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• Weekly Culture Round-up: 8/23 – 8/29

  23-08-2017 16:41 via bkmag.com
  Glory is Fleeting, Obscurity is Forever — Bertrand Bonello, coming off his hyper-stylish Yves Saint Laurent biopic, presents Nocturama (2016), a provocative, hauntingly elegant portrait of terrorism in contemporary Paris. A group of young multiracial subversives commit a series of frighteningly calculated terror attacks under no clear ideology, symbolized by their torching of a Joan of Arc statue. Class differences aside, they’re of the same generation and similarly disgruntled,
  
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• People in Your Neighborhood: Phoebe Sung & Pete Buer

  23-08-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  Walk into any Brooklyn home goods boutique and you’re bound to stumble upon whimsical designs by Cold Picnic—cushion covers and woven bathmats emblazoned with casually sketched body parts, hand-knotted macrame plant hangers, plush rugs in desert-landscape palettes, quilted throws in abstract colorblocks. Launched in 2010 by husband-and-wife team Phoebe Sung and Pete Buer, the label has evolved from its early years as a women’s accessories line to a full-fledged interiors endeav
  
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• The Front Bottoms release new single "Raining," touring with Basement

  23-08-2017 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is a followup to 2015's Back On Top on the way?
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• tix for Tricky @ Music Hall of Williamsburg on BrooklynVegan presale (password here)

  23-08-2017 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  BrooklynVegan is also presenting Tricky's MHOW show, part of the trip hop icon's fall tour.
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• Solange joined Dave Chappelle at Radio City night 14 (pics)

  23-08-2017 15:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like at her headlining set at Panorama last month, Solange played with the whole stage drenched in red, her extremely tight band in matching outfits, and she again filled the stage at one point with 20 or 30 horn players...
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• It really is a Summer of Hell for the Cyclones

  23-08-2017 14:54
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperHudson Valley 3Cyclones 0Aug. 22 at MCU ParkNot even Jeurys Familia could save this season.The Cyclones “Summer of Hell” continued Tuesday as the our boys’ bats couldn’t get it done, mustering up just five hits and botching three plays as the Clones lost for the 11th time in a row, this time at the hands of the Renegades.Hard luck pitcher Jake Simon took the loss giving up two runs on just three hits in fou
  
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• American gothic: Macabre tunes at Battle of Brooklyn event

  23-08-2017 06:43
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne McShaneBrooklyn DailyCall them the band of the battle!A Brooklyn duo known for Gothic songs of murder and mayhem will serenade visitors to Green-Wood Cemetery on Aug. 26 with songs of war. The band Charming Disaster will play the “Tales and Tunes” event, part of the graveyard’s run-up to the 241st anniversary celebration of the Battle of Brooklyn, and will break out new and old songs inspired by the battles of the Revolutionary Wa
  
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• Thief snatches woman’s wallet while she shops

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne McShaneBrooklyn Daily68th PrecinctBay Ridge—Dyker HeightsRaw dealAn unknown perp swiped the wallet of a woman who was shopping in an 86th Street department store on Aug. 18 after she briefly left it unattended.The woman told police she placed the wallet on a counter in the store between Fourth and Fifth avenues, and when she turned back to the counter, it was gone.
  The sneaks used her credit cards soon after to buy two MetroCards at the 86th
  
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• Score one for nostalgia: Stickballers relive their youth in Coney Island

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperThey had a ball by the Boardwalk!
  Stickballers played three games of the past-time pastime during the second-annual Stickball Challenge in Coney Island on Aug. 13, and running the bases with the People’s Playground as a backdrop brought the players right back to their childhood days, said an organizer.“The main thing about the day is promoting the game of stickball, the nostalgia, and keeping the game fresh in everyone
  
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• Police: Shady guy busted for snatching designer sunshades

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn Paper84th PrecinctBrooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–DowntownUnsafe sun
  Police arrested a guy who allegedly tried to steal three pairs of Gucci sunglasses from a display rack in a Fulton Street department store on Aug. 20.The suspect took the $1,125 worth of sunnies from the rack of the store by Bridge Street at 12:14 pm and put them inside a shopping bag before being caught, authorities said.KnifepointCops are searchin
  
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• Police: Man tries to steal nuts and butter from Fifth Ave. store

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Paper78th PrecinctPark Slope
  Nuts!A 67-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing nuts and butter from a Fifth Avenue supermarket on Aug. 13.An employee told police he was inside the store near Batlic Street at 10:15 am when he spotted the suspect walk out with the food.The suspect was arrested that day, and booked on charges of petit larceny, cops said.Scoot awayA thief puttered away on a man’s Vespa scooter he parked on Se
  
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• Police: Man slaps niece, steals her cellphone

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne McShaneBrooklyn Daily62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachHold the phoneA man slapped his niece across her face as she was talking on her cellphone on 85th Street on Aug. 15, then stole the phone and fled on foot, police said.The assault and theft, which took place around 9:30 pm between 20th and 21st avenues, began when the lout demanded his niece hand her phone over and began to slap her when she refused, according to the authorities’ r
  
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• Our sit-down with Bay Ridge Council candidate Justin Brannan

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne McShaneBrooklyn DailyDemocratic Bay Ridge Council candidate Justin Brannan met with the editors of Community News Group on Aug. 18 to discuss his run to replace term-limited (and his former boss) Councilman Vincent Gentile. Brannan, who owns a children’s art school in Bay Ridge with his wife, has also worked for Mayor DeBlasio, but insists he does not see his long-term future in politics, claiming he’s an activist at heart. He zeroed in
  
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• Gun-toting robber steals chain from would-be paramour

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne McShaneBrooklyn Daily60th PrecinctConey Island—Brighton Beach—SeagateFake flirtA black mask-wearing burglar brandishing a gun stole a gold chain on Aug. 18 on Avenue W and then fled on foot from a man who was expecting to meet a woman he thought he had connected with on MeetMe.com, a dating website.The theft occurred outside an apartment complex near W. 11th Street, and the perp fled up to the sixth floor of a nearby building after stea
  
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• Cops: Woman slugs lady in the face with a shoe

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn Paper88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillKicked
  Cops cuffed a woman who allegedly bashed a lady in the face with a shoe on Tillary Street on Aug. 15.The suspect hit the woman with the footwear near Prince Street at 10:30 am, according to a report.Fruit frenzy
  Police are searching for a thief who stole a man’s Citi Bike while he was buying fruit on Lafayette Avenue on Aug. 9.The victim parked his two-wheeler by South Elliot P
  
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• Cops seek suspect in deadly Greenpoint slashing

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperPolice identified a suspect wanted for questioning about the fatal stabbing of a Greenpoint man on Aug. 18.
  Authorities are looking for a 19-year-old male resident of the Bushwick Houses on Bushwick Avenue, who they believe stabbed 42-year-old George Carroll to death as he was walking on Monitor Street with his wife.Cops pinpointed the man after speaking to witnesses at the scene.Carroll and his wife, Christina Romero Carroll, were
  
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• Cops name suspect in deadly Greenpoint slashing

  23-08-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperPolice identified a suspect wanted for questioning about the fatal stabbing of a Greenpoint man on Aug. 18.
  Authorities are looking for a 19-year-old male resident of the Bushwick Houses on Bushwick Avenue, who they believe stabbed 42-year-old George Carroll to death as he was walking on Monitor Street with his wife.Cops pinpointed the man after speaking to witnesses at the scene.Carroll and his wife, Christina Romero Carroll, were
  
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• John Maus, Moor Mother, Caribou & more @ Warm Up (pics)

  23-08-2017 00:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a wild hip hop-focused lineup the previous week, Saturday's (8/20) Warm Up at MoMA PS1 veered more towards the experimental, with sets from Daphni, John Maus, Delia Gonzalez, Moor Mother, Geng, and DJ Haram.
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• First Aid Kit playing NYC & Los Angeles shows around ACL Fest

  23-08-2017 00:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit have kept pretty silent since touring their last record, 2014's Stay Gold but will be playing some new songs at U.S. shows in October....
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