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• Bonnaroo Thursday pics (The Lemon Twigs, The Orwells, more)

  09-06-2017 23:58
  
  The 2017 edition of Bonnaroo got underway Thursday night (6/8) in Manchester, TN. With it being a weekday, it was a gentle start to the festival...
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• man busted selling fake drugs at Bonnaroo says he was "doing God's work"

  09-06-2017 23:36
  
  "Authorities searched Brady and, according to an arrest warrant, found 37 pills made to look as if they were molly - a synthetic drug that alters mood and perception, 22 bags of fake mushrooms, about 1,000 hits of fake acid, 20 bags made to look like cocaine and an incense stick made to look like black tar heroin."
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• “You Are Fake News”—Navigating Northside Report’s Eponymous Panel

  09-06-2017 23:31 via bkmag.com
  
  There’s a breed of coastal urban elite—the sort that attends a panel, for example, stacked with expert journalists on Russian perfidy, national security vulnerabilities, and the diffuseness of digital information—which have earned notoriety for blowing the 2016 election. These people, the argument goes, are walled off by gridded city streets, disconnected with the rest of America, the real America. We (and I have to say we, since I was raised in the Acela corridor between DC an
  
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• Northside Innovation: Recovering From Our Hillary Hangover

  09-06-2017 23:24 via bkmag.com
  
  Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for president was at once a landmark victory for feminism as well as a crushing defeat. Never before has a woman secured the nomination of a major political party let alone won a clear majority of votes cast; never before has such a piggish perpetrator of sexual assault won the presidency (at least, on the first go). With 53% of white women voting for the man who boasted about waltzing into dressing rooms of underage beauty contestants, feminism is at a rec
  
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• Art in the Age of Trump As Important As It Is Entertaining

  09-06-2017 22:17 via bkmag.com
  
  Despite what all of us had been thinking the day it came out in December, the devil horned M of Donald Trump’s TIME Person of the Year cover was tragically pure coincidence.
  “That’s just the way our logo works,” said Creative Director D.W. Pine. “We actually had to do huge galleries on TIME.com that had 40 versions of when we’d done this before with other people—including the Pope.”
  Delivering Thursday’s opening FORTUNE Venture panel at North
  
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• Check Out These Jameson Music Artists At The Sine Metu Stage During Northside

  09-06-2017 22:04 via bkmag.com
  
  Jameson Music Artist Julia Haltigan, LES native. Photo credit: Svend Lindbaek
  Northside is upon us, and along with it the most exciting kickoff to summertime in Brooklyn! Jameson Music is coming together with Northside, bringing up and coming musicians on the rise as they courageously pursue their passion to share their music with others.
  Jameson’s curated list of musicians are hand picked to be featured at the Sine Metu stage. This initiative by Jameson provides these artis
  
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• watch Big Thief & Tiny Hazard play "Mary" and cover Leonard Cohen in 2015

  09-06-2017 21:26
  
  Big Thief released their sophomore album Capacity today, one of the most anticipated and best albums from a young indie band this year (read our review). One of its standout tracks, "Mary," dates back to a one-off collaborative set that Big Thief singer Adrianne Lenker played with Tiny Hazard singer Alena Spanger at The Hum in 2015...
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• Kirsten Gillibrand Calls For Energy At Northside Innovation

  09-06-2017 20:08 via bkmag.com
  
  Even if Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is indeed ruling out a bid for president in 2020, she’s hitting all the marks signaling a populist path forward for the Democratic Party. The Senator sat down with VICE at the Wythe Hotel as a part of Northside Innovation for an hour-long conversation spanning everything from her day-to-day routine in Trump’s DC to how young people can help protect their healthcare. The most striking part of the conversation was the eagerness with which she cri
  
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• Orange Is Still the New Black, But We’ve Got a Long Way to Go

  09-06-2017 19:39 via bkmag.com
  
  The public perception and conversation surrounding mass incarceration is much different today than it was when Piper Kerman walked out of FCI Danbury in 2005. Back then, a nation that had chosen to lock up more of its citizens than any other society in history had been missing a critical perspective, she said: the voices of those most deeply impacted.
  On the eve of the Season 5 premiere of Orange Is the New Black, Kerman, author of the best-selling memoir that inspired the show and brought natio
  
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• Queer beer: Threes Brewing launching “Gender Neutral” beer for Pride

  09-06-2017 18:16
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyTaste the rainbow!A Gowanus brewery will launch a new beer called “Gender Neutral” with a gay Pride party on June 22. The socially conscious beer makers say that the queer beer name is a playful way to get people thinking about gender issues while enjoying a drink, said one of the co-owners.
  “We tend to have fun with the names, and want to make a broader societal point to maybe get people thinking while they r
  
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• A guide to eating cuchifritos, even if you don’t speak Spanish

  09-06-2017 18:15
  
  Thanks to the multicultural communities in Brooklyn, it’s still possible to find good food without too many frills–or a hefty price tag. This is especially true when it comes to cuchifritos spots. These eateries are NYC staples that serve up Puerto Rican and Dominican classics like pernil, beans and rice, fried snacks and long-cooked stews. 
  Frito means fried in Spanish, and and true to their name, these restaurants serve fried finger foods that are often found in
  
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• Dirty Projectors Make Glorious Brooklyn Return In McCarren Park

  09-06-2017 18:02 via bkmag.com
  
  Though he released the seventh LP from Dirty Projectors back in February, Dave Longstreth has kept a low profile since, electing not to tour behind the muted recollection of a failed relationship. His headlining show at McCarren Park on Thursday, the first public performance by the band since 2013, was something of a debut for the solo incarnation of Dirty Projectors. The question on the audience’s mind, then, as the sun dipped into Manhattan’s skyline with a dizzying display of colo
  
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• Civil righteous: Hillary Clinton urges voting, praises diversity in address to Medgar Evers graduates

  09-06-2017 15:07
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperShe may have lost, but she found her voice.
  Hillary Clinton implored graduates of Medgar Evers College to exercise their right that the university’s namesake civil rights activist died to achieve in a commencement address on Thursday at the Barclays Center.“Previous generations may have begun the struggle for voting rights, but I’ll tell that you none of our struggles over,” she said. “All the speak
  
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• Skin screen: Free skin-cancer checks in Bay Ridge

  09-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyIt was just what the doctor ordered!Bay Ridge doctors offered free skin cancer screenings at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center at Bay Ridge on May 24. It was a chance for local physicians to lend a helping hand to those who may not normally walk through their practices’ doors, said one organizer.
  “We’re really rooted in the community and we just wanted to give something back,” sai
  
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• Pothole alley! City neglects Marine Park street

  09-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThis road’s got Lotts of problems!
  The city has neglected a Marine Park street for years, and did a shoddy job when it finally fixed the gaping potholes that were filled with water deep enough for little kids to take a dip in, charge residents near Lotts Lane.“They filled up these potholes that were literally, I would say, a foot deep — when I used to have kids over here, they would go swimming over here, I kid y
  
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• Play ball! Mill Basinite creates app for pickup games

  09-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyWanna play some ball? There’s an app for that!
  A Mill Basinite invented an app for starting pickup games after his friends routinely ditched him and he was left with no one to shoot hoops with or throw around a football. The 22-year-old dreamed up his recently launched smartphone application — and called it Flakex, after his flakey friends, said inventor Kevin Sebili.“I got the idea because usually when I play pi
  
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• New entrances coming to Jay Street-MetroTech: Two entries getting facelifts in NYU revamp of old MTA building

  09-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey’re a new way in — and out!
  Two entrances to Jay Street-MetroTech station are being made over as part of New York University Tandon School of Engineering’s revamp of the old Metropolitan Transportation Authority building Downtown. The $500 million renovation of the structure at 370 Jay Street, between Willoughby Street and MetroTech, will allow for sprucing up the entrances on either side of it, granting easier
  
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• Civil righteous: Hillary Clinton urges voting, praises diversity in address to Medgar Evans graduates

  09-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperShe may have lost, but she found her voice.
  Hillary Clinton implored graduates of Medgar Evers College to exercise their right that the university’s namesake civil rights activist died to achieve in a commencement address on Thursday at the Barclays Center.“Previous generations may have begun the struggle for voting rights, but I’ll tell that you none of our struggles over,” she said. “All the speak
  
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• B’Bridge Park honchos, Heights Association return to court to argue Pier 6 case

  09-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe legal battle over the fate of the lawn has begun.A lawsuit over two polarizing towers at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park returned to court on Wednesday, a month after settlement talks between the Brooklyn Heights Association and park honchos failed. The two-hour hearing starred the civic group’s attorney, who spent most of the time arguing its case that green space officials violated their promise to build only as much hous
  
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• Bay Ridge is going out(side)!

  09-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe Ridge is soakin’ up the sun!
  Take advantage of the extra hours of sunshine this weekend with an outdoor beer garden, country fair, and a pair of park-side concerts.Don your cowboy boots and break out your Western drawl for the Saint Patrick Parish Country Fair and Flea Market (9511 Fourth Ave. between 95th and 97th streets). The weekend-long shindig kicks off Friday at 8 pm with some good ol’ fashioned beer and
  
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• Los Lobos touring, playing NYC's free River & Blues series (so is Bettye LaVette)

  09-06-2017 01:37
  
  Los Lobos begin their summer tour this weekend which includes a couple NYC area stops, including The Clearwater Festival in Croton on Hudson. They'll also play a free NYC show
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