dies at 43

  25-01-2017 07:24
  
  Lee O'Denat, who founded the popular,"R-rated," website WorldStarHipHop.com, has died in San Diego
  
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• [THEATER] Triple play: Lesbian, gay, and straight couples sing ‘Marry Me a Little’

  25-01-2017 06:22
  
  Love is love is love! Read more.
  
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• Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap

  25-01-2017 06:18
  
  Pennsylvania's highest court is reviewing the conviction of a Pittsburgh man for making threats against police in a rap song after he was charged with drug offenses
  
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• [NOT FOR NUTHIN’] Inauguration Day whiners need to suck it up

  25-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailySpoiled children having a tantrum. Burning cars, breaking windows, sitting in the streets causing traffic jams and disturbing the civil liberties for the rest of us. This is what the non-deplorables did on Inauguration Day.
  Hillary and the whole Democratic National Party should be proud — after all these are the people they represented. These are the women and men who wanted Hillary in the White House.
  Hey, if you can&rsqu
  
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• [MARINE PARK] Car looter uses stolen debit cards at gas station

  25-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn Daily63rd PrecinctMarine Park—Mill Basin—Flatlands—Bergen BeachGas passSomeone smashed into a man’s car parked on Avenue I and E. 46th Street on Jan. 17 and stole his debit cards.Police said a bandit shattered the driver-side window of the victim’s car sometime between midnight and 7:20 am, and took a wallet containing three debit cards.
  Cops said that one of the debit cards was used to make a $75 transa
  
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• Join a community board! The Beep is now accepting applications

  25-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Civic Duty BureauBrooklyn DailyDo you like shaping your community, lengthy debates about development, and being grilled for quotes by local reporters?Then community boards could be for you — and the Borough President is now accepting applications for new and returning members.You don’t get paid, but you do get to make recommendations about things that affect your neighborhood, such as new bars, bike lanes, parks, schools, buildings, and landmark
  
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• [CRIME] Fiends rob man and woman at gunpoint in their car

  25-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn Daily61st PrecinctSheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
  Manhattan Beach—GravesendUnwelcome companyTwo brutes jumped into a man and woman’s car on Emmons Avenue on Jan. 16, threatened them with a gun, and swiped their expensive jewelry, police said.The 33-year-old woman was sitting in the driver’s seat of the car waiting outside of a deli near E. 16th Street at about 6 am while the guy went inside to shop, but when he
  
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• [BENSONHURST] Police: Trio punches and robs couple on 84th Street

  25-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Daily62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachDate night gone wrongPolice arrested three men who they say mugged a couple on 84th Street on Jan. 20, officials said.The trio of men cornered the pair between 24th and 25th avenues at midnight and demanded their cash and cellphones, according to a police report.One of men punched one of the victims in the face before they ran off with the goods, authorities said.Chilling attackTwo goons
  
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