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• Dolly Parton distributes last checks to wildfire victims

  05-05-2017 23:59
  
  Dolly Parton's Dollywood Foundation has given $10,000 each to nearly 900 families displaced by deadly wildfires in Tennessee last year
  
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• The Feelies played NJ & Philly (setlists, video) ++ win tix to 1st Rough Trade show

  05-05-2017 23:50
  
  The Feelies play three shows at Brooklyn's Rough Trade to celebrate their new LP 'In Between'.
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• The Latest: Hernandez's suicide note: 'I'm always with you'

  05-05-2017 23:34
  
  Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez urged his fiancee to "live life and know I'm always with you" in a suicide note he left in his prison cell
  
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• Rains Cause Severe Flooding in Gowanus

  05-05-2017 23:29 via bkmag.com
  
  Today’s rains have caused severe flooding in parts of Brooklyn. This seems to be centered around the Gowanus Canal, which has made another of its increasingly less rare floods.Pictures posted to social media from the music PR company Chart Room Media show cars struggling to pass through flooded streets, and other scenes that make Brooklyn look like Venice, the result of just a few hours of heavy rain today.
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• watch the Rolling Loud livestream HERE (Kendrick, Future, Migos & MUCH more)

  05-05-2017 22:57
  
  The stacked Miami rap festival Rolling Loud also has sets by Lil Wayne, A$AP Rocky, Travis Scott, Young Thug, Gucci Mane, Run the Jewels, Joey Bada$$, and more.
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• Records: Aaron Hernandez was member of Bloods street gang

  05-05-2017 22:48
  
  New released documents say former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was a member of the Bloods street gang and was once disciplined for having gang paraphernalia in prison
  
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• Rooftop Films announces 2017 Summer Series lineup

  05-05-2017 22:45
  
  It's the 21st year of Rooftop Films in NYC with outdoor screenings all over the city.
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• Online book club for Harry Potter fans to launch in June

  05-05-2017 22:43
  
  Author J.K. Rowling is launching a free online book club for fans and newcomers alike to her "Harry Potter" series
  
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• CBS, NBC also refuse to air Trump advertisement

  05-05-2017 22:42
  
  CBS and NBC have joined CNN in refusing to air an advertisement touting President Trump's accomplishments
  
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• PWR BTTM play "Answer My Text" with Petal in new video, add FREE NYC show

  05-05-2017 22:29
  
  PWR BTTM have a big sold-out Webster Hall show happening in June, and just added a much smaller FREE show at Rough Trade NYC for album release day.
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• The Latest: Records: Aaron Hernandez was Bloods gang member

  05-05-2017 21:53
  
  Newly released prison records say ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez was a member of the Bloods street gang.
  
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• Michelle Obama: My passion for education will linger on

  05-05-2017 21:42
  
  Former first lady Michelle Obama says her departure from the White House won't end her passion for education
  
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• Lee Ranaldo signs to Mute for new album 'Electric Trim'

  05-05-2017 21:32
  
  A documentary on the making of the album will screen at the Montclair Film Festival this weekend, and Lee will be there to play a few songs and give a Q&A on Saturday.
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• 2017 BAMcinemaFest: lineup and tickets

  05-05-2017 21:03
  
  The 2017 edition of BAMcinemaFest happens June 14 - 25.
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• Kath Bloom released new LP ft. Mark Kozelek & more, playing NYC this weekend

  05-05-2017 21:00
  
  Cult folk singer Kath Bloom released her 19th album, This Dream of Life back in March, which was recorded over the last five winters with guests Avi Buffalo, Imaad Wasif, and Mark Kozelek. Check out a video for "I Just Can't Make It Without You" off the new album, along with a stream of the title track, below...
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• Elder releasing 'Reflections of a Floating World' (stream a track)

  05-05-2017 20:47
  
  Lead single "The Falling Veil" is an 11-minute trip through proggy '70s guitar heroics.
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• Posthumous works from South America win translation awards

  05-05-2017 20:25
  
  Two posthumous works have won Best Translated Book Awards: A novel by the late Lucio Cardoso of Brazil and poetry by the late Alejandra Pizarnik of Argentina
  
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• Tour de Brooklyn: Five Boro Bike Tour will close roads throughout the borough Sunday

  05-05-2017 19:54
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyA parade of more than 32,000 cyclists will snake thier way through Brooklyn for the 40th-annual Five Boro Bike Tour, and motorists should expect road closures between 9 am–3:15 pm on Sunday.The 40-mile, cross-city race begins bright and early on the distant isle of Manhattan and ends in bucolic Staten Island, with the Kings County leg constituting a long middle stretch, as bikers enter over the Pulaski Bridge into Greenpoint,
  
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• Russia beats Sweden in shootout, Finland downs Belarus

  05-05-2017 19:28
  
  Russia beats Sweden in shootout at ice hockey worlds, Finland downs Belarus
  
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• Rapper T.I.: 'I have 2 or 3 albums left in me'

  05-05-2017 19:18
  
  Rapper T.I. made his voice heard taking a yearlong stance against social injustice in the black community, but now he's refocusing his attention on returning to his grittier style rap roots.
  
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• 'Guardians' sequel blasts off to $17M on opening night

  05-05-2017 19:05
  
  'Guardians of the Galaxy' sequel blasts off to $17M opening night, biggest opening of 2017 so far
  
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• Dianne Wiest Does Beckett in Happy Days

  05-05-2017 18:35 via bkmag.com
  
  Peggy Ashcroft said that the role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days was a “summit part” for women like Hamlet was for men, and that many actresses would want to test themselves against it. Dianne Wiest played Winnie in an acclaimed production at Yale Rep in 2016, and now she is playing this summit part at Theater for a New Audience in Brooklyn. Her Winnie is buried up to the waist in a veritable mountain of sand set against a very bright blue sky. There is a fancy red cu
  
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• Longtime residents: Don’t gentrify Fort Greene Park

  05-05-2017 18:30
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey want a people’s playground!
  Plans to makeover Fort Greene Park must include perks for the people who live in the public housing complexes surrounding it and shouldn’t just create a fancy facade to make the meadow look good for gentrifiers, neighbors demanded at a meeting p on Wednesday night.
  “We don’t want a vanity project, we don’t want a promenade, we don’t want more pavement,” said
  
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• It’s raccoons versus organic waste in Sheepshead Bay!

  05-05-2017 18:24
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyWill state-of-the-art composting cans finally help Southern Brooklynites prevail in their eternal war with local raccoons — or merely set them up for ignominious defeat?Brooklynites living along the borough’s southeastern shores fear their crafty neighborhood raccoons will wreak havoc on the city’s curbside composting program, which is set to roll out in Community Board 15 in June. The environmentally friendly pr
  
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• Flatbush Junction BID awarded funds for new street artwork

  05-05-2017 18:24
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyThey’re doing it the art way.The Flatbush Junction Business Improvement District has been awarded $30,000 in city funding, which officials plan to use to place new artworks on its busy commercial streets in an effort to boost business.“We’re looking to create more art installations for the Junction and put them on display as a way to ignite our local businesses to think outside the box and embracechange,”
  
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• Vogue's Anna Wintour made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II

  05-05-2017 17:57
  
  Britain's monarch has met a queen of the fashion world, as Vogue editor Anna Wintour was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II
  
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• An Orderly History of an Industry Constantly on the Verge: on Hope Nicholson’s ‘The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen’

  05-05-2017 17:57 via bkmag.com
  
  Has there ever been a better time to be a woman, a woman of color, a femme-identifying comics fan? The question is rhetorical but also fact. Any femme person in any geek or nerd archetype-adjacent industry knows that while these spaces are perhaps more visibly diverse and welcoming than ever, there are still rifts between appearances and actuality (though fewer than you might think). Perhaps the least obvious discrepancies appear in film and TV, where comics reach both a larger audience and shed
  
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• Canada's Trudeau sports Star Wars socks on May the 4th

  05-05-2017 17:55
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has shown off his Star Wars fandom by sporting socks featuring droids R2-D2 and C-3PO during a meeting with Ireland's prime minister on the unofficial Star Wars holiday
  
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• Review: Chris Stapleton delivers with honesty, rare talent

  05-05-2017 17:48
  
  Music Review: With "From A Room, Volume 1," Chris Stapleton proves he belongs in any conversation about the best things that have happened in country music in the past few decades
  
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• Josh Duhamel channels inner Ryan Seacrest in Times Square

  05-05-2017 17:21
  
  Josh Duhamel kicked off Cinco de Mayo with a special crystal ball drop in Times Square on Thursday, saying he could become the next Ryan Seacrest of the holiday
  
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• Dave Matthews, Wilco and sunshine on Jazz Fest schedule

  05-05-2017 16:51
  Wilco, Dave Matthews, Terence Blanchard and sunshine will be featured on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
  
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• The Personal Is Political: Julian Assange, Laura Poitras and Risk

  05-05-2017 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  RiskDirected by Laura PoitrasOpens May 5
  The first thing Julian Assange does in Risk is attempt to speak with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the phone. “You’re not important enough,” his assistant tells him after unsuccessfully lobbying her assistants to hand her phone. Assange’s reason for calling is noble—he wants to warn her about a trove of State department documents containing classified information that are soon going to be published by a different sour
  
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• Ex-deputy mayor to revive burlesque career for charity

  05-05-2017 15:28
  
  A former deputy mayor in New Jersey's second-largest city is resurrecting her former career as a burlesque dancer for charity
  
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• Prison: Aaron Hernandez elated about acquittal, not suicidal

  05-05-2017 15:14
  
  A Massachusetts prisons report says Aaron Hernandez was outwardly elated after his acquittal in a double murder trial and did not appear to have thoughts of suicide in the days before he killed himself in his prison cell
  
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• Deputy fired for waving weapons, quoting Denzel Washington

  05-05-2017 14:25
  
  A Florida sheriff's deputy is out of a job after officials say he waved his firearm and stun gun while quoting lines from Denzel Washington's character in "Training Day," a movie about a corrupt law enforcement officer
  
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• Andrew Garfield wows critics in London 'Angels in America'

  05-05-2017 14:16
  
  One of the landmark plays of the late 20th century, "Angels in America" is set in a deeply divided United States haunted by premonitions of apocalypse
  
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• 'Veep' stars respond to Australian injured while laughing

  05-05-2017 11:10
  
  An Australian lawmaker says he is stunned that he has grabbed the attention of stars of the U.S. television series "Veep" by laughing so hard at an episode that he choked on his sushi and knocked himself unconscious
  
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• Vote for the New York Aquarium’s next mural

  05-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperYou don’t have to be an a-fish-ionado to judge this art.
  Brooklynites can vote for their top three choices of designs in the New York Aquarium’s mural competition that aims to highlight the damaging effects of plastics on the ocean. Judges narrowed the field to seven finalists whose work carries a clear, ecofriendly message, said one of the judges.
  “We’re trying to show that garbage is not harmless. It g
  
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• The Ridge celebrates Cinco de Mayo!

  05-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyBay Ridge is ready for a fiesta!
  Get ready for the streets to flood green, white, and red for the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo. Use our southern neighbor’s victory over the French at the 1862 Battle of Puebla as your excuse to dress up, bust out the maracas, and knock back shots of tequila. Here is our guide to the celebración:Start things off slow with a happy hour visit to Lobo Loco (8530 Third Ave. at 86th S
  
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• Pitcher perfect: Boozy art show raises cash for Sunny’s Bar

  05-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperIt’s art that’s good enough to drink!A trio of artists inspired by alcohol will showcase their whiskey-filled work at Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook, as part of an ongoing fund-raising effort to preserve the endangered waterfront watering hole. Among the artists at the Booze Arts party on May 8 will be Brooklyn Heights artist John Tebeau, displaying five of his handmade prints of beloved local bars. Tebeau says that eac
  
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• Longtime residents: Don’t gentrify Fort Green Park

  05-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey want a people’s playground!
  Plans to makeover Fort Greene Park must include perks for the people who live in the public housing complexes surrounding it and shouldn’t just create a fancy facade to make the meadow look good for gentrifiers, neighbors demanded at a meeting p on Wednesday night.
  “We don’t want a vanity project, we don’t want a promenade, we don’t want more pavement,” said
  
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• Actors Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder expecting 1st baby

  05-05-2017 03:57
  
  Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder are expecting their 1st child, actors announce on Instagram
  
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• Venezuelans again take to streets as death toll jumps to 37

  05-05-2017 03:02
  
  Students battle tear gas-throwing police officers in demonstrations across Venezuela's capital as a two-month-old protest movement that shows no signs of letting up claimed more lives
  
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• Police: Hernandez cited Bible passage John 3:16 in suicide

  05-05-2017 01:37
  
  An investigative report on the suicide of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has confirmed that he wrote a reference to a biblical passage in ink on his forehead and in blood on the wall of his prison cell
  
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• A Star Wars role? You'll have to force it out of Laura Dern

  05-05-2017 01:29
  
  Laura Dern wasn't talking on Star Wars day about her character or role in the franchise's latest installment
  
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• Run for the Roses, Cincinnati style: Hamilton vs Ross in 40?

  05-05-2017 01:27
  
  Cincinnati Reds speedster Billy Hamilton says he'd like to race recently drafted Bengals receiver John Ross in a 40-yard dash for charity
  
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• Jay Z is on the music festival circuit; will perform at ACL

  05-05-2017 00:48
  
  Jay Z is in a festival state of mind: The rapper will perform at Austin City Limits in October, the festival announced Thursday
  
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• Political climate adds intensity to Mexican boxing showdown

  05-05-2017 00:42
  
  There's little subtlety in the TV commercial promoting the fight between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
  
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• Scherzer fans 11 as Nationals beat Diamondbacks 4-2

  05-05-2017 00:25
  
  Max Scherzer struck out a season-high 11 to bounce back from his worst outing this season, and the Washington Nationals defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2
  
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• Queen Latifah stars in movie about Flint water crisis

  05-05-2017 00:19
  
  Queen Latifah is hoping her role in a movie about the Flint water crisis will bring more attention to what she calls one of the great American tragedies of this century
  
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