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Brooklyn Festival samples the new classical music of the borough
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...
Tags: Battles (music group), Electronics, Entertainment, The Antlers (music group), Arts and Culture
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Phoenix hits 'Saturday Night Live' ahead of Coachella
A week before it's to headline Night 2 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Phoenix hit "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend with two songs from its upcoming album, "Bankrupt!" The French band opened with a blistering rendition of...
Tags: Entertainment, Williamsburg (Bronx, New York), Phoenix (music group), Academy of Country Music Awards, Awards and Prizes
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Man freed after 23 years in prison, cleared of killing N.Y. rabbi
After more than two decades in prison, David Ranta walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom a free man Thursday, no longer charged with murdering a rabbi in one of the city’s more well-known homicides. “To say I'm sorry for what you've endured...
Tags: Lawyers, Prisons, Murder, Punishment, Christianity
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Suspect in deadly Brooklyn hit-and-run arrested in Pennsylvania
The man wanted in a Brooklyn hit-and-run that took three lives was arrested in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, about 90 miles west of where the crash occurred. The local ABC affiliate, WABC, showed video of Julio Acevedo in a blue hooded jacket and...
Tags: ABC (tv network), New York City Police Department, Raymond W. Kelly, Shootings
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Reward raised for driver who fled deadly hit-and-run in Brooklyn
The reward for the man wanted in connection with the tragic hit-and-run accident in an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn has risen to $12,000, police said on Tuesday, as authorities searched for the man who fled the scene where a family was killed....
Tags: Christianity, Judaism, Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Religion and Belief
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Baby born after parents killed in New York hit-and-run crash dies
NEW YORK -- A baby delivered by emergency Cesarean section died Monday morning after both parents, members of an Orthodox Jewish community, were killed in a hit-and-run accident over the weekend. The New York Police Department announced the baby’s...
Tags: Judaism, Christianity, Motorvehicle Accidents, Accidental Death, Transportation Accidents
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Hours after baby dies, police ID suspect in Brooklyn hit-and-run
NEW YORK -- A suspect in the hit-and-run deaths of a pregnant woman and her husband has been identified, hours after the death of the premature baby the woman was carrying, New York police said Monday. Police said they were looking for Julio Acevedo, 44,...
Tags: Colorado Movie Theater Shooting, New York City Police Department, Christianity, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Arts and Culture
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A baby lives, its parents die, and an Orthodox community mourns
NEW YORK -- They were a young couple expecting their first baby, so when 21-year-old Raizy Glauber felt queasy, her husband, Nathan, also 21, called a cab to take them to the hospital. At an intersection in Brooklyn early Sunday, their taxi was struck...
Tags: Christianity, Judaism, Motorvehicle Accidents, Religion and Belief, Transportation Accidents
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'Girls' is back, with flak jackets at the ready
Aspiring cultural critics of the world, get those pitches ready: "Girls," the show that inspired a thousand think pieces, is back. Created by and starring Lena Dunham, a Manhattan native who shot her first feature film, "Tiny Furniture," fresh out of...
Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Rihanna, Rentals, Larry David, The Huffington Post
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Kristin Chenoweth recovering after 'Good Wife' set accident
Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth is recovering after a freak accident Wednesday while working on CBS' "The Good Wife" in New York. A spokeswoman for the actress told the Associated Press on Thursday that Chenoweth was at home recovering from her injury...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Entertainment, Broadway Theater, Movies, Williamsburg (Bronx, New York)
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Melvins to attempt Guinness World Record on U.S. tour
Pop & HissThe Melvins are attempting to break a Guinness World Record for fastest tour of the U.S.: 50 states in 51 days. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts assesses the odds, and perils, of such a journey.... -
12 places to visit in 2012
New Mexico: This year, New Mexicans mark 100 years of statehood. But much of the state's appeal stems from its human history that goes back much further. (In 2010, Santa Fe celebrated 400 years of cityhood.) Explore here: the adobe architecture and art...Tags: Artists, Republican Party, Wars and Interventions, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Millennium Park
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