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• Australian garage punks Cuntz released 'Force the Zone,' currently in NYC for two shows as part of US tour (dates)

  01-10-2015 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill PearisGiven their name and their hometown (Melbourne, Australia), you can probably guess what Cuntz sound like: bruising garage punk that's as bitter as vegemite. All good things, mind you. The band's new album, Force the Zone, is out now and you can stream a couple tracks from it below.Cuntz went on their first US tour in 2013, and they're currently back here on another tour. Specifically right now they're in NYC for two shows: tonight (10/1) at Cake Shop with Wilful Boys and Foster Car
  
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• NY Comedy Fest adds lots more shows, including Hannibal Buress, Nick Kroll, Bridget Everett, Craig Robinson & more

  01-10-2015 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hannibal Buress
  The New York Comedy Festival (November 10 - 15) just announced 50 new shows to its 2015 lineup, including panel discussions, stand-up, musical comedy and podcasts. Among them is "Comedy Central Live in Brooklyn" which happens at Kings Theatre on November 13 and will features sets by Hannibal Buress, Nick Kroll, Natasha Leggero, John Mulaney, Jeff Ross and more TBA. Tickets are on sale for that show.Other new additions include: Bridget Everett & the Tender Moments at Gramery T
  
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• 30 Under 30: Drew Tobia, Filmmaker

  01-10-2015 23:05 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo by Nicolas Maloof
  This week marks the release of our annual 30 Under 30 issue, and because each of these individuals is so interesting, we thought we’d further highlight them by running some brief interviews with them.
  Name: Drew Tobia
  Age: 29
  Neighborhood: Bushwick
  Occupation: Filmmaker
  Who would be your choice for a 30 Under 30?ME! I deserve this more than anyone I know, and I refuse to give my loser friends a hand up. Except for my producer Rache
  
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• Bettye LaVette touring, playing City Winery & other dates

  01-10-2015 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Bettye LaVette at Clearwater Fest 2014 (more by Chris La Putt)
  Soul singer Bettye LaVette has been touring for most of 2015, promoting her album Worthy, which was released earlier this year. She premiered selections from Worthy during her residence at Cafe Carlyle back in January before embarking on a world tour, and now she has more dates coming up.She returns to NYC On October 16 at City Winery. Tickets are on sale now, and there's also a meet and greet option.
  Bettye appeared on the La
  
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• Confidential files in Hulk Hogan lawsuit remain sealed

  01-10-2015 22:34
  
  Judge rules confidential files in Hulk Hogan sex video lawsuit remain sealed after hearing
  
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• Indian Handcrafts streaming new album, announce tour with Greys (who are playing Exploding In Sound CMJ)

  01-10-2015 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Rob Sperry-Frommphoto: Indian Handcrafts at MHOW in 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
  Ontario-based stoner rock weirdos Indian Handcrafts are releasing their new album Creeps this week via Sargent House, and it's streaming right now. Creeps is probably the heaviest release yet from these guys and also the most musically varied. They have a sound that's harder to pin down than you might expect, and they dip their toes into all sorts of subgenres over the course of the album, with little stabs of
  
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• Hurricane and rainstorm are locked in a dangerous dance

  01-10-2015 21:44
  
  Terrible tango: Hurricane Joaquin and drenching rainstorm are locked in a dangerous dance
  
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• 'Towering Inferno' director John Guillermin dies at 89

  01-10-2015 21:34
  
  John Guillermin, director of 70s spectacles 'The Towering Inferno' and 'King Kong,' dies at 89
  
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• 30 Under 30: Jayson Smith, Writer

  01-10-2015 21:13 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo by Nicolas Maloof
  This week marks the release of our annual 30 Under 30 issue, and because each of these individuals is so interesting, we thought we’d further highlight them by running some brief interviews with them.
  Name: Jayson Smith
  Age: 23
  Neighborhood: Bed-Stuy
  Occupation: Writer
  Who would be your choice for a 30 Under 30?
  Camonghne Felix, for sure. She’s a brilliant mind & unreal at pretty much everything she touches.
  Who are your role models in your industry?
  
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• How to Win $5K for Your Downtown Brooklyn Startup

  01-10-2015 21:01
  Want to have something in common with the best entrepreneurs in the world? Then prepare to get very, very good at the art of the pitch.
  Pitching investors for startup capital is something that unites all entrepreneurs, and while the experience can be both terrifying and exciting, it is necessary in order to scale your business.In order to get your pitch up to snuff, all you can do is keep practicing – then practice some more.Here’s a chance to do just that, and win cash for your
  
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• A Month-Long Celebration of the Made in NY Media Center by IFP

  01-10-2015 20:39
  
  Over the last two years, Made in NY Media Center by IFP has brought you programs dedicated to keeping the most creative media and tech talent engaged right here in NYC. Developed through a unique partnership between Independent Feature Project, The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, The Media Center has been a hub where entrepreneurs from film, video, gaming, technology and more create, collaborate, connect
  
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• This Is Not a Road Movie: Banned Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s Taxi

  01-10-2015 20:30 via bkmag.com
  
  TaxiDirected by Jafar PanahiOpens October 2
  For a director sentenced by the Iranian government in 2010 to a twenty year ban on filmmaking activities, Jafar Panahi has been astoundingly prolific: Taxi marks his third samizdat movie in five years. It is also an excellent, multi-layered work of art, by turns technically inventive, politically cogent, and alternatingly caustic and comic—the kind of achievement that inspires not only through the mere fact of its existence but also through the
  
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• Q&A: Villeneuve and Deakins talk light and dark in 'Sicario'

  01-10-2015 20:26
  
  Q&A: Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins talk light and dark in drug thriller 'Sicario'
  
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• Jessica Mendoza to call AL wild-card game in a first

  01-10-2015 20:18
  
  Jessica Mendoza to become 1st female analyst to call nationally televised MLB postseason game
  
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• Cornell fulfills acoustic rock desires with 'Higher Truth'

  01-10-2015 20:09
  
  Chris Cornell fulfills his acoustic rock desires with 5th solo album, 'Higher Truth'
  
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• Breaking: Bed-Stuy’s Beloved SCRATCHbread Is Closing Next Week

  01-10-2015 20:06 via bkmag.com
  
  The delicious grits from SCRATCHbread.
  photo by Jane Bruce
  In case you heard the collective cries of “OH NO!!!!” coming from the Brooklyn Magazine offices a few minutes ago and were wondering what the bad news could possibly be, well, brace yourself: SCRATCHbread is closing next week. Yeah, that’s right, everyone’s favorite Bed-Stuy bakery is shutting down permanently on October 11, meaning you have ten more days to get in on some of the best baked goods possibl
  
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• Pity the Modern Man

  01-10-2015 19:49 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s hard out there for a modern man
  The lead story in today’s Style section of the New York Times is an article about how “baby-faced men are opting for beard transplants,” and as much as this is the type of  Style section article which usually inspires a flurry of Twitter activity as people rush to condemn the absurdity inherent in promoting this type of “trend” in the pages of the paper of record, the beard transplant article is not being pai
  
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• Mexico's 'cooking nun' takes TV shot to pay order's debts

  01-10-2015 19:27
  
  Mexico's 'cooking nun' enters TV competition to help save her order from debts
  
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• 30 Under 30: Bijan Stephen, Magazine Editor

  01-10-2015 19:01 via bkmag.com
  
  photo by Nicolas Maloof
  This week marks the release of our annual 30 Under 30 issue, and because each of these individuals is so interesting, we thought we’d further highlight them by running some brief interviews with them.
  Name: Bijan Stephen
  Age: 24
  Neighborhood: Carroll Gardens
  Occupation: Magazine editor
  Who would be your choice for a 30 Under 30?
  Doreen St. Felix! She’s an immensely talented writer, editor, and thinker.
  Who are your role models in your industry?
  This is t
  
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• Sweet Relief: Georgia’s SweetWater Sails into New York City

  01-10-2015 18:33 via bkmag.com
  
  Flickr/ thoco77
  Founded in 1997, Atlanta’s SweetWater Brewing Company has been satiating the South’s loyal population of craft beer enthusiasts for years now, wooing them with smooth, crisp ales like their flagship 420 Extra Pale Ale and toasty Georgia Brown Ale. These are laid back, summer boat beers at their finest, with labels depicting oars, reels and arching fish. Anyone who’s spent time in our nation’s southland is sure to have spotted a few SweetWater bottles nestl
  
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• Do You Remember 90s East Coast Hip-Hop Radio? DJ Legends Bobbito Garcia and Stretch Armstrong Talk About Their New Documentary

  01-10-2015 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed LivesDirected by Bobbito GarciaOctober 1-8 at BAM
  Autobiographical documentaries by the Publicly Prominent tend to be, at best, a dicey proposition: pitfalls can include erroneous self-censorship, echo-chamber interviews with the subject’s celebrity friends, the whitewashing of entire decades, and/or no small amount of product placement. And while nostalgia exacts an ever-higher price, the current moment of fandom for classic East Coast hip-hop more
  
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• Childbirth: Like if Broad City Had a Baby and It Was a Band

  01-10-2015 17:53 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo by Shaine Truscott
  Among friends and exes of the band Childbirth, the hilariously funny, unbelievably mean 2014 single, “I Only Fucked You as a Joke,” was the source of a deep and sudden existential panic. “People took it really personally,” says singer Julia Shapiro. “They were like, ‘Wait, girls do that???’” But for far-away listeners—those not plausibly fucked by the Seattle band’s members as a literal joke—the song fell
  
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• 10 Culture Essentials for October

  01-10-2015 17:13
  
  While October is an ideal time to get out of the city, take a drive upstate to see the leaves change colors and maybe live out your pastoral fantasies by going apple picking, there are plenty of cultural happenings taking place here in the city this month worth sticking around for. Here are the 10 we’re looking forward to the most.10. Having devoured every word of Sloane Crosley’s writing over the years—starting with her first collection of essays I Was Told There&rs
  
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• Ex-CBC host pleads not guilty to sexual assault in Canada

  01-10-2015 17:03
  
  Prominent former Canadian Broadcasting Corp. host pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges
  
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• Review: Jazz singer pays tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein

  01-10-2015 16:30
  
  Music Review: Singer Karrin Allyson gives Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook a jazzy makeover
  
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• Read October: 5 Books to Read this Month

  01-10-2015 16:10 via bkmag.com
  
   
  Here are the new bookswe’re most excitedto curl up with this October The Witches: Salem, 1692
  by Stacy Schiff(October 27)Schiff wrote two of our favorite biographies of all time, Cleopatra: A Life and Véra (Mrs. Nabokov), both of which are incredible renderings of very different (and very differently) influential women, and both of which beautifully demonstrate Schiff’s historical bona fides as well as her ability to spin a compelling narrative. So we really could
  
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• Sponsored Video: Learn What Commitment Really Means with Eli Manning & Odell Beckham Jr.

  01-10-2015 16:03 via bkmag.com
  
  You know the worst feeling in the world? Taking that first sip of your morning cup of coffee and finding out that it’s not what you ordered. Actually, the worst feeling is when you’re already on the subway once that happens—but we digress. Your first cup of coffee can really shape your day, and we know just how crucial it is to get that right.
  Since that cup is so important, wouldn’t it be great if someone were so dedicated to getting it right that they actually trained
  
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• Met opera launches 10th HD season

  01-10-2015 15:55
  
  Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' opens Met opera's 10th season of live HD broadcasts
  
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• Music concerts, daring decors, lashings of color in Paris

  01-10-2015 15:49
  
  Music concerts, daring decors, and lashings of color at Paris Fashion Week
  
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• NYFF 2015: Chick Strand’s Soft Fiction, Newly Restored

  01-10-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Soft Fiction screens at 3:30pm on Saturday, October 3, in the avant-garde Projections section of the 53rd New York Film Festival.
  Chick Strand made ethnographic films by setting out to record the everyday. The American, largely California-based filmmaker (who was born in 1931 and passed away in 2009) gathered up people she knew or wanted to know and, with her camera running, paid intimate attention while they talked about themselves. She then edited the results in playful, impressionistic ways
  
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• Clive Owen on a role that takes 'everything you've got'

  01-10-2015 14:27
  
  Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly sink their teeth into Harold Pinter's 'Old Times'
  
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• Thomas Rhett brings retro soul to country radio

  01-10-2015 14:12
  
  Country singer Thomas Rhett stretches his voice on soulful new album, 'Tangled Up'
  
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• Asia's largest film festival opens in South Korea

  01-10-2015 13:54
  
  Asia's largest film festival opens in South Korea; to show 300 movies from 75 nations
  
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• 78 pianists in renowned Chopin competition in Poland

  01-10-2015 13:45
  
  78 pianists in Poland's Frederic Chopin competition that paves the way to world career
  
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• Google invites amateurs to send clips for 'India in a Day'

  01-10-2015 13:14
  
  Google invites amateurs to send clips for 'India in a Day' film project with Ridley Scott
  
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• Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, British Olympian engaged

  01-10-2015 12:54
  
  Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, British Olympic diver Tom Daley engaged
  
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• Lead scientist of Pluto expedition has book deal

  01-10-2015 12:11
  
  Amazing adventures: Lead scientist of Pluto expedition has book deal
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG: A rind is a terrible thing to waste! Williamsburgers demand city composting service

  01-10-2015 09:15
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperThe city is squandering Williamsburg’s vast reserves of discarded table scraps and should bring its curbside compost collection service to the neighborhood soon so it can capitalize on the abundant supply of worm food instead of paying to dump it in landfill, say residents who have backed an online appeal demanding access to the program.
  “They’re throwing away good resour
  
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• Who you gonna crawl? Paranormal Society hosts boozy ghost hunts in Brooklyn parks

  01-10-2015 09:14
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperThese ghost hunters don’t just consult the spirits — they drink them too.A group of Slopers and Ridgeites have married their shared passion for all things spooky with their love of liquor by forming a bar-crawling, ghost-hunting club called the Brooklyn Paranormal Society, which may be the only band of spectral investigators who are actually proud of drinking more spirits than they find.
  “I haven’t had a
  
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• Pump it up: Coney Island Art Deco structure could become landmark

  01-10-2015 09:14
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Eric FaynbergThe Brooklyn PaperThey’re pumping up the case to make this forgotten Coney Island structure a landmark.The Coney Island Water Pressure Pumping Station is one of the structures on the docket for upcoming hearings to clear several decades worth of backlogged New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission cases. And community activists and architectural organizations are trying to strengthen the case as
  
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• THEATER: Booze-ical comedy: ‘Alcoholic Movie Musical’ mixes up film, stage, and real life

  01-10-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperMaking a movie can be a whiskey business.
  A Crown Heights performance artist has distilled her struggles with alcoholism and film-making into a live musical comedy. The now-sober thespian says that “An Alcoholic Movie Musical,” opening at the Bushwick Starr on Oct. 7, is about the challenge of making art imitate life.“I’m trying to wrangle with: How do you translate
  
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• THE DAD: The importance of check-ups for our daughters

  01-10-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Scott Sagerfor The Brooklyn PaperStorming from the room, my then 15-year-old daughter hurled this truism at me: “You’ve never been a teenage girl.”
  Of course she’s right, but my first thought was that doesn’t mean I can’t understand the things she’s going through. My blind spot, it turns out, is healthcare. My male perspective is that healthcare, especially as a young adult, is pretty much routine. Show up at the do
  
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• STANDING O: Singing the praises of retirement

  01-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyIn praise of retirementMazel tov to Cantor Bernard Beer. The borough son is retiring after 49 years as a faculty member and administrator at the Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music at Yeshiva University over in that borough across the river.But this isn’t any ordinary retirement. “I’m leaving a dream job,” said Cantor Beer. “This isn’t only my work, but a passion discovered many years
  
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• STANDING O: Hail to the new president and chief

  01-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyFort GreeneStanding O welcomes Gary G. Terrinoni as the soon-to-be president and chief executive officer at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. He is presently the executive veep of administration and chief financial officer of the Kennedy Health System in New Jersey. Standing O pal Gary will be taking over the reigns from Dr. Richard B. Becker in November.Prior to joining Kennedy Health System, Gary was a leading executive at Richmon
  
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• STANDING O: Golden ribbons for fighting cancer

  01-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBay Ridge
  The Xaverian students in the middle school program Genesis and high school joined forces to Go Gold. The Go Gold initiative raises awareness for pediatric cancer.
  Camille Orichio Loccisano, who lost her son Frankie, class of 2008, to pediatric cancer, spearheaded the effort.
  She runs Frankie’s Mission, a nonprofit organization founded in 2007, that is dedicated to helping families whose lives have been affected b
  
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• MILL BASIN: Inn-side job: Mill Basin locals worry new hotel secretly plans to become homeless shelter

  01-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyMill Basin residents are very uncomfortable with plans to build a Comfort Inn.The new hotel is already under construction on E. 49th Street between Avenues N and O, and locals worry that the developer is secretly planning to turn the three-story building into an emergency homeless shelter — though he claims his detractors are little more than busy bodies going “crazy” over nothing.“It’s not going to be
  
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• JOE KNOWS: Erasmus defense returning to elite form

  01-10-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyThe D in Dutchmen stand for “Defense.”
  Erasmus Hall coach Danny Landberg’s teams have featured one of the league’s stingiest defenses over the last four seasons, including a Public School Athletic League championship campaign in 2012.
  This year’s group is beginning to show signs of continuing that trend. Erasmus forced three more turnovers in a decisive 32–0 victory over host and previously
  
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• CONEY ISLAND: Pump it up: Coney Island Art Deco structure could become landmark

  01-10-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eric FaynbergBrooklyn DailyThey’re pumping up the case to make this forgotten Coney Island structure a landmark.The Coney Island Water Pressure Pumping Station is one of the structures on the docket for upcoming hearings to clear several decades worth of backlogged New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission cases. And community activists and architectural organizations are trying to strengthen the case as the
  
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• BUSHWICK: Booze-ical comedy: ‘Alcoholic Movie Musical’ mixes up film, stage, and real life

  01-10-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Allegra HobbsBrooklyn DailyMaking a movie can be a whiskey business.
  A Crown Heights performance artist has distilled her struggles with alcoholism and film-making into a live musical comedy. The now-sober thespian says that “An Alcoholic Movie Musical,” opening at the Bushwick Starr on Oct. 7, is about the challenge of making art imitate life.“I’m trying to wrangle with: How do you translate a l
  
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• BREAST CANCER AWARENESS: Why we’re pink

  01-10-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Jennifer Goodsteinfor The Brooklyn PaperOur best scoops come from you, our loyal readers. You told us how much you enjoyed our inaugural “pink paper” issue last year to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and asked us to make it an annual print tradition.
  We are delighted to oblige, with a focus this year on volunteers. They are the unsung heroes whose efforts behind the scenes are instrumental in turning tragedy into triumph for millions
  
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