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• (Sandy) Alex G played w/ Frank Ocean (video), touring w/ Fleet Foxes

  20-07-2017 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last weekend, (Sandy) Alex G joined Frank Ocean onstage ft London's Lovebox 2017. The singer songwriter contributed as a guitar on Frank's Endless and Blonde projects but this was the first time they had played live
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• Evian Christ bringing trance party to Brooklyn w/ Laurel Halo & more before Warm-Up

  20-07-2017 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Evian Christ's Trance Party happens at an undisclosed Brooklyn location on Friday night.
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• Giuda touring in September/October, playing Meltasia

  20-07-2017 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Italy's glammy punks Giuda just here last month, and they'll be back for more sooner than later. Their new tour kicks off September 7 at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn
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• Chance the Rapper, Run the Jewels, Passion Pit, Geoff Rickly & more pay respects to Chester Bennington

  20-07-2017 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Also: Best Coast, Pusha T, Chuck D, Rihanna, Dam-Funk, Nikki Sixx, The Mountain Goats, and more.
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• Brooklyn’s Best New Bars

  20-07-2017 21:15 via bkmag.com
  
  Ah, summer—time to finally come out of hibernation. Unlike denizens of sun-soaked cities like L.A. and Miami, we Brooklynites actually appreciate summer. The temperature rises, the days are longer (more time for drinking!), and we rediscover the joys of living in this glorious—if sometimes infuriating—city. And what better way to soak up the summer than by reconnecting with your friends (remember them?) over drinks at one of Brooklyn’s best new bars? We surveyed the lates
  
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• Mourn touring in September, playing Pop Montreal, Hopscotch, Brooklyn & more

  20-07-2017 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just over a year ago, Barcelona band Mourn released their second album, Ha, Ha, He, via Captured Tracks. With all of Mourn's members still in high school, the album had the messy, bedroom feel of a teenage year soul-search...
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• Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington committed suicide

  20-07-2017 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda says "Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true.An official statement will come out as soon as we have one."
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• Crushed opening for Negative Approach, have a new video

  20-07-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Negative Approach are on tour now with Bloodclot (mem Cro-Mags, Warzone, QOTSA) and then touring with Eyehategod. The run with Bloodclot hits Saint Vitus on Friday, with locals Crushed opening...
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• Arcade Fire playing free small Brooklyn show next week (livestreamed too)

  20-07-2017 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arcade Fire's new album Everything Now is out in a week (7/28) and they've already announced an NYC listening party on July 25 but now they've announced they'll be playing an intimate Brooklyn show on Thursday, July 27.Continue reading…
  
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• The KLF detail their imminent return as The JAMs (book, 3-day Liverpool event)

  20-07-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you're wondering "What the Fuck is Going On," Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty -- who have reverted to their Justified Ancients of Mu Mu moniker (aka The JAMs) -- have shared just that. They claim there will be no live music at the Liverpool event.
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• Nine Inch Nails covered Bowie at their first show in 3 years (pics, video, setlist)

  20-07-2017 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nine Inch Nails warmed up for their upcoming festival gigs with a show in California where they debuted songs from their newest EPs and paid tribute to David Bowie by covering "I Can't Give Everything Away."
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• Get In My Belly: Brooklyn Has An All-Pork Omakase

  20-07-2017 18:37 via bkmag.com
  
  If you’re the type that prescribes to the “everything’s better with bacon” mantra, have we got a restaurant for you.
  Launched on a corner of Williamsburg’s Grand Street last week, Belly zealously celebrates any and all things pork, with a nine-course, $45, exclusively bacon-based tasting menu.
  The brainchild of advertising executive Philip Cho, and marketing specialist Anna Lee, the eatery expands on porcine-centric dinner parties they used to throw for their friend
  
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• An oceanfront farm dinner

  20-07-2017 17:47
  
  Heat got you cranky? I was almost embarrassed to get back on the R train today after yesterday’s infantile display of foot stomping and audible sighing perpetrated by me in response to the oppressive heat and frustrating, now-standard delay. But the perfect antidote just might be a lovely mid-week summer dinner under the stars at Thursday night’s Hooked on Edgemere Farm Dinner near the beach in Far Rockaway. Sure, it might add a few minutes to your evening commute, but getting away f
  
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• Welcome mat squared for two Kearney High members

  20-07-2017 17:33
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBensonhurstStanding O is sending out a big welcome to the newest member at Bishop Kearney High School, Renee Hartofelis. She will be heading the Fab Lab in the Math Department.“It is with great pleasure that we announce that Mrs. Renee Hartofelis will be joining Bishop Kearney as a member of the Math Department in the fall,” said Margaret Lacey-Berman, head of the school. “I welcome Renee Hartofelis to the teac
  
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• The global sounds coming to the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! stage

  20-07-2017 17:31
  
  Exciting world musicians will grace the stage at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival this week, with musicians from Mali, Morocco, Lebanon, Sudan, and the U.S.!
  Amadou & Mariam is a blind husband-and-wife duo and they are one of West Africa’s finest musical exports, with music that sparkles with an Afro-blues sound. On Friday, July 21, they bring their world-renowned music to the Bandshell alongside the thunderous New York City collective Innov Gnawa, a group that builds upon Morocc
  
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• Union Hall is back!

  20-07-2017 17:30
  
  After months of reconstruction following a fire last spring, Park Slope’s beloved Union Hall is back and fully open for business and they want to PARTY! Starting at 1pm on Friday, the bar is welcoming its legion supporters to come celebrate its revival and reopening with drink specials, food, giveaways, live music, DJ sets, karaoke, and–of course–bocce. Before you get into all that, though, it’s a good night to catch Shakespeare in the Parking Lot’s current producti
  
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• Twenty-five reasons I love traveling with my son

  20-07-2017 17:26
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Stephanie Thompsonfor Brooklyn PaperI took my 13-year-old son on a road trip from Chicago up into Wisconsin across the Upper Peninsula to Michigan, across Ontario, down through the Finger Lakes and home on our own little Outward Bound journey, and here is what I learned:
  1. It makes me feel better when my child is playing games and listening to podcasts on his phone while driving through beautiful parts of America and Canada (occasionally looking up at pict
  
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• Beers in Beacon, bikes and the Grand Neptune Ball

  20-07-2017 17:23
  
  We here at BB can’t wait for Saturday–a day of drinks, deals, delicious bites, and fun to be had at our upcoming Immersion in Beacon, NY, which starts at noon and still has tickets available here. No reason to head home when it’s all over though, as there’s a whole evening lineup of events that will keep the good times going when we arrive back in BK. For starters, you can don your best neon/LED light ensemble and join the Brooklyn Bike Rave, a seven-mile waterfront ride
  
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• Find summer salvation in ice cream

  20-07-2017 15:59
  
  It is my opinion that the only way to get through the kind of weather we’ve been experiencing of late is frequent ice cream consumption, and The Royal Palms has got you covered in that regard on Sunday, when it is hosting the Brooklyn Ice Cream Takedown starting at noon. You can sample all kinds of cold, creamy desserts whipped up by local home cooks (we’re betting there will be some pretty far out flavors available) and vote on the winner, all for the cost of a $20 ticket. Oh, and i
  
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• Monday is book night in Brooklyn

  20-07-2017 15:48
  
  Monday night brings with it two literary events that are guaranteed to juice up your summer reading routine. First up: Books Beneath the Bridge is back at Brooklyn Bridge Park in DUMBO, and this particular installment features a poetry salon curated by Greenlight Bookstore. Starting at 7pm, featured poets t’ai freedom ford, Phillip B. Williams, Kevin Coval, Charif Shanahan, and Patricia Smith will be sharing and discussing their work on the Granite Prospect steps, and the event is free to
  
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• Not THAT kind of porn party

  20-07-2017 15:30
  
  Anything Jon Ronson writes–whether it’s a piece on This American Life or a book about the modern-day phenomenon of having your life ruined by an ill-conceived tweet (So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed) or Okja, the latest viral smash from Netflix–is entertaining and thought-provoking, so I was excited to see that The Bell House is hosting a pre-launch listening party for his latest project, an audio series called The Butterfly Effect, on Tuesday night. The seven-part series e
  
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• Go see “The Sandlot” for free in Prospect Park

  20-07-2017 15:18
  
  My techie millennial co-workers get on me about a lot of things that I do that indicate my rapidly advancing age (if you ever want to incite a mini-riot at a startup, show up regularly in the morning with a hard copy of The New York Times tucked under your arm), but I am pretty sure that the thing that horrifies them the most is the fact that I have never seen The Sandlot, which is evidently on par with ET for kids born in the 90s. I’m not kidding, this movie is referenced like 50 times a
  
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• Cyclones win, take two of three from first-place Yanks

  20-07-2017 13:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperCyclones 3Staten Island 1July 19 at MCU ParkDon’t look now but our boys have won three of their last four games!Cyclones’ pitchers Marty Anderson, Marcel Renteria, and Cannon Chadwick combined to strike out 12 and with Walter Rasquin’s three hits and two runs, led the Cyclones past the evil empire for the team’s second straight win — but it took until the sixth inning to take control of the game.The Y
  
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• Welcome mat squared for twod Kearney High members

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBensonhurstStanding O is sending out a big welcome to the newest member at Bishop Kearney High School, Renee Hartofelis. She will be heading the Fab Lab in the Math Department.“It is with great pleasure that we announce that Mrs. Renee Hartofelis will be joining Bishop Kearney as a member of the Math Department in the fall,” said Margaret Lacey-Berman, head of the school. “I welcome Renee Hartofelis to the teac
  
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• The next generation of advocates

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBOROUGH WIDEMove over the tassels and toss those mortar boards in the air for 27 teens from Brooklyn and Queens who completed the Youth Empowerment Movement program at Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies.
  The program teaches critical advocacy tools that empower our youth to become social justice advocates.Funded by Council Member Mathieu Eugene (D–Crown Heights), the program also received support from Council Member
  
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• Take a seat: Clones honor long-time fan at MCU

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matthew JohnBrooklyn DailyShe was a true fan, and true hero!Going all the way back to 2001, Joan Bette Paduano was a true-blue Brooklyn Cyclones fan. Game after game, she’d sit in her regular seat behind the backstop at MCU Park, energetically urging onBrooklyn’s Boys of Summer, win or lose.“She knew all this players names. Players knew who she was throughout the years,” says her son, Anthony Paduano. “You’d hear her yell
  
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• Packing pints: B’Burg bar serves alcoholic, brew-infused ice cream

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperTalk about an ice cold beer!A Williamsburg bar is serving alcoholic, beer-infused ice cream that its owner said combines Brooklynites’ love for the frosty treat with another beloved borough pastime: boozing.“It’s summer, so a lot of new ice cream concepts are popping up, and people in New York City just love to drink, so it’s the best of both worlds,” said Lantern Hall owner Jeff Wong, who started servi
  
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• Making Greenpoint greener: Local group hosts afternoon of park beautifying, tree education

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperThey branched out!Tree-huggers taught horticultural skills to environmentally minded locals during an event at a Greenpoint park on July 16 that showcased how critical trees are to urban communities, according to organizers.“Trees are important, but it is hard for them to grow in an urban environment, and we wanted to show people what they can do to make it easier for trees to thrive in their neighborhoods,” said Kathl
  
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• Jokes and junk: Female comics quip about their bits

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyThey’re all bit parts!Fifty female comedians will crack jokes about their junk at the Bell House on July 23, for the comedy show “50 Lady Bits.” The organizers of the private part punchline-up say they were inspired to create the show after comedienne and talk show host Iliza Shlesinger criticized other female stand-ups for making too many jokes about their vaginas. The incident caused an uproar in the comic co
  
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• Fund the police! Charity softball game held on NYPD Appreciation Night

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matt JohnBrooklyn DailyTry to catch ’em slidin’ dirty!The Cyclones hosted the annual NYPD Appreciation Night on July 17 at MCU Park on Coney Island. As part of the evening, the Cyclones hosted a charity softball game between members of New York’s Finest and Fox 5’s morning show Good Day New York to raise moneyfor the family of fallen Police Officer Miosotis Familia.“We got to meet the Familia family on Good Day New York, so we
  
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• Ferry tale of Dumbo

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carlo BosticcoBrooklyn DailyTime to sail down under — the Manhattan Bridge!The final stop on the South Brooklyn Line is Dumbo. With its giant warehouses, high architectural arches, and the ever-looming shade of the bridge it takes its name from, the Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass neighborhood is unlike any other in the city. The development of recent years has turned it into one of the classiest and also quirkiest spots for a day out. If you thi
  
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• Discount dacha: Mill Basin mansion with Russian oligarch ties just won’t sell

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyIf you’re looking for waterfront property in Brooklyn, there’s a stunning 10-bedroom mansion complex on the market now in Mill Basin that’s an absolute bargain — if you don’t mind its connections to the mob and the Russian oligarchy.
  The lavish property on National Drive has seen its price cut almost in half since it first came on the market nearly four years ago, from $30 million in 2013 — making it the most e
  
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• Deja vu: Slope’s oldest yoga studio is back

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyPark SlopeDéjà vuWelcome back to Park Slope’s oldest yoga studio. The Solar Yoga Ashram first opened its doors in 1977, and after a nearly 40-year absence, has reopened at the same location.“The mission of Solar Yoga is and has always been to bring yoga, meditation, and vegetarian nutrition to the people of Park Slope and Brooklyn,” said Mindy, one of the original co-founders with her husband Arbe
  
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• ‘Crowning’ achievement: Deal brings 600 rent-regulated units to Heights

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperCall it an exercise in stability.
  Tenants of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital apartment complex in Crown Heights cheered a deal announced on July 18 that stabilized the rents of 600 units, giving hundreds of occupants secure homes for the next three decades, according to residents.“This enables me to stay in one place, to become involved in the community, and to bond with a specific neighborhood,” said 27-year-old tenant Al
  
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• Citi Bike in the Ridge? Petition drive seeks to bring bike-rental scheme to nabe

  20-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyCiti Bike may be coming to Bay Ridge.
  A non-profit bicycle advocacy group has gathered more than 700 signatures on a petition to bring the Citi Bike bicycle-rental program to Sunset Park and Bay Ridge. And the petition drive is well past the halfway mark toward the tipping point which can move the city to consider the neighborhood in upcoming expansion plans, according to the head of the group. “When we get more than 500, people take notice
  
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