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No more
religious
exemptions BURP
AND
GRIND
‘Rick and Morty’ burlesque
show comes to Coney
Time to get schwifty in here!
A nerdy burlesque show will
transport viewers to a sexy sci-fi
world — if the Galactic Federation
doesn’t notice. “Burp-lesque,”
a strip show inspired by the foulmouthed
Morty,” will crash land in Coney
CARTOON IN: Moe Cheezmo (left) and Petite Renard (right) will play Rick Sanchez
and Beth Smith from the hit show “Rick and Morty” in their burlesque
show “Burp-lesque” on June 29. Atticus Media Productions
Sweet ‘stache! Obstruction of justice
BY CHANDLER KIDD
They don’t call them the injury
attorneys for nothing!
Transit officials removed
BY ROSE ADAMS
cartoon show “Rick and
an advertisement
for law firm Cellino and
Barnes from a Gerritsen
Beach bus shelter on
Tuesday at the request of
a local pol, who said the
Island on June 29. The show’s creator
the misadventures of a mad scientist
troupes.
“We do the weird stuff,” said Petite
poster obstructed sight
lines and would have created
new business for the
personal injury attorneys.
“If the advertisement
wasn’t removed, I’m certain
there would have
been an incident,” said
Councilman Alan Maisel.
says that paying tribute to
and his timid grandson is outside
the bounds of most burlesque
Renard, who runs Metropo-
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Maisel claimed drivers
turning off Avenue
X onto southbound Gerritsen
Avenue were blind
to oncoming traffic,
which was obscured by
the smiling faces of attorney
Ross Cellino and his
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Albany politicians passed a
package of bills repealing the religious
exemption for vaccines
on June 13, amid a measles outbreak
that has swept through
Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish
communities and infected almost
1,000 people statewide.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed
the bills from both legislative
chambers into law, which will
require children across the state
to get vaccinated against a slate
of illnesses before they can attend
schools at all levels from
day care to high school, in order
to stem the ongoing epidemic
caused by a spread of fear-mongering
and false information, according
to one of the legislation’s
lead sponsors.
“New York is at the center
of the worst measles outbreak
in over a quarter of a century,”
Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz
(D-Bronx) said in a statement.
“This outbreak has spread because
misinformation and irresponsible
rhetoric has scared
people away from vaccinating
their children. We need to end
the nonmedical exemptions so
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
It was a hairy situation!
Follically gifted New
Yorkers went chin to chin
at Fort Greene Park for the
Walt Whitman Beard and
Mustache Competition on
June 8.
Part of a series of events
hosted by the Brooklyn Public
Library, the contest was
meant to celebrate the 200th
birthday of the legendary
Brooklyn bard, who moonlighted
as a staunch beardproponent.
“The beard is a great
sanitary protection to the
throat — for purposes of
health it should always be
worn, just as much as the
Continued on page 6
CALL 8!: An advertisment
for law fi rm Cellino and
Barnes before it was removed
by the city. Google
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