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Extra, Extra: Foo Fighters Rickroll Westboro Church In Person


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Published Aug 23, 2015

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  • Dante went to Yale without his parents.
  • The Post laments: where have all the hot firefighters gone?
  • A tourist searched for weeks to find and adopt the stray dog who saved her in Greece.
  • Community policing initiative in Far Rockaway having trouble, in part because cops can't be bothered to walk two blocks.
  • Grace Jones rock Afropunk this weekend in solidarity with topless women.
  • The Foo Fighters Rickrolled the Westboro Baptist Church in real life.
  • An amusement park argument ended in a double stabbing in NJ.
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  • OMG One Direction are reportedly taking a year off
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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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