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• Column: Hype, new format didn't equal must-watch Daytona 500

  27-02-2017 23:47
  
  Column: Hype, new format didn't equal must-watch Daytona 500
  
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• Trump says Oscars focused hard on politics before 'sad' end

  27-02-2017 23:31
  
  President Donald Trump says Sunday's Academy Awards "focused so hard on politics that they didn't get the act together at the end."
  
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• Dancers dress as devil in popular Argentina carnival

  27-02-2017 23:30
  
  To the beat of drums, more than 300 people dressed as devils descend a sacred hill as one of the most singular Carnival events in South America begins
  
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• Ali Jr. says airport detention made him feel "violated"

  27-02-2017 23:27
  
  Muhammad Ali's son said Monday he felt "violated" when immigration officials allegedly questioned him about his religion at a Florida airport, and said his detention shows that some of his father's civil rights battles are still being fought
  
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• What’s a Freelance Writer’s Endgame Today?

  27-02-2017 23:21 via bkmag.com
  
  When I was a kid I didn’t know that freelancers existed. I thought that Pitchfork housed hundreds of salaried critics in a large office space. I wanted to be one of them. To go to work and listen to records. To spend a career in the fellowship of other obsessives. To make a down payment off of middling Kaiser Chiefs reviews. It was my first dream.
  I went to journalism school at the University of Texas at Austin because I thought I could parlay a couple years of SXSW coverage into some
  
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• Advocacy groups: Forget Oscars snafu, focus on 'Moonlight'

  27-02-2017 23:02
  
  A day after the shocking Great Mistake of Oscars 2017, advocacy groups were expressing joy over the triumph of 'Moonlight' _ the first gay-themed movie to win best picture, and with an all-black cast _ and saying, let's forget the snafu
  
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• Oscars memorial leaves out Arquette's transgender sister

  27-02-2017 22:31
  
  Actress Patricia Arquette says she was upset that the Oscars left her transgender sister out of the "In Memoriam" tribute during the awards show
  
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• Author, newspaper columnist Jay Cronley dies at 73

  27-02-2017 22:20
  Author Jay Cronley, whose books were made into movies starring some of Hollywood's most notable funnymen, has died at age 73
  
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• Arnold Palmer memorabilia hits the road in March

  27-02-2017 22:05
  
  A treasure trove of memorabilia accumulated by Arnold Palmer during his Hall of Fame career is leaving his western Pennsylvania hometown of Latrobe and hitting the road
  
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• Oscar envelopes explained: How presenters get winning names

  27-02-2017 21:58
  
  A look at how the Academy Awards' winners envelopes are handled before being opened live onstage
  
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• Oscars draw 32.9 million viewers, lowest rating since 2008

  27-02-2017 21:57
  
  The 32.9 million viewers tuning into Sunday's Academy Awards represented a drop-off of more than a million from last year and Oscar's smallest audience since 2008
  
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• In Pittsburgh, 'Fences' and August Wilson's Hill District

  27-02-2017 21:20
  
  Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood offers a rich map of sites connected to playwright August Wilson
  
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• Tebow learns from Jacksonville neighbor Daniel Murphy

  27-02-2017 21:10
  
  After struggling in the Arizona Fall League last year, New York Mets prospect Tim Tebow tried to learn from Jacksonvuille neighbor Daniel Murphy during the offseason
  
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• Campfire Conversations: Stewardship

  27-02-2017 19:40
  Saturday, April 1, 2017 7:00 pmProspect Park, Lefferts HouseProspect Park Alliance and Brooklyn Public Library present Campfire Conversations, a series of themed community conversations around an outdoor campfire at the Lefferts Historic House. Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Prospect Park by joining this month's discussion on the use of public space in Brooklyn and beyond.
   
  
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• Campfire Conversations: Firepower

  27-02-2017 19:40
  Saturday, June 3, 2017 6:30 pmProspect Park, Lefferts HouseProspect Park Alliance and Brooklyn Public Library present Campfire Conversations, a series of themed community conversations around an outdoor campfire at the Lefferts Historic House. Join us around the campfire at the Lefferts Historic House for a workshop on fire building and fire safety with Prospect Park Alliance Educator Rafe Shaffer followed by an exploration of the power of fire in myth and legend
  
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• Campfire Conversations: Changes and Transformations

  27-02-2017 19:40
  Saturday, March 4, 2017 5:00 pmProspect Park, Lefferts House
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• Campfire Conversations: Age & Wisdom

  27-02-2017 19:40
  Saturday, May 6, 2017 7:00 pmProspect Park, Lefferts HouseProspect Park Alliance and Brooklyn Public Library present Campfire Conversations, a series of themed community conversations around an outdoor campfire at the Lefferts Historic House. This month's conversation will focus on the treatment and inclusion of elders in contemporary society and how wisdom and knowledge is transmitted across generations.
  
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• Music Review: THEY. promised grunge'n'b, and they delivered

  27-02-2017 19:36
  
  Los Angeles-based duo THEY call their sound grunge'n'b, a fusion of R&B and hip-hop mixed with rock, and while it sounds gimmicky, it's actually highly enjoyable
  
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• Car in which Tupac Shakur was shot is for sale for $1.5M

  27-02-2017 19:14
  
  The car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot is for sale, with an asking price of $1.5 million
  
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• Oscars mistake puts consulting firm's reputation in jeopardy

  27-02-2017 19:11
  
  For 82 years, global accounting and consulting firm PwC has enjoyed the reputational boon it got from leading the balloting process at the Academy Awards
  
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• Is that a joke? Oscar mix-up leads to funny memes, tweets

  27-02-2017 19:08
  
  The best picture Oscar blunder prompted snickering from Ryan Gosling and a cascade of politically tinged jokes on Twitter, with some even declaring Hillary Clinton the winner
  
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• Milan designers announce a return to ready-to-wear elegance

  27-02-2017 19:07
  
  The Milan Fashion Week previews that just ended announced a return to more formal dress, confirming a trend seen on the red carpet at the Oscars the night before
  
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• Costume Party: Some Kind of Wonderful, John Hughes & 80s Teens

  27-02-2017 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Costume Party is a monthly column exploring fashion, personal style, and historical aesthetics in film.
  Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Some Kind of Wonderful. The 1987 teen film penned by John Hughes may not be discussed quite as often as The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles, but it stands out for its more subtle look at high school life. The film is a soft-focus portrayal of boy-girl friendship and class consciousness, centered on a triad of teens, Keith (Eric Stoltz), a wo
  
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• A peek at off-camera happenings at the Academy Awards

  27-02-2017 18:54
  
  While the whole of Oscar night was eclipsed by the unprecedented best-picture flub at the show's conclusion, the Academy Awards is a starry celebration onscreen and off
  
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• Music Review: Old 97s keep kickin' it past the graveyard

  27-02-2017 18:52
  
  The Old 97s were one of a handful of touring country-rock bar bands that emerged during the 1990s, writing clever songs that owed more to their rock 'n' roll heroes than anything rooted in Nashville
  
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• Jury selected in Aaron Hernandez double murder trial

  27-02-2017 18:47
  
  A jury has been selected in the double murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez
  
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• Ursula K. Le Guin, Ann Patchett voted into arts academy

  27-02-2017 18:41
  
  Authors Ursula K. Le Guin, Junot Diaz and Ann Patchett are among this year's 14 inductees into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  
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• Chatting robots and music: fun gadgets on show in Barcelona

  27-02-2017 18:39
  
  Here's a glimpse of some of the gadgets and apps displayed by start-up companies this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
  
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• Hella Hella Serious, Dire Truth Telling with Poet Morgan Parker

  27-02-2017 18:27 via bkmag.com
  
  Where do we start? Morgan Parker asks. We are sitting in June on Court Street on a Saturday night in early February, it’s loud, and we’re drinking. “I’m a 29-year-old, five foot tall, single black woman.” She lives in Bed-Stuy with her beloved miniature poodle, Braeburn. He’s named after a variety of apple—Parker is really into apples. “A lot of my friends here thought my middle name was Apple,” she says. “It isn’t.” Instead
  
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• Jaime Wyatt: An authentic new voice lives to sing about it

  27-02-2017 18:03
  
  Jaime Wyatt's work tacks back and forth between gorgeous balladry and straight-ahead Southern California country-rock, '70s vintage _ think Linda Ronstadt when she ruled the pop airwaves _ but the edges are serrated, the polish missing
  
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• 'Biggest Loser' host Bob Harper suffers heart attack

  27-02-2017 17:48
  
  Fitness trainer and host of NBC's "Biggest Loser" Bob Harper says he is recovering from a serious heart attack that left him unconscious for two days
  
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• Congresswoman Yvette Clarke Bridges Issues Divide with Town Hall Meeting

  27-02-2017 17:27 via bkmag.com
  
  In a direct response to many of the pending political shakeups happening around the country and locally, Brooklyn 9th district Congresswoman Yvette Clarke held the second in what promises to be a series of town hall meetings. On Wednesday night, hundreds packed into Union Synagogue in Crown Heights. This meeting addressed the new administration’s first thirty days in office as well as climate change, health care, and immigration with several key experts.
  This ambitious agenda brought toget
  
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• Book Review: 'Shining City' by Tom Rosenstiel delivers

  27-02-2017 17:17
  
  Book Review: "Shining City" by Tom Rosenstiel is a debut political thriller that captures the flavor of Washington, D.C.; delivers a punch
  
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• Lauryn Hill delays makeup concert for show that started late

  27-02-2017 17:14
  
  Singer-rapper Lauryn Hill has postponed a Pittsburgh concert that was scheduled to make up for one last month that started more than three hours late
  
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• 6 Brooklyn Restaurant Products That Should Totally Go Retail

  27-02-2017 17:13 via bkmag.com
  
  The “Brooklyn” brand is heavily associated with bespoke, locally-processed food products, peddled at Smorgasburg, advertised on Mouth, or stocked at stores like BKLYN Larder and Greene Grape. But restaurants make the best incubators—especially since chefs are increasingly forswearing bottles and bags for exclusively housemade items—so here are a few creations we’d like to see move from menus to the marketplace, from Pinto’s multi-use Thai sauces, to Sunken Hun
  
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• Beardo Brings New Life to a Neo-Gothic Church in Greenpoint

  27-02-2017 16:48 via bkmag.com
  
  I filed into a pew at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Greenpoint to see Pipeline Theatre Company’s production of Beardo (running through March 5) and resorted to quiet church behavior. But ten minutes in, when the character Beardo flings a slice of lunchmeat on the church altar, a serious case of the church giggles set in.
  The indie rock musical penned by Dave Malloy (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) and Jason Craig doesn’t mention Rasputin, but follows the sexcapad
  
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• Iranians cheer Farhadi's Oscar as rebuke of Trump policies

  27-02-2017 16:37
  
  The Oscar for Asghar Farhadi's "The Salesman" energized many of the filmmaker's fellow Iranians, who saw the win for best foreign film as a pointed rebuke to the Trump administration and its efforts to deny them entry
  
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• Ms Lauryn Hill played Radio City Music Hall with Common (pics)

  27-02-2017 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  By the time it had reached 10:45 PM on Saturday night (2/25) there was no sign of notorious late-starter Ms Lauryn Hill, and the Radio City Music Hall was getting antsy -- especially considering that this was already a rescheduled date from October 2016...
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• Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, more to honor Merle Haggard

  27-02-2017 16:01
  
  The late country star Merle Haggard will be honored a year after his death with an all-star concert featuring his longtime friend and duet partner Willie Nelson as well as Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, John Mellencamp and more
  
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• Gaffe again: Oscars' 'In Memoriam' includes living producer

  27-02-2017 15:46
  
  An Australian film producer says she's "alive and well" after her photo was mistakenly included in the "In Memoriam" tribute at Sunday night's Oscars
  
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• Montreal duo CO/NTRY releasing new LP (listen to "Cash Out"), touring to SXSW

  27-02-2017 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fronted by artist, cult restauranteur and Montreal gad-about Beaver Shepard, duo CO/NRTY (pronounced "Country," their original name) make what they call “sleaze-wave” -- which they then further described as...
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• Run The Jewels began their Terminal 5 run with Gaslamp Killer, Nick Hook, Gangsta Boo & Cuz (night 1 pics)

  27-02-2017 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Killer Mike and El-P are in the midst of a four-night run at NYC's Terminal 5 as part of their tour in support of the third Run the Jewels album, RTJ3. The first two shows were this past Saturday (2/25) and Sunday (2/26)...
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• PwC's hard-won reputation under threat after Oscars mistake

  27-02-2017 15:25
  
  For 82 years, global accounting and consulting firm PwC has enjoyed the reputational boon it got from leading the balloting process at the Academy Awards
  
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• Vagabon celebrated 'Infinite Worlds' at Baby's with Mal Devisa & Jelani Sei (pics)

  27-02-2017 14:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This past Friday (2/24), NYC's Vagabon released her debut album Infinite Worlds on Father/Daughter and played a record release show in her hometown at Baby's All Right...
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• The Oscar Flub Was a Great Moment in Pop Culture and Film History

  27-02-2017 14:34 via bkmag.com
  
  My clock says 1:20 AM. By all means, I should be quite tired. Instead, I’m running on pure adrenaline because I just witnessed one of the most bonkers moments in the history of live broadcast television.Let’s backtrack. The 89th Academy Awards, whether you agreed with the winners or not, were going fairly smoothly. And then, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, Hollywood’s original Bonnie and Clyde, came out to announce the most important award of the night: Best Picture.
  
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• God’s Country: The Settlers

  27-02-2017 14:30 via bkmag.com
  
  The SettlersDirected by Shimon DotanOpens March 3 at Film Forum
  The sound of howling wind and the Doppler whoosh of passing cars. We’re on Highway 90, the road that passes through Israel and Palestine. Then we pause and hear the sound of a faint prayer echoing in the breeze. This gives way to the clanking of industrial machines, carrying pieces of a portable residence off a truck. Then a man stands singing on a hill, starkly offsetting the brilliant, awe-inspiring desert before him. He&rs
  
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• 7-foot-7 'Game of Thrones' actor Neil Fingleton dies at 36

  27-02-2017 13:52
  
  Neil Fingleton, a 7-foot 7-inch actor who played the giant Mag the Mighty in "Game of Thrones" has died aged 36
  
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• Oscar-winning Syrian group hopes award will stop 'massacres'

  27-02-2017 13:48
  
  A young volunteer in the Syrian search-and-rescue group featured in an Academy Award-winning documentary says he hopes the award will help stop "massacres" in his country
  
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• Adele gives thumbs up to Emma Stone, 'Moonlight'

  27-02-2017 13:45
  
  Adele has saluted Emma Stone and "Moonlight" for their Oscar wins
  
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• Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal says she can't find job

  27-02-2017 12:39
  
  Former Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal , who stepped down from her post in 2015 amid criticism that she was passing herself off as black, says she is near homelessness
  
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