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Early Addition: The Fyre Fest Fiasco Keeps On Giving
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John Del Signore
Published May 2, 2017
Modified May 2, 2017
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- A Mets fan is honoring his deceased friend by flushing the man’s cremated remains down baseball stadium toilets.
- Trump reportedly said last year that he could have "done a deal" to avoid the Civil War.
- Vanity Fair obtained a copy of the amazing "beyond parody" promotional presentation that Fyre Fest used to woo investors.
- Don't worry, Ivanka Trump plans to review her dad's executive orders before he signs them.
- Here are the 2017 Tony award nominees you guys.
- Megyn Kelly will travel to Russia next month to moderate a discussion with Putin.
- Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood will score Joaquin Phoenix's next film; he previously scored Phoenix's last two films with Paul Thomas Anderson, including the criminally underrated Inherent Vice.
- The inimitable Col. Bruce Hampton collapsed onstage and died last night toward the end of a lengthy 70th birthday concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta.
- Here's the late great Colonel with The Aquarium Rescue Unit:
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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