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• Oxbow played Brooklyn Bazaar with Self Defense Family and Queen Elephantine (pics)

  17-07-2017 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Having been around for nearly 20 year, noise rock combo Oxbow just released Thin Black Duke/em>, their first in a decade. They also played Brooklyn Bazaar over the weekend (7/15), part of a short Northeast tour...
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• The National played their new LP in full at Basilica Hudson shows (pics, setlists, video)

  17-07-2017 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 'Guilty Party' shows also featured So Percussion, Buke & Gase, Mouse on Mars, and Nadia Sirota, who each played their own sets as well as collaborating with The National.Continue reading…
  
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• Flume/Vince Staples collaborator Kucka playing first US headline shows

  17-07-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even if you don't know Kučka by name, you may have heard her voice. She's worked with Flume, Vince Staples, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, Fetty Wap and more...
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• POW! released LP on Castle Face (listen), touring with POPTONE (ex Love & Rockets)

  17-07-2017 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Synth-punks POW! released their third album, Crack an Egg, earlier this year on Castle Face, their first record since relocating from San Francisco to Los Angeles. As on their first two records, the band match dark, danceable, postpunk with skeptical, sardonic lyricism...
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• Brooklyn Businesses Branch Out During Restaurant Week 2017

  17-07-2017 21:33 via bkmag.com
  
  Since the post-Marty Markowitz administration has dialed down the hoopla surrounding Dine In Brooklyn, a handful of borough establishments have attempted to expand their reach via Restaurant Week, a bi-annual, citywide extravaganza of three-course $29 lunches and $42 dinners. Here’s a quartet of places where you can eat for a song from July 24th-August 18th—hopefully they’ll inspire other area eateries to follow their economical lead.
  Leuca: Andrew Carmellini’s NoHo
  
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• Find your flair with these enamel pins

  17-07-2017 20:14
  
   
  Enamel pin designers shared their favorites with us. Pin: Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. Photo: Meredith Craig de Pietro
  We are knee deep in the age of customization, and nowhere is that more apparent than the enamel pin craze. For months now we’ve been admiring denim jackets across Brooklyn that are literally weighed down by pins. Backpacks and totes, too. And the variety of pins is limitlessness. Do you want a tiny ‘90s Leonardo DiCaprio? Or a Grandma emoji pin? Why
  
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• Finally! Cyclones win a game!

  17-07-2017 18:44
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperCyclones 2State College 1July 16 at MCUJose Miguel “Funky Cold” Medina’s two-out double in the bottom of the ninth with two on scored the game-winning run as the Cyclones beat the Spikes to snap a five game losing streak.With the game seemingly headed for extra innings after Edgardo Furmin popped out to first and Jeremy Wolf struck out swinging, Matt Winaker singled to right and Reed Gamache worked a walk before
  
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• The Incredible Jessica Williams

  17-07-2017 18:07 via bkmag.com
  
  Do you ever have the thought, as you binge-watch a TV show, or listen to a song, or see a film, that, really, there’s something familiar about everything? That no matter how creative a melody, line, or surprise ending is, you’ve encountered some variation of it already—and yet, when done right, it feels like something special and new?
  That was my experience with the The Incredible Jessica James. On the surface, we’ve seen it before: an indie rom-com set in Brooklyn that
  
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• 9 Excuses to Skip Happy Hour

  17-07-2017 16:34 via bkmag.com
  
  Happy Hour? Let’s be honest: You’ve been there and done that. Shake things up, and trade your usual post-work watering hole for an opportunity to try something new. From watercolor painting to glass etching, these early evening activities are the perfect post-work retreat (and fun to do with friends).
  Paint with Watercolors – Set your inner artist free in this all-levels-welcome watercolor workshop. Grab a paintbrush and let the instructor walk you through the basics of mixing,
  
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• The city and Sheepshead Bay pol clean up the trash-filled bay

  17-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThey’re taking out the trash in Sheepshead Bay!Sheepshead Bay Councilman Chaim Deutsch, along with volunteers and workers from the Department of Environmental Protection, skimmed the bay’s shallow waters to scoop out the refuse that routinely piles up near the edges of the basin on July 10. The quaint fishing village is a beautiful neighborhood to live and raise a family in, but not when there are mounds of trash float
  
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• Squeak thief! Rodent stole woman’s mail for two months, exterminator says

  17-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperTalk about a pack rat!A Brooklyn exterminator solved the mystery of a Bedford-Stuyvesant woman’s missing mail on July 13 when he discovered a rat’s nest containing two months’ worth of lost letters beneath his client’s brownstone’s stairs.“She though it was the post office’s fault, and was complaining to them,” said rodent slayer James Molluso, of Northeastern Exterminating.The exterm
  
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• Cyclones winning streak ends at … 1

  17-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperStaten Island 5Cyclones 3July 17 at MCU ParkCyclones starters Jake Simon didn’t get out of the second inning, allowing four hits and five runs as the last place Cyclones fell to the first place — and hated —Staten Island Yankees.Simon walked the first two batters he faced before Dom Thompson-Williams single scored Oswaldo Cabrera. Simon then hit Timmy Robinson with a pitch, loading the bases,and Leonardo Molina&r
  
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• Cockamamie clocks confuse Bay Ridge straphangers

  17-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyLong-awaited countdown clocks in many Bay Ridge train stations are finally up and running, but some of them are accurate even less often than an R train shows up.The gizmo on 86th Street platform offers only sporadic information on Manhattan-bound locomotives, and is mostly keeping track of R trains that are 95th Street-bound — the next and final Brooklyn stop — instead of the far more populous Manhattan-bound side,
  
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• City to give Mellett Playground a much-needed makeover

  17-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyMellett’s getting a makeover!
  The city plans to revamp the neglected and rundown Mellett Playground, where kids are forced to play in dirty, standing water, and on slides that likely haven’t been upgraded since the turn of the century, said the local pol.
  “I don’t think it was updated since the last time in 1995,” said Councilman Chaim Deutsch (D–Sheepshead Bay), who together with Council Speake
  
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• City spends millions to fight rodents with new trash bins, more rubbish removal

  17-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThis plan is a bunch of garbage.
  The city is spending millions of dollars to keep rats in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant away from the tasty trash they feed on by installing new rodent-resistant rubbish bins and increasing garbage pickups, two tactics that local exterminators said will go a long way in vanquishing the vermin.“The big thing about controlling rats is eliminating foods sources and places where they can shelter,
  
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• Bloody ‘Odd’: Horror show plays trans theater fest

  17-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyQueer writing trans-cends genre!The second annual Trans Theatre Festival, returning July 17 to the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, will feature a lineup of comedies, tragedies, and musical stories from transgender creators — showcasing the diversity found within the community, said one of the festival’s curators.
  “We try to go for variety and it’s very important to me as a curator to make sure that we have
  
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• Art-lovers of all ages celebrate International African Arts Festival

  17-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperCall it a creative union.Thousands of art enthusiasts packed Fort Greene’s Commodore Barry Park this month for the 46th International African Arts Festival, an annual event that draws crowds each year with its showcase of artistry and music from the African Diaspora, according to attendees.“I’m a big fan and have been coming for years,” said Karain Water, an artist and jewelry-maker who began attending th
  
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