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• News conferences raise issue of Trump seeking softballs

  13-02-2017 23:46
  
  The president's choice of questioners at recent news conferences makes some in the press corps wonder if he's intentionally avoiding tough queries
  
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• Yiannopoulos postpones book to include campus protests

  13-02-2017 23:01
  
  Life is happening fast for Milo Yiannopoulos, who has postponed his book from March to June so he can include the "craziness and rioting" that resulted from his planned appearances at a handful of West Coast campuses earlier this year
  
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• Coachella announces 2017 official sideshows

  13-02-2017 22:52
  
  Coachella is coming up in April and many of the artists playing it will also be doing official Coachella Sideshows in Sourthern California on the days surrounding the fest.
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• Grammys on CBS viewed by 26 million, highest since 2014

  13-02-2017 22:46
  
  Sunday's Grammy Awards delivered its largest viewership since 2014, according to Nielsen
  
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• Cymbals Eat Guitars playing Asbury Park before tour with Pixies

  13-02-2017 21:55
  
  Cymbals Eat Guitars are on tour in Europe right now and they're set to tour the US with the Pixies in May. They added a headlining show happening beforehand in NJ...
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• The Sadies released LP featuring Kurt Vile, touring with (and backing) Justin Townes Earle

  13-02-2017 21:31
  
  Long-running Canadian act The Sadies just released Northern Passages, the band's 10th record, full of the band's signature countrified heartland rock. Making a guest appearance on the LP is Kurt Vile...
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• Norah Jones on tour, playing benefit at The Bell House (tix on sale)

  13-02-2017 21:31
  
  Norah Jones is playing The Bell House on March 22 which is a benefit for "The Child Life Program In The Pediatrics Department Of The Brooklyn Hospital Center." Tickets ($100) are on sale...
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• Lady Lamb & Henry Jamison @ Knitting Factory (pics)

  13-02-2017 20:53
  
  Lady Lamb (aka Aly Spaltro) is currently on tour supporting her intimate-sounding Tender Warriors Club EP that came out this past December...
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• Lady Gaga expands tour, including 2nd Citi Field show

  13-02-2017 20:28
  
  Fresh off doing a collab set with Metallica at the Grammys, Lady Gaga has expanded her tour...
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• ABC and People teaming up for documentary on Princess Diana

  13-02-2017 20:18
  
  Princess Diana will be the subject of a four-hour documentary miniseries airing on ABC this August
  
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• CBS fires newscaster Josh Elliott

  13-02-2017 20:15
  
  CBS News fires newscaster Josh Elliott after being surprised by his live announcement that he would no longer have a regular shift at network's streaming service
  
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• Steve Gunn covered two Smiths songs (listen), playing benefit in Brooklyn w/ Steve Shelley, Loren Connors & more

  13-02-2017 19:54
  
  Like a lot of guitarists, Steve Gunn cites Johnny Marr as an influence. He shows his love for Marr's first real band, The Smiths, by covering two early Smiths songs -- "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" and "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"...
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• Jake Tapper writing debut novel, scheduled for 2018

  13-02-2017 19:41
  
  Jake Tapper is working on a book that you could call fake news: It's his debut novel
  
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• Descendents announce 2017 tour

  13-02-2017 19:35
  
  Punk legends Descendents released one of the best albums of last year with Hypercaffium Spazzinate, and they'll be spending a lot of 2017 on the road in continued support of it...
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• Cayetana announce new album, 'New Kind of Normal'

  13-02-2017 19:29
  
  They're also on tour now with Lemuria and Mikey Erg.
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• Joy Villa's 'Great Again' dress boosts album sales

  13-02-2017 19:10
  
  The attention-grabbing "Make America Great Again" dress Joy Villa wore at Sunday night's Grammys appears to have led to a bump in sales of her music
  
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• Sheer Terror, Burn, Murphy's Law, Shades Apart, Bold, Floorpunch & more also playing Dave Franklin tribute

  13-02-2017 19:07
  Plus there's Vision playing a set with guest vocalists, a set with members of The Bouncing Souls and Lifetime, Dave Smalley playing Down By Law and Dag Nasty songs, and more...
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• Andre The Giant set for big upcoming documentary on HBO

  13-02-2017 19:03
  
  WWE, HBO Sports and the Bill Simmons Media Group will produce "Andre The Giant," a documentary film examining the life and career of one of professional wrestling's truly biggest stars
  
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• Faking it: Jake Tapper writing debut novel

  13-02-2017 18:37
  
  Jake Tapper is working on a book that you could call fake news: It's his debut novel
  
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• You can find 'Moonlight' star Andre Holland on Broadway

  13-02-2017 18:22
  
  Rising star Andre Holland couldn't attend the Golden Globes to see his movie "Moonlight" win best film because he was across the country, working his current job _ the August Wilson play "Jitney" on Broadway
  
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• The Grammys Are Pointless

  13-02-2017 18:20 via bkmag.com
  
  If you were on social media last night, it might have seemed like the entire world (i.e. every like-minded person you follow) waited around until 11:30pm to see who would be awarded the biggest prize of the night, Album of the Year. And, surprising a grand total of no one, the Recording Academy got it wrong. But what else is new?Let’s get one thing straight. Adele is fine—there’s no knocking her talent, and she’s probably got one of the five or so strongest voices on the
  
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• Grammy memorable moments: Adele, Beyonce, Prince, politics

  13-02-2017 18:10
  
  Adele took the top honors and got a rare do-over while Beyonce performed for the first time since announcing she is pregnant with twins
  
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• The Love Union, a retreat for wedding planners and pros, returns Feb. 27

  13-02-2017 17:59
  
  Before heading into busy wedding season, Gowanus Hospitality is bringing back its popular four-day conference/retreat, The Love Union, for wedding industry creatives February 27 to March 2. Each morning begins with a group yoga session, followed by co-working and networking at creative workshops and panels discussions on topics like “How can feminism and wedding planning co-exist?” One special evening will feature the Moth-style story slam,“Wedding War Stories 2.0,”
  
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• A Recipe for February: Up Your Brunch Ante with Maman’s Matcha Waffles

  13-02-2017 17:50 via bkmag.com
  
  When Benjamin Sormonte, Elisa Marshall, and Armand Arnal opened the third New York location of Maman in Greenpoint last summer, they quickly saw how much the café’s rustic-chic style and French-inflected food resonated with Brooklynites. I, for one, was happy to welcome the cozy café with its free wifi, wholesome sandwiches and salads, pretzel chocolate chip cookies, and other hard-to-resist pastries. Oh, and matcha lattes. Finally, Greenpoint has a café that serves ma
  
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• A Life’s Work: Paul Auster’s 4 3 2 1

  13-02-2017 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Paul Auster shows me a picture of his grandmother. It hangs in the front floor hallway, opposite the stairs of the Park Slope home he shares with novelist Siri Hustvedt, his wife. His grandmother, Anna Auster, sits in black and white, a severe, striking woman. She’s the one, he explains, who murdered his grandfather. Later I find a write up in a January 1919 issue of the Chicago Tribune. “KENOSHA WOMAN CONFESSES SHE KILLED HUSBAND.”
  Auster writes about this in “Portrait o
  
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• Baby bomber: Derek Jeter's wife, Hannah, announces pregnancy

  13-02-2017 16:58
  
  Derek Jeter's wife, Hannah, says they are expecting their first child, a girl
  
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• Just opened: Mokbar brings Korean home cooking to Brooklyn

  13-02-2017 16:33
  
  Jip Bap is a traditional Korean meal. Photo: Mokbar
  For Chef Esther Choi, her food is her life. Literally.
  Choi, owner and chef at the Chelsea Market Korean ramen shop Mokbar opened a Brooklyn location of the restaurant last Wednesday. And she lives right upstairs.
  “I wanted to babysit!” she said.
  For a chef whose cooking is heavily inspired by her family and cultural heritage, it makes some sense that home life and work life could be so intwined.
  More jip bap to love. Photo: Mokbar
  
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• Pagan's latest is love story told from different viewpoints

  13-02-2017 16:20
  
  Book Review: "Forever is the Worst Long Time" by Camille Pagan is a love story told from several different viewpoints
  
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• Beyonce shines, Adele flubs in Grammy's top moments

  13-02-2017 15:57
  
  In Beyonce's first performance since announcing her pregnancy with twins, she shined head to toe in golden hues at the Grammy Awards
  
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• Momma Beyonce shines, Adele flubs in Grammy's top moments

  13-02-2017 15:56
  
  In Beyonce's first performance since announcing her pregnancy with twins, she shined head to toe in golden hues
  
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• Scott Thomas recalls intensity of "The Party" at Berlin fest

  13-02-2017 15:47
  
  Kristin Scott Thomas recalls feeling "a sort of panic" while making director Sally Potter's "The Party," in which she plays a politician celebrating a promotion
  
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• Book Review: 'Forever is the Worst Long Time'

  13-02-2017 15:09
  
  Book Review: "Forever is the Worst Long Time" by Camille Pagan is a love story told from several different viewpoints
  
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• Hello to marriage? Adele thanks 'husband' at Grammys

  13-02-2017 15:06
  
  Adele might have included a wedding announcement during her acceptance speech at Sunday's Grammys
  
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• Boston Symphony celebrating its 9th Grammy Award

  13-02-2017 14:56
  
  The Boston Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its ninth Grammy Award
  
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• Review: 'Rush of Blood' is absorbing psychological thriller

  13-02-2017 14:38
  
  Book Review: "Rush of Blood" by Mark Billingham is absorbing psychological thriller
  
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• Review: Drabble confronts old age in 'The Dark Flood Rises'

  13-02-2017 14:25
  
  Book Review: Margaret Drabble brings wry humor to aging in "The Dark Flood Rises"
  
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• The Manhattan Bridge Is Not Romantic. But It’s Nice.

  13-02-2017 13:44 via bkmag.com
  
  Brooklyn is very romantic. I’m sure it will be up there on some lists of Top Ten Romantic Places this Valentine’s season. If you’re looking for cozy restaurants with carefully curated selections of clams and other locally sourced aphrodisiacs to set the mood, we’ve got you.
  It’s the kind of place poets immortalize in verse with sensual descriptions. Walt Whitman sung the praise of its “ample hills” that inspired “thirsting eyes” in the 1800s,
  
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• Adele sweeps Grammy Awards with 5 wins, while Bowie wins 4

  13-02-2017 12:47
  
  Even though Adele flubbed one of her live performances at the Grammys, she walked away the belle of the ball: She took home five awards Sunday night, including album, record and song of the year
  
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• Photos: 59th Annual Grammy Awards

  13-02-2017 12:36
  
  The 59th Grammy Awards were held at Staples Center on Feb. 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
  
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• Mama Beyonce shines, Adele flubs in Grammy's top moments

  13-02-2017 10:45
  
  In Beyonce's first performance since announcing her pregnancy with twins, she shined head to toe in golden hues
  
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• Adele wins top Grammys, but pays tribute to Beyonce

  13-02-2017 09:55
  
  It was an extraordinary moment: Adele wins the Grammy Award for best album, but said competitor Beyonce deserved it
  
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• Museum to feature artist's taken on stolen Gardner works

  13-02-2017 06:34
  
  A Massachusetts art museum is offering visitors a unique glimpse of the 13 masterpieces stolen in 1990 from the Gardner Museum in Boston _ the largest unsolved art heist in U.S. history
  
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• Adele sweeps Grammys Awards with 5 wins, while Bowie wins 4

  13-02-2017 06:16
  
  Even though Adele flubbed during her live performance at the Grammys, she walked away the belle of the ball: She took home five awards Sunday night, including album, record and song of the year
  
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• Lady Gaga to Adele: Grammy fashion moments

  13-02-2017 06:04
  
  Save a few fashion moments, style experts considered the Grammys red carpet unusually staid this time around
  
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• [RED HOOK] Online shopping: Red Hook’s public wifi expanding to commerical strips

  13-02-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperTalk about local hotspots!
  Red Hook’s free public wifi network is expanding to the nabe’s commercial corridors, and the community group in charge is looking for local businesses to house the necessary gadgets to beam the broadband around. Those who sign up won’t just be helping to spread the signal, says an organizer — they’ll also be doing their part to spread goodwill in the tight-knit community of mo
  
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• [PARTY LINE] ‘Trivial’ pursuit! Harassment of Gentile staffer was ‘petty’ and ‘trivial’: city lawyers

  13-02-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyA former staffer to Councilman Vincent Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) who is accusing his colleagues of bullying him by leaving mutilated stuffed animals on his desk and publicly mocking his Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t have a leg to stand on, city lawyers are arguing.Michael Bistreich is suing the city for $10 million for discrimination, claiming that the alleged abuse he suffered was a violation of the city’s Human
  
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• [EVENT] Rat tales: ‘Rodent Monologue’ shares story of the streets

  13-02-2017 06:00
  
  She’s letting the rat out of the bag. Read more.
  
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• [DINING] Wrapper’s delight! Burgrito’s is now serving up a ‘Brooklyn Paper Special!’

  13-02-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThe Brooklyn Paper is on the menu!Park Slope fast-food joint Burgrito’s is now serving up a new spin on its titular burger-burrito mash-up named for Brooklyn’s best newspaper, after this reviewer went in to try the original and — if I do say so myself — came up with a superior version.
  My special adds rice and guacamole in an effort to bring balance to the restaurant’s namesake franken-food, which had
  
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• [CLINTON HILL] Rat tales: ‘Rodent Monologue’ shares story of the streets

  13-02-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyShe’s letting the rat out of the bag.A formerly homeless social worker will reveal hilarious and horrifying stories from her life on the streets of New York City, in “The Rodent Monologues” at Jack Theatre on Feb. 18 as part of the week-long “Organ Recital” storytelling festival. Her collection of alternately funny and gritty stories will explore her run-ins with police, experience with substance ab
  
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• [CANARSIE] Pregnant woman rushes to Canarsie hospital, discovers she’s given birth on the way

  13-02-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyA pregnant woman rushed to a Canarsie hospital on Feb. 8 — only to look down and discover she’d given birth to a baby girl on the way!“All I heard was a baby crying under my butt, I had to lift myself up because she was under there,” said Cypress Hills resident Tayshaunia Fason. “It just happened so quick I didn’t feel any pain, contractions, or anything.”
  Fason started feeling pains at arou
  
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