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• VETERANS AFFAIRS: Our veterans have earned the best services we can provide

  18-09-2015 23:28
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Vincent McGowanBrooklyn DailyWelcome, readers of Community News Group newspapers throughout New York City. Let me begin with a special thank you to Community News Group for providing this opportunity to share with the men and women who serve our country — and with all our readers — news of interest and importance to our veterans community.In the months ahead, you will be hearing from me — the founding president of the United War Veterans C
  
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• NY Fashion Week: The weird and wonderful moments

  18-09-2015 23:00
  
  NY Fashion Week: Pole dancers, cartwheels, lagoons and carnations: Moments to remember
  
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• Aretha Franklin postpones upcoming Oklahoma shows

  18-09-2015 22:51
  
  Aretha Franklin postpones concerts in Oklahoma, citing busy travel schedule
  
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• Megan Fox to guest star as a new girl on 'New Girl' sitcom

  18-09-2015 22:26
  
  Megan Fox to guest star in recurring role as a new girl on 'New Girl' sitcom next season
  
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• Pope to visit White House on Yom Kippur Jewish holiday

  18-09-2015 22:03
  
  Pope Francis' visit to White House falls on Yom Kippur, holiest day of the year for Jews
  
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• London Fashion Week kicks off 5-day whirlwind of shows

  18-09-2015 21:50
  
  Lights, cameras, high heels: London Fashion Week kicks off whirlwind of runway shows
  
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• MIDWOOD: Mom-strocity resigns! Thieving PTA mom steps down from Murrow board

  18-09-2015 21:10
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses Jeffersonfor The Brooklyn PaperShe’s out — again!The Brooklyn mom who famously stole close to $100,000 from a Cobble Hill elementary school parent-teacher association has resigned from the Midwood high-school board that unwittingly elected her back into office this week after its members discovered her sordid past, according to a Daily News report.Providence Hogan successfully ran for second vice president of the Edward R. Murrow High Scho
  
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• Terrence Mann to enter 'Finding Neverland' as Captain Hook

  18-09-2015 21:03
  
  Tony-nominee Terrence Mann to enter 'Finding Neverland' as Captain Hook and Charles Frohman
  
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• 'Orange Is The New Black' soundtrack is a family affair

  18-09-2015 20:27
  
  Second 'Orange Is The New Black' soundtrack is a family affair for Jenji Kohan
  
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• Bathing in the Light: Julia Holter on Her New Album, Have You in My Wilderness

  18-09-2015 19:46 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo by Tonje Thilesen
  In her songs, Julia Holter has trouble being herself. “I don’t think I can really sing and think, ‘This is me, I’m just singing,’” she says. “It’s so weird for me, personally.” Instead of direct confessionals, the acclaimed L.A. songwriter has regularly projected herself backwards in time, building her records off of high-minded old fictions. Her 2011 debut, Tragedy, inhabited Euripides’ ancient Greek play Hippol
  
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• Talking with Photographer Porter Yates about His Photography, Part of Tonight’s EyeEm Awards in Williamsburg

  18-09-2015 19:11 via bkmag.com
  
  After leaving his engineering job five years ago, Brooklyn resident Porter Yates became a globe-trotting photographer who has amassed portraits of cultures in far-flung Tibetan villages and ramshackle dwellings in India, photos which are gripping in their granular display of daily life. Yates, who is quick to say that his transition from engineer to photographer was not an instant adjustment, is among the finalists to be recognized at this year’s Ey
  
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• DOWNTOWN: Sit on it, Bossy! Hockey legend visits Downtown to promote glass-side seats

  18-09-2015 19:11
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Eric FaynbergThe Brooklyn PaperCall it a view to a thrill!New York Islanders legend Mike Bossy skated into MetroTech on Thursday to hang with hockey fans in a replica of the Barclays Center’s glass-side seats — a move he hoped would score the team some local supporters for its inaugural season at the stadium.“This is a great opportunity for the Islanders to win over these fans and build a new fan base
  
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• Get Whitey: How Gangster Is Johnny Depp’s Black Mass?

  18-09-2015 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Black MassDirected by Scott CooperOpens September 18
  If gangsters are preceded by their reputations, gangster movies are preceded by the reputations of other gangster movies—all the way back to Scarface (it’s in the title). Black Mass shoulders a heavy burden in dramatizing the-man-the-myth of bloodthirsty Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, notorious in his hometown and famous to the outside world for disappearing as a fugitive. Scott Cooper’s star-clotted film—for a story a
  
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• Free Show With Glasser and More at Brooklyn Flea This Sunday

  18-09-2015 18:42 via bkmag.com
  
  We have four days until fall officially arrives (shout-out to this doomsday countdown clock!), making it downright crucial to see outdoor live music while we still can. For that, we have this Sunday at Brooklyn Live at the Flea.
  Glasser‘s chilled digitized beats, coupled with her vulnerable, crushing vocals, is the sonic meeting point between fall and summer. How appropriate that she’ll be headlining this weekend. The sunny, sparkling Monogold and glitch-pop manipulator Mi
  
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• Inside Duff’s Bar, Home to Brooklyn’s Metalheads and A Piece of New York’s Music History

  18-09-2015 18:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Duff’s 1990 Cadillac outside of his namesake bar.
  Courtesy of J. Duff.
  Duff’s Brooklyn is not the sort of place you’re likely to forget. Located just off the BQE on Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg’s Southside, the bar is reminiscent of New York’s bygone eras. The dim red glow of the bar’s interior is literally covered floor to ceiling in metal and horror memorabilia and music from the likes of Black Sabbath, Slayer, Judas Priest and Alekhine’s Gun blasts fr
  
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• Brooklyn Book Festival Celebrates 10 Years

  18-09-2015 18:09
  The Brooklyn Book Festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary this weekend in style. More than 300 authors participating in 90 programs on 14 stages (spread out around the plazas north of Borough Hall) are on the schedule for Sunday, September 20, making this the largest free literary event in New York City. Authors include Salman Rushdie, Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Pulitzer Prize winners Margo Jefferson and Gregory Pardlo, Edwidge Danticat, Joyce Carol Oates, Terry McMillan, Pete Ham
  
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• Jewel recounts family hardships in new memoir, album

  18-09-2015 17:36
  
  Jewel details struggles with family, divorce and debt in new memoir, album
  
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• Emmy statuettes travel rocky roads from ceremony to mantel

  18-09-2015 17:12
  
  Some Emmy statuettes have traveled rocky roads from award ceremony to fireplace mantel
  
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• An All-Vegan Cheese Shop Is Coming to Prospect Heights

  18-09-2015 16:54 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo via Riverdel Cheese’s Instagram
  As an inveterate dairy eater, our understanding of vegan cheese is largely limited to two lowest common denominator products—plasticine bricks of health food market-sourced Daiya, and tubs of Tofutti AKA whipped soybeans and trans fat masquerading as cream cheese. A perception, it seems, that was not all that off base—at least until fairly recently.
  “When I transitioned from vegetarian to vegan a few years ago, I never felt like I was
  
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• Michelle Obama to guest on Colbert's 'Late Show' on Sept. 28

  18-09-2015 16:37
  
  Michelle Obama to guest on Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' on Sept. 28
  
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• Act Like a Weirdo at the Mp3 Experiment “Twelve Tonight” at Prospect Park

  18-09-2015 16:36 via bkmag.com
  If you’re unfamiliar with the Mp3 Experiment, let us enlighten you: It’s a situation where participants download an mp3 File that commands them to do absurd things. Participants then perform these tasks in a public space as a group, so anyone not playing the game will think they’re surrounded by lunatics.
  Coordinated by Improve Everywhere, a collective of pranksters who like to cause a stir by orchestrating bizarre stunts in places filled with unsuspecting people, the Exp
  
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• Police Bust Williamsburg Heroin Ring That Hid Drugs In Cereal Boxes

  18-09-2015 16:27 via bkmag.com
  
  Jose Tavera, accused of running a heroin ring from his Williamsburg apartment, often hiding the drug in Apple Jacks boxes. Photo: John M. Mantel
  An aspiring drug counselor and a Midtown Community Court employee were among the 25 people arrested Thursday as part of a $1.5 million-per-year family-run heroin ring run out of a South Williamsburg apartment.
  The operation fueled a growing heroin epidemic in New York City, selling up to 25,000 $10 bags of heroin
  
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• A Light That Is Now Going Out: Mondo Will Host Its Final Party This Weekend

  18-09-2015 16:25 via bkmag.com
  
  Miss Modular DJingphoto by Michael Sharkey
  On a warm early September day, Dr. Maz sits and watches his son Julian play at the William Sheridan Playground in Williamsburg. Maz’s friend Kevin Wolfe joins Julian on the jungle gym; they run and play together while Millie Sensat, also a friend, sits and looks on from the benches. Even as Maz and Millie converse, her eyes are ever watchful of Julian, making sure he doesn’t do anything too quick and hurt himself. Anyone
  
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• Daltrey sick; The Who postpones North American tour

  18-09-2015 15:57
  
  The Who postpones 50th-anniversary tour; Roger Daltrey has viral meningitis
  
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• T.I. sets record straight: He still works with Iggy Azalea

  18-09-2015 15:16
  
  T.I. sets record straight: Rapper says he and Iggy Azalea still have a business relationship
  
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• Your 2015 Fall Music Guide to Live Shows in Brooklyn

  18-09-2015 15:00
  
  Clockwise from top left: Glen Hansard | Photo: Anti; Yo La Tengo | Photo: Dusdin Condren; They Might Be Giants | Photo: Shervin Lainez; Eleanor Friedberger | Photo: Press Here
  Question: What do a material girl, a former Beatle, and a trio of riot grrrl rockers have in common? Answer: They’re just a few of the many notable musical acts playing in Brooklyn this fall. The superstar headliner here is undoubtedly Madonna, who will bring her Rebel Heart tour to Barclays Center on Sept. 19.
  
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• The 2008 Financial Crisis’s Radiating Impact on Global Markets: The Musical!: Johnnie To’s Office

  18-09-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  OfficeDirected by Johnnie ToOpens September 18
  It’s admittedly hard to make the 2008 financial crisis palatable to a large audience. Details about financial institutions shorting subprime mortgage loans leading to a bubble of poorly rated collateralized debt obligations start to vomit so many technical words that even this one sentence seems like a drag. Enter Johnnie To’s Office, a 3D musical that translates the emotional frustration of market failure through office gossip. Collabo
  
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• Student filmmakers get Hollywood treatment from film academy

  18-09-2015 10:09
  
  Student filmmakers accept Academy Awards after week of Hollywood treatment from film academy
  
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• Author of acclaimed Dutch history book to speak in Albany

  18-09-2015 09:05
  
  Author of acclaimed book on NY's Dutch Colonial history to speak at seminar in Albany
  
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• BROOKLYN IS ANGRY: Greenpointers: Clay St. homeless shelter attracting unsavory activity

  18-09-2015 08:56
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperThe streets around a new homeless shelter at Clay Street and Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint have become so riddled with drugs and violence since the refuge opened, even war vets say they are terrified to step foot there.
  “I was in Vietnam, and I’m afraid to go on Clay and Manhattan,” said longtime resident Michael Hoffman, one of many neighbors who lined up at a town hall meeting on Wednesday night to share t
  
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• VINEGAR HILL: Locals: Vinegar Hill school rezoning is a black and white issue

  18-09-2015 07:23
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Harry MacCormackThe Brooklyn PaperThe city is rushing headfirst into a plan to ease overcrowding at a mostly white elementary school in Brooklyn Heights by sending more local kids to a largely black school in Vinegar Hill next year without stopping to consider how it will impact the community bearing most of the burden, say residents of the tiny waterfront nabe.“You’ve got a plan that only considers half of
  
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• Quincy Jones taken to LA hospital with shortness of breath

  18-09-2015 06:19
  
  Quincy Jones taken to Los Angeles hospital with shortness of breath; publicist says he's fine
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG: Cereal offenders! Williamsburg heroin ring hid drugs in boxes of Apple Jacks: DA

  18-09-2015 06:04
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperTalk about finding a prize in your cereal box.A family-run drug ring in Williamsburg allegedly had its runners hide heroin packets in boxes of Apple Jacks, according to Brooklyn’s top lawman.“It may look innocent, but what was contained in those Apple Jacks boxes was deadly,” said District Attorney Ken Thompson at a press conference on Sept. 17, where he served up a crisp,
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG: Cereal offenders! Heroin ring hid drugs in boxes of Apple Jacks: DA

  18-09-2015 06:02
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyTalk about finding a prize in your cereal box.A family-run drug ring in Williamsburg allegedly had its runners hide heroin packets in boxes of Apple Jacks, according to Brooklyn’s top lawman.“It may look innocent, but what was contained in those Apple Jacks boxes was deadly,” said District Attorney Ken Thompson at a press conference on Sept. 17, where he served up a crisp, 368
  
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• This is so degrading! Compost pickup coming to more Brooklyn nabes next month

  18-09-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperThe city is throwing these Brooklyn neighborhoods on the scrap heap!The sanitation department is expanding its curbside compost collection service to Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, the Columbia Street Waterfront District, and the northern parts of Park Slope and Gowanus next month, and residents say they can’t wait to start gathering up their moldy pizza crusts and fish bones
  
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• Poll: What do you think of the Islanders’ new Brooklyn jersey?

  18-09-2015 06:00
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By The Courier Athletic Apparel BureauBrooklyn DailyThe Islanders unveiled a new Brooklyn-themed jersey on Wednesday to honor the team’s move to Barclays Center — and it is suspiciously similar to the colors of that other professional sports team that calls the center home.What do you think? Have your say below!Comment on this story.
  
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• On the hoof: Dance show sends audience skipping across Red Hook

  18-09-2015 06:00
  
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• MIDWOOD: Mom-strocity returns! Thieving PTA mom is back in office

  18-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn DailyGet 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-informed elect
  
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• Jersey bounce: Islanders fans dis new Brooklyn uniform

  18-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eric FaynbergBrooklyn DailyWhat’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 supporter
  
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• Finally! Fodor’s releases travel guide to Brooklyn

  18-09-2015 06:00
  
  It is a guide to the only place that matters. Read more.
  
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• DOWNTOWN: Book of Kings: Fodor’s releases travel guide to Brooklyn

  18-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Allegra HobbsBrooklyn DailyIt’s about time!Fodor’s famed travel guide series has finally recognized Brooklyn’s status as the only borough worth visiting. The publisher’s editor-in-chief, who will discuss “Fodor’s Brooklyn” at the Brooklyn Book Festival taking over Downtown on Sept. 20, says that the time had come for a Brooklyn guidebook that was not weighed by our unwieldy neighbor to the west.“We’re no
  
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• BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: Who’s the Boss-ert? Historic Heights hotel operator revealed!

  18-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Harry MacCormackThe Brooklyn PaperPack your bags!
  Brooklyn Heights’ historic Bossert Hotel will — hopefully — make its long-awaited return as a high-end lodging this winter when an Argentinian hotelier takes the reins.
  Fen Hotels, which runs dozens of hotels across Latin America and a handful in the United States, will be the operator of the landmarked Montague Street hotel and hopes to have the building once known as Brooklyn’s Wald
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Schack attack!

  18-09-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThey say she shacked up with the wrong candidate.Local political insiders accuse Bay Ridge political leader Dilia Schack of selling out her own neighborhood by orchestrating an 11th-hour deal to install a Coney Islander as the Democratic candidate for an upcoming special election in the 46th Assembly District, which covers portions of Bay Ridge and all of Coney Island.
  The Kings County Democratic
  
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• BAY RIDGE NIGHTS: The world comes to Bay Ridge

  18-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyBay Ridge has gone international.A Greek festival, some early St. Patrick’s Day cheer, and a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania are all waiting for you in the Ridge.On Friday, get to Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church (8401 Ridge Blvd. at 84th Street) for the Greek Cultural Festival from 2 pm to 11 pm. The church is putting together a outdoor taverna (ouzo anyone?) and Yianni Papastefanou and Orchestra will bust ou
  
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• A BRITISHER’S VIEW: Muslim nations barely lift a finger to help suffering Syrians

  18-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyDrench them in shame.
  Pious, oil-rich Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain — so-called cradles of Islam — are happy to sit on their collective butts and flaunt their wealth and zeal without lifting a finger to help the flood of Syrian refugees.Only five of the world’s 50 Muslim-majority nations have accepted a fraction of the four million Syrian men, women, and children fleeing their w
  
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• Former President Carter and wife on Braves' 'Kiss Cam'

  18-09-2015 05:12
  
  Former President Carter and wife cheered at Turner Field when shown on Braves' 'Kiss Cam'
  
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• Lucas Museum team unveils new design with more park space

  18-09-2015 04:03
  
  Lucas Museum unveils re-design that adds park space, keeps dune-like building maligned by some
  
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• Kid Rock excused from jury duty at Detroit-area courthouse

  18-09-2015 03:19
  
  Kid Rock excused from Detroit-area jury duty after professing his support for law enforcement
  
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• King Felipe VI of Spain speaks of shared heritage in Miami

  18-09-2015 01:45
  
  King Felipe VI of Spain emphasizes shared heritage with US in lecture at Miami Dade College
  
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• Actors join campaign to draw attention to Arctic issue

  18-09-2015 00:52
  
  Environmental group enlists actors, humor, in ramping up Arctic awareness campaign
  
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