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• Does Cyncism Lack Truth? Arcade Fire Answer At Madison Square Garden

  13-09-2017 23:48 via bkmag.com
  
  Entering the arena at Madison Square Garden last night, the members of Arcade Fire, led by band leaders and alternating vocalists Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, approached the stage to a rising swell of cheers from the stadium. Except there was no stage—just a platform with a ring. As they reached it one by one, a Jim Ross-type announcer read out statistics about the band, much like before a boxing match. Once every member had climbed their way into the ring, the seven-piece indie
  
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• Primary Election round-up

  13-09-2017 22:47
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperTuesday’s primary elections were largely a victory for incumbents, who won over rivals in the races for mayor, public advocate, and district attorney, as well as every city Council contest in which one competed. But the deep-blue county’s Democratic Party machine suffered some losses, in the form of two civil-court seats that went to one insurgent and one independent candidate. Here’s our recap of the local prima
  
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• A party for the bookish crowd

  13-09-2017 20:08
  In the run-up to Sunday’s Brooklyn Book Festival Day, which features readings and talks by megawatt literati like Joyce Carol Oates, Jacqueline Woodson, Karl Ove Knausgard, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, and many more, there are associated “bookend” events happening all week throughout the borough. Friday night’s eighth annual Brooklyn Indie Party at Greenlight seems like a particularly good bet if you feel inclined to celebrate and support Brooklyn’s thriving c
  
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• Outdoor eats, while the sun still shines

  13-09-2017 20:04
  As summer is winding down, the days of block parties and outdoor picnics are numbered, so if you enjoy those things you might want to get in on some serious action going down on Saturday. First up, Fort Greene’s Greene Grape, Interboro Spirits & Ales, and FAB Fulton are teaming up to bring you EAT Greene, an all-day block party on South Portland between Fulton and Lafayette. From noon to 7pm, swing by to sample bites from beloved neighborhood spots like No. 7, Pequena, Masala Mama, and
  
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• Find the future in Greenpoint this weekend at Worlds Fair Nano

  13-09-2017 19:45
  For someone who works at a tech startup, I am both extremely old and also extremely out of the loop when it comes to topics like VR, AI, Soylent, drones, and electric skateboards, but I’m thinking that a trip to this weekend’s Worlds Fair Nano at the Brooklyn Expo Center could be a good primer to get me up to speed. The two-day festival, which runs from 10am-6pm on Saturday and Sunday, is a smorgasbord of cutting edge technology and futurism that seems to have something for everyone.
  
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• Stories too weird to make up

  13-09-2017 19:35
  I can’t think of a better way to attack a case of the Mondays than with laughter. Dean Street’s live storytelling series, You Can’t Make This Sh*t Up, continues on this Monday night with an impressive lineup of six comics, Kendra Cunningham, Michelle Walson, David Hu, Jamie Brickhouse, Christine Holt, and Terris Girvin, who will regale you with their “unrepressed memories that they may or may not be cool with.” The show starts at 7:30pm and tickets are $10. Come hun
  
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• Calling all wizards to Harry Potter trivia night

  13-09-2017 19:25
  Hey all you wizard wannabes, Tuesday night you can put your command of all things Hogwarts-related to the test at Glow Thai’s Harry Potter Trivia night from 8-9:30pm in Bay Ridge. Note that this trivia consists of five rounds of Ordinary Wizarding Levels and it is based exclusively on the JK Rowling series of books (not the movie adaptations). It’s free to register, but you’re advised to register together if you’ve got a team, and word on the street is that this event fil
  
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• The Tallest Man on Earth comes to Red Hook

  13-09-2017 19:16
  On Wednesday, Pioneer Works is hosting critically acclaimed Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson, who performs under the stage name The Tallest Man on Earth, for a collaborative performance with yMusic, a classical sextet. The two acts recently teamed up on a new EP, which rearranged and reimagined some of The Tallest Man on Earth’s best-known work against a totally new, classical background. If you’ve never been to Pioneer Works’ beautiful Red Hook space, this is a great
  
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• Fermenting for the Future

  13-09-2017 19:16 via bkmag.com
  
  Pickling and fermenting.
  For all the Brooklyn stereotypes, in the right setting, these can still be rather impressive ways of preparing food. Though two chefs who spoke at Taste Talks Brooklyn on Saturday developed many of their techniques in a lab, they were not there to wow the audience with fussy food prep. Will Horowitz, owner of Ducks Eatery and Harry & Ida's, and his friend Jaime Young, chef and co-owner of Sunday in Brooklyn, have much loftier goals.
  "We're going to get
  
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• There’s still time for rooftop movies

  13-09-2017 19:10
  Didn’t make it to Summerscreen or Syfy Movies with a View this summer? No worries, you can still catch an outdoor movie while the weather is still accommodating such activities, and Rooftops Reds–with its rooftop vineyard and skyline views–is the perfect place to do it. On Thursday, they’ll be screening the movie that set a new standard for dumb/weird/silly/off-color comedy when it was released 23 years ago: Ace Ventura Pet Detective. For $30, you get to refamiliariz
  
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• Sneaky thief smashes woman’s car window, robs her

  13-09-2017 18:33
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne Cubafor Brooklyn Paper76th PrecinctCarroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red HookBad spotA cur broke a window of a woman’s car parked on Bay Street and stole her pocketbook with hundreds of dollars worth of stuff inside on Sept. 10, police said.The 46-year-old woman told police the criminal smashed the rear passenger side window of her car near Clinton Street at about 4:30 pm and grabbed her black pocketbook with her credit and debit cards, birth
  
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• Have It Your Way All Day At Brooklyn's Newest Morning-to-Night Restaurants

  13-09-2017 17:28 via bkmag.com
  
  The truth is that dinner-only restaurants are frequently ego-driven—a way for chefs to avoid serving lowest common denominator fare like burgers, and arrange a lifetime’s worth of ambition and hardcore culinary training on a plate. Yet it hasn’t proven an especially effective way of keeping the lights on, which is why more and more restauranteurs are letting their hair down, in an effort to make money for 12-20 hours a day. Because even though $30 entrees are considerably more
  
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• Weekly Culture Round-Up: 9/13 - 9/19

  13-09-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Pina Returns to Brooklyn — Modern dance luminary Pina Bausch and her stalwart company of exceptional dancers, Tanztheater Wuppertal, made their New York debut in 1984 with the now-iconic double bill of Café Müller, a melancholic fever dream in which the dreamer, a sleepwalking woman, is trapped inside a congested, monochromatic restaurant, and The Rite of Spring, a voracious reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s original ballet, one that covers the stage in soil and sees its a
  
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• Gorillaz To Host Williamsburg Pop-Up Store This Week

  13-09-2017 15:12 via bkmag.com
  
  Looking to bring a virtual experience into the real world? That's always the case with Gorillaz, and this week our borough gets the chance to take that even further: the band/project/group/collective is opening a pop-up shop this week in Williamsburg, offering fans a chance to get some exclusive new merch ahead of their headlining performance at The Meadows festival in Queens on Saturday night.
  The shop will be open both Thursday and Friday, on Grand Street in Williamsburg, with the doors openin
  
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• Race to the finish: P’Park ovarian cancer walk makes strides, but falls short of fund-raising goal

  13-09-2017 14:57
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThis charity has more steps to take.More than 2,500 big-hearted Brooklynites paraded through Prospect Park on Sept. 9 for the ninth-annual Teal Walk and Run, a fund-raiser that promotes ovarian-cancer awareness. But organizers — who raked in $164,000 at the event — fell short of reaching their September fund-raising goal, and said failure to fill the gap will leave women vulnerable to the deadly illness.“It is a m
  
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• Pedaling on: Citi Bike rolling to Crown Heights and Prospect Heights in latest expansion

  13-09-2017 14:54
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt’s reaching new Heights!Citi Bike’s docks will gobble up on-street parking and sidewalk spaces in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights in the coming weeks as part of its latest expansion, which kicked off Sept. 12, prompting a wave of divergent emotions among the nabes’ cyclists and motorists, according to a local civic honcho.“We have a lot of bikers and we have a lot of drivers,” said Musa Moore, cha
  
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• Ruthless couple pulls closing-time bar heist

  13-09-2017 14:46
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn Paper88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillTied upPolice are searching for a man and a woman who tied up a worker at a Clinton Avenue bar and stole $15,000 in cash on Sept. 4.The victim told police he was closing up the booze haunt near Atlantic Avenue at 2 am when one of the creeps forced his way in by pointing a gun. He then handed it off to the female baddie while he tied the worker’s hands behind his back with rope and put
  
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• Crook invades home for disabled, snatches iPad

  13-09-2017 14:46
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Paper78th PrecinctPark Slope
  Pad behaviorA thief stole a woman’s iPad she had left in her room at a home for disabled people on Garfield Place on Aug. 24.The victim told police she left the pricey tablet in her room in the facility between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West at 4:45 pm, and discovered later that the device was stolen.Not kid’s stuffA 14-year-old boy was arrested for attacking his father inside his Seventh S
  
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• Racing to the finish: P’Park ovarian cancer walk makes strides, but falls short of fund-raising goal

  13-09-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThis charity has more steps to take.More than 2,500 big-hearted Brooklynites paraded through Prospect Park on Sept. 9 for the ninth-annual Teal Walk and Run, a fund-raiser that promotes ovarian-cancer awareness. But organizers — who raked in $164,000 at the event — fell short of reaching their September fund-raising goal, and said failure to fill the gap will leave women vulnerable to the deadly illness.“It is a m
  
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• Pedaling on: Citi Bike hitting Crown Heights and Prospect Heights streets in latest expansion

  13-09-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt’s reaching new Heights!Citi Bike’s docks will gobble up on-street parking and sidewalk spaces in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights in the coming weeks as part of its latest expansion, which kicked off Sept. 12, prompting a wave of divergent emotions among the nabes’ cyclists and motorists, according to a local civic honcho.“We have a lot of bikers and we have a lot of drivers,” said Musa Moore, cha
  
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• Gene therapy: Get a final dose of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival

  13-09-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Bill RoundyBrooklyn PaperHe loves you, but he’s chosen Massachusetts.This weekend’s 10th-annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival will be the final blow-out for the silly, sincerely ironic extravaganza that has drawn big-name comedians to the Gowanus area for the last decade. Festival founder and former Brooklynite Eugene Mirman says that, since he moved to Cape Cod two years ago, it is has become too difficult to organize a Brooklyn gathering. But
  
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• Eric Gonzalez wins DA Democratic primary, vows to continue predecessor’s progressive legacy

  13-09-2017 05:31
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperHe can finally drop the Acting!Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is now Kings County’s District Attorney, after blowing his rival Democratic crime fighters out of the water in a primary election that saw no Republicans compete for the seat in the deep-blue county.Gonzalez was predicted to retain the seat as chief legal eagle — he received the most prominent endorsements, amassed the biggest war chest, and enjoyed
  
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