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• Mulatu Astatke playing Psycho Las Vegas & Central Park this weekend

  18-08-2017 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The "Father of Ethio-Jazz" is the US for the metal/psych festival Psycho Las Vegas, and a free Central Park SummerStage show with Emel Mathlouthi and Alsarah & the Nubatones.
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• Youssou N'Dour & Yacouba Sissoko played the 2017 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! finale (pics)

  18-08-2017 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2017 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival came to a close last weekend with a free show on Saturday (8/12) with Senegalese singer and world music icon Youssou N'Dour and acclaimed kora player Yacouba Sissoko...
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• Grizzly Bear, Back Like They Never Left

  18-08-2017 20:49 via bkmag.com
  Hearing Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen’s voices on a new Grizzly Bear album for the first time in five years evokes a pretty wide range of emotions. From the sense of nostalgia— bringing back thoughts, memories, and feelings of eras past—to the soothing sensibility that comes along with simply hearing the harmonies and immense, layered instrumentation that the band has claimed as its hallmark, there’s not much like the all-too-uncommon moment of a new Grizzly Bear album rele
  
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• Stop Taking Tina Fey’s ‘Sheetcaking’ Bit Literally

  18-08-2017 17:28 via bkmag.com
  As a country, we have a number of places to look to for reactions after something like the past week’s heinous events in Charlottesville, Virginia. We can read stories; we can read commentary. We can watch the news. But in such a harsh political climate, comedy shows have become ever-so-involved in shaping the conversation had all week long at the office, on the basketball court, wherever. This week, not only did the usual suspects—Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel&mdash
  
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• Five summer reads we loved

  18-08-2017 16:10
  It’s been an amazing summer for books, what with new releases from Roxanne Gay, Tom Perotta and Arundhati Roy, and a brand-new indie bookstore, Books Are Magic, right here in Brooklyn that is quickly becoming a clubhouse for readers and writers alike. Here are five reads we loved, while at the beach, in a hammock, on a blanket at the park or just soaking up the AC at home on the couch.
  Ill Will, Dan Chaon
  This is a dark and haunting literary thriller that I devoured in two days at the
  
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• We’re On a Boat: And Pilot’s Making it Rain Oysters Over the East River

  18-08-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  As construction continues throughout DUMBO, prospectors prioritize bragging rights to prime views of waterfront. Yet Pilot is one of the precious few places that can actually claim to be on the water itself, being based inside of a historic 1920s racing schooner, docked at the end of Pier 6.
  Acquired and restored by Miles and Alex Pincus—seasoned sailors, and the co-owners of the similarly situated Grand Banks (aboard the Sherman Zwicker in Hudson River Park) and Island Oyster (a bar spann
  
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• Patti Cake$ Feels Fresh Until It Doesn’t

  18-08-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  Patti Cake$ should not feel fresh. Though it stars talented up-and-comer Danielle MacDonald, is a first-time feature from writer-director Geremy Jasper, and focuses on a title character with a bigger build not typically seen in mainstream crowd-pleasers, it pretty much is just that—a mainstream crowd-pleaser, albeit with some gritty New Jersey mise-en-scene.
  A lot of the movie’s story comes from the already-worn playbook of 8 Mile: Like that movie’s fictionalized version of Emi
  
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• Going down: City must dig deeper at planned Gowanus pre-K site after finding traces of buried trenches, state says

  18-08-2017 15:39
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt’s got to get to the bottom of this.The city must dig deeper into the ground of an empty Gowanus lot where the remains of Revolutionary War heroes and 19th-century slaves are said to be buried after finding evidence of trenches that date to the 1800s or earlier in a recent excavation, according to a state parks spokesman.“Based on our review of the initial archeological fieldwork, further investigation of the site is
  
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• Your NYC summer grilling guide

  18-08-2017 14:49
  It’s grilling season at last! Photo: Lauren Rothman
   
  It’s Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer–time to kick off the long, delicious season of outdoor grilling. In an ideal world, we’d all have yards and yards of space at our grilling disposal, with plenty of room for a monster grill, a table full of spatulas and tongs and seating for all of our dinner guests. But here in the city, summer grilling is relegated to the tiny corners of outdoor space possess
  
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• Phoning it in! Clones lose sixth in a row

  18-08-2017 13:34
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperAberdeen 5Cyclones 0Aug. 17 in MCU ParkThe fans should come just for the giveaways at this point.The Cyclones bats mustered just four hits and were shut out by Ironbirds’ pitchers Michael Baumann and Nick Vespi as the Clones went lost for sixth time in a row.The Ironbirds got on the board early. Trevor Craport led off the first with a double before Ben Breazele singled to advance Craport to third. Garrett Copeland then hit a
  
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• Grizzly Bear's new album 'Painted Ruins' is out now (stream, review)

  18-08-2017 06:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  'Painted Ruins' reminds you that Grizzly Bear are still masters of the kind of psychedelic pop they won everyone over with. Listen to the whole album now...
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• Sleep near sludge: Gowanus boutique inn lures patrons by promoting its proximity to disease-infested canal

  18-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperTalk about viral marketing!A new hotel is advertising itself by boasting about its proximity to the gonorrhea-infested Gowanus Canal and the chance to get up close and personal with actual residents, according to a press release announcing its October opening.“Celebrating the canal that has for generations served as an eddy of inspiration for a slew of resourceful New Yorkers from gangsters, outlaws, artists and all manner of
  
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• Keeping peace: Locals rally in response to fatal Charlottesville violence

  18-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThey took it to the extremists.Hundreds of Kings County activists occupied Grand Army Plaza on Aug. 13 to condemn the fatal violence that consumed a Virginia city on Aug. 12 when Confederate-flag-waving white supremacists clashed with anti-fascist protestors, leaving one person dead.“What happened on Saturday was incredibly disturbing and upsetting, and people were looking for an outlet,” said Liat Olenick, co-founder o
  
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• Going down: City must dig deeper at planned Gowanus pre-K site after finding traces of trenches, state says

  18-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt’s got to get to the bottom of this.The city must dig deeper into the ground of an empty Gowanus lot where the remains of Revolutionary War heroes and 19th-century slaves are said to be buried after finding evidence of trenches that date to the 1800s or earlier in a recent excavation, according to a state parks spokesman.“Based on our review of the initial archeological fieldwork, further investigation of the site is
  
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• Crown Heights natives use hoops to bring community together

  18-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyIt’s not about the world — just the block.Anika and Christian Waterman have spent their lives in Crown Heights, but it wasn’t until 2014 that the two found themselves face-to-face with gun violence in the area. Christian was in Jackie Robinson Park one day that year when shots were fired in the green space. He wasn’t injured, but from that day on the couple knew they had to do something about a growing proble
  
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• Broken promises: Ridgites say mayor backed out of meeting pledge

  18-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyMayor DeBlasio’s word is garbage, say angry Ridgites who say he’s gone back on his promise to meet with them about trash-collection problems.Residents of four private Bay Ridge streets are impatiently waiting for a face-to-face meeting with Hizzoner, or at least a senior staff member, to discuss the city’s sudden decision to end garbage pickup earlier this year — a sit-down that was promised, butnever scheduled, by a staff
  
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• Bay Ridge is all shook up

  18-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Bill RoundyBrooklyn DailyThis week we’ll put on our blue suede shoes and take a weekend walk!Start your weekend early this Friday with a delightful dairy stop at the Owl’s Head Wine Bar (479 74th St. between Fourth and Fifth avenues) — its “cheesy hour” from 3–5 pm will score you a special wedge of cheese with each glass of wine you order.
  Once you’ve filled up on curds and wine, step outside to join the Fifth Avenu
  
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• Bay Ridge church takes down plaque honoring Confederate leader

  18-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperA plaque commemorating the Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee was hauled off the grounds of the so-called Church of the Generals in Bay Ridge on Aug. 16 in the wake of last weekend’s white supremacist protests and violence in Charlottesville, sending a message that racism has no place in Brooklyn, according to a local political hopeful.“Removing this plaque makes it very clear that while we will never forget the
  
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• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard release 3rd LP of 2017 (listen), expand tour

  18-08-2017 01:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  'Sketches of Brunswick East' is a collaboration with Mild High Club. They've also added more dates to their fall North American tour.
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• Death Grips cancelled Vienna show reportedly because venue was too hot

  18-08-2017 00:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hopefully it's not a return to Death Grip's old show-cancelling ways.
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• ACL Festival announces 2017 set times

  18-08-2017 00:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Austin City Limits Music Festival is coming up, happening October 6-8 and and again on October 13-15. They've just announced the daily set times, which means figuring out schedule conflicts...
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