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What to Watch on Friday: A Neil Diamond special plus Brad Pitt on HBO

Neil Diamond: Hot August Night, NYC (8pm, CBS) - Performances from Diamond's recent concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York, plus a visit to his childhood home in Brooklyn.

Monk (9pm, USA) - Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje is a visiting African visitor who is investigating his wife's death.

Psych (10pm, USA) - Gus and Shawn find the wreckage of an airplane, along with a dying billionaire whose dying words indicate he was murdered.

Real Time with Bill Maher (10pm, HBO) - Bill's guests are Ashton Kutcher, columnist Ross Douthat, comic Dana Gould, General Anthony Zinni (USMC Ret), and Mr. Angelina Jolie (aka Brad Pitt).

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35am, NBC) - Look for January Jones (Betty) of "Mad Men."

Teardown debate continues ...

The City Council delayed taking a vote Tuesday on a plan to speed up the process for creating neighborhood conservation overlay districts (NCOD), which are seen as a way to regulate teardowns, or the practice of replacing older homes with larger ones.

Changes to the NCOD process have been under discussion for months, and several council members said Tuesday that it's high time the city moved forward. But Councilmen Thomas Crowder and Russ Stephenson wanted to take a closer look at the proposal before voting on it, and thus it will be at least another two weeks before the council takes it up. The proposal will be discussed at the council's Comprehensive Planning Committee meeting next week.

Overlay districts set standards for new construction.Neighborhoods typically request the overlay district and more than 50 percent of property owners must sign on.

 

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