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• The Latest: Sisters of slain men testify at Hernandez trial

  01-03-2017 23:20
  
  Jurors have heard emotional testimony from the sisters of two men prosecutors say were fatally shot by former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez
  
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• The Latest: White Sox's Abreu to testify for 2nd day

  01-03-2017 23:10
  
  Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu will return for a second day of testimony in a Miami trial of two men accused of illegally smuggling Cuban ballplayers to the United States
  
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• Review: RSVP 'no' to 'Table 19'

  01-03-2017 23:08
  
  The horrifying experience of being at a bad wedding with annoying people you barely know is also the sensation you get watching the half-baked dramedy "Table 19," which, despite likable actors can't end soon enough
  
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• GOP congressman critiques female colleagues' attire

  01-03-2017 23:03
  
  Republican Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota is criticizing House Democratic women for wearing "bad-looking white pantsuits" during President Donald Trump's speech to Congress
  
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• music conference/festival Mondo.NYC (started by CMJ founders) will return for second year

  01-03-2017 22:26
  
  Mondo NYC, the "festival and global business summit of music and tech industry insiders and innovators, emerging artists and their fan" that was started by CMJ founders will be back for a second year in October...
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• AP Exclusive: Accountants in Oscar mistake off the show

  01-03-2017 22:22
  
  AP Exclusive: The president of the film academy says the two accountants responsible for the best-picture flub at Sunday's Academy Awards will never return to the Oscar show
  
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• Widow: Mural of Rodney Dangerfield is 'less-than-flattering'

  01-03-2017 22:17
  
  Rodney Dangerfield made a career out of getting "no respect."
  
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• Kennedy Center appoints first director of hip hop culture

  01-03-2017 22:08
  
  The director of programming at Harlem Stage in New York is heading to Washington to become the first director of hip hop culture at the Kennedy Center
  
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• Swing Time: Ex-Cubs catcher Ross on 'Dancing with the Stars'

  01-03-2017 21:46
  
  'Dancing with the Stars' just became must-see TV for the Chicago Cubs
  
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• Review: Future shows different sides of himself in 2 albums

  01-03-2017 21:34
  
  Future shows why he is one of today's hottest hip-hop artists by releasing two incredible albums within a seven-day span
  
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• Academy apologizes for in memoriam mistake

  01-03-2017 21:24
  
  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologized to the Australian movie producer it incorrectly showed during Sunday's Oscars in memoriam reel
  
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• Film academy president says the two accountants responsible for the best picture mistake will not work the Oscars again

  01-03-2017 21:19
  
  Film academy president says the two accountants responsible for the best picture mistake will not work the Oscars again
  
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• Young 'Moonlight' stars return from Oscars to middle school

  01-03-2017 21:12
  
  Seventh-graders Alex Hibbert and Jaden Piner returned to middle school Wednesday as Oscar winners, but the "Moonlight" stars still had to go back to basics with their classmates in drama class
  
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• Creeper Lagoon reunited for Noise Pop Fest (pics, video, setlist)

  01-03-2017 21:09
  
  It's hard to have any context on just how popular SF's Creeper Lagoon were at the peak of their 2001 LP 'Take Back The Universe and Give Me Yesterday.' There weren't too many national tours, a maybe only one NYC show...
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• Your March Kids Calendar: 10 ways to enjoy the unpredictable weather

  01-03-2017 21:00
  
  Spring is in the air…but so are the snowstorms. If the weather has you completely confused on how to spend your time with the kids (or just plain confused), you’re not alone. Here are a few suggestions for either enjoying the balmy weather by going out, or holing up inside your house during the deep freeze. Climate change is real, and my only advice is to dress your family in layers and get ready to change plans on a dime.
  IF MARCH COMES IN LIKE A LAMB, GO OUTSIDE:
  This art opening
  
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• The Latest: Hernandez portrayed as hothead, wrongly accused

  01-03-2017 20:38
  
  Two very different pictures of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez have been painted for jurors during opening statements at his double-murder trial
  
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• Your Ideal Week: March 2 – March 8, it’s a new leaf kinda week

  01-03-2017 20:25
  
  It’s a new leaf kinda week, right?
  On this rainy yet bizarrely warm Wednesday, we’re coming off an entire week of unseasonably warn, yet undeniably pleasant weather, an Oscars ceremony with a surprise twist ending, and a presidential address marking an unexpected shift in terms of tone and sentence completion proficiency (if not actual content), and on top of all that, we’re now in a brand new month. I must admit that it all makes me feel like doing my part to change things up
  
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• Kodak Black arrested for violating probation; tour dates postponed

  01-03-2017 20:25
  
  His tour would have hit NYC tonight (3/1).
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• White Sox's Abreu to jury: I ate fake passport on way to US

  01-03-2017 20:18
  
  Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu has told a Miami federal jury he ate part of a fake passport while flying to the U.S. to cover up his illegal travel as part of a Cuban ballplayer smuggling operation
  
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• Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom break up to take 'loving space'

  01-03-2017 20:16
  
  Pop star Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom are breaking up after about a year together
  
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• Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo played 'Black Snake Diamond Role' & lots more at Rough Trade (pics, video, setlist)

  01-03-2017 20:12
  
  In addition to 'Black Snake Diamond Role,' Robyn & Ira & Georgia & James played a second set of songs featuring Soft Boys nuggest, covers and more.
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• Lil Durk & YFN Lucci have new music, beginning tour with Jeezy tonight

  01-03-2017 20:03
  
  The 'Trap Or Die 3' Tour begins in Chicago tonight and hits NYC for two shows soon.
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• Defense: Killer of 2 is star witness, not Aaron Hernandez

  01-03-2017 19:42
  
  An attorney for Aaron Hernandez says the real killer of two men in a hail of gunfire in Boston wasn't the former NFL star but rather the government's star witness in his double murder trial
  
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• Looking for Oscar bump, 'Moonlight' heads back into theaters

  01-03-2017 19:37
  
  Best-picture winner "Moonlight" is heading back into theaters in what will be its widest release yet
  
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• Oscar winner Affleck speaks about sexual harassment claims

  01-03-2017 19:32
  
  In an interview following his Oscar win on Sunday, Casey Affleck addressed earlier sexual harassment claims against him and said "everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and everywhere else."
  
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• Wavves announce new album 'You're Welcome,' share title track & "Daisy"

  01-03-2017 19:31
  
  Wavves are also touring, including shows with blink-182, Post Animal, and Kino Kimino.
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• Rostam touring with Deradoorian, joined Hamilton Leithauser in NYC & DC

  01-03-2017 19:13
  
  The former Vampire Weekend member is promising to play new material on this tour.
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• The Latest: Hernandez team: Star witness is the real killer

  01-03-2017 19:07
  
  A lawyer for Aaron Hernandez has told a jury that the government's star witness in the former NFL star's double murder trial is the real killer
  
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• X-Hausted Men: Logan

  01-03-2017 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
    LoganDirected by James MangoldOpens March 3
  “Does it hurt?”
  “Every time.”
  That exchange isn’t the first scene Hugh Jackman plays as Wolverine in the first X-Men movie back in 2000, but it does happen early on in the picture, when his mysterious loner with the swoopy hair and muttonchops meets mutant runaway Rogue. She’s asking about the retractable claws that spring out of his knuckles; they don’t always make a bloody mess because of his mutated h
  
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• Jessy Lanza announces North American tour, playing House of Yes

  01-03-2017 18:58
  
  Canadian artist Jessy Lanza, whose sophomore album Oh No made it to a number of year-end Best Of lists, has announced a spring North American tour. She'll be joined by Kate NV for the tour...
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• Horoscopes: March

  01-03-2017 18:50 via bkmag.com
  
  Pisces | Feb 19–Mar 20
  Top o’ the mornin’ to ya, Pisces! It’s the perfect time of year to tip a pint of Guinness and remind yourself that the story of St. Patrick is kind of full of shit. The Irish icon was born in Wales, and it’s pretty easy to cast out all the snakes from a country that never had any. So, don’t worry how you’re seen right now. Your myth will be bigger, weirder, faker than that.Aries | Mar 21–Apr 19
  Feeling feisty,
  
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• She-Devils signed to Secretly Canadian, share "The World Laughs," playing Brooklyn this week, SXSW & more

  01-03-2017 18:42
  
  Montreal duo She-Devils (Audrey Ann Boucher and Kyle Jukka) have signed with Secretly Canadian. While there's been no album announcement, She-Devils do have a new single "The World Laughs"...
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• Grandaddy played first NYC show in over 10 years @ LPR w/ Beverly (pics/video, setlist, review)

  01-03-2017 18:29
  
  Sure, the band looked a little older (so did most of the crowd) but otherwise little has changed for the Modesto, CA band whose new album, 'Last Place,' is a welcome return and whose sound hasn't aged a bit.
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• Inside Akhtar Nawab’s Alta Calidad, a Quality Cantina in Chuko’s Original Digs

  01-03-2017 18:04 via bkmag.com
  
  Save for a brief opening stint at Café de la Esquina, Akhtar Nawab has proved a decidedly Manhattan-centric chef—serving as right-hand man at Tom Colicchio’s restaurants, flitting through the West Village with his debut eatery, Elettaria, and debuting a duo of fast-casual, potentially franchisable concepts, Choza and Indie Fresh. So instead of descending on the borough with a prestige, hotel-anchoring establishment (an increasingly de rigueur entry into Brooklyn, for various B
  
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• Rhode Island lawmakers congratulate Oscar-winner Viola Davis

  01-03-2017 18:03
  
  Rhode Island lawmakers have passed a resolution congratulating Viola Davis for winning an Oscar
  
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• Dine out during Brooklyn Feeds to help close the meal gap

  01-03-2017 17:57
  
  Drink a beer at Three’s Brewing on March 7, or any one of the 20 restaurants and bars participating in Brooklyn Feeds, and help combat food insecurity. Photo: Three’s Brewing
  This coming Tuesday, March 7, roughly 20 restaurants around Brooklyn will be offering a deal for diners: eat or drink at their restaurant, and they will help feed people who cannot afford basic meals.
  The event, called Brooklyn Feeds, is the brainchild of Jennifer Friedlin, a former journalist and founder of th
  
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• So presidential: Baldwin working on Trump satire

  01-03-2017 17:11
  
  Alec Baldwin has found a new way to mock Donald Trump
  
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• The Latest: 1 juror dismissed in ex-NFL star's murder trial

  01-03-2017 17:05
  
  A juror in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has been dismissed after a police officer scheduled to testify told the court they had once coached a football team together
  
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• Correction: France-Paris Fashion Week-Watch story

  01-03-2017 16:59
  
  Correction: France-Paris Fashion Week-Watch story
  
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• Contemporary Color Shows Us a Better America Than We Deserve

  01-03-2017 16:50 via bkmag.com
  
  Contemporary ColorDirected by Bill and Turner RossOpens March 1 at the IFC Center
  “The world has changed,” David Byrne says to the crowd near the end of the virtuous and euphoric concert film Contemporary Color. Backstage, in an empty dressing room, a TV tuned to CNN shows the White House lit up in a rainbow to celebrate the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision. A document of summer 2015’s concerts in Brooklyn, for which Byrne paired up musicians and color guards from sc
  
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• Checkov’s Drunkle Vanya Comes to Life amidst a Feast at the Russian Samovar

  01-03-2017 16:42 via bkmag.com
  
  While the Russian Tea Room is almost as iconic as neighboring Carnegie Hall, it’s the Russian Samovar where expats flock for authentic grub. Tucked into a narrow spot on West 54th Street near 8th Avenue amidst Broadway theaters, this restaurant feels like a portal to Moscow with its extensive menu of infused vodkas, dim lighting, and an overly enthusiastic piano player who can be heard from their second floor.
  It’s up here in the aptly named Tolstoy’s Lounge that
  
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• Mr. T, Simone Biles among new 'Dancing with the Stars' cast

  01-03-2017 16:35
  
  Mr. T, Simone Biles and Nancy Kerrigan are among the competitors for the upcoming season of "Dancing with the Stars."
  
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• Pies, pizza and potatoes: Real food takes a bow onstage

  01-03-2017 15:36
  
  Real meat pies sold before a new stage production of "Sweeney Todd" are just part of a new wave of real food invading the world of theater, which ups the realism as well as the immersive experience
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, March 1-7

  01-03-2017 15:24 via bkmag.com
  
  Boy (1969)Directed by Nagisa Oshima
  Vivre sa vie (1962)Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  While his real mother lies dying of tuberculosis, a ten-year-old boy, being raised by a loafing World War II veteran and his new wife, plays rock-paper-scissors and hide-and-go-seek with imaginary friends. Toshio—known to his parents only as “Boy”—has hopes to become an alien one day, and he shares his quixotic daydreams with his toddler brother, PeeWee, who cannot speak but is enamored of
  
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• [NOT FOR NUTHIN’] I didn’t watch the Oscars, but here’s what I think about it!

  01-03-2017 15:04
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyI stuck to my guns and did not watch the Oscars. I promised myself that I would not entertain the show at all — but what good did that do me?
  The next day the headlines were inundated and abuzz with the colossal, epic, ginormous mistake made by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. The end is nigh! How crazed the airwaves were with the debacle!Hollywood was in tears, it was top news on the morning stations, radio hosts, televisi
  
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• Maverick dancer Polunin seeks to be David Beckham of ballet

  01-03-2017 14:20
  
  Sergei Polunin wants to shake up the ballet world by becoming the David Beckham of dance
  
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• White Sox's Abreu up next in Cuban ballplayer smuggling case

  01-03-2017 14:16
  
  Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu is up next as a prosecution witness in the trial of a Florida sports agent and a baseball trainer accused of smuggling Cuban players from the communist island
  
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• Fear and Loathing with Hannibal Buress

  01-03-2017 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s the first Friday night of 2017, and Hannibal Buress is sitting in a mostly-empty green room—all that’s on a table is a bottle of Jameson and a veggie platter—inside the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel. He’s just performed a corporate-tailored version of his stand-up set (complete with jokes about 401k’s, incredulousness over Donald Trump, and a comparison of Hillary Clinton to a crouton) at a private event in which he opened for Sting. At this point, Hannibal
  
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• Japan emperor to meet abandoned Vietnam families of soldiers

  01-03-2017 13:15
  
  Japan's emperor and empress, on a landmark visit to Vietnam, are expected to express their sympathies when they meet Thursday with Vietnamese women abandoned by their Japanese soldier husbands after World War II
  
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• Chance the Rapper added to Essence Festival

  01-03-2017 11:28
  
  Grammy winner Chance the Rapper has been added as a headliner to the Essence Festival in New Orleans this summer
  
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