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• Drake, other artists to perform at Landmark Music Festival

  17-09-2015 22:19
  
  Drake, other artists to perform at Landmark Music Festival to raise money for National Mall
  
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• David Letterman to take part in series about climate change

  17-09-2015 22:19
  
  David Letterman among stars set for National Geographic Channel series about climate change
  
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• Stretch marks showed on CNN debate

  17-09-2015 22:18
  
  Presidential debate another TV hit, but stretch marks showed
  
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• Community Board to Consider Naming Street after Rapper Pumpkinhead in Park Slope

  17-09-2015 21:18 via bkmag.com
  
  photo: wikimedia commons
  A petition in favor of naming a street in Park Slope after a deceased rapper has quickly gathered 1,300 signatures and will be considered tonight by the transportation committee of Community Board 6. The petition, organized by Brooklyn resident Claudia Imperiale, calls for Degraw Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues to be named after Robert Diaz, who went by the stage name Pumpkinhead. 
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• Veteran cast to star in 'Tuck Everlasting' on Broadway

  17-09-2015 21:16
  
  Veteran cast led by Carolee Carmello to star in 'Tuck Everlasting' musical on Broadway in 2016
  
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• Toronto festival pulls 'London Fields' amid legal dispute

  17-09-2015 21:08
  
  Toronto film festival pulls 'London Fields' amid legal dispute between director, producers
  
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• Tenants in Crown Heights Brace for the Unknown as Possibility of Eviction Looms

  17-09-2015 21:03 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo: Urban Homestead Assistance Board
  More than 50 families are fighting the possibility of eviction in a New York State Appellate Court against their landlord, Renaissance Realty, which has utilized a legal loophole to justify significantly raising rents at two massive apartment complexes in Crown Heights. The rent hikes that Renaissance have imposed seek to nullify the terms of preferential rent that tenants at both 285 Schenectady Ave. and 1646 Union St. have enjoyed since the 198
  
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• Apple planning electronic books case appeal to Supreme Court

  17-09-2015 20:56
  
  Apple alerts Supreme Court of plans to appeal electronic books antitrust rulings against it
  
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• Court revives case filed on behalf of Insane Clown Posse

  17-09-2015 20:41
  
  Appeals court revives case filed on behalf of Insane Clown Posse, fans known as 'Juggalos'
  
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• Craig Ferguson to host American history debate show

  17-09-2015 20:33
  
  Craig Ferguson to host 'Join or Die,' American history debate show
  
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• A Cannabis Film Festival Is Coming to Williamsburg

  17-09-2015 20:29 via bkmag.com
  
  From Cheech and Chong to Dazed and Confused to Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, the stoner film is a vaunted subgenre in American cinema. It gets a proper celebration later this month, when the first-ever New York City Cannabis Film Festival comes to Williamsburg. 
  Organized by marijuana aficionado meetup group High NY, the festival will screen eight films at the Wythe Hotel on September 26th, starting, obviously, at 4:20pm. They’re not all films abo
  
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• 'The Muppets' return to TV; Miss Piggy swans, Kermit suffers

  17-09-2015 20:24
  
  'The Muppets' puts Kermit, Miss Piggy and pals under the mockumentary spotlight in TV return
  
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• Film 'Captive' probes bond forged after courthouse rampage

  17-09-2015 20:15
  
  Film 'Captive' explores bond between killer and hostage forged after deadly courthouse rampage
  
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• The 7 movies to see from the Toronto Film Festival

  17-09-2015 20:08
  
  From 'Spotlight' to 'Anomalisa,' the 7 movies to see from the Toronto Film Festival
  
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• Kate Snow appointment continues MSNBC transformation

  17-09-2015 19:29
  
  MSNBC appoints Kate Snow as daytime anchor, continuing network's reboot
  
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• CNN gets 22.9 million viewers for GOP debate

  17-09-2015 19:20
  
  Estimated 22.9 million tune in for second GOP debate marking largest CNN audience ever
  
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• Review: Latest 'Maze Runner' lacks urgency of original

  17-09-2015 19:00
  
  Film Review: 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' lacks sense of urgency of the original
  
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• Judge delays hearings in Suge Knight robbery, murder cases

  17-09-2015 18:46
  
  Former rap music mogul Suge Knight sees court hearings in robbery, murder cases delayed
  
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• Cascine’s Jeff Bratton On Finding Pop Music From A Different Angle

  17-09-2015 18:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Jeff Bratton and Andi Wilson of the Greenpoint record label Cascine.
  Photo by Katie Chow.
  It’s hard to believe that Cascine is only five years old. Since its inception in 2010, the Greenpoint-based record label has become a one-stop shop for synth-pop that’s both sophisticated and understated, arching towards grandeur yet arrestingly intimate. Boasting releases by acts including Chad Valley, Lemonade, Keep Shelly In Athens, and Kisses, Cascine already feels like an institution. Immac
  
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• Chattanooga Unite event honors lives of 5 slain servicemen

  17-09-2015 18:02
  
  Parade, tribute concert held to honor the lives of 5 servicemen killed in Chattanooga attack
  
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• Grand Opening Sale at DWR Warehouse in Brooklyn This Weekend

  17-09-2015 18:00
  
  Sponsored By DWR.Design Within Reach. Welcome to the best in modern design.Created By BlankSlateAfter several months in their new Industry City location, the Design With Reach Warehouse is having their grand opening sale this weekend, Sept. 19-20. And it’s going to be a doozy, with 20% off already reduced prices on overstocked, returned and scratch-and-dent furniture. The Design With Reach Warehouse is located at 219 36th Street in Sunset Park. For high-end modern furniture at an affordabl
  
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• Song by Tejano star Selena released 20 years after her death

  17-09-2015 17:11
  
  Father releases song by Tejano star Selena 20 years after she was killed in Texas
  
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• Emmy nominees answer: What TV world would you hang out in?

  17-09-2015 16:53
  
  Discover Emmy nominees' dream TV destinations as they share their favorite small-screen worlds
  
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• Curl Up with Patti Smith, Grace Jones, John Fogerty, David Bowie and Chrissie Hynde This Fall

  17-09-2015 16:37
  
  From l-r: Grace Jones (Steffmeister); Patti Smith (Michael Morel); Chrissie Hynde (Harmony Gerber); John Fogerty (marco annunziata) via Wikimedia Commons
  Grace Jones. Patti Smith. Chrissie Hyndes. John Fogerty. Carly Simon. Elvis Costello. If you fished names at random out of a hat filled with influential musicians you’d be hard pressed to come up with a more fascinating mix of performers, and they all have new memoirs out this fall. In fact, it’s an unusually fine crop of music boo
  
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• Kid Rock called for jury duty at suburban Detroit courthouse

  17-09-2015 16:25
  
  Kid Rock called for jury duty in suburban Detroit, among 160 potential jurors in murder case
  
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• Wes Ball, Hollywood's new blockbuster visionary

  17-09-2015 16:12
  
  'Scorch Trials' director Wes Ball, Hollywood's new blockbuster visionary
  
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• 4 Great New York City Buildings Most Guidebooks Don’t Mention

  17-09-2015 16:10 via bkmag.com
  
  Bowery Savings Bank, circa 1900 (via Wikimedia Commons)
  Based on the tchotchkes at most New York City souvenir shops, you’d think the only cool buildings in the five boroughs were the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. Look in a guidebook, and you might learn about the Dakota and Grand Central Terminal and a few other celebrity structures. But the city’s streets are full of smaller, more understated architectural wonders about which even lifelong residents mig
  
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• New buyer offers more for David Cassidy's Florida home

  17-09-2015 15:43
  
  A week after auction, new buyer offers more money for David Cassidy's Fort Lauderdale home
  
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• Clegg, Groff among fiction nominees for National Book Awards

  17-09-2015 15:30
  
  Bill Clegg, Lauren Groff among fiction nominees for National Book Awards
  
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• Meet 2 men from 'Gentleman's Guide' who know death is easy

  17-09-2015 15:16
  
  Meet 2 men from 'Gentleman's Guide' who know death is easy _ Jefferson Mays and John Rapson
  
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• DYKER HEIGHTS: Vitiligo veritas

  17-09-2015 15:14
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyA Dyker Heights resident Tiffany Posteraro got tired of people chastising her about her blotchy skin resulting from the rare disease vitiligo — a non-communicable auto-immune disease where the body attacks cells that make skin pigment — so she got the condition’s name tattooed on her arm to raise awareness. She was inspired by famous people who haven’t let the condition ke
  
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• Why Does Everest Feel So Small?

  17-09-2015 15:05 via bkmag.com
  
  EverestDirected by Baltasar KormákurOpens September 18
  The 1998 movie Everest was not the first movie filmed entirely in IMAX exclusively for IMAX theaters, but it did become a standard-bearing evergreen of sorts. Opening at a time when the number of available IMAX venues at any given time hovered around 60 and were often housed in museums, the documentary hung on in those theaters and played for over two years, and was often revived by IMAX theaters that needed to fill the gap between t
  
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• Review: 'Sicario' a searing, sad portrait of border drug war

  17-09-2015 14:08
  
  Film review: Under Deakins' lens, 'Sicario' paints searing, sad portrait of border drug war
  
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• Murray to donate 50 pounds ($78) per ace to help refugees

  17-09-2015 13:18
  
  Andy Murray to donate 50 pounds ($78) for every ace he hits to help refugees
  
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• Trump test: Clinton lets Jimmy Fallon tug on her hair

  17-09-2015 10:37
  
  'Tonight' host Fallon gives Clinton the Trump test, tugs on her hair and declares 'It's real!'
  
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• AWESOME: Teal of fortune: Windsor Terrace group raises $240K to fight ovarian cancer

  17-09-2015 09:30
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperIt was the teal deal!Thousands of do-gooding New Yorkers from Brooklyn and beyond turned out for the Teal Walk–Run in Prospect Park on Sept. 12, raising money to fight ovarian cancer and having a great time while doing it, according to one participant.“It was awesome,” said Nicole Shapiro, whose mom Jackie is a six-year survivor of the deadly disease. “We were dancin
  
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• Russian who 'saved the world' recalls his decision as 50/50

  17-09-2015 08:22
  
  Russian who 'saved the world' from nuclear war remembers his fateful 1983 decision as 50/50
  
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• Katy Perry gives shoutout to assistants during performance

  17-09-2015 08:09
  
  Katy Perry gives shoutout to fashion assistants during performance at Harper's Bazaar event
  
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• ISLANDERS: Jersey bounce: Islanders fans dis new Brooklyn uniform

  17-09-2015 07:59
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Eric FaynbergThe Brooklyn PaperWhat’s black and white and got Islanders fans seeing red all over?Barclays Center’s soon-to-be resident hockey team unveiled a new jersey on Wednesday — a black and white nod to the Nets that features almost none of the team’s usual royal blue and orange, which has many fans fuming.“I don’t like that it doesn’t have true Isles colors,” said Bensonhurst native and Islanders suppor
  
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• In papal planning, contingencies for severe weather

  17-09-2015 07:35
  
  In papal planning, contingencies for severe weather include parking garages as storm shelters
  
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• Suge Knight due in court for hearing in robbery case

  17-09-2015 07:33
  
  Former rap mogul Suge Knight due in Los Angeles case for hearings in robbery, murder cases
  
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• Jimmy Fallon calls Clinton a 'tough mother,' pulls her hair

  17-09-2015 06:38
  
  Jimmy Fallon pulls Hillary Clinton's hair at her invitation, calls her a 'tough mother'
  
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• MIDWOOD: EXCLUSIVE: Mom-strocity returns! Thieving PTA mom is back in office

  17-09-2015 06:26
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses Jeffersonfor The Brooklyn PaperGet ready for “Mom-strocity: The Sequel”!Providence Hogan, who stole close to $100,000 from a Cobble Hill elementary school parent-teacher association while she was treasurer of the volunteer group, was elected second vice president of the parent-teacher association at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood late Wednesday night in a vote that laid bare the challenges of democracy in the face of an ill-inform
  
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• Sturgill Simpson, Lucinda Williams win Americana awards

  17-09-2015 06:15
  
  Genre-defying artists Sturgill Simpson, Lucinda Williams win top Americana awards
  
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• THE DAD: The destructive force of a Kentuckey County Clerk

  17-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Scott Sagerfor The Brooklyn PaperKim Davis, the Kentucky County Clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because it violates her Apostolic Christian faith, frightens the heck out of me. Her actions threaten my children and family directly, in fundamental and disastrous ways.
  This week, as I attended Rosh Hashanah services, the issue couldn’t have been clearer. Outside our place of worship, and virtually everywhere in Brooklyn a
  
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• STANDING O: Yippee it’s a new high school

  17-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyDowntownStanding O has put out the welcome mat for the new high school location of Brooklyn Friends School.
  Head of School Dr. Larry Weiss cut the ribbon on Sept. 8 with the help of Brad Mulder, Lara Holliday, Sidney Bridges, and Ali Esmaeilzadeh, along with more than three hundred guests representing the school’s past, present, and future.
  The 40,000-square-foot facility houses classes for the ninth through 12th grades.
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• STANDING O: Standing O wishes Rose Fremder Mazel Tov!

  17-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBorough WideStanding O is sending out the happiest of happy birthdays to centenarian Rose Fremder. This borough daughter celebrated the big 100 on Sept. 10 with daughter Sara Hirst, son-in-law Martin, son Meyer Fremder, and granddaughter Dr. Rachel Ellis at the Kosher Hut on Sept. 10. Physicians Dr. Shimonov and Dr. Inzlicht, her present docs, also dropped in to share in the cake and offer their good luck wishes and happy b-day
  
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• RED HOOK: On the hoof: Dance show sends audience hunting across Red Hook

  17-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThis show is guaranteed to move you.A combination scavenger hunt and dance festival will send audiences scattering across Red Hook on Sept. 19 and Sept. 26 in search of world-class dance. High-stepping visitors will have to track down members of the Cora Dance Studio, and in the process will discover side of the neighborhood they may never have seen before, says the show’s organizer.“It’s a walking tour and it&rsq
  
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• MARINE PARK: Clawback backoff

  17-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThe feds have finally agreed to stand down on their shake down of Sandy victims.Under pressure from lawmakers, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has dropped its demand to take back relief funds from most Sandy victims who had received cash from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  Those who received less than $20,000 from the disaster-relief agency will not be forced to reimburse other aid awarded by the g
  
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• JOE KNOWS: Grand Street can’t let emotions be downfall

  17-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyKeep calm and play on.That needs to be the motto of the Grand Street football team for the rest of the season if it wants to win its first Public School Athletic League City Conference championship.
  The Wolves love to play with a ton of emotion, a chip on their shoulders and an us-against-the-world mentality.
  That edge has been a part of the program’s recent success, but it could also be the downfall of coach Bruce Eugen
  
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