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• Our New Favorite Breakfast Sandwich Is… Not a Sandwich

  05-10-2015 23:04 via bkmag.com
  
  A Fort Hamilton crêpe from the Fox and the Crêpes
  We here at bkmag dot com take our breakfast sandwiches—and our breakfasts, in general—very seriously. This doesn’t mean we’re purists who won’t venture beyond the bacon-egg-and-cheese, but it does mean that if we’re going to stray from that classic, it had better be worth it.
  And now, luckily for residents of Windsor Terrace, there’s a new breakfast (and lunch and dinner) option in the ne
  
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• The Weeknd, One Direction to perform on Jingle Ball tour

  05-10-2015 22:53
  
  The Weeknd, One Direction, Selena Gomez to perform on iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball tour
  
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• Richardson clears suspension as more legal troubles unfold

  05-10-2015 22:39
  
  Richardson's court date on resisting arrest, other charges delayed as he clears suspension
  
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• John Stamos surrenders to being charming in 'Grandfathered'

  05-10-2015 21:37
  
  John Stamos embraces his natural charmer in 'Grandfathered'; adulthood, kids can wait
  
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• Bareilles provides personal insight in 'Sounds Like Me'

  05-10-2015 21:36
  
  Review: Sara Bareilles shares collection of music-inspired essays in memoir 'Sounds Like Me'
  
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• Weekend Live Music Wrap-Up: Autechre in the Dark, Destroyer in the Groove

  05-10-2015 21:27 via bkmag.com
  
  A couple of guys you didn’t see at the Autechre show…
  Fall is the time to get serious. Tank tops give way to respectable sweaters. Superhero flicks vacate theaters in favor of Oscar-bait. The fun festivals of the summer die off, making way for the serious, substantial concerts of autumn. On Saturday night, UK electronic legends Autechre played the Brooklyn Masonic Temple as part of the consistently excellent Pitchfork-affiliated concert series, Tinnitus, for their first NYC sho
  
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• Under Pete Carroll, Seahawks nearly perfect in prime time

  05-10-2015 21:09
  
  Since Pete Carroll's arrival, Seattle Seahawks are nearly perfect in prime time
  
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• Bernanke defending Fed actions to battle recession

  05-10-2015 20:37
  
  Bernanke: US economy outperforming Europe because Fed moved more quickly to fight downturn
  
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• Leaders who follow: What candidates' Twitter lists reveal

  05-10-2015 20:35
  
  Follow me, follow you: Twitter accounts of 2016 hopefuls can reveal interests _ and strategies
  
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• 'The House on Mango Street' author shares life stories

  05-10-2015 20:34
  
  'The House on Mango Street' author shares stories from her life in 'A House of My Own'
  
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• GO THERE NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN: Sound off: Music venue Cameo Gallery is closing next month

  05-10-2015 20:11
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperAnd another one bites the dust.Williamsburg music venue Cameo Gallery will close its doors for good on Nov. 21, the N. Sixth Street bar announced Thursday, and local musicians are bemoaning the loss of yet another stage in the rapidly-changing nabe.“It’s sad,” said Zachery Allan Starkey, vocalist of electronic group ZGRT, which has been performing at the venue for five years. “Cameo Gallery is one of th
  
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• Sheldon Richardson's Missouri court date postponed

  05-10-2015 20:10
  
  Sheldon Richardson's Missouri court date on resisting arrest, other charges postponed
  
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• 'M Train' is disappointing follow-up by rocker Patti Smith

  05-10-2015 20:04
  
  Fans of punk rocker Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' will be disappointed by follow-up 'M Train'
  
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• Media company: DJ tried to influence listening habits

  05-10-2015 19:54
  
  Media company: Tampa-based Bubba The Love Sponge tried to influence radio market ratings
  
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• Supergroup Dead & Company giving away 10K tickets to show

  05-10-2015 19:33
  
  Dead & Company, made up of Grateful Dead members and Mayer, giving away 10K tickets to NY show
  
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• APNewsBreak: George Harrison, Gaye up for Songwriters Hall

  05-10-2015 18:59
  
  APNewsBreak: George Harrison, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Petty up for Songwriters Hall of Fame
  
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• Britain leads International Emmy nominations with 7 nods

  05-10-2015 18:53
  
  Sheridan Smith gets best actress nod for "Cilla" as Britain nominated for 7 Int'l Emmys
  
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• 30 Under 30: Sean Telo, Executive Chef at Extra Fancy

  05-10-2015 18:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo by Nicolas Maloof
  Last week marked 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: Sean Telo
  Age: 27
  Neighborhood: Williamsburg
  Occupation: Executive Chef at Extra Fancy
  Who would be your choice for a 30 Under 30?
  My pick would actually be someone who no longer lives in New York, but whose food I really admired while he was the Execu
  
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• Having a Beer with our Jameson ‘Drinking Buddies’

  05-10-2015 18:06 via bkmag.com
  
  Photos by Sasha Charoensub.
  While the rest of the borough battled the cold, we handled the recent deluge of rain and sleet the only way we know how: with Jameson and our “drinking buddies.” At last, we got try firsthand the five Jameson barrel-aged beers made by breweries coast to coast last week. In partnership with Jameson, five breweries– Los Angeles’ Angel City Brewery, Seattle’s Hilliard’s Beer, Dallas’ Deep Ellum Brewing, Denver’s Great Divid
  
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• NYFF 2015: Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan

  05-10-2015 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Maggie’s Plan screens at 6pm on Monday, October 5, and at 3pm on Sunday, October 11, as part of the main slate of the 53rd New York Film Festival. Sony Classics has acquired the US distribution rights, but no release date has been announced yet.
  Greta Gerwig has never appeared in a movie that has grossed more than $71 million, and that movie, 2011’s No Strings Attached, gave her a supporting-buddy role in a romantic comedy run by Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. Yet despite her o
  
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• Morris Adjmi’s 465 Pacific Comes to Boerum Hill

  05-10-2015 18:00
  
  Sponsored By 465 Pacific.465 Pacific is a boutique condominium building featuring 30 one to five bedrooms including terrace duplex homes and penthouses.Created By BlankSlateBoerum Hill — especially Atlantic Avenue — has changed drastically over the past decade. The historic brownstones and rowhouses are still there, as are the antique stores and the Middle Eastern markets, but they’ve been joined by upscale restaurants, bridal boutiques, and art galleries. Add to that the proxi
  
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• MEAN STREETS: Beginning to see the light! New traffic signal coming to Columbia Street

  05-10-2015 17:53
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Harry MacCormackThe Brooklyn PaperThis project has a green light — and a red and yellow one, too!The city will install a new stop light and crosswalk on Columbia Street at Congress Street next year, following years of complaints by locals who claim the combination of cars zooming onto the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and families dashing across the asphalt on their way to nearby Brooklyn Bridge Park is a disaster waiting to happen.“As a father of
  
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• 30 Under 30: Jordyn Lexton, Founder and Executive Director of Drive Change

  05-10-2015 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo by Nicolas Maloof
  Last week marked 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: Jordyn Lexton
  Age: 29
  Neighborhood: Work, Bushwick; Live, Prospect Heights
  Occupation: Founder/Executive Director, Drive Change
  Who would be your choice for a 30 Under 30?Jared Spafford, Culinary Arts Director Drive Change
  Who are your role models in y
  
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• 3 share Nobel medicine prize for tropical disease drugs

  05-10-2015 17:21
  
  3 scientists share Nobel medicine prize for discovering drugs to fight tropical diseases
  
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• Sheldon Richardson's Missouri court case continued

  05-10-2015 17:16
  
  Sheldon Richardson's Missouri court case continued until Nov. 9
  
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• Steven Van Zandt, Paul Shaffer sign on to Bert Berns show

  05-10-2015 17:08
  
  Steven Van Zandt and Paul Shaffer sign on to help produce musical 'Piece of My Heart'
  
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• A Very Serious Taste Test of All the Pumpkin Spice Tea at DAVIDsTea

  05-10-2015 16:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Pumpkin Maté
  If pumpkin’s to remain the official flavor of autumn, there’s simply no reason for it to taste like the inside of a Glade PlugIn. So in order to find an antidote to a certain seasonal spiced latte, we’ve sipped our way through DAVIDsTea’s brand new line of all-natural, gourd-based beverages, including Pumpkin Pie Matcha, Pumpkin Mate, Spiced Pumpkin herbal tea, and a rich and roasty Pumpkin Chai.
  Spiced PumpkinSpiced Pumpkin (Herbal, No Caffeine, from
  
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• The Red Hook Thai Food Wars: Chiang Mai Ups the Ante

  05-10-2015 16:35
  
  Jin Som Mok: fermented ground pork with pork skin, pig’s ear, garlic and chili in banana leaves. Photo: Chiang Mai
  When we last did dinner in Red Hook, we were very happy to introduce Brooklyn Based readers to Kao Soy, an uber-authentic Northern Thai place that opened on Van Brunt Street late last year. Kao Soy has blown up since then, with glowing reviews in The New York Times and elsewhere. In amidst the flood of eager foodies there’s been a bit of a shake
  
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• Theater gossip Michael Riedel writes a history of Broadway

  05-10-2015 16:33
  
  Theater gossip Michael Riedel loses the snark and writes a history of Broadway
  
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• 30 Under 30: Lucas Adams, Cartoonist and Writer

  05-10-2015 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo by Nicolas Maloof
  Last week marked 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: Lucas Adams
  Age: 28
  Neighborhood: Bed-Stuy
  Occupation: Freelance Cartoonist/Writer, Co-Editor New York Review Comics
  Who would be your choice for a 30 Under 30?
  My friend and former roommate, Matthew Burke. He’s a self-taught video editor. Years
  
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• The Story of the Lost Author: Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels

  05-10-2015 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Joan Mitchell, Grand Carrières, 1961
  photo via The Joan Mitchell Foundation
  In her “Art of Fiction” interview with the Paris Review, Italian novelist Elena Ferrante mentions a very good essay in The Guardian by Meghan O’Rourke about, well, Elena Ferrante. And why wouldn’t Ferrante (or any author) read essays about herself? They must—I imagine—be especially amusing for all their speculation surrounding her identity; “Ferrante” after all is a
  
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• 'Great day in my life': Spike Lee is marathon grand marshal

  05-10-2015 15:28
  
  'A great day': Spike Lee named grand marshal of NYC Marathon, first New Yorker in the role
  
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• 3 share Nobel medicine prize for new tools to kill parasites

  05-10-2015 15:19
  
  3 scientists share Nobel medicine prize for discovering drugs to fight parasitic diseases
  
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• NYFF 2015: Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next

  05-10-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Where to Invade Next played this past weekend within the main slate of the 53rd New York Film Festival. The film will be released theatrically beginning in December.
  Documentarian provocateur par excellence Michael Moore returns after an six-year absence with his most affable, most hopeful feature yet. (He insists he’s actually angrier than ever, but maintains that he is an optimist.) A polemic that eschews much of the snark—and, consequently, the hilarity—of his previous film
  
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• Nike Chairman Phil Knight writes memoir, due next spring

  05-10-2015 15:00
  
  Nike Chairman Phil Knight writes memoir about company's early years; book due next spring
  
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• At Asian film fest, new etiquette shows rise of mobile app

  05-10-2015 14:23
  
  At Asia's largest film festival, new etiquette replaces 'Mute your phone'
  
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• Best-selling Swedish author Henning Mankell dead at age 67

  05-10-2015 14:19
  
  Henning Mankell, best-selling Swedish author of Wallander series, dies at age 67
  
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• Estranged South Korean director Kim Ki-duk looks to China

  05-10-2015 10:49
  
  Estranged from South Korea, filmmaker Kim Ki-duk to make $24 million war movie in China
  
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• The Twitter follow lists of the 2016 candidates

  05-10-2015 09:40
  
  Listening to the likeminded: The 2016 hopefuls and whom they follow _ and don't _ on Twitter
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Delayed green: City fixing Ridge intersection decades after high-profile traffic deaths

  05-10-2015 08:57
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Max JaegerThe Brooklyn PaperThese mean streets are about to get a little nicer.The city is finally making the dangerous nexus of Fort Hamilton Parkway and 92nd Street safer more than 20 years after a hit-and-run driver killed a woman and her 4-year-old daughter while they were crossing the intersection. The victim’s son is glad the fixes are coming, but they could have come sooner, he said.“It’s totall
  
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• BEDFORD-STUYVESANT: Jumping the gun: Police stop subway turnstile jumper, find weapon

  05-10-2015 08:56
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownThe Brooklyn PaperPolice found a revolver in a homeless teen girl’s bag after they arrested her for jumping a turnstile at a Bedford-Stuyvesant subway station on Sunday, according to a report.Plainclothes officers spotted the 17-year-old attempting to bypass the gates at the Manhattan-bound C train platform at the Kingston–Throop avenues stop at around 3:20 pm, police said.
  The cops approached the teen and asked for identification, but
  
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• CLEANING OUR WATERWAYS: Dump schmuck: Bed-Stuy biz flushed toxic waste into Newtown Creek

  05-10-2015 08:08
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperCall him the toxic offender.The manager of a Bedford-Stuyvesant metal-cleaning company on Wednesday admitted to dumping industrial waste into the sewer and will now cough up $110,000 in fines for the dirty deeds — a penalty the borough’s top lawyer says should have other eco-villains shaking in their boots.“This case should make clear that we take environmental crimes in Brooklyn seriously and will vigorously
  
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• Jets' Richardson completes suspension, due back in court

  05-10-2015 07:29
  
  Jets' Richardson completes NFL suspension, due in Missouri court for chase-related charges
  
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• Grateful Dead, John Mayer giving away 10K tickets to NY show

  05-10-2015 06:17
  
  Grateful Dead members, John Mayer giving away 10K tickets to NYC show with American Express
  
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• Sunset Park church to host Nar-Anon meetings

  05-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyDealing with addiction is a family affair — and families can help each other.A Sunset Park native hoping to help the community address the rise in narcotics use in his old neighborhood and nearby Bay Ridge is starting a support group for the families of addicts.
  The do-gooder will hold Nar-Anon meetings for families of addicts at Our Lady of Perpetual Help church starting on Oct. 8. Because addiction affects more than the user,
  
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• POLITICS: Parting shot: Eaton allies smack Golden as GOP chairman departs

  05-10-2015 06:00
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyHe got in one more punch on the way out the door.The Brooklyn Republican County Committee’s outgoing chairman hit his nemesis with one last jab when the committee voted for his replacement on Sept. 30.
  Departing chairman Craig Eaton’s hand-picked successor, former Bensonhurst assemblyman Arnaldo Ferraro, beat out Bay Ridge lawyer Ted Ghorra — supported by the Eaton antagonist st
  
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• MIDWOOD: Beep abuzz about borough’s tech education

  05-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyBorough Hall is banking on bringing young Brooklynites into the digital age.Borough President Adams brought his jumbo-sized check book to support technology education at Midwood’s PS 193 on Sept. 30, presenting the Gil Hodges elementary school with $250,000 to outfit its new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Lab with a suite of advanced learning tools.“My administration will continue to move boldly forwa
  
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• IT’S ONLY MY OPINION: It’s a dog’s life, but it mattered

  05-10-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyBlack lives matter. Of course they do. So do white lives, Asian lives, Latino lives, Indian lives, and on and on down the list.
  The truth is that all lives matter, and not a day goes by where I don’t read or hear about at least several other lives that matter.Blue lives matter and the lives of firefighters matter and — Stop! — I was just saying that while all lives matter, those are the two jobs where they
  
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• Galley cats! Talk dives into feline seafaring history

  05-10-2015 06:00
  
  Don’t call them sea dogs! Read more.
  
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• DYKER HEIGHTS: Drink-and-paint studio hopes to foster arts scene in Dyker

  05-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThey’re bringing a dab of high-culture to Dyker Heights.Owners of Dyker’s new drink-and-draw franchise Pinot’s Palette want to transform the bedroom community into an artistic hot spot. The shop, which opened last month in the back of a bookstore on 13th Avenue and 76th Street, is lending some cultural cred to an area that doesn’t have much going for it besides chain stores, one customer said.“There&rsqu
  
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