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• Court rules Batmobile is entitled to copyright protection

  23-09-2015 22:24
  
  Court: Batmobile's distinct traits_ including sleekness, power _ warrant copyright protection
  
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• Haunted houses, creepy mazes and other Halloween attractions

  23-09-2015 22:16
  
  Halloween attractions, from haunted houses and mazes to Universal theme park
  
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• THE GREATEST STORY EVER: Bodega that staged ‘artisanal makeover’ now renting out front window on Airbnb

  23-09-2015 21:50
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Harry MacCormackThe Brooklyn PaperCall it a corner snore.Jesse’s Deli — the Boerum Hill bodega that famously re-branded its everyday products as expensive artisanal specialities to protest a rent hike it can’t afford — is now listing space in its front window on Airbnb to rail against rising rents affecting mom-and-pop shops across New York, according to the mastermind behind the tongue-in-cheek
  
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• In Praise of: Filfil Foods No 7. Garlic Hot Sauce

  23-09-2015 20:44 via bkmag.com
  
  Einav Sharon has been making a version of filfel chuma, a garlic-based North African sauce, for more than twenty years now. Until recently, only friends and family had tasted it. Then she met Jeff Silva. Or, rather, their cats introduced them at a kitty pancake party (“We brought our cats to a friend’s house, and made pancakes”). It was there that Jeff tried Einav’s filfel chuma. “Two things came to mind,” he remembers. “One: this is fucking amazing. An
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, September 23-29

  23-09-2015 19:30 via bkmag.com
  
  River’s Edge (1987)Directed by Tim HunterIt’s no mystery why David Lynch tapped Hunter to helm a few episodes of Twin Peaks. This breakthrough film, after a pair of family-friendlies, resembles the later television show—it opens with the naked corpse of a young woman, who’ll later be pulled out of a river, and proceeds to reveal the lives of quirky characters inhabiting a Pacific Northwestern town, including Dennis Hopper, holed up in a house with a sex doll, a pistol an
  
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• Is It Too Early to Say We’ve Found the Bar of the Year?

  23-09-2015 18:27 via bkmag.com
  
  Photos by Jane Bruce
  Is it a bit premature to call Fawkner—which opened on Smith Street just this last weekend—Brooklyn’s bar of the year? Probably. But if there’s a safe pair of horses to bet on in the industry, it’s owners Jim Carden and Kevin Avanzato, the duo behind seminal spots like The Bell House, Union Hall, and Floyd NY.
  As the aforementioned establishments duly attest, Carden and Avanzato are hardly in the habit of outfitting one-dimensional spaces with st
  
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• Video: Widowspeak Performs Songs Off New Album, All Yours

  23-09-2015 17:54 via bkmag.com
  
  Band leader Robert Earl Thomas earlier described Widowspeak’s new album, All Yours, as “a house that’s lived in, not one that’s explored and fetishized.” Digging into that dreamy, serene noise, the band plays a new set of live sessions off of All Yours.At Gibson Studios, Widowspeak joined us to perform, “Girls” and “Narrows” live.
  Widowspeak’s upcoming tour dates:
  10/02: San Francisco, CA – Culture Collide Festival @ Swedish Amer
  
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• Oh, Look: It’s a Video of the Worst Person in Brooklyn Yelling about White Privilege

  23-09-2015 17:15 via bkmag.com
  
  I’m going to ask you to close your eyes (well, ok, keep them open actually, so you can keep reading) and conjure an image of the kind of Brooklyn resident who gives this borough a bad name, the kind of person who possesses a very specific blend of obliviousness and privilege, one which embodies entitlement and self-satisfaction and just makes you want to throw up because, fuck, if that type of asshole isn’t just all over the place these days. Anyway. Are you
  
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• Your Ideal Week: Sept. 24- Sept. 30

  23-09-2015 16:37
  
  Join the masses at Atlantic Avenue’s enormous, crazy street fair when it returns for its 27th year on Sunday. Photo: Atlantic Antic
  It’s Wednesday again, and yet another week jam-packed with music, comedy, readings, food, art and good times in our great borough awaits you. Start things off tomorrow night with a release party for New Order’s first album in a decade at Donna at 9pm. If you’re a fan of the supremely influential, synthpop 80s band, you won’t
  
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• Hug It Out with Nancy Meyers, Auteur: The Intern

  23-09-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The InternDirected by Nancy MeyersOpens September 25
  Nancy Meyers: auteur. To misquote Robert De Niro in The Untouchables, laugh the first time because it’s funny, but the second time because it’s true; The Intern is Meyers’s most streamlined all-in-one package yet, a film about two obsessive-compulsive attentions to detail that happen to meet—in lieu of the expected love story—at exactly the right time. Anne Hathaway stars as Jules Ostin, the wildly successful you
  
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• Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra dies at 90

  23-09-2015 09:13
  
  Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion, dies at 90
  
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• RED HOOK: No crap-uccinos! Hook company makes poop-free fermented coffee

  23-09-2015 09:11
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Max JaegerThe Brooklyn PaperIt is cat-poop coffee — without the cats or the poop!A pair of scientists working in Red Hook have created an ethical, excrement-free alternative to kopi luwak — the cult Southeast Asian coffee typically made by forcing mongoose-like mammals known as “civet cats” to eat coffee beans so they stew in its gut bacteria and take on a distinctive flavor before coming out the
  
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• CRIME: Loss hog: Rash of motorcycle robberies sweeps Williamsburg, Greenpoint

  23-09-2015 09:07
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperTalk about hot wheels.A rash of motorcycle robberies swept the streets of Williamsburg and Greenpoint last week, according to police reports.
  • A woman told cops she heard someone shuffling around outside the window of her Graham Avenue apartment, between Newton and Bayard Streets, at around 4 am on Sept. 14. She peered out the window and saw a shadow, then went outside to find her motorcycle missing, police said.• A
  
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• Stephen Colbert turns Donald Trump into his straight man

  23-09-2015 08:55
  
  'Late Show' host Stephen Colbert turns GOP front-runner Donald Trump into straight man
  
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• New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra has died. He was 90.

  23-09-2015 08:39
  
  New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra has died. He was 90.
  
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• Judge frees 'Happy Birthday' song from copyright claims

  23-09-2015 07:55
  
  Judge sings 'Happy Birthday' to public, but deals blow to company who collected on copyright
  
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• Donald Trump plays straight man to host Stephen Colbert

  23-09-2015 07:47
  
  GOP front-runner Donald Trump plays straight man as guest of 'Late Show' host Stephen Colbert
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG: Terror trio pushes woman to ground in purse theft

  23-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn Paper90th PrecinctSouthside–WilliamsburgDaylight muggingA malicious trio threw a woman to the ground on Barlett Street and ran off with her purse in broad daylight on Sept. 15.The victim told cops she was near Harrison Avenue at around 1 pm when she was approached by three men, who threw her to the ground. Authorities said one of the goons held her down while another grabbed her purse, and one of them kicked her in the hip wh
  
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• Stick in the past: Exhibit looks back to Brooklyn’s forgotten hockey team

  23-09-2015 06:00
  
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• PARK SLOPE: Teens beat bartender, patrons over cigarettes

  23-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily78th PrecinctPark Slope
  Beatings on the houseA vicious gang of teenage punks beat and robbed a couple outside of a Ninth Street watering hole on Sept. 11, and then slugged the establishment’s bartender when he tried to help.The couple, a 44-year-old woman and a 55-year-old man, told police they were outside the bar between Third and Fourth avenues at 8:45 pm, arguing with a pack of six teenage goons who were upset that the co
  
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• NOT FOR NUTHIN’: Emmys had more lectures than laughs

  23-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyWhat a snooze fest! The 67th Emmy Awards show put me to sleep quicker than a cup of Sleepy Time tea and a dose of Lunesta. I had to down two cups of coffee just to make it to the end.
  What happened to having award shows just be entertaining?Emcee Andy Samberg was not funny. He might be great in Brooklyn Nine-Nine — I don’t know, I’ve never seen it — and I really didn’t watch Saturday Night Live whil
  
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• ISLANDERS: Home, sweet home: Islanders open preseason with Barclays Center win

  23-09-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Eric FaynbergThe Brooklyn PaperThe puck is about to drop on the New York Islanders’ inaugural season in Brooklyn, but fans got a head start on the action on Sept. 21, when the team opened up its preseason schedule with a Barclays Center match against the Philadelphia Flyers.
  The Isles notched a 3–2 victory, already leaving fans smiling. One originally skeptical Long Islander said he could not believe how qui
  
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• Home, sweet home: Islanders open preseason with Barclays Center win

  23-09-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eric FaynbergBrooklyn DailyThe puck is about to drop on the New York Islanders’ inaugural season in Brooklyn, but fans got a head start on the action on Sept. 21, when the team opened up its preseason schedule with a Barclays Center match against the Philadelphia Flyers.
  The Isles notched a 3–2 victory, already leaving fans smiling. One originally skeptical Long Islander said he could not believe how quickly
  
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• HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Midwood holds off Utes to remain unbeaten

  23-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyThe Hornets continue to sting opponents.
  Midwood picked up is third-straight win by holding off visiting New Utrecht 14–12 in Public School Athletic League football last Saturday. It sets up one of the biggest games in recent years for Midwood (3–0) when it hosts Erasmus Hall at 4 pm on Sept. 26.Darryl Robinson carried the ball three times for 86 yards — including a 54-yard touchdown in the third quarter that
  
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• GREENPOINT: Cops: Enraged driver whacks cabbie with baseball ball

  23-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn Paper94th PrecinctGreenpoint–NorthsideBatter upAn enraged motorist whacked a taxi driver with a baseball bat on Wythe Avenue for slowing him down in the early morning hours of Sept. 19, police reported.The taxi driver said he was picking up a passenger near N. 12th Street at around 4 am when the alleged assailant, fed up with the cabbie’s casual pace, jumped out of a four-door sedan and started striking him in the face
  
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• FORT GREENE: Intruders steal checks in warehouse heist

  23-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Harry MacCormackBrooklyn Daily88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillWarehouse heistBullets flew as three pillagers stole checks from a warehouse on Washington Avenue on Sept. 20, cops say.
  Witnesses told police that one of the bandits was a temporary employee at the warehouse between Flushing and Park avenues, who was let into the building at 3:45 am by another employee. Once he was inside, he propped open the door for two other comrades wearing masks
  
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• BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: Stick in the past: Exhibit looks back to Brooklyn’s forgotten hockey team

  23-09-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eric FaynbergBrooklyn DailyIt’s an ice exhibit.
  The puck may be about to drop on the New York Islanders’ inaugural season in Brooklyn, but a new exhibit is looking backwards to Brooklyn’s first professional hockey team —the Brooklyn Americans. The show, open now at the Brooklyn Historical Society, tells the story of the “Amerks,” who last took the ice in 1942. The exhibit’s orga
  
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• BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: Gun-toting robbers threaten barbecue joint staff

  23-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Harry MacCormackBrooklyn Daily84th PrecinctBrooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–DowntownBraise-n robberyA pair of gun-toting marauders knocked over an Adams Street barbecue joint on Sept. 14, police say.The mask-wearing duo entered the manager’s office in the restaurant near Willoughby Streets around midnight and began threatening the him with a handgun, cops said.
  The manager told police that one of the masked men told him to “g
  
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• BENSONHURST: Bottle-wielding crew attack and rob man

  23-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachBottle openerSix goons beat and robbed a man outside of his Avenue U apartment building on Sept. 19, taking cash and electronics.The victim told police that he was coming up to the front door of his building between Van Sicklen and Lake streets at 3 am, when the reprobates cut him off and started harassing him.
  An argument ensued and eventually climaxed when one of the crew members took up a
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Ruffian roughs up and robs guy

  23-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn Daily68th PrecinctBay Ridge—Dyker HeightsUgly mugA brute beat and robbed a guy on the corner of Third Avenue and Senator Street in Bay Ridge on Sept. 18.
  The ogre punched his victim in the back of the head at 5:20 am, sending him falling to the ground, police said. The fiend continued to pummel the poor sod, eventually taking his wallet and running off, officials said.Copper coppedA punk smashed through the door to a Bay Ridge Avenu
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Good vibrations: Workers replacing old R Train tracks to reduce noise, shaking

  23-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThe squeaky rail is getting the grease.Shaken by rumbling complaints from locals, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced plans to install noise- and vibration-mitigation measures along the R line between 86th Street and Bay Ridge Avenue, an authority leader said.“Because we had gotten such a bulk of complaints from that area, our subway division decided they would start to replace the rail between 86th Street a
  
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• ART: Stick in the past: Exhibit looks back to Brooklyn’s forgotten hockey team

  23-09-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Eric FaynbergThe Brooklyn PaperIt’s an ice exhibit.
  The puck may be about to drop on the New York Islanders’ inaugural season in Brooklyn, but a new exhibit is looking backwards to Brooklyn’s first professional hockey team —the Brooklyn Americans. The show, open now at the Brooklyn Historical Society, tells the story of the “Amerks,” who last took the ice in 1942. The exhibit’s
  
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• Federal judge rules 'Happy Birthday' song in public domain

  23-09-2015 04:25
  
  Judge rules 'Happy Birthday' song is public domain, denies publisher's copyright claim
  
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• Cauley, survivor of crash that killed Redding, dies at 67

  23-09-2015 04:13
  
  Ben Cauley, member of the Bar-Kays and only survivor of crash that killed Redding, dies at 67
  
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• Federal judge rules 'Happy Birthday' song is public domain, denies publisher's copyright claim

  23-09-2015 03:13
  
  Federal judge rules 'Happy Birthday' song is public domain, denies publisher's copyright claim
  
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• Publisher Tarcher dies; came out with eclectic best-sellers

  23-09-2015 03:07
  
  Jeremy Tarcher, publisher of best-sellers, dead at age 83; tapped into West Coast culture
  
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• Strait releases new album, will play Las Vegas in 2016

  23-09-2015 02:59
  
  George Strait releases new album, will play Las Vegas Arena in 2016
  
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• Best-seller Ta-Nehisi Coates writing comic book series

  23-09-2015 02:02
  
  Best-seller Ta-Nehisi Coates writing comic book series inspired by Black Panthers
  
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• Might the Tony Awards show be homeless again?

  23-09-2015 01:58
  
  With dates revealed for 'New York Spring Spectacular,' might the Tony Awards show be homeless?
  
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• Judge denies Peabody Energy's request to strike protest song

  23-09-2015 01:32
  
  Judge denies Peabody Energy's request to strike mining protest song lyrics from legal brief
  
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• Review: '99 Homes' leaves the burner on

  23-09-2015 00:39
  
  Film Review: The visceral real-estate crash drama '99 Homes' leaves the burner on
  
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• El Ten Eleven supporting 'Fast Forward' on tour with Sego (dates & LP stream)

  23-09-2015 00:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Post rock duo El Ten Eleven recently dropped their newest album Fast Forward on Fake Record Label. They recorded it themselves with a variety of electronics, acoustic instruments and loop pedals, and you can hear the fruits of their labor below.The band is currently on tour supporting it with Sego opening. That tour rolls into NYC on Wednesday (9/23) at Le Poisson Rouge. Tickets are available.All dates are listed, with the album stream, below...
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