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• Thor Harris suspended from Twitter for posting a "How to Punch a Nazi" video

  08-02-2017 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If you're thinking about punching a nazi, or any other member of the Republican party," Thor starts. "Don't do it. Peaceful protest is always better. But if you have to do it..."
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• Famed Hamptons home Grey Gardens for sale for $19.95 million

  08-02-2017 23:29
  
  Grey Gardens, the Hamptons home once owned by eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is for sale
  
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• BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU: Playlist for February 8, 2017

  08-02-2017 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week's show featured music from Magnetic Fields, Future Islands, The xx, Pond,Father John Misty, David Bazan, Ryan Adams, plus oldies but goldies from The Smiths, Bad Brainds, PJ Harvey and more.
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• Rancorous Senate 'silencing' gives Warren a national boost

  08-02-2017 23:26
  
  An unusual level of Senate turmoil _ and a rare 'silencing' _ have given Sen. Elizabeth Warren an elevated celebrity status at a moment when liberals are hungry for a leader to take on Donald Trump
  
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• Royals announce their $16M, 2-year deal for Jason Hammel

  08-02-2017 23:22
  
  The Royals have announced their $16 million, two-year contract with Jason Hammel, a move designed to shore up the starting rotation after the death of Yordano Ventura in a car accident last month
  
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• Steven Van Zandt to speak at Rutgers University commencement

  08-02-2017 23:02
  
  Musician and actor Steven Van Zandt has been named as the speaker for this year's graduation ceremony at Rutgers University
  
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• Cold Beat announces new LP 'Chaos by Invitation' (listen to "62 Moons")

  08-02-2017 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unlike previous album Into the Air, Lew made this one pretty much on her own and the record has a more intimate feel to it.
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• Randy Travis advocates for stroke victims in Tennessee

  08-02-2017 22:40
  
  Country star Randy Travis met with Tennessee lawmakers to raise awareness for stroke victims following his near-fatal stroke in 2013
  
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• Wallendas among 5 tightrope walkers injured in fall

  08-02-2017 22:39
  
  Five circus performers were injured in a fall while practicing a high-wire act in Florida
  
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• "Hamilton" author Chernow has Grant bio coming in fall

  08-02-2017 22:29
  
  Ron Chernow, the historian who helped inspire the musical "Hamilton," has a biography of Ulysses Grant coming out in October
  
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• Sampha on tour with Mal Devisa (who has other cool shows) — pics from Chicago

  08-02-2017 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mal Devisa also has upcoming shows with Xenia Rubinos, Vagabon, and Mitski/Kadha Bonet.
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• Talking with Kate Berlant and John Early, Comedic Forces behind Absurdist Web Series 555

  08-02-2017 22:09 via bkmag.com
  
  Watching John Early and Kate Berlant’s new Vimeo web series 555 is not unlike observing their real-life friendship. Each of the five very loosely-connected shorts (all are under 15 minutes) stars John and Kate in wildly different roles, pursuing their ambitions within Los Angeles’s famed and infamous capital “I” Industry. Sometimes they are friends, sometimes they are frienemies, and sometimes they are enemies, but every time their true-to-life repartee (lightning-fast,
  
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• Power Trip release new song, add European dates with Napalm Death

  08-02-2017 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The title track off 'Nightmare Logic' is here.
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• In Oscar docs, an explosion of voice and style

  08-02-2017 21:23
  
  If you're looking for the most vibrant corner of the Oscars, look no further than that once musty and staid category: best documentary feature
  
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• GWAR-B-Q not happening in 2017 so group can work on album

  08-02-2017 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It is with both great sorrow, and a twinge of self-satisfied glee (because we love to make you suffer), that we announce the following: The GWAR B-Q has been postponed this year. Yes we know that sucks, but we will make it up with the biggest and baddest GWAR B-Q yet when it returns in 2018."
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• Alec McCowen, a West End and Broadway star, dies at 91

  08-02-2017 20:57
  
  British actor Alec McCowen, a stage star on both sides of the Atlantic, has died at age 91
  
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• With 'love and joy,' Jake Gyllenhaal opens Broadway theater

  08-02-2017 20:45
  
  Jake Gyllenhaal was on hand Wednesday to reopen the Hudson Theatre on Broadway with "Sunday in the Park with George," the venue's first theatrical production in nearly 50 years
  
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• Tourism industry debating impact of Trump travel ban

  08-02-2017 20:37
  
  President Donald Trump's travel ban is not only being debated in the courts, it's also being debated by the travel industry
  
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• Allison Crutchfield turned a breakup into a stunning new record

  08-02-2017 20:19
  
  Allison Crutchfield Photo: Jesse Riggins
  If the lyrics on indie rock artist Allison Crutchfield’s latest record, Tourist in Town, feel incredibly raw, it’s because their source is real heartbreak and disillusionment. Crutchfield’s punk group Swearin’ broke up in 2015 following the end of her five-year relationship with the band’s bassist Kyle Gilbride. (“It was literally like my world was turned upside down,” she recently told Brooklyn Vegan about that
  
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• FX’s Legion Is the Superhero Show of Your Twisted Dreams

  08-02-2017 19:47 via bkmag.com
  
  What defines a prestige drama? As the way we watch and digest TV continues to change, so, too, will that understanding. Typically, something like Mad Men, of course, a period drama about the inner tribulations of the social and literal politics within an advertising workplace, was the darling of the critical television community. Something pulpier, like, say, The Walking Dead, despite its millions of viewers week in and week out, never was afforded that same distinction. In between come things l
  
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• Istanbul’s Alright If You Like Kittens: Kedi

  08-02-2017 19:07 via bkmag.com
  
  KediDirected by Ceyda TorunOpens February 10 at the Metrograph
  Sorry, but I can’t imagine anything I’d less like to watch 80 minutes of than strangers talking about their pets. Kedi, a documentary about Istanbul’s ubiquitous street cats, indulges in the same sort of presumption which, in a Facebook friend, would drive you to unfollow their feed, as citydwellers hold forth on the alleged personalities of the feral felines who add character to their streetscape. But none of the
  
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• Review: "All Our Wrong Todays" by Elan Mastai

  08-02-2017 19:06
  
  Book Review: Elan Mastai pens a love story in a current timeline and an alternate universe in "All Our Wrong Todays"
  
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• Spinal Tap bandmates join lawsuit over film's profits

  08-02-2017 18:41
  
  Spinal Tap reunites, but this time in a Los Angeles court to challenge the French studio Vivendi S.A. for millions in profits from the mockentary "This is Spinal Tap"
  
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• Essence honors Erykah Badu for 20 years of 'Baduizm'

  08-02-2017 18:33
  
  In the 20 years since her groundbreaking debut "Baduizm," Erykah Badu has only gotten more creative
  
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• Dokonoko: Letting The Clothes Do The Talking

  08-02-2017 18:15 via bkmag.com
  
  “The word ‘dokonoko’ is a Japanese saying without a direct English translation. It’s a simple expression of curiosity that raises a profound set of questions about identity and origin.”
  This is the idea behind new Brooklyn-based label Dokonoko—launching in February during fashion week—with its duo of female founders looking to bring a sense of bold, graphic Tokyo fashions to girls across the borough.
  The concept is courtesy of graphic designer Reina Sugi
  
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• Your Ideal Week: Feb. 9-Feb. 15, yeah, yeah, yeah, Valentine’s Day

  08-02-2017 18:06
  
  It’s Valentine’s Day next week–may as well have a little fun with it. Valentines: Brandon Bird
  The image of our current President screaming at CNN alone in the dark or wandering around the White House in a bathrobe at all hours that emerged in media accounts last week managed to drum up the closest thing to sympathy that I can possibly muster for that individual (don’t worry, it’s not that close).  I read that his usual dinner is a Big Mac served on a silver p
  
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• Steven Zelin is the only accountant in NYC who will make you want to sing

  08-02-2017 18:00
  
  The Singing CPA is proof that tax time does not have to be unpleasant. Photo courtesy Steven Zelin.
  Unlike many of the president’s about-face policy changes and cabinet picks, his proposed tax overhauls will take much longer to push through. Changes to the tax code that Trump advocates, like making it onerous or impossible to deduct your charitable contributions (to, say, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU Foundation), are not likely to happen until after 2017, if at all.
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• [DUMBO] Paper moon: Dumbo exhibit will leave visitors moonstruck

  08-02-2017 17:52
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyTalk about the dark side of the moon!A gigantic model of the moon, 60 feet in diameter, is now hovering ominously over visitors to the Smack Mellon Gallery in Dumbo. But “The Moon,” on display until Feb. 26, is no glowing silver sphere — instead, it is roughly textured moonscape of black and gray. Artist Jarrod Beck says that the enormous dark display perfectly demonstrates
  
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• Beyonce or Adele? The AP predicts this Grammy showdown

  08-02-2017 17:36
  
  Will it be Beyonce or Adele in the top categories at Sunday's Grammy Awards
  
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• Belgian authorities detain 11 during anti-terror raids

  08-02-2017 17:30
  
  Belgian police have detained 11 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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• The Places that Inhabit Us: On Abeer Hoque’s Olive Witch

  08-02-2017 17:22 via bkmag.com
  
  In a recent New York Times interview, “post-humanist” professor Cary Wolfe offered this idea about the self: “–that it is, in fact, a prosthetic entity, a distributed, dispersed ‘assemblage’ constituted by many elements, some of them physical and material and biological, some of them not, the constitution of the self by language and how it rewires the brain being the most obvious example. This is, if you like, the ‘truth’ of the self: that it exist
  
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• Grammys to pay tribute to Prince, George Michael

  08-02-2017 16:40
  
  Sunday's Grammy Awards will include special tributes to pop music icons Prince and George Michael
  
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• Some 'Girls' talk with Lena Dunham as final season begins

  08-02-2017 16:34
  
  The final season of "Girls" opens with Hannah, the series' ever-out-to-prove-herself writer, braving sand, sunblock and neoprene for the sake of a magazine assignment about surfing
  
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• Rory Feek fulfills promise to late wife by attending Grammys

  08-02-2017 16:05
  
  A year ago, Joey and Rory Feek lost to Little Big Town at the Grammy Awards, and Joey, diagnosed with stage-four cancer, told Rory that if they ever got another nomination, he should go _ a promise Rory is fulfilling this year
  
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• Finally In The Spotlight, Syd and Sampha Shine On Debut Albums

  08-02-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Both Sydney Bennett and Sampha Sisay have spent the last few years in a similar place. They’ve been a near-constant presence, whether through features, EPs, or group efforts, always sticking around. Bennett, who goes by Syd, spent years as a bench player for various Odd Future projects before stepping up as the frontwoman for neo-soul group The Internet. Sampha, as Sisay goes by, was most commonly recognized from his hook on Drake’s “Too Much,” before showing up on variou
  
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• Jeffrey Dean Morgan beats all as 'Walking Dead' baddie

  08-02-2017 15:59
  
  Jeffrey Dean Morgan beats all as villainous Negan in 'The Walking Dead,' which makes its midseason return Sunday on AMC
  
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• Madonna faced sharp questions in Malawi adoption process

  08-02-2017 15:58
  
  Madonna faced 'uncomfortable questions' in Malawi adoption process, court document says
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, February 8-14

  08-02-2017 15:54 via bkmag.com
  
  Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)Directed by Leo McCarey
  Tokyo Story (1953)
  Directed by Yosujro Ozu
  It was the Great Depression, and Leo McCarey was in mourning. He was still recovering from an illness when his father died. He then spent a year crafting Make Way for Tomorrow, a reminder to respect one’s elders that didn’t reach audiences at time of release. McCarey isn’t subtle about his message; an early image of a sunny sky, the kind you’d expect a godly voice to emerge from
  
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• Knicks' Phil Jackson takes dig at Carmelo Anthony in tweet

  08-02-2017 15:47
  
  New York Knicks President Phil Jackson has taken another dig at forward Carmelo Anthony
  
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• Alan Simpson, writer of classic British sitcoms, dies at 87

  08-02-2017 15:37
  
  Screenwriter Alan Simpson, who co-wrote the landmark British comedy series "Hancock's Half Hour" and "Steptoe and Son," has died at age 87
  
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• TV entertainer cleared in second UK sex abuse trial

  08-02-2017 15:25
  
  Television entertainer Rolf Harris, who is serving a prison sentence for sexual abuse against young girls, has been cleared in Britain in another case
  
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• ESPN reporters writing book on NFL power struggles

  08-02-2017 14:34
  
  A pair of prize-winning investigative reporters from ESPN is working on a book about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, team owners and the "momentous power struggles" that shape the league
  
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• CBS' Charlie Rose to undergo heart surgery

  08-02-2017 14:27
  
  CBS morning news host Charlie Rose will have surgery to replace a heart valve
  
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• 'Soul Mate' leads Hong Kong Film Awards nominees with 12

  08-02-2017 11:21
  
  Romance drama "Soul Mate" has charmed the Hong Kong Film Awards
  
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• Rapper Young Thug sued after New York concert no-show

  08-02-2017 11:10
  
  An upstate New York event organizer says he lost $360,000 when the Atlanta rapper Young Thug did not show up at a concert he was supposed to headline
  
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• Documents show Melania Trump still involved in branding

  08-02-2017 09:40
  
  First lady Melania Trump expected to develop "multi-million dollar business relationships" tied to her turn in the White House, according to a lawsuit she filed
  
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• Media fact-checking more aggressive under Trump

  08-02-2017 09:01
  
  The new administration has led news organizations to launch aggressive new fact-checking operations
  
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• [►VIDEO, CLINTON HILL] A robot will park your car at this Clinton Hill condo building

  08-02-2017 08:10
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperNow if they can just invent driverless cars!Brooklyn will finally realize the glorious parking-hassle-free future long promised in “The Jetsons,” “Knight Rider,” and to a vastly lesser extent “Wall-E” when a swanky new Clinton Hill condo building opens the borough’s first fully-automated garage, where residents can just drop off their car at the door and
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] All the president’s mensch: Slope rabbi arrested in anti-Trump protest

  08-02-2017 08:03
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperDon’t let my people go!A Park Slope rabbi was among 19 Jewish leaders who deliberately got themselves arrested on Monday by blocking traffic outside Manhattan’s Trump Tower to protest the president’s controversial immigration ban.Congregation Beth Elohim leader Rabbi Rachel Timoner says she felt compelled as a member of a faith with a long history of persecution to challenge the president’s ban on citizens f
  
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• Jack Nicholson attached to remake Oscar nom 'Toni Erdmann'

  08-02-2017 07:23
  
  Jack Nicholson is expected to return to the big screen in an English language remake of the Oscar-nominated German comedy "Toni Erdmann." Nicholson and Kristen Wiig are attached to star according to a person close to the production who requested anonymity
  
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