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• Back to School Jam back at Game Changer World with new lineup, following drama

  11-08-2017 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the 2017 Back to School Jam was announced, it was a bit of a surprise that the NJ hardcore fest moved from its usual home of GameChangerWorld to Starland Ballroom, and that pop punk band State Champs were headlining. Drama ensued, and now the festival is back at GameChangerWorld with a smaller lineup...
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• Roger Waters criticizes Radiohead's Israel show again in new interview

  11-08-2017 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adding to the seemingly never-ending drama, Roger Waters, in a new interview with Russia Today, has accused Radiohead of supporting Israel's government by playing that show in Tel Aviv a few weeks back...
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• New York Koshary Brings Egypt’s National Dish to Bay Ridge

  11-08-2017 19:05 via bkmag.com
  Passing by New York Koshery in Bay Ridge, positioned along 86th Street’s primary commercial corridor, you wouldn’t be the first to assume that it specializes in fare conforming to the stringent regulations of kashrut. Because while koshery (also spelled koshari) is commonly heralded as the national dish of Egypt, it’s yet to become widely disseminated throughout NYC, even in a neighborhood that houses Brooklyn’s most robust Arab American community.
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• Man arrested and charged for fatally stabbing woman in Bay Ridge apartment

  11-08-2017 17:22
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperPolice yesterday arrested and charged a 42-year-old man for fatally stabbing a 52-year-old woman inside a Bay Ridge Avenue apartment on Aug. 9, authorities said.Emergency responders discovered the victim, AnnMarie Vardy, 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 police.The man, who was charged with murder, lives at the Bay R
  
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• Dark night! Cyclones lose again, but Matt Harvey is on the way!

  11-08-2017 13:11
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperWest Virginia 8Cyclones 3Aug. 10 in West VirginiaCyclones pitchers Jose Carlos Medina and Cannon Chadwick got rocked on the mound, surrendering 11 hits and eight runs between the two of them as the Cyclones lost to the Black Bears.The Clones were the first ones on the board. Jeremy Vazquez doubled to right nefore Jose Miguel “Funky Cold” Medina followed with a double to score Vasquez.The Black Bears scored in each of t
  
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• Tale of two stairways

  11-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle KoganBrooklyn DailyAn outdoor staircase in Bay Ridge that gained viral-video fame on social media when last week’s rains turned it into a waterfall is really just the ugly stepsister of a similar staircase a couple of streets over, according to residents.Beyond the poor drainage, the crumbling staircase abutting a dead end at 76th Street near Colonial Road is covered with rust and graffiti, and overgrown with plants, making an awkward contras
  
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• Make it stop: Park-loving tots frightened by noise from ongoing construction at Pier 6

  11-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperCall it a tower tantrum.Noise from the construction of two towers at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 is scaring youngsters at a popular playground next to the work site, according to several parents.“My son doesn’t like the noise,” said Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Monica Lubin, whose son was playing in a sandbox near the construction zone. “He was complaining that it’s too loud and he had his hands
  
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• In the dock: Pol takes aim at party boats after seaside brawl

  11-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyTalk about troubled waters.
  After a brawl that broke out in the street after hundreds of passengers disembarked from one of Sheepshead Bay’s party boats late at night on Aug. 6, Councilman Chaim Deutsch (D–Sheepshead Bay) is drafting legislation to crack down on the notoriously noxious nautical nuisances.
  Locals have been complaining for years about the loud noise, excessive traffic, public urination, and piles of tras
  
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• Check, please: Dizzy’s Fifth Avenue diner closing in order to fund Ninth Street flagship

  11-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperTalk about trimming the fat.The owner of popular Slope brunch spot Dizzy’s is shuttering the diner’s Fifth Avenue location so he can pump money into it’s like-named elder sister on Ninth Street.“Yeah Fifth Avenue is closing, but who cares, because Ninth Street is going to blow you away,” said proprietor Mathe Pisciotta.
  The diner on Fifth Avenue between President and Carroll Streets will close Sunday,
  
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• Bay Ridge puts it in park

  11-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Bill RoundyBrooklyn DailyBay Ridge is heading outside!Get out on Friday night for the summer’s final SummerStroll on Third (Third Avenue between 68th to 80th streets). The thoroughfare will be closed to cars from 6 pm to 10 pm, so you can do some al fresco dining in the street, walk with a beer, and cross the street without looking both ways. Start your night outside the Pour House of Bay Ridge (7901 Third Avenue at 79th Street), where Nordic rockers
  
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