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• Premiere: Elliot Moss—”Without The Lights” Live

  25-05-2017 18:22 via bkmag.com
  
  At only 23 years old, Elliot Moss is a shining talent in the indie community, combining multi-instrumentalist skills along with production and songwriting abilities. His debut album, Highspeeds, was put out before he could even legally have a beer in America.
  Recently, Moss put out another project, an EP titled Boomerang on Sounds Expensive. From that came the single “Without The Lights,” which has picked up a lot of steam, garnering over two million vie
  
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• Mystery solved! Russian billionaire’s yacht can’t dock because it is illegal

  25-05-2017 17:22
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperA yacht owned by a Russian oligarch that has floated in Gravesend Bay for more than a month — and drifted there throughout President Trump’s first visit to the city since taking office — is sitting idle because it is illegal for the vessel to dock.
  The massive German-made ship Le Grand Bleu is owned by Russian-born billionaire and oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler — who became a U.S. citizen in 1994 — fli
  
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• Loosie’s Cafe Embraces Day Drinking AND Matcha Spirulina Donuts

  25-05-2017 16:59 via bkmag.com
  
  Loosie Rouge has the built-in allure of being a sultry, subterranean bar, beguiling dead-of-night imbibers with milk punch and Pimm’s cups. Yet its sunny little sister, Loosie Café, is equally bewitching—even in the unforgiving light of day, after having just rolled out of bed.
  Formerly the backyard adjunct of Loosie Kitchen, the newly enclosed, early-rising extension provides a pleasurable jump-start to one’s senses, enlivening a routine, workaday stumble to the subway.
  
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• Sips in the sunshine: Outdoor Drinks 2017

  25-05-2017 16:50
  
  It’s that time of year again, when you want to drink your favorite cocktail, spritzer or beer outside. Here’s a selection of some of our favorite places in Brooklyn (and a couple in Queens) for sips in the sunshine.
  Coming Soon
  Parklife in progress: the brand-new bar and restaurant will be open year-round with indoor seating for 20 and a 4,000-square-foot lot for outdoor eating and drinking. Photo: Parklife
  Parklife
  Coming soon to 636 Degraw St.
  Gowanus
  When Julie Kim and Scott
  
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• TNT x Northside Festival: Storytelling Is Everything

  25-05-2017 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  For five days every June, more than 100,000 creative and cultural trendsetters converge in Williamsburg at Northside Festival to uncover the future of content, music and innovation. It is one of the best parts of summer in Brooklyn!From June 7 to 9, the Northside Festival main stage will be sponsored by TNT.  The TNT Content Stage, located at the Williamsburg Hotel, will drive the cultural conversation, packing the house with panels, conversations, performances and roundtable discussions f
  
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• To a tea: Former St. Francis star makes impact in England

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.St. Francis CollegeBrooklyn DailyAcross the pond, his game got even better.St. Francis College grad Chris Hooper took the international game by storm last season, competing for the Reading Rockets of the English Basketball League. He was several thousand miles away from home, but the former Terriers standout hardly missed a step. After all, it was still basketball, and he’s always been pretty good at that.
  “I was prepared for it and I had the whole
  
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• These seniors are rocking 100 years and counting

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailySheepshead BayPut your hands together for Blanch Sutterman (age 102), Frieda Henenson (100), Walter Merwin (102), and Rosalyn Sanders (102). The fab seniors at The Waterford on the Bay celebrated their longevity and milestones with families, friends, staff, and even an elected pol on May 18.
  The rocking centenarians enjoyed being feted by Assemblywoman Helen Weinstein (D–Sheepshead Bay), who handed out proclamations, and b
  
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• Steph can’t make her teens love Pink Floyd as much as she does

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Stephanie Thompsonfor Brooklyn PaperI remember listening to Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” for the first time as a senior in high school. It was 1988, and I was lying in my sister’s room on her blue plush carpet, listening to the tape I’d gotten from a friend on her stereo. I can recall staring at the ceiling and feeling … well, feeling. The sounds and the words surrounded me, came around my mind like a protective shield, and m
  
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• Safety dance! Locals want ‘Barnes Dance’ at dangerous intersection

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThey’re Barnes-storming mad that the city won’t listen.Locals are flabbergasted that the Department of Transportation has excluded a notoriously dangerous intersection near Kings Plazafrom a new bill requiring the city to study implementing a “Barnes Dance” — where all vehicular traffic stops at once so pedestrians can cross in all directions — at high-crash junctions. The intersection of Flatbu
  
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• New Eagle Scout is soaring high

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyMill BasinEagles’ wingsThis new Eagle Scout received Scouting’s most distinguished honor at a ceremony on April 22, at St. Bernard’s Parish, and our roving photog Sean Murphy was there to capture the flying-high moment for proud borough son Michael Gidiuli, family, fellow Scouts, Scoutmaster John Farrell, and Councilman Alan Maisel (D–Mill Basin).
  Michael received his rank by earning a minimum of 21 merit
  
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• Grimm casts shadow over Ridge Council race

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyBay Ridge Republican Council Candidate Bob Capano applauded disgraced former congressman Michael Grimm for calling on President Trump to go on the attack in the face of condemnation from the public and the media.
  Grimm, who has been out of jail for about a year following his seven-months behind bars for tax fraud, released a statement last week calling much-needed unity and support for the country’s Commander in Chief.
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• Dead beats: Music and story series rises in Green-Wood Cemetery

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyIt’s the club people are dying to get into.Brooklyn’s largest graveyard will welcome a select group of visitors through its southern-most gate for the first in a series of late-night performances this weekend. Members of “The Secret Mausoleum Club,” starting May 27 at Green-Wood Cemetery, will sip drinks, listen to music, and step inside some classic crypts while hearing stories about those buried on the
  
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• Booze boat backlash

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyOh buoy, not again!
  The city must crack down on the party boats cruising in and out of Sheepshead Bay for the upcoming summer season because residents are fed up with trash left behind the next morning, loud noise late at night, and increased parking problems in an already parking-starved neighborhood, locals say.
  “Sheepshead Bay becomes inundated with double parking. These people that go on dump a lot of garbage all over Sh
  
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• A red heart day for doc honored by American Heart Association

  25-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyPark SlopeThree cheers to Dr. Mary Choi, who will be honored at the Brooklyn Go Red For Women luncheon on June 2, hosted by the American Heart Assocation at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge.
  Dr. Choi treats patients at NY-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and is a physician-scientist. She is currently an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and associate physician at the NewYork-Pre
  
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• Your Ideal Week: May 25-31. Memorial Day weekend is here

  25-05-2017 01:49
  
  A carpet of bluebells is blooming at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Photo: BBG
  Memorial Day weekend is nigh, and if you are jetting off the Hamptons, the Catskills, the Shore, or somewhere even more exotic, well, good for you, lucky duck! The rest of us will be here holding down the fort, but don’t feel too bad for us because there is–as always–a lot to do around these parts over the course of the next week. On Friday night, lace up your skates and get ready to do the hustle at Lola
  
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