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• Lana Del Rey adds 2 Terminal 5 shows to tour

  10-08-2017 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lana Del Rey is fresh off releasing her great new album Lust for Life, and she has begun to announce US shows in support of it...
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• Little Dragon playing final MoMA PS1 Warm Up of 2017

  10-08-2017 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are only four Warm Ups left in the 2017 season.
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• Riot Fest set times (Jawbreaker vs Paramore, Cap'n Jazz vs Built to Spill vs Menzingers)

  10-08-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  A lineup this loaded is bound to have some tough conflicts, and there are indeed some.
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• King Khan preps first-ever solo LP (listen to "It's a Lie")

  10-08-2017 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Khan pulled Oakland band The Gris Gris out of retirement to be his backing band on this album.
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• Grails touring the East Coast this fall

  10-08-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's their first North American tour in four years, and their first time playing Florida in a decade.
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• Pageninetynine look back on "Document #7″

  10-08-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The band reflects on the black sheep of their discography, now available digitally for the first time
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• Mr T Experience & Kepi Ghoulie playing fall shows together

  10-08-2017 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Classic Lookout! band The Mr. T Experience and Kepi Ghoulie of MTX's former labelmates Groovie Ghoulies have announced shows together for this fall...
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• New York’s first celebrity chef

  10-08-2017 16:45
  Ranji Smile introduced New Yorkers to curry in 1899, becoming perhaps the first celebrity chef.
  It’s hard to imagine life in NYC without Indian takeout, and if you’ve ever wondered about how curry became such a staple of your Seamless order history, you might want to check out an event at Brooklyn Historical Society on Thursday night called “The Original Celebrity Chef: The King of Curry.” Historic gastronomist Sarah Lohman will be joined by Vivek Bald, an expert on South
  
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• Wand share "Bee Karma" from upcoming LP

  10-08-2017 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Corey Hanson and the rest of band are really stretching their wings on Plum, and "Bee Karma" is muscular and psychedelic but also very melodic, almost in a mid-'90s Radiohead way (via Status Quo).
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• Celebrate Brooklyn

  10-08-2017 16:37
  Whitney will play one of the last Celebrate Brooklyn shows of the season. Yes, we wish it was the other Whitney, too.
  This weekend is the last hurrah before Celebrate Brooklyn! packs up the stage equipment and lighting for the season, so if you haven’t made it out to the Prospect Park bandshell enough this summer, now is definitely the time. On Friday, see a free show by Whitney, who will be joined by Moses Sumney and Weyes Blood, starting at 7pm. If you’re one of those lucky people
  
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• Plunge into Gowanus

  10-08-2017 16:31
  We hope that you are building your Saturday schedule around our Total Gowanus Immersion, which features a bar crawl at some of our favorite local watering holes, lots of deals from participating local shops, and the chance to toast the final month of summer canalside, with friends old and new. Tickets start at $15 and include a free Brooklyn Brewery beer at each stop on the crawl: Mission Dolores, Parklife, Three’s Brewing, and Pig Beach, but you can also get lunch for an additional $10, n
  
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• To the dragon boats!

  10-08-2017 16:23
  On Sunday, take a trip to Hong Kong with only your Metrocard by journeying out to Flushing Meadows Park for the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, now in its 27th year. Starting at 8am and running all day on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend, you can watch more than 120 dragon boat teams race for cash prizes and glory, sample traditional Chinese food like steamed dumplings and rice balls, and enjoy live music and dance performances. Admission is free. Later, Pioneer Works is hosting the August
  
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• Boss Hog, Dave Harrington, more playing Joshua Light Show 50th Anniversary

  10-08-2017 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Phantasmagoric visual artists The Joshua Light Show are celebrating 50 years of mind-expanding projected visuals with a two-night concert celebration at NYU's Skirball Center on September 8 & 9...
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• Good news Bears! Cyclones win in Appalachia!

  10-08-2017 16:20
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperCyclones 9West Virginia 4Aug. 9 in West VirginiaCall it a Frank-win!Quinn “Chief” Brodey, Jose Maria, and Franklin Correa each homered, powering the Cyclones to victory over the Black Bears.The Cyclones’ force was on display from the get-go. Brodey knocked one out of the park with Walter “Rabbi” Rasquin on third to get our boys on the board in the first. In the next inning, Maria hit one deep into lef
  
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• In from out of town at the Franklin Park Reading Series

  10-08-2017 16:12
  Lindsay Hunter is one of the authors coming to the Franklin Park Reading Series on Monday.
  On Monday night, the Franklin Park Reading Series returns for another installment, this time featuring a slate of award-winning writers who all hail from out of town. Join Amelia Gray (Isadora), Lindsay Hunter (Eat Only When You’re Hungry), Samantha Hunt (The Dark Dark), Jac Jemc (The Grip of It), and Sarah Rose Etter (Tongue Party) for readings from their latest works, $5 draft beers, and a free boo
  
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• Brooklyn Comes Alive hosting tribute to Green Day's 'Dookie'

  10-08-2017 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Members of Umphrey's McGee and Aqueous will perform Green Day's 'Dookie' and other punk/alt-rock covers at the Brooklyn jam festival.
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• Immersive Dudeness

  10-08-2017 15:59
  Immerse yourself in The Dude life, from sweaters to white Russians.
  The Little Cinema series at House of Yes, which remixes classic films with immersive live performances, recently earned a coveted spot on New York Magazine’s Best of 2017 list, so if you haven’t checked it out for yourself yet, you might want to go before it becomes impossible to score tickets. Tuesday night seems like a particularly good time for an inaugural visit: The theme is “The Dude” so in addition
  
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• Dave Chappelle continued Radio City run with Erykah Badu, Cedric the Entertainer, more

  10-08-2017 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  After resting for a couple nights, Dave Chappelle continued his 16-show Radio City residency last night with neo-soul great Erykah Badu, who Chappelle called "the Khaleesi of hip hop, breaker of chains."
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• Crown Heights, the movie

  10-08-2017 15:42
  See Crown Heights at BAM on Wednesday.
  Catch a sneak peek of Crown Heights, a new film depicting the true story of a Brooklyn man falsely convicted for a crime he didn’t commit and the best friend who spent decades fighting for his freedom, at BAM on Wednesday night at 8pm. Following the screening, you can stick around for what is sure to be an emotionally-charged Q&A with the movie’s director and actors, as well as its real life subjects, Colin Warner and Carl King. Tickets are
  
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• Eagles of Death Metal add headlining shows during tour with Mastodon

  10-08-2017 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eagles of Death Metal are touring with Mastodon and Russian Circles (again), and they've added some headlining shows happening during that run...
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• Thursday holiday shows with PUP & Frank Iero tickets on presale

  10-08-2017 14:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Get tickets to Thursday's Long Island and New Jersey shows early in today's presales. Passwords here...
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• The ferry tale of Greenpoint

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Carlo Bosticcofor Brooklyn PaperThis New York City ferry tale is coming to a close.It’s the last stop! This week, we arrive at the northernmost Brooklyn location on our ferry kingdom ride. Did we save the best for last? Greenpoint certainly puts up a fight for the crown.The pier surroundings are quite industrial, but a quick walk down India Street brings you to the trendy Moonlight Mile (200 Franklin St. at India Street), named after a Rolling Stones
  
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• The ‘Big’ show: Immersive cinema takes on the Dude

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperThe show abides.A high-flying film series in Bushwick will celebrate the cult classic “The Big Lebowski” at two immersive screenings filled with music, eye-popping visuals, and aerial performances. Little Cinema’s “The Dude,” at the House of Yes on Aug. 15 and 16, will be the company’s final show of the season, and the popular stoner film is the perfect choice to take it home, said the founder
  
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• Stonewalled! Army refuses to rename Ft, Ham streets honoring Confederate generals

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyThey want to let bygones be bygones.The U.S. Army is refusing to remove the names of Confederate commanders from streets at its Fort Hamilton base — because, well, that whole Civil War thing was so long ago, and changing now would just upset people.“After over a century any effort to rename memorializations on Fort Hamilton would be controversial and divisive,” said Army spokeswoman Diane Randon in a July 20 le
  
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• Sal’s ‘de-Blah-meter’ rates mayor for you

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyFormer Bay Ridge Councilman Sal Albanese, who is challenging Mayor DeBlasio in September’s primary, launched a new online campaign featuring a “De-BLAH-meter,” which gives voters an opportunity to register their frustration with the mayor — and puts a price on how much they should donate to Sal to help him alleviate frustration.Fed up New Yorkers can spin the virtual pointer around a semicircle of Hizzoner&
  
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• Putting a price on history: Professor argues protected districts only preserve for the one percent

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperCall it a landmark argument.Historic districts are thwarting economic diversity in some Brooklyn neighborhoods because their buildings’ real estate value has risen so high that it prices out all but the wealthy, according to a Brooklyn Heights resident and economics professor.“There’s a cost to landmarking that falls on third parties,” said Sandy Ikeda, who teaches at the State University of New York Purchase
  
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• Pols celebrate new homes in Coney Island

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyWelcome home!Local pols and community leaders snipped the blue ribbon, opening new below-market-rate housing — Coney Island Homes — in the eponymous neighborhood on Aug. 4.The new Canal Avenue digs are part of a $4-million project that brings seven three-family homes to different locations scattered around the borough, to provide affordable homeownership opportunities to low-and-moderate-income families. The project he
  
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• Man fatally stabs woman in Bay Ridge apartment

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyA 42-year-old man fatally stabbed a 52-year-old woman inside a Bay Ridge Avenue apartment on Aug. 9, police said.Emergency responders discovered the woman with stab wounds to her torso inside the apartment between Eighth and Ninth avenues at about 7 am, and pronounced her dead at the scene, according to authorities.
  The man, who was taken into police custody but not yet formally charged, lives at the Bay Ridge Avenue apartment wit
  
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• He can’t take it anymore! Squadron resigns from state Senate in fiery tirade against Albany

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperA Brooklyn Heights state senator attacked the institution he served on Wednesday when he unexpectedly resigned his post, calling New York state government a den of corruption that he vows to clean up thanks to his new job at an organization that will work to influence state politics.
  State Sen. Daniel Squadron (D–Brooklyn Heights) made his announcement in a New York Daily News op-ed that blasted the status quo in Albany, and
  
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• Funny coincidence! Our photographer catches Tracy Morgan filming in Brooklyn

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperHey, Tray!Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan hit Sheepshead Bay to film his new television show “The Last O.G.” on Tuesday.
  The series features Morgan as a Brooklyn-born-and-bred ex-con named Tray who is released from prison after 15 years behind bars and must navigate a newly gentrified County of Kings, including its hipsters, coffee shops, and rainbow food obsession.
  Crews took over Knapp Street and Avenue Y to shoot a dr
  
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• Bring us the boats: Pols and locals rally for ferry service to Coney Island and Canarsie

  10-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThey’ve got all hands on deck!
  An armada of local pols stood with Coney Island and Canarsie residents on the steps of City Hall on Aug. 8 to demand that Mayor DeBlasio act quickly to bring the city-wide ferry service to their seaside neighborhoods. The recently launched water-borne transit option celebrated its 1-millionth rider last month, but several outer-borough, transit-starved neighborhoods have been left behind in its
  
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• BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU: Playlist for August 9, 2017

  10-08-2017 02:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week's episode focuses on The Growlers Six festival with songs fromYeah Yeah Yeahs, Butthole Surfers, Danny Brown, Beach Fossils, The B-52s, Ariel Pink, Jonanthan Richman, Bad Brains, Beth Ditto and more.Continue reading…
  
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• Webster Hall's renovations could take 18 months (or more)

  10-08-2017 01:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The last night of Webster Hall as we know it Thursday (8/10) with Action Bronson & Friends in the Grand Ballroom and "Girls Night Out" party in the Studio. After that, the historic NYC venue closes for renovations under new owners Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment and AEG Presents. According to an interview with current VP of concerts Heath Miller in AM NY, that renovation period will take at least 18 months...
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