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• Returning Home to Find Something New: Land of Talk’s Life After Youth

  23-05-2017 21:33 via bkmag.com
  
  A few weeks ago, I sat at my kitchen table and called Elizabeth Powell on Skype. After a couple rings, her face appeared on my screen. She waved and said hello from her home in Orillia, Ontario; I waved and said hello from my apartment in Brooklyn. And then, a glitch: I could hear everything Powell was saying, but to Powell I was mute. I started to mouth words in slow motion and brought my hand to my ear in the shape of a telephone: “I’ll call you on my cell!” I was hoping she&
  
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• Where to Celebrate Memorial Day in BK

  23-05-2017 17:36 via bkmag.com
  
  While we’re never eager to see the far side of spring, it’s hard not to get excited about the prospect of summer being just around the bend. And Memorial Day (make that Memorial Day Weekend), marks the unofficial start of barbecuing, beachcombing, and fruity, frozen drinks. Now’s the time to get primed for the season at the following summer-courting spots!Feltman’s/Kitchen 21
  Crowds reliably descend on Coney Island for the Mermaid Parade and the Fourth of July, but it onl
  
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• Kendrick Lamar Is On Future’s ‘Mask Off’ Remix

  23-05-2017 16:54 via bkmag.com
  
  RED ALERT. RED ALERT. Despite being the most meme’d song on the internet so far this year, Future’s relentless single, “Mask Off” has yet to lose any steam. I don’t think anyone’s sick of this song yet, somehow, despite it being played a zillion times already everywhere you go—and the summer’s only getting started. As if anyone needed any excuse to listen to it more—and, truly, we all know we were going to keep listening anyway—wel
  
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• Summer classes for your college-bound kids: King’s College London in Brooklyn

  23-05-2017 15:38
  
  King’s College London, one of the top 25 universities in the world, has an impressive range of summer classes for undergraduate and high school students in London, Berlin, and India. This summer, they’re expanding their prestigious program offerings to Downtown Brooklyn.
  The King’s Pre-University Summer School gives rising juniors and seniors a unique taste of the British college experience while attending classes at the Brooklyn Friends School from August 7-18.
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• Bookin’ it! Bikers race to visit all borough branches in library-sponsored tour

  23-05-2017 15:33
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperTalk about a litera-tour!Cyclists trekked Kings County one booklender at a time on May 20, in a race to visit all 61 Brooklyn Public Library branches within a strict time limit that was sponsored by the institution.
  Obstacles in the form of survey-wielding librarians who asked contestants to rate their experience as they pedaled to the finish intensified the challenge of booking it from branch to branch, according to a participant.
  
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• R-evolting! Southern Brooklynites to lose overnight cleaners at nine ‘toilet-like’ R stops

  23-05-2017 15:28
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperDon’t call it a clean sweep.A new Metropolitan Transportation Authority program will cut the number of overnight janitors at Bay Ridge and Sunset Park subway stations from four to one, not nearly enough hands to clean the nine R train stops that some degenerate riders use as a public toilet each night, according to a rep with the union behind the custodians.
  “That line is crazy when it comes to sanitation. It’
  
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• Your guide to the best summer concerts

  23-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyTime to get out and get down! This summer, you can bask in Brooklyn’s full program of outdoor concerts! So say goodbye to the air-conditioner for an afternoon — or an evening — and head out to the parks, where the music will be hot, hot, hot! There are more concerts happening than you can shake a tail feather at, but we have put together a list of some of the season’s must-see performances:Celebrate!
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• R-evolting! Southern Brooklynites to lose overnight cleaners at nine R stops

  23-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyDon’t call it a clean sweep.A new Metropolitan Transportation Authority program will cut the number of overnight janitors at Bay Ridge and Sunset Park subway stations from four to one, not nearly enough hands to clean the nine R train stops that some degenerate riders use as a public toilet each night according to a rep with the union behind the custodians.
  “That line is crazy when it comes to sanitation. It’s
  
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• Pride marched into Brighton Beach!

  23-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThey made history in Brighton Beach!Hundreds of marchers descended on Little Odessa for the first-ever Russian-speaking Pride March on May 20. Brighton Beach is known for its conservative values that many of its immigrant residents brought with them from the former Soviet Union, but marchers proudly stood tall as they walked along the boardwalk to show their neighbors that they refuse to hide, said Luis Santiago, from the group AC
  
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• On the run! Brooklynites burn rubber in half marathon

  23-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThey hit the ground running!
  More than 27,000 runners wound their way through the borough for the Airbnb Brooklyn Half Marathon on May 20. The race sliced through eight neighborhoods and exposed runners to some lesser-known nabes. Even Brooklyn-born joggers discovered new bits of the borough, said one runner.
  “It forced me to slow down and actually look at all the neighborhoods,” said Carnise native David Yung who r
  
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• Kids choir, bouncy castle delight at BayFest

  23-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyIt was a “BIG” day in the Bay!
  Hundreds of families kicked off the start of warmer weather and longer days during the Bay Improvement Group’s 26th annual BayFest in Sheepshead Bay on May 21. Youngsters jumped away on the fan-favorite bouncy castle and everyone enjoyed the beats from local bands, but the kids choir from nearby school PS 52 was a highlight, said a leader of the group.
  “The PS 52 choir, known
  
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• All the world’s a stage! Your guide to this summer’s outdoor theater

  23-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matt JohnBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn is double, double, toil and trouble-ing down on “Macbeth!” Summer is here, and so is Shakespeare in the parks! This year, two theater companies in Kings County will take on the tragic tale of Scottish king Macbeth as part of their al fresca entertainment, while a third tackles the bloody history of Shakespeare’s “Richard III.” But it is not all serious this summer! Piper Theatre Productions will
  
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