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• George "The Animal" Steele, RIP

  17-02-2017 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A true legend.
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• C-SPAN survey lists top presidents: Lincoln, Washington, FDR

  17-02-2017 23:04
  
  Just in time for Presidents Day, a new survey of historians on presidential leadership gives the top five slots to Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower
  
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• Sequins and slogans: Politics seeped into NY Fashion Week

  17-02-2017 22:27
  Like any other cultural event, New York Fashion Week was not immune or silent when it came to the nation's political situation
  
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• Mobb Deep played a 'Hell on Earth' show at BB King's with Pete Rock, Smoke DZA, Camp Lo, & CJ Fly (pics)

  17-02-2017 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Queensbridge rap legends Mobb Deep graced their hometown with a show at BB King's last night (2/16), celebrating the 20th anniversary of 1996's Hell on Earth, the great followup to their most classic album, The Infamous. The show's whole bill was a mix of '90s New York rap legends and newer artists who pay tribute to that era...
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• The Latest: Durst friend stonewalled cops about confession

  17-02-2017 21:30
  
  A close friend of Robert Durst told prosecutors for months that the real estate heir did not confess any killing to him
  
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• [HARBOR WATCH] Valentine’s for veterans: Volunteers show their appreciation for vets

  17-02-2017 21:27
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyCall it a love letter to military veterans.
  Volunteers handed out dozens of stuffed animals, chocolates, and toiletries to veterans at the Brooklyn Veterans Affairs Hospital in Fort Hamilton on Feb. 14. The Valentine’s For Veterans event, hosted by the Patrick L. Gualtieri Veterans Assistance Fund, showered patriots with gifts and kind words with handcrafted Valentine’s Day card
  
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• Iggy Pop & Flea make brief appearances in the first trailer for Terrence Malick's 'Song to Song'

  17-02-2017 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  'Song to Song,' Terrence Malick's long-long-in-the-works film set in the Austin music scene, will make its premiere at SXSW Film Festival on March 10.Continue reading…
  
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• Marlins' Hechavarria admits lying in Cuban smuggling probe

  17-02-2017 21:17
  
  Miami Marlins shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria has told a federal jury he lied to investigators about knowing a key figure in an alleged Cuban ballplayer smuggling network linked to a Florida sports agent and a trainer
  
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• From Parker to Gibson, Hollywood's sliding scale of justice

  17-02-2017 20:55
  
  As the final votes pour in ahead of the Academy Awards' Tuesday afternoon deadline, Hollywood is drawing to a close an awards season that has featured dramatic swings of fortune over long-past misdeeds
  
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• Margaret Glaspy & Cuddle Magic @ Bowery Ballroom (pics)

  17-02-2017 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Margaret Glaspy is still touring like crazy in support of her very good 2016 debut album Emotions and Math. She just played her largest headlining NYC show yet...
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• The Latest: Durst: being in film 'stupid,' put him in jail

  17-02-2017 20:40
  
  Real estate heir Robert Durst told a close friend he was stupid to participate in a documentary on his life
  
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• NASCAR driver Greg Biffle won't race full time this season

  17-02-2017 20:40
  
  NASCAR driver Greg Biffle won't race full time this season
  
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• Laura Mvula @ Lincoln Center's Appel Room (pics, setlist)

  17-02-2017 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Mvula played The Appel Room on Thursday (2/16) as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series. The UK musician has the kind of classic-sounding voice made for a room as nice as this...
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• Good is the New Cool: Rallier

  17-02-2017 20:19 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’.RALLIER is a fashion brand designed and made in NYC that remixes the classics—and uses proceeds from the sales of their designs to fund school uniforms for girls in partnership with Shining Hope for Communities. We caught up with Founder and Designer Olivia Rose Wright to find out more about her mi
  
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• Mariah Carey confirms new beau; talks new single, tour

  17-02-2017 20:16
  
  Mariah Carey has a new song, "I Don't," about a breakup, but she's confirming a new romance with backup dancer Bryan Tanaka
  
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• How to watch Oscar-nominated flicks from your couch

  17-02-2017 19:54
  
  You can watch about two-thirds of the Oscar-nominated flicks from your couch _ but it'll cost you
  
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• NASCAR's Kurt Busch sued by former management company

  17-02-2017 19:51
  
  NASCAR driver Kurt Busch is being sued by his former sports management company for nearly $1.5 million
  
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• N. Korea: We'll reject Malaysia autopsy of Kim half brother

  17-02-2017 19:38
  
  North Korea says it will "categorically reject" the results of an autopsy on Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's ruler who died this week at an airport in Malaysia
  
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• Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band @ Brooklyn Bowl (pics, review, setlist)

  17-02-2017 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As good as the Monday show was, fans who were there for both nights said the Sunday show was every bit as good — hard to believe, but after comparing set lists, it certainly seems possible...
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• Immigration raids, shady enforcement practices, threaten New Yorkers

  17-02-2017 19:25
  Yesterday immigrants, both legal and undocumented, went on strike around the U.S., underscoring their contribution to the workforce and the country. Some McDonalds shut down. The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, where Hillary Clinton was valedictorian in 1969 removed every piece of art created or donated by an immigrant from its halls, leaving many spots bare.Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue to defy state officials from red and blue states alike in an immigration sweep,
  
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• [PHOTO GALLERIES] Sunset Park, Bay Ridge tumbleweeds on day of ‘immigrant strike’

  17-02-2017 19:23
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperImmigrants in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge shuttered their storefronts and stayed home from work on Thursday as part of a national protest against President Trump’s policies toward immigrants. The “day without immigrants” called for locals, whether naturalized citizens or undocumented, to stay home from work or school, close their businesses, and refrain from shopping to demo
  
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• Get Your $18 Coffee (or Just a $3 Cup of Above-Average Joe) at Industry City’s Extraction Lab

  17-02-2017 19:19 via bkmag.com
  
  Most third wave coffee shops live and die by their machines, from Blue Bottle and their drip-by-drip Kyoto towers, to Supercrown’s scrupulously calibrated Poursteady. But Extraction Lab might be the first cafe designed specifically around a certain brewing system—Alpha Dominiche’s streamlined, cutting-edge Steampunk.
  Not only is the company newly manufacturing its wares in Industry City, they’ve committed 2,000-square feet to a retail hub and tasting room as well. Strikin
  
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• Dating in New York City is Awful: This Event Will Help

  17-02-2017 19:05 via bkmag.com
  
  New York City is not an easy place to live. It costs an arm and a leg to do so much as lift a finger; we’re a pool of millions competing for jobs, apartments, space in general, other people’s time, ways to be heard. And while all of this is widely known and universally experienced, it’s still worth saying because, when times be tough, the only immediate recourse available to us is talking it out—preferably with someone who has a minute to listen (which, again,
  
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• BrooklynVegan & Sound on Sound team for 2017 Austin parties (3 days at CuC!)

  17-02-2017 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Join us for BrooklynVegan's 11th annual free SXSW-week parties in Austin.Continue reading…
  
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• Priests on tour, streaming a live session on Sunday (watch it HERE)

  17-02-2017 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DC post-punks Priests are on tour now in support of their great new album Nothing Feels Natural. On Sunday, they'll livestream a performance for PressureDropTV.
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• Sunset Park, Bay Ridge tumbleweeds on day of ‘immigrant strike’

  17-02-2017 18:27
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyImmigrants in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge shuttered their storefronts and stayed home from work on Thursday as part of a national protest against President Trump administration’s policies toward immigrants. The “day without immigrants” called for locals, whether naturalized citizens or undocumented, to stay home from work or school, close their businesses, and refrain from shopping to demonstrate the economic im
  
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• watch Richard Edwards (Margot & the Nuclear So & So's) debut new song "Lil Dead Eye-d"

  17-02-2017 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Margot & the Nuclear So and So's frontman debuts another track off his upcoming solo album in an in-studio acoustic video.
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• Firm cheated 9-11 heroes with shady loans: Attorney General

  17-02-2017 18:14
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyA New Jersey-based financial company cheated 9-11 heroes out of millions of dollars owed to them for compensation and health care for injuries related to the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and federal watchdogs.Schneiderman and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accuse RD Legal and its owner Roni Dersovitz, along with two other entities, of “luring [victims] into costly
  
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• Mariah Carey confirms new beau, vents frustration over NYE

  17-02-2017 18:08
  
  Mariah Carey has a new song, "I Don't," about a breakup, but she's confirming a new romance with backup dancer Bryan Tanaka
  
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• Day 29/100: Mind Over Mirrors – "Sky Colorer"

  17-02-2017 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The latest song in the 'Our First 100 Days' series.
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• Ninth District Congresswoman Yvette Clarke Rallies Brooklyn Neighbors Against Immigration Ban

  17-02-2017 17:22 via bkmag.com
  
  On January 29, 2017, hundreds of people packed into Gourmet Sweets, a local Pakistani restaurant located in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. Gourmet Sweets was the site of an emergency meeting organized by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke of the Ninth Congressional District and her staff. According to one restaurant employee, about 400 people were in attendance. “Protect Yourself and Your Family From Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Executive Order” sought to address the immigration
  
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• Ninth District Congresswoman Yvette Clark Rallies Brooklyn Neighbors Against Immigration Ban

  17-02-2017 17:22 via bkmag.com
  
  On January 29, 2017, hundreds of people packed into Gourmet Sweets, a local Pakistani restaurant located in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. Gourmet Sweets was the site of an emergency meeting organized by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke of the Ninth Congressional District and her staff. According to one restaurant employee, about 400 people were in attendance. “Protect Yourself and Your Family From Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Executive Order” sought to address the immigration
  
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• Man charged in death of beating victim who died in 2016

  17-02-2017 17:01
  
  Authorities say they've charged a 29-year-old man in the death of a man who died months after being found injured inside his Syracuse home
  
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• Dick Bruna, 'spiritual father' of rabbit Miffy, dies at 89

  17-02-2017 16:50
  
  Dick Bruna, the Dutch illustrator and artist who created the bestselling series of children's books starring white rabbit Miffy, has died at age 89
  
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• Book returned to library 75 years past due; war to blame?

  17-02-2017 16:49
  
  "Val Rides the Oregon Trail" is back in the hands of a Pennsylvania library _ 75 years past its due date
  
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• Ex-wife: Georgia dad didn't mean to kill toddler in hot car

  17-02-2017 16:47
  
  The ex-wife of a Georgia man convicted of murder for leaving their toddler son to die inside a hot SUV says she still believes "it was an accident."
  
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• Indonesia police chief: Woman tricked into attack on Kim

  17-02-2017 16:30
  
  Indonesia's national police chief says the Indonesian woman arrested for suspected involvement in the killing of the North Korean leader's half brother in Malaysia was duped into thinking she was part of a comedy show prank
  
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• Nicole Kidman reveals past engagement to Lenny Kravitz

  17-02-2017 16:03
  
  Actress Nicole Kidman has revealed that she was once engaged to musician Lenny Kravitz
  
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• Lethal Injections: Evening at the Talk House

  17-02-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Wallace Shawn’s new play Evening at the Talk House begins with an extended period where the audience mingles with the cast while servers pass out drinks and snacks, and this goes on for just long enough to produce a sense of discomfort. The audience would all quiet down for a bit sometimes as if they were waiting for the play to start, but then they would be forced to resume their quiet, buzzy talking. A lady in front of me finally confessed to one of the actors that she had “run out
  
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• No 'Jersey Shore' redux; beach town wary of new reality show

  17-02-2017 15:49
  
  Some residents of the New Jersey shore town stung by MTV's "Jersey Shore" are wary about plans by a bar featured in that series to hold a casting call for a new reality show
  
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• London Fashion Week opens amid Brexit uncertainties

  17-02-2017 15:18
  
  Models and fashion editors descended on Britain's capital from a snowy New York for the start of London Fashion Week
  
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• Fashion insiders declare 'I Am an Immigrant' in new video

  17-02-2017 15:15
  
  Fresh from a New York Fashion Week heavy on politics, W magazine is releasing a video with fashion insiders from Diane von Furstenberg to model Doutzen Kroes declaring "I Am an Immigrant."
  
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• Artist Dick Bruna, creator of rabbit Miffy, has died at 89

  17-02-2017 15:09
  
  Dick Bruna, the Dutch illustrator and artist who created the bestselling series of children's books starring white rabbit Miffy, has died at age 89
  
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• Four Wombs: XX

  17-02-2017 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  XXDirected by Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, Karyn Kusama, Sofia CarrilloOpens February 17
  Though the anthology film has stretched across different genres, horror’s in the running for most creative in terms of framing devices: V/H/S sees a narrative in which people actually unearth the found footage they show off; Tales From The Darkside features a kid stalling time by feeding stories to hungry witch Debbie Harry; Twilight Zone: The Movie, the only time we’ve ever
  
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• Snooki's return? Seaside Heights wary about new reality show

  17-02-2017 14:21
  
  Some residents of the New Jersey shore town stung by MTV's "Jersey Shore" are wary about plans by a bar featured in that show to hold a casting call for a new reality show
  
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• My Best Friend/Ex-Lover’s Wedding: Lovesong

  17-02-2017 14:21 via bkmag.com
  
  LovesongDirected by So Yong KimOpens February 17 at the Village East
  Back in the simpler times of 2009—after the adult drama had become the sole province of the art house, and right before the moderate social anxiety of mumblecore gave way to the practically baroque aggression that distinguishes many of today’s microbudget features—A.O. Scott took to the pages of the Times magazine to identify an emergent “neo-neo-realism” in American independent cinema. One of the
  
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• 'Dance Moms' star gets OK to travel before sentencing

  17-02-2017 14:20
  
  "Dance Moms" reality TV star Abby Lee Miller has been allowed to travel overseas while awaiting sentencing in her bankruptcy fraud case
  
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• Spain's Princess Cristina not guilty in tax fraud case

  17-02-2017 12:52
  
  A Spanish court has found Princess Cristina not guilty in a tax fraud case, while her husband was convicted and sentenced to more than six years in prison
  
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• London Fashion Week catwalk shows to begin in new location

  17-02-2017 08:41
  
  London's fashion season is set to kick off with a series of shows that will include Burberry, Versus and other luminaries
  
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• In movie, Justin Gatlin reflects on rise, fall, rise again

  17-02-2017 08:24
  
  In an hour-long documentary, sprinter Justin Gatlin reflects on his ascent to the top, a fall from grace and a return to the spotlight
  
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