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• SXSW responds to artist contract backlash, apologizes to Told Slant

  03-03-2017 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The language in our Performance Agreement is intended to facilitate U.S. entry for international artists and to show CBP that SXSW takes visa issues seriously. This language has been part of the contracts since the summer of 2013, and we will be reviewing and amending it for 2018 and beyond," SXSW write.
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• Guest lecturer calls protesting students 'seriously scary'

  03-03-2017 23:34
  
  A libertarian author who's been called a white nationalist says Vermont college students who protested his guest lecture were "scary."
  
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• Chance the Rapper, Illinois governor discuss school funding

  03-03-2017 23:23
  
  Grammy-winning artist Chance the Rapper has used a meeting with Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner to press for immediate funding for Chicago Public Schools
  
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• Paula Fox, prize winning author, dead at 93

  03-03-2017 23:12
  
  Award-winning author Paula Fox has died at age 93
  
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• Subtle (very) 'gay moment' in new Disney film generates buzz

  03-03-2017 22:49
  
  A subtle scene in Disney's upcoming live-action version of 'Beauty and the Beast,' where Josh Gad's character seems to experience a "gay moment," in director Bill Condon's words, is generating buzz
  
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• Jon Seda stays on right side of law in 'Chicago Justice'

  03-03-2017 22:19
  
  Jon Seda is on the move from 'Chicago Fire' to 'Chicago P.D.' to newest spin-off 'Chicago Justice,' but he's happily settled in the Windy City
  
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• Paper apologizes for column tying Peterson case to slavery

  03-03-2017 22:16
  
  A Wisconsin newspaper is apologizing for a columnist who connected Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson's child abuse case to beatings suffered by slaves
  
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• Gay moment nixes 'Beauty and the Beast' at Alabama drive-in

  03-03-2017 22:07
  
  An Alabama drive-in theater won't show a new re-telling of the classic fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" because a character in the film is portrayed as homosexual
  
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• Texas man convicted of stealing comic books held as evidence

  03-03-2017 22:00
  
  A former district attorney investigator in Texas has been convicted of stealing more than $1 million in collectible comic books and sports memorabilia that was being held as evidence in a criminal case
  
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• an interview with Hurray for the Riff Raff on activism, her Puerto Rican heritage, and new LP

  03-03-2017 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We spoke to Alynda ahead of her tour to discuss getting in touch with her Puerto Rican roots, the importance of activism as an artist, and how to stay strong during Trump's presidency. Stream the new album and read on for the interview...
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• Dying author pens essay with dating profile of husband

  03-03-2017 21:13
  
  An author who says she only has days to live after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer has penned an essay that contains a dating profile for her husband
  
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• Schwarzenegger on 'Celebrity Apprentice': I quit

  03-03-2017 21:09
  
  Arnold Schwarzenegger quits after one season as host of 'Celebrity Apprentice.'
  
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• Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo played 'Black Snake Diamond Role' & more at Bowery (pics, video, setlist, review)

  03-03-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robyn Hitchcock played his second Black Snake Diamond Röle shows with Yo La Tengo as his backing band on Wednesday (3/1) at Bowery Ballroom, one of the more enjoyable shows I've seen in a while. As someone who got to see Robyn a few times with The Egyptians, it was a real treat to see him electric with a band...
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• Iranians celebrate 2nd Oscars win for Farhadi

  03-03-2017 20:48
  
  Hundreds of Iranians have gathered at Tehran Cinema Museum to celebrate Asghar Farhadi's Academy Awards win for best foreign language film
  
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• Review: Ed Sheeran shows vast talent in new album 'Divide'

  03-03-2017 20:43
  
  On "Divide," British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran shoots out a dozen, vastly different songs that showcase his tremendous musical ability, from misty ballads to hip-hop, and each one is calculated to find a happy ear somewhere
  
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• Jurors in Aaron Hernandez murder trial see site of killings

  03-03-2017 20:32
  
  Jurors in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez have viewed the scene where two men were fatally shot in July 2012
  
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• Shirley MacLaine sets the record straight

  03-03-2017 19:45
  
  Shirley MacLaine at 82 has had an epiphany about her life and career
  
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• Palberta: A Carnival of Controlled Chaos

  03-03-2017 19:45 via bkmag.com
  
  On the back of the Bye Bye Berta album cover there’s a transcription of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” that Ani wrote as a child. The spelling might not be entirely accurate and the letters might not all be orthodox, but you can see her undeniable confidence there. It comes from a place of youth and wonder that is hard, if not impossible, for most people to find again. But that’s exactly where all of Palberta’s albums come from.
  New York City natives Lily Konigsberg, Anin
  
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• Dave Chappelle playing Gramercy Theatre this weekend, releasing Netflix specials

  03-03-2017 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dave Chappelle is performing for Gramercy Theatre's 10th anniversary. There is also now a release date for two of his Netflix specials.
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• TV commentator makes equality an issue in Dutch elections

  03-03-2017 19:18
  
  TV commentator Sylvana Simons is taking her campaign for equality in Dutch society into the country's parliamentary elections
  
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• Tenor Jonas Kaufmann cancels at Met Opera yet again

  03-03-2017 19:10
  
  Jonas Kaufmann canceled at the Metropolitan Opera yet again, this time his appearances in a new staging of Puccini's "Tosca" that opens on New Year's Eve
  
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• Five Notable Releases of the Week (3/3)

  03-03-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week's Notable Releases include the highly impressive debut by Holly Macve, and four long-running indie rock bands.
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• Fly ’70s fashion and Brooklyn: Watch Swet Shop Boys’s “Aja”

  03-03-2017 18:47 via bkmag.com
  
  We are extremely lucky to be living in history’s second greatest moment of South Asian men in 1970s fashion (following close behind the actual 1970s). Earlier this week, we had Dev Patel in GQ looking like the flyest motherfucker on the planet.good afternoon to everyone but especially 1970s aesthetic dev patel pic.twitter.com/dTFB46xiVc
  — bookmobile bad girl (@rubybrunton) March 1, 2017
  Now, we have Riz Ahmed sitting cross-legged with hella fly hair and insanely stylish flowing &lsqu
  
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• Deerhunter playing Warsaw after tour with Kings of Leon

  03-03-2017 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Deerhunter's last NYC show was at MSG with Kings of Leon and their next show in the area will be at NJ's PNC Bank Arts Center with Kings of Leon. If you'd like to see Deerhunter here at a smaller show without Kings of Leon, you're in luck...
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• Good Is The New Cool: ManBun

  03-03-2017 18:36 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’.The Fifties had the pompadour. The Eighties had the Mullet. And now? We have the Man-bun. Object of derision or outre fashion statement? Whatever your take on it, there is one company that has decided to create some social good out of it. We caught up with Co-Founder Esteban Gast  to talk about how
  
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• Arnold Schwarzenegger opens up about affair, Trump feud

  03-03-2017 18:36
  
  Arnold Schwarzenegger says he doesn't dwell on the affair that cost him his marriage to Maria Shriver and is focused on having a great relationship with his kids
  
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• Remy Ma has no chill: Rapper disses Nicki Minaj again

  03-03-2017 18:27
  
  Almost a week after releasing the hostile "Shether," Remy Ma debuted a song track dissing fellow female rapper Nicki Minaj
  
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• Noname & Ravyn Lenae @ Le Poisson Rouge (pics)

  03-03-2017 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After kicking off their tour in their hometown (pics), Chicago artists Noname and Ravyn Lenae came to NYC for a show at Le Poisson Rouge last night...
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• Craig Finn playing NYC album release show after Japandroids tour

  03-03-2017 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Craig will be backed by the same people he recorded most of the album with: Stuart Bogie, Sam Kassirer, Josh Kaufman, Joe Russo, and Jon Shaw.
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• Day 43/100: Loamlands "Hear Me Now"

  03-03-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's part of the 'Our First 100 Days' protest series.
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• Evan Greer, Killer Mike, Ted Leo, PWR BTTM, And More Demand SXSW Contract Reform In Open Letter

  03-03-2017 17:39 via bkmag.com
  
  After yesterday’s discovery and publication of some questionable language used in the contracts for musical acts participating in official SXSW showcases, and Brooklyn band Told Slant’s cancellation of their appearance at the festival, today a number of very notable and renowned acts have responded.
  In a letter cosigned by acts including, but not limited to legendary rapper Killer Mike, rising-star rockers PWR BTTM, punk rock icon Ted Leo, Evan Greer—a touring queer singer
  
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• In Atlanta, anti-Semitism is viewed through lens of history

  03-03-2017 16:14
  
  As police investigate more vandalism at Jewish institutions, members of Atlanta's Jewish community have felt a familiar wave of apprehension because it's happened in the city before
  
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• Sunny Balzano’s Widow is the One-Woman Force Keeping Sunny’s Alive

  03-03-2017 16:01 via bkmag.com
  
  Amongst Brooklyn’s famed bars, Sunny’s has achieved almost mythic status: a magical den of bluegrass and whisky, hidden down by the harbor in Red Hook, where long nights roll into pink-hued mornings looking over cobblestone streets, as the last of the musicians leave for the night, their instruments tucked under their arm and a skip in their step.
  But while many of the bar’s disciples recognize its charismatic namesake—the late Antonio “Sunny” Balzano, with hi
  
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] Today on Brooklyn Paper Radio: Comedian Katie Goodman

  03-03-2017 16:01
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperToday on Brooklyn Paper Radio, the boys sit down in-studio with Brooklyn comedy legend Katie Goodman, whose new album “Halfway Closer to Dead” features such instant classics as “Nazis Get All the P----.” “Boobs Look Funny When You’re Having Sex,” and the seminal “Give Me a Man Over Forty,” a clear reference to single-and-dating behemoth Gersh Kuntzman, who Goodman has never e
  
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• Rare comic books with Superman, Batman debuts go to auction

  03-03-2017 15:42
  
  A rare comic book collection including Superman and Batman debuts is going to auction
  
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• Poacher in DiCaprio documentary gets 12 years in prison

  03-03-2017 15:07
  
  Poacher spotlighted in DiCaprio-backed documentary gets 12 years in prison
  
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• Pirates' Kang gets suspended 2-year jail term for crash

  03-03-2017 14:02
  
  Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang a suspended two-year prison sentence for fleeing the scene after crashing a car into a guardrail while driving under the influence of alcohol
  
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• The Future Is Where We Already Live: The Human Surge

  03-03-2017 13:24 via bkmag.com
  
  The Human SurgeDirected by Eduardo WilliamsOpens March 3 at the Metrograph
  With The Human Surge, a debut feature that defies categorization and other expectations besides, the Argentinean director Eduardo Williams has done nothing less than attempt to rewire narrative cinema for the information age. It’s a testament to his talent that he so often succeeds. Adopting the relay race as a structuring principle, Williams immerses the viewer in three successive environments—teleporting, a
  
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• Pop stars Shakira and Carlos Vives sued for plagiarism

  03-03-2017 12:57
  
  A Cuban singer and music producer has filed a plagiarism lawsuit against pop stars Shakira and Carlos Vives for allegedly copying excerpts of a decade-old song in the Colombian duo's award-winning music hit "La Bicicleta."
  
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• Paris Jackson joins Gisele, Hadids on IMG models roster

  03-03-2017 12:51
  
  Paris Jackson joining one of the world's top modeling agencies in IMG
  
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• British spymasters use movie ad to seek more diverse agents

  03-03-2017 12:49
  
  Britain's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service is using a movie-theater ad in its push for more agents
  
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• Atlanta history teaches the violent toll of anti-Semitism

  03-03-2017 12:36
  
  As authorities investigate bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish institutions nationwide, members of Atlanta's Jewish community have felt a familiar wave of apprehension because it's happened there before
  
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• Israeli and Iranian musicians unite for Tel Aviv concert

  03-03-2017 09:15
  
  Rockers in Israeli-Iranian concert show that despite their countries' enmity, ordinary people can find common ground
  
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• Film academy president reassures members after Oscar botch

  03-03-2017 07:33
  
  The president of the film academy has sent an email to its members telling them they have much to be proud of after this year's Oscars ceremony
  
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• Campground owner who founded country concert in Ohio dies

  03-03-2017 06:06
  
  A western Ohio man who each summer turned his family campground into one of the largest outdoor concerts in the nation has died
  
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• [►VIDEO, MUSIC] Film pick: Guitar becomes a canvas in Greenpoint show

  03-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperShe plays a screening guitar!A Greenpoint guitarist will host a multi-sensory show in a church in her home neighborhood next week, playing hot licks while trippy visuals are projected onto her instrument. The musician behind “The Neck is a Bridge to the Body,” at the San Damiano Mission on March 7, says that the eye-pleasing gig has opened up her instrumental music to new audiences.“I think it’s opened up thi
  
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• [►VIDEO, GREENPOINT] Film pick: Guitar becomes a canvas in Greenpoint show

  03-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyShe plays a screening guitar!A Greenpoint guitarist will host a multi-sensory show in a church in her home neighborhood next week, playing hot licks while trippy visuals are projected onto her instrument. The musician behind “The Neck is a Bridge to the Body,” at the San Damiano Mission on March 7, says that the eye-pleasing gig has opened up her instrumental music to new audiences.“I think it’s opened up thi
  
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• [PARTY LINE] Hikind lashes out at Menchaca

  03-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyAssemblyman Dov Hikind says he can’t forgive Councilman Carlos Menchaca for a second slight against Israel and won’t support the one-time ally in his 2017 reelection campaign.Menchaca (D–Sunset Park) came under fire when he joined hundreds of protesters rallying against the Trump Administration a few weeks ago and chanted “All the walls have got to go, from Palestine to Mexico,” just six months after
  
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• [MILL BASIN] Construction on controversial Kristal Automall underway

  03-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThe city’s largest minority-owned car dealership — Kristal Automall in Canarsie — is finally making progress on moving into its controversial new home on Flatbush Avenue in Mill Basin, right next to the big box toy retailer, Toys ‘R’ Us.
  The site where it is going up — about the size of two football fields — sat abandoned for the past few years, so any activity there is welcome, said Commu
  
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• [MANHATTAN BEACH] KCC educating aging academics for 35 years

  03-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailySchool seniors — meaning adults over age 60, not those in their last semester before graduation — signed up for classes at Kingsborough Community College on Feb. 23, through the Manhattan Beach campus’s My Turn program, which offers more than 400 classes to senior scholars free of charge.
  The college launched the program 35 years ago for New Yorkers over 60 as a way to offer a free education in almost any subject
  
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