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• Interview with 2018 NBCC Biography Award Finalist Caroline Fraser

  12-03-2018 23:19 via bkmag.com
  
  For the past four years, the National Book Critics Circle has partnered with The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, allowing the students to interview each of the NBCC Awards Finalists. In addition to building excitement for the Awards Finalist Reading and Ceremony held at the New School March 14th-15th, these interviews have built an intergenerational bridge between the writers of today and tomorrow.
  This year, as part of the ongoing collaboration, and in support of the NBCC&
  
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• Island hop around Bed-Stuy’s Caribbean restaurant scene

  12-03-2018 23:11
  Photo: @travelcaribbean
  When summertime still feels like a dream, and you’re trudging through yet another bomb cyclone, with brown slush up to your knees, there’s a neighborhood in Brooklyn that will remind you of island life. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, pan-Caribbean restaurants abound where you can hang up your stress levels and wash away the edge of winter with a Rum Punch (or two). Eat your way around the region, stopping through Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti; you’ll encoun
  
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• Eating around the world in Bed-Stuy

  12-03-2018 23:11
  Photo: @travelcaribbean
  When summertime still feels like a dream, and you’re trudging through yet another bomb cyclone, with brown slush up to your knees, there’s a neighborhood in Brooklyn that will remind you of island life. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, pan-Caribbean restaurants abound where you can hang up your stress levels and wash away the edge of winter with a Rum Punch (or two). Eat your way around the region, stopping through Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti, with a touch of fla
  
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• Eat your way around the world in Bed-Stuy

  12-03-2018 23:11
  Photo: @travelcaribbean
  When summertime still feels like a dream, and you’re trudging through yet another bomb cyclone, with brown slush up to your knees, there’s a neighborhood in Brooklyn that will remind you of island life. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, pan-Caribbean restaurants abound where you can hang up your stress levels and wash away the edge of winter with a Rum Punch (or two). Eat your way around the region, stopping through Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti; you’ll encoun
  
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• tours announced: Bon Iver, Tallest Man, Alice In Chains, Violent Femmes, more

  12-03-2018 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Also: Arctic Monkeys, Beyonce & Jay Z, Paul Simon, Sam Smith, Alice In Chains, Alice Cooper, Violent Femmes, Joe Jackson, Pussy Riot, The Voidz, and more newly-announced tours.
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• Interview with 2018 NBCC Autobiography Award Finalist Henry Marsh

  12-03-2018 21:51 via bkmag.com
  
  For the past four years, the National Book Critics Circle has partnered with The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, allowing the students to interview each of the NBCC Awards Finalists. In addition to building excitement for the Awards Finalist Reading and Ceremony held at the New School March 14th-15th, these interviews have built an intergenerational bridge between the writers of today and tomorrow.
  This year, as part of the ongoing collaboration, and in support of the NBCC&
  
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• JRAD played 3 nights at Brooklyn Bowl (review + night 2 pics)

  12-03-2018 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Opening night was dedicated to original Dead keyboardist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan on the 45th anniversary of his death. Selections from Pigpen-era albums Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa included “Alligator,” a JRAD favorite to kick things off and find the groove...
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• Interview with 2018 NBCC Biography Award Finalist Howard Markel

  12-03-2018 21:07 via bkmag.com
  
  For the past four years, the National Book Critics Circle has partnered with The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, allowing the students to interview each of the NBCC Awards Finalists. In addition to building excitement for the Awards Finalist Reading and Ceremony held at the New School March 14th-15th, these interviews have built an intergenerational bridge between the writers of today and tomorrow.
  This year, as part of the ongoing collaboration, and in support of the NBCC&
  
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• Septicflesh, Dark Funeral & Thy Antichrist @ Gramercy Theatre (pics)

  12-03-2018 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greek symphonic death metal vets Septicflesh released Codex Omega on Season of Mist last year, and they're currently supporting it on a co-headlining tour with Swedish black metal vets Dark Funeral.
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• Cornelius played their first NYC show in 10 years (pics, video, setlist)

  12-03-2018 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Experimental, eccentric Japanese artist Cornelius brought his spectacular, A/V-enhanced live show to NYC for the first time in a decade.Continue reading…
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Honors David Bowie With New Exhibit

  12-03-2018 16:15 via bkmag.com
  
  PHOTOGRAPHY LaQuann Dawson
  As an occasional interviewer for the magazine Modern Painters, David Bowie expressed an intense interest in the process of artists—what inspired them; what they were trying to explore; above all, he wanted to learn how they became artists.
  David Bowie Is, an exhibit celebrating the life and work of the renowned music legend, opened at the Brooklyn Museum two weeks ago. Like the icon it is dedicated to, the exhibit has been created not to simply venerate the final
  
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