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• Arca & Jesse Kanda played Brooklyn Steel (pics & videos — some NSFW)

  07-07-2017 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arca and frequent collaborator, visual artist Jesse Kanda, put on a show that involves beautiful and disturbing imagery and plenty of costume changes.
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• Union Hall fully reopens July 21

  07-07-2017 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Union Hall is set to be fully back in business on July 21 after a fire ravaged the upstairs back in March.
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• Memphis band Sweet Knives (ex Lost Sounds) prep new LP, touring

  07-07-2017 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sweet Knives reunited surviving members of Lost Sounds (one of Jay Reatard's bands).
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• Verrazano goes cashless staring July 10

  07-07-2017 22:12
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe city will roll out cashless tolling on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for smoother commutes starting July 8. The span will join six other city bridges that have eliminated toll booths as part of Gov. Cuomo’s cashless initiative, and is swapping singles for sensors that will scan and charge drivers through their license plates. Here’s what ridge-to-rock drivers should know about the change:How does cashless tolling
  
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• Austin venue Stubb's changing name due to lawsuit (to Liberty Lunch?)

  07-07-2017 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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• Kendrick, Chance & Travis Scott headlining 2017 Day N Night fest (lineup)

  07-07-2017 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Anaheim rap festival also includes YG, Earl Sweatshirt, Lil Uzi Vert, Kodak Black, Smino, Saba, SZA, Isaiah Rashad, 21 Savage, and more.
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• Hell below earth: LIRR riders will swarm Atlantic Terminal’s subways during summer track work

  07-07-2017 21:20
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperHey Brooklynites, remember what mom said about sharing?Hordes of surly Suffolk County commuters will swarm the subway system at Atlantic Terminal on Monday as service changes kick-in on the Long Island Rail Road as part of Gov. Cuomo’s so-called “Summer of Hell.”
  The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is cutting train service at Penn Station to accommodate much-needed track repairs, and funneling a portion of t
  
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• Out In The Streets Returns To Brooklyn

  07-07-2017 19:24 via bkmag.com
  
  Music festivals are everywhere—there’s Governors Ball, Northside, Panorama, The Meadows, Full Moon Fest, Afropunk, and more—but the massive fest might not be everyone’s bag. Which is why Brooklyn’s Out in the Streets, which returns next week, can make for a great mid-summer change of pace.
  Running since it was a tiny DIY event in Bushwick back in 2009, Out in the Streets this year is expanding to its biggest space yet in Bushwick’s The Well, a 4,000 square foo
  
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• Tigers Jaw and Foxing opening Manchester Orchestra tour

  07-07-2017 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Manchester Orchestra just added some excellent openers to their upcoming 2017 tour...
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• Pitchfork unironically posts Jet news

  07-07-2017 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  2017 brings sincere coverage of Jet by the website that once reviewed them with nothing more than a video of a monkey peeing in its own mouth.
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• Feel the Summer Vibes with These East River-View Restaurants

  07-07-2017 17:41 via bkmag.com
  
  Memorial Day has the distinction of being the unofficial kick-off to summer, but the Fourth of July is the season’s central, paramount party. And even if Macy’s fireworks display (finally back over the East River) is the envy of the larger U.S., you don’t need to sweat it with this year’s show in the dust—there’s still plenty of reasons to enjoy some food and drinks while overlooking the skyline and the water. So here’s where to celebrate summer NYC
  
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• Loney Dear preps first album in 6 years (listen to "Sum")

  07-07-2017 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It’s been a little bit like being out on the ocean swimming without anything to hold on to and now I’ve reached the beach,” says Emil Svanängen who is Loney Dear for all intents and purposes.
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• Thunderbirds are Now! are back! (listen to their new single!)

  07-07-2017 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It’s 2017 and there are two new Thunderbirds Are Now! songs to listen to. We haven’t recorded new music since the release of our 2007 album “Make History,” and given the current chaotic political climate, now seemed like a good time to come back."
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• Cyclones mauled by ValleyCats in shutout

  07-07-2017 16:49
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperTri-City 13Cyclones 0July 6 in Tri-CitySimon says the Cyclones lose again!Clones starter Jake Simon was tortured on the mound, allowing nine hits and seven runs, and the boys only managed three hits all night as Tri-City delivered them a shutout.The Clones fell behind early after J.J. Matijevic hit a solo home run in the first and Jake Adams scored Matijevic and Abraham Toro-Hernandez on a three-run homer in the third, making it 4
  
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• Verrazano goes cashless starting July 8

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe city will roll out cashless tolling on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for smoother commutes starting July 8. The span will join six other city bridges that have eliminated toll booths as part of Gov. Cuomo’s cashless initiative, and is swapping singles for sensors that will scan and charge drivers through their license plates. Here’s what ridge-to-rock drivers should know about the change:How does cashless tolling
  
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• Verrazano goes cashless staring July 8

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe city will roll out cashless tolling on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for smoother commutes starting July 8. The span will join six other city bridges that have eliminated toll booths as part of Gov. Cuomo’s cashless initiative, and is swapping singles for sensors that will scan and charge drivers through their license plates. Here’s what ridge-to-rock drivers should know about the change:How does cashless tolling
  
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• There is so much to do in Bay Ridge!

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyA free flick, tons of music, and a party in the park await you in Bay Ridge this week!On Friday, swoop into Narrows Botanical Garden (Shore Road and 70th Street) for a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” at 8:30 pm. Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor star in the surreal classic in which all hell breaks loose and birds attack the residents of a small California town. Don’t forget a blanket and snacks, bu
  
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• Straphangers to MTA: We need elevators!

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority must install elevators at the Broadway Junction subway station so aging straphangers, parents with strollers, and riders in wheelchairs can reach the trains without having to climb the station’s three-stories-worth of treacherously steep stairs, say locals.The station has escalators, but they are out of service too often, and still do nothing for people in wheelchairs, said one Canar
  
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• Paving grace: Private street seeks salvation from city

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyCall it Church Lake.The city must fix a water-filled pit in the middle of a secluded and long-ignored Canarsie byway — Church Lane — that’s nearly deep enough to catch a fish in, the local pol charged.“There is a huge pond, literally a pond — I saw a whole bunch of people fishing for snappers,” joked Councilman Alan Maisel (D–Canarsie). “There’s a depression there, it’s been filling up w
  
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• Newly opened Uplands upgrade B’Bridge Park’s Pier 5

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey put paradise onto a parking lot.
  The lush, hilly landscape of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5 Uplands opened to the public on Thursday, and Brooklynites who visited the rolling-countryside–inspired retreat were relieved to find a greened-up waterfront parcel where a giant stretch of concrete used to be.“I’m glad they finally did something with this space,” said Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Beverly Smi
  
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• Draw bridges: Trump inspires painting of Verrazano

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyHe’s creating connections.
  A Bedford-Stuyvesant artist will discuss his Trump-inspired exhibition “Bridges” at a Fort Greene arts space on July 12. The show, on display at Bric Arts Media through Aug. 6, features paintings of almost every bridge in the five boroughs, and is meant to help people talk about bridging their political differences. The idea struck the painter while he attended New York City’s Women
  
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• Convicted serial robber gets 31 years after forgoing plea deal

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperA string of bad decisions got him three decades behind bars.
  A Bedford-Stuyvesant man convicted of robbing four women at gunpoint in Kensington and Windsor Terrace — one of whom he pistol-whipped in the head — was sentenced to 31 years in prison on Wednesday after he chose to forgo a plea deal, a regrettable choice in retrospect, according to his attorney.“The pre-trial plea offer that he was given was very good a
  
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• Access excess? MTA spending $6M to make stairless station handicapped accessible

  07-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThe state plans to make the Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway station handicapped accessible within the next few years, but straphangers and local community leaders can’t understand how the street-level L train platform isn’t already compliant for disabled riders, said one local resident who has been begging for an elevator at the treacherous Broadway Junction station nearby for years.“How do you make that ADA comp
  
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