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• Endless Boogie prep new LP (listen), playing shows; frontman Paul Major releasing book 'Feel the Music'

  16-05-2017 23:44
  
  Endless Boogie, the well-named, badass NYC rock band led by Paul Major, will release their new album, Vibe Killer, this Friday (May 19) via No Quarter. Matt Sweeny (Chavez) is back in the lineup these days...
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• Sisterhood of the Unraveling Plans: Paint It Black

  16-05-2017 23:16 via bkmag.com
  
  Paint It BlackDirected by Amber TamblynOpens May 19
  Amber Tamblyn has arguably been the least visible of the on-screen sisterhood of the traveling pants, at least among the non-CBS demographic. America Ferrara has a blossoming NBC sitcom, Alexis Bledel has Gilmore Girls forever, and Blake Lively was in The Shallows, motherfuckers. But Tamblyn’s gig as a Charlie Sheen replacement on Two and a Half Men, while probably technically higher-profile than any of those, is destined for cultural-foo
  
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• Public Service Broadcasting share "They Gave Me A Lamp" from new LP, announce tour

  16-05-2017 22:48
  
  PSB's new album 'Every Valley' is out July 7 via Play it Again Sam.
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• Phil Lesh adds Central Park show; new 'Long Strange Trip' trailer out now

  16-05-2017 22:28
  
  Amir Bar-Lev and Martin Scorsese's Grateful Dead documentary 'Long Strange Trip' will also screen in US theaters on May 25, ahead of its official release date.
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• Walter Blakenship talks Kensington Stables on BPR!

  16-05-2017 21:36
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperHold onto your horses!That’s what Walter Blankenship, who runs the Kensington Stables in Windsor Terrace, told hosts Gersh Kuntzman and Vince DiMiceli he wants to do now that a judge has ordered him to pay debts his deceased dad racked up on the beloved Greater Park Slope Area horse home.But the only way to keep the 32 steeds aged 10 to 30 in their home would be to sell the now-bankrupt stable to a savior who would then fi
  
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• III Points Festival: 2017 lineup & tickets (Gorillaz, The xx, Nicolas Jaar & more)

  16-05-2017 21:35
  
  III Points Music, Art & Technology Festival takes place October 13 - 15 in Miami, FL.
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• Smidley and Saintseneca release new songs ahead of tour with Tigers Jaw

  16-05-2017 21:18
  
  Tigers Jaw are releasing their anticipated new album spin this Friday (5/19) and they'll begin a tour in DC that same day. Opening the tour is Saintseneca and Smidley (aka Foxing singer Conor Murphy), who both have new songs out today.
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• Gowanus Yacht Club is open for the summer!

  16-05-2017 21:17
  
  Nightlife: Set sail for day-drinking! Read more.
  
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• David Bazan's new band Lo Tom announce first-ever tour

  16-05-2017 20:42
  
  The Barsuk-signed band also features other members of Pedro the Lion, plus members of Starflyer 59, His Name Is Alive, and more.
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• Shaky Knees Festival 2017 pics (The xx, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix & more)

  16-05-2017 20:37
  
  LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, The xx, Wolf Parade, Ryan Adams, Pixies, Cloud Nothings, The Shins, Third Eye Blind, Warpaint, Car Seat Headrest, Sylvan Esso, Dr. Dog, Pinegrove, and more played the edition of 2017 Shaky Knees Festival.
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• Whitewashing, Crowdfunding, Podcasting, Pitching... and bringing FEUD: Bette and Joan to life: Industry Workshops and Panels of the 7th Annual Art of Brooklyn Film Fest aim to illuminate and educate.

  16-05-2017 20:36
  
  As a filmmaker-focused event — and the only film festival exclusively devoted to the Brooklyn scene — The Art of Brooklyn is always looking for new ways to help emerging creators grow and succeed, while recognizing the hurdles and issues artists face.​For 2o17 we've teamed up with industry players to bring a slate of educational workshops and hot-button panel discussions to our filmmakers and audiences. We've even programmed a block of them on Saturday, June 10 at St. Francis C
  
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• Dent May announces new LP, shares duet with Frankie Cosmos

  16-05-2017 20:15
  
  Dent's new album, 'Across the Multiverse,' is out in August.
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• Pioneer Works hosting "Grand Ole Opera" w/ Sleep, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, more

  16-05-2017 20:04
  
  "The truly singular project combines art with musical performances," and also features Angel Deradoorian, Circuit des Yeux, The Body, Moor Mother, Hank Woods and the Hammerheads, and more.
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• “Read More Octavia Butler”: John Jennings and Damian Duffy on their Graphic Novel Adaptation of Kindred

  16-05-2017 18:55 via bkmag.com
  
  Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 masterpiece, Kindred, ties the fate of Dana, black writer from the Californian 1970s to her white, slave-owning ancestor in antebellum Maryland. In 2017, this time-travel epic was adapted by illustrator John Jennings and writer Damian Duffy into a stunning graphic novel, one that’s already become a New York Times bestseller. Brooklyn Magazine spoke with both about their experiences with this classic of historical and science fiction.
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• Don't Miss These 10 World-Class Flicks from Kings County at the 2017 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival

  16-05-2017 18:08
  
  Dave Chan, award-winning screenwriter and Guest Festival Director for the 7th Annual Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, names his "Don't Miss List" of the over 40 Official Selections of 2017. AoBFF is the only fest in the world exclusively devoted to work of the borough's world-famous indie film and media scene. AoBFF runs June 3-11 with a slate of fantastic new Brooklyn independent films, workshops, panels and industry events in venues around the borough.BROOKLYN, N.Y. - May 16, 2017 
  
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• Venus Keeps Us At A Distance

  16-05-2017 17:31 via bkmag.com
  
  There is a curious sign outside of the theater where Suzan-Lori Parks’s play Venus is playing that says the production contains “simulated nudity,” and this is explained right away when Zainab Jah makes her entrance and dons a body suit that gives her the curves of the historical personage she is playing, Saartjie Baartman, a South African girl who was exhibited as “The Venus Hottentot” in the early nineteenth century.
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• “I’ll Do the Fingering”: Alien: Covenant

  16-05-2017 15:09 via bkmag.com
  
  Alien: CovenantDirected by Ridley ScottOpens May 19
  For all of its grave, absurd self-seriousness and delusions of profundity, Prometheus (2012) was a welcome return to familiar territory for its director, and it supplied pleasures that had little to do with recalling the classic Alien (1979), still Ridley Scott’s best movie. These included a free-time-killing Michael Fassbender as a “synthetic” (android), happily bicycling around the title starship tossing basketballs into hoo
  
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• Despite Some Great Fassbender, Alien: Covenant Is More Of The Same

  16-05-2017 15:09 via bkmag.com
  
  Alien: CovenantDirected by Ridley ScottOpens May 19
  For all of its grave, absurd self-seriousness and delusions of profundity, Prometheus (2012) was a welcome return to familiar territory for its director, and it supplied pleasures that had little to do with recalling the classic Alien (1979), still Ridley Scott’s best movie. These included a free-time-killing Michael Fassbender as a “synthetic” (android), happily bicycling around the title starship tossing basketballs into hoo
  
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• Today! Walter Blakenship talks Kensington Stables on BPR!

  16-05-2017 14:59
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.Brooklyn PaperHold your horses!Walter Blakenship from Kensington Stables in Windsor Terrace joins Gersh and Vince on today’s scintillating edition of Brooklyn Paper Radio on which they’ll discuss the venerable horse house’s history and future.Also on the show, Stepehn Rex Brown of the Daily News discusses his birthday.Sounds like another jam-packed edition of Brooklyn Paper Radio, which will be aired later today as we finish our transition fr
  
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• Changing of the guard at the Brooklyn Bar Association

  16-05-2017 14:47
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By James HarneyBrooklyn PaperOnce again, it was out with the old, in with the new.The Brooklyn Bar Association unveiled its newest leadership roster May 5 at its annual meeting in Brooklyn Heights, bidding farewell to outgoing president Frank Seddio and welcoming his successor, Aimee Richter.
  Seddio, who heads the Brooklyn Democratic Party and the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, said addressing the 145-year-old bar association for the last time as its presid
  
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• New health center speaks to all residents: Staffers at Prospect-Leffferts facility fluet in three languages

  16-05-2017 14:41
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By James HarneyThey’re speaking everyone’s language.A new health center in diverse Prospect-Lefferts Gardens has staffers who speak Haitian Creole and Spanish — along with color-coded signs translated into those tongues as well as English — to help staying healthy easier on to the large immigrant population there.“The fact that many area families are immigrants with health plans that are not widely accepted has caused many to only
  
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• New health center speaks to all residents: Staffers at Prospect-Leffferts facility fluent in three languages

  16-05-2017 14:41
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By James HarneyThey’re speaking everyone’s language.A new health center in diverse Prospect-Lefferts Gardens has staffers who speak Haitian Creole and Spanish — along with color-coded signs translated into those tongues as well as English — to help staying healthy easier on to the large immigrant population there.“The fact that many area families are immigrants with health plans that are not widely accepted has caused many to only
  
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• It’s the senior Olypmics! Torch relay kicks off senior games

  16-05-2017 14:41
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperIn this relay, every runner is on their last leg! ;)Athletic oldsters kicked off the Parks Department’s Senior Games with a Brooklyn torch run. Seniors snaked from Green Point to Bay Ridge to Brownsville in a heart-pumping tour of the borough that exposed even lifelong-Brooklynites to changes in the nabes, said one torch bearer.
  “You got to see how one neighborhood changes to the next and the cultural diversity in p
  
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• It’s the senior Olympics! Torch relay kicks off senior games

  16-05-2017 14:41
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperIn this relay, every runner is on their last leg! ;)Athletic oldsters kicked off the Parks Department’s Senior Games with a Brooklyn torch run. Seniors snaked from Green Point to Bay Ridge to Brownsville in a heart-pumping tour of the borough that exposed even lifelong-Brooklynites to changes in the nabes, said one torch bearer.
  “You got to see how one neighborhood changes to the next and the cultural diversity in p
  
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• Pride is marching into Brighton Beach

  16-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThey’re making history in Brighton Beach — and they’re proud!Marchers in the country’s first-ever Russian-speaking pride march — Brighton Beach Pride — is making will be making their way through Little Odessa on May 20 to show the enclave of conservative Russians that they’re here and they’re queer.
  The seaside neighborhood is home to large groups of Russian-speaking immigrants who f
  
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• No regrets: Former Prep star not questioning college decision

  16-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyHe’s has no regrets.Poly Prep grad Daniel Bakst was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 27th round in the 2016 Major League Baseball draft, but the former Blue Devils standout opted to take the college route instead, and honored his commitment to Stanford University.It’s a decision that’s paid off in baseball-spades, and now, Bakst is primed to lead the Cardinal on a deep postseason run this spring.“I wa
  
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• New health center speaks to all residents: Staffers at Prospect-Lefferts Gardens facility are fluent in three languages

  16-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By James HarneyThey’re speaking everyone’s language.A new health center in diverse Prospect-Lefferts Gardens has staffers who speak Haitian Creole and Spanish — along with color-coded signs translated into those tongues as well as English — to help staying healthy easier on to the large immigrant population there.“The fact that many area families are immigrants with health plans that are not widely accepted has caused many to only
  
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• New health center speaks to all residents: Staffers at Prospect-Lefferts facility fluent in three languages

  16-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By James HarneyThey’re speaking everyone’s language.A new health center in diverse Prospect-Lefferts Gardens has staffers who speak Haitian Creole and Spanish — along with color-coded signs translated into those tongues as well as English — to help staying healthy easier on to the large immigrant population there.“The fact that many area families are immigrants with health plans that are not widely accepted has caused many to only
  
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• Lords of the helm! Viking fest welcomes swords and Swedes

  16-05-2017 06:00
  
  Event: They are Vikings for a day! Read more.
  
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• Hard-hitting hornets: Midwood cruises to victory over GSC to wrap up division

  16-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matthew JohnBrooklyn DailyThis is just the beginning.The Midwood baseball team celebrated Senior Day in style on May 12, as the Hornets cruised to a 10–3 victory over divisional rival Grand Street Campus. The squad, however, was far from satisfied.
  “We’re playing at a very high level right now,” Midwood coach Saverio Nardone said. It’s just all about gaining momentum and going into the playoffs. Obviously, the ultimate goal is
  
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• Cosmos notch comeback in first victory at MCU

  16-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyFinally, it felt like home.The Cosmos picked up their first victory at Coney Island’s MCU Park, mounting a big-time comeback to defeat Puerto Rico FC 4–3 on May 14. The squad clawed back from an early two-goal deficit to grab a key three points and jump into second place in the league standings.“We came out flat, but we turned it around so quick,” said defender Ryan Richter. “Even before [the red card]
  
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• Don’t Pass Me By: River Deli, the ultimate neighborhood restaurant

  16-05-2017 03:15
  
  Photo: Georgia Kral
  We sat closely together at a round table, tucked into the corner of the restaurant on a blustery fall evening. I don’t recall what we talked about, but I know what we ate: burrata, all luscious, creamy and oozing out onto the accompanying pane carasau–Sardinian flatbread–basil and tomato; pappardelle intermingling with mushrooms, garlic and Parmigiano; thick-cut lasagna, its shape more rectangular than square.
  I do remember when he pulled out a small box. I
  
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• Tonight! Ocean Parkway repaving begins!

  16-05-2017 00:20
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyOh, it’ll be a parkway.
  The State Department of Transportation will start ripping up and laying down asphalt on Ocean Parkway tonight — and it won’t stop until it’s resurfaced the entire Kensington-to-Brighton Beach roadway.
  Work for the $6.5 million project will be done in two phases each lasting about two weeks. The first span — Church Avenue in Prospect Park South to Avenue N in Midwood — wil
  
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