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• Telemundo closing gap on Spanish-language leader

  27-10-2015 22:09
  
  Telemundo rising in competition with Univision for Spanish-language viewers
  
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• A Cheetos-Flavored Macaron Is Coming to Park Slope

  27-10-2015 22:08 via bkmag.com
  
  via Macaron Parlour’s Facebook
  Macarons—not to be confused with their cousin the macaroon, a coconut-based confection—are glorious little sandwiches of buttercream or ganache filling pressed between two meringue disks. They’re like a dainty and more sophisticated cupcake, think Reese Witherspoon versus Tara Reid. And for the next six months, Macaron Parlour, a NYC-based shop, will be enriching our palates by serving these vibrant confections at their seasonal pop-up shop
  
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• Movies @ the Library: White God

  27-10-2015 21:47
  Friday, November 27, 2015 3:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterWhen young Lili is forced to give up her beloved dog Hagen because its mixed-breed heritage is deemed “unfit” by The State, she and the dog begin a dangerous journey back towards each other.  At the same time, all the unwanted, unloved, and so-called “unfit” dogs rise up under a new leader, Hagen, the one-time house-pet who has learned all too well from his “Masters” in his journey through the
  
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• Los Angeles police union supports boycott of Tarantino films

  27-10-2015 21:46
  
  Los Angeles police union supports calls to boycott Quentin Tarantino movies after protest
  
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• BuzzFeed, Vox Media could pull out of SXSW over gamer panels

  27-10-2015 21:44
  
  Online media companies BuzzFeed, Vox threaten to pull out of SXSW over canceled gaming panels
  
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• Review: 'Wild' author's inspirational quotes: 'Brave Enough'

  27-10-2015 21:28
  
  Review: 'Wild' author Cheryl Strayed offers new book of inspirational quotes, "Brave Enough"
  
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• Man attempts to sing Justin Bieber, prompts school lockdown

  27-10-2015 21:22
  
  Police: Man prompts lockdown at school, day care as he demands to sing Justin Bieber songs
  
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• Brew School: Or Everything You Want to Know about Coffee But Were Afraid to Ask

  27-10-2015 21:20 via bkmag.com
  
  Photos by Alex Srp
  Most of us take coffee for granted. We drink it liberally, mindlessly, day in, day out. Does it have caffein? Great. Is it hot? Perfect. Can I have it as soon as I get out of bed? Cup of coffee, you’ve got my number.
  But, as with any life-long relationship, the more time you spend with it, the more nuanced, the better it can get—but you have to put in the time. Now, Toby’s Estate in Williamsburg is offering educational classes weekly–Brew Scho
  
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• Review: Truman Capote's early stories worthwhile for fans

  27-10-2015 21:15
  
  Review: Truman Capote's early stories a worthwhile window on young writer's emerging talent
  
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• PHOTO GALLERIES: Made in Brooklyn: World Series-bound Mets field eight former Cyclones

  27-10-2015 21:15
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By David Russellfor The Brooklyn PaperMeet the Mets — because most of them were made in Brooklyn!Eight the World Series-bound New York Metropolitans cut their teeth playing for the Brooklyn Cyclones in Coney Island. Taking the field at the People’s Playground may be a fond memory for some of the Cyclones Eight, but it only feels like a distant dream for one Mets rookie whose whirlwind ascendancy took him from s
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Oct. 19-25

  27-10-2015 21:11
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Oct. 19-25
  
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• Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez to divorce after 2 years

  27-10-2015 20:20
  
  Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez to divorce after 2 years of marriage, one child together
  
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• Elizabeth Banks will return to direct 'Pitch Perfect 3'

  27-10-2015 20:20
  
  Actress Elizabeth Banks will return to direct 'Pitch Perfect 3' after taking helm of sequel
  
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• Review: Barrymore's not-a-memoir 'Wildflower' is fun read

  27-10-2015 20:19
  
  Review: Actress Drew Barrymore's life stories leap off the page in entertaining 'Wildflower'
  
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• BuzzFeed could pull out of SXSW over gamer panels

  27-10-2015 20:19
  
  Online media site BuzzFeed threatens to pull out of festival over canceled gaming panels
  
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• Harvick: "I don't need to defend myself" after Talladega

  27-10-2015 20:07
  
  NASCAR champ Kevin Harvick denies accusations he intentionally caused crash to save season
  
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• Philip French, veteran UK film critic, dies aged 82

  27-10-2015 20:05
  
  Philip French, veteran film critic for Britain's Observer newspaper, dies aged 82
  
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• GOP debate No. 3: A guide to candidates on the big stage

  27-10-2015 19:51
  Grab your binoculars: A field guide to the Republican White House candidates ready to debate
  
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• Grant lets 20,000 NYC students see 'Hamilton' on Broadway

  27-10-2015 19:22
  
  Grant from Rockefeller Foundation will let 20,000 NYC students see 'Hamilton' on Broadway
  
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• Review: Ronan enchants in warm immigrant tale 'Brooklyn'

  27-10-2015 18:54
  Review: Saoirse Ronan is enchanting in warm, sharp immigrant tale 'Brooklyn'
  
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• CAPITOL HILL BUZZ: Leahy casts 15,000th vote

  27-10-2015 18:43
  
  CAPITOL HILL BUZZ: Leahy joins exclusive club with 15,000th vote
  
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• Suge Knight, Katt Williams plead not guilty in robbery case

  27-10-2015 17:44
  
  Suge Knight and comedian Katt Williams plead not guilty to robbery charges; Knight admonished
  
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• Insiang, the Best Socially Conscious 1970s Filipino Melodrama You’ve Never Seen (Presumably), at MoMA

  27-10-2015 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Insiang (1976)Directed by Lino BrockaOctober 28-November 3 at MoMA
  Lino Brocka filmed from the vantage points of oppressed people. The Filipino director made three great melodramas about them in quick succession in the mid-1970s, beginning with Weighed But Found Wanting (1974), a record of a kinship between three lonesome figures on the outskirts of a judgmental small town. Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) follows an impoverished young man new to the city who takes on soul-sucking jobs in se
  
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• Three Diamond Door’s New Late-Night Lounge Is Made For A Silk-Robed Christopher Walken

  27-10-2015 16:42 via bkmag.com
  
  Welcome to your classiest drinking fantasy.
  Hey all you lovers of Three Diamond Door, it’s time to get even more excited about the place that gives you exactly what you want, namely, beer, liquor, and a backyard in which to drink it. Those are all good things, but now there’s something new to enjoy in the Bushwick bar: a big, gorgeous lounge with its own liquor license.The new space is so good-looking (rich, dark wood, leather stools, spacious and plush 
  
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• Video: Brian Tsao Makes a Spam Sushi Dog at Kimoto Rooftop Beer Garden

  27-10-2015 16:17 via bkmag.com
  
  If you still cringe at the thought of Spam, Chef Brian Tsao is here to change your mind. And he’s got no problem if you think that his new menu at the Kimoto Rooftop Beer Garden is a little of the Asian stoner vibe–that’s what he’s going for.So naturally, we drooled just a tiny bit when Tsao showed us how he deep-fries Spam to make a hot dog-Spam musubi hybrid, and uses Japanese ingredients to make a new kind of sushi roll. Riffing off a traditional bar menu with Asian i
  
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• Johan Botha headlines Met HD of 'Tannhaeuser'

  27-10-2015 16:17
  
  Met presents season's only Wagner opera in HD with Johan Botha leading stellar cast
  
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• The Robicellis—Brooklyn’s Biggest Boosters—Are Moving to Baltimore

  27-10-2015 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Say goodbye to this ice cream sandwich, Brooklyn. It—and its creators—are heading to Baltimore.
  Save for Dominique Ansel, Allison and Matt Robicelli are arguably NYC’s most infamous bakers—consistently catapulted into public consciousness for their headline-baiting creations (i.e, Nutellasagna), Allison’s enormously entertaining online tirades, and the pair’s tendency to regularly divulge far more than is strictly necessary about themselves, such as Matt&rsquo
  
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• Paradise Found: The Food Sermon

  27-10-2015 15:45 via bkmag.com
  
  The Veggie Island Bowl at The Food Sermon
  Like eager spawns of Chipotle, globally minded, casual lunch counters have lately begun proliferating around the city in earnest. Laser-focused on portability, efficiency, and various nutritional concerns, these spots generally boil down the essence of various ethnic cuisines into acetic grain bowls and whole wheat wraps, whose neatly cubed contents are tidily divided into the gleaming compartments of a steam tray. And on the surface, the Food Sermon in
  
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• A Tour of the Brooklyn Strand

  27-10-2015 15:36
  We’ve devoted a lot of time on this blog to covering the Brooklyn Strand, a 40-acre stretch of disconnected parks, plazas, and greenways stretching between Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Bridge Park that has the potential to become the great promenade and gateway to Brooklyn.Helping to lead this charge on behalf of many community partners including the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is WXY, an award-winning design studio specializing in urban planning and architectural solutions, particular
  
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• DOWNTOWN: Two teens shot, one dead Downtown

  27-10-2015 15:18
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth Brownfor The Brooklyn PaperA gunman fatally shot a teen in the head, and wounded another Downtown on Monday evening, police said.Authorities say the shooter opened fire on Flatbush Avenue Extension near DeKalb Avenue at around 6 pm, hitting 16-year-old Armani Hankins in the head and an 18-year-old in the ankle.Paramedics took the Hankins to nearby Brooklyn Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
  Emergency responders took the sec
  
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• People in Your Neighborhood: Isaac Fitzgerald

  27-10-2015 15:10 via bkmag.com
  
  photo by Jane Bruce
  Interviewing Isaac Fitzgerald, editor of BuzzFeed Books and coauthor of Pen & Ink, is a little like trying to pry a host away from a bustling party. You also have to submit to his interview questions.Isaac, like any good editor, wants to know everything. Just shy of two years into his tenure at BuzzFeed, Isaac came to Brooklyn from San Francisco (a city he wrote about beautifully for lit mag Berfrois), following stints at McSweeney’s and, before that, The Rumpus, w
  
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• Hanks' 'Spies' character was NYC-born lawyer, buried upstate

  27-10-2015 15:06
  
  Tom Hanks' 'Bridge of Spies' character was NYC-born lawyer who's buried in the Adirondacks
  
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• Archestratus, a Word Nerd, Foodie Paradise, Opens in Greenpoint

  27-10-2015 14:57
  
  You’ll find way more than the typical selection of celebrity chef cookbooks and old standbys at Archestratus. © Regina Mogilevskaya
  Over the past year an impressive array of new establishments (Le Fanfare, Sweetleaf, Cassette, and Cozinha Latina, just to jot off a few) have opened in Greenpoint, but perhaps none as satiating as Archestratus, a new cookbook shop and café that’s barely a month old. Tucked away on a quiet street off of Manhattan Avenue, the venture res
  
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• New online site hopes to be the Rotten Tomatoes for theater

  27-10-2015 14:36
  
  New online site Show-Score hopes to become the Rotten Tomatoes for New York City theater
  
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• Chesney playing Pittsburgh a 2nd time since fans' infamy

  27-10-2015 14:09
  
  Chesney returning to Pittsburgh for 2nd time since rowdiness of fans drew national attention
  
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• Stevie Wonder, Usher, Kravitz to honor Richie at MusiCares

  27-10-2015 14:00
  
  Stevie Wonder, Usher, Lenny Kravitz, Lovato to honor Lionel Richie at Feb. 13 MusiCares event
  
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• Hollywood stars align for technology series 'Breakthrough'

  27-10-2015 13:43
  
  Angela Bassett among stars focusing on technological advances in TV series 'Breakthrough'
  
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• What Happens When Our Fingers Do the Talking

  27-10-2015 12:12
  
  It’s awfully quiet with our heads all down. Photo: Esther Vargas
  Last week, I had a very long conversation with a woman who specializes in them: Sherry Turkle. The clinical psychologist, scholar and author of Reclaiming Conversation has some pretty alarming anecdotes about the ways our smartphones have affected the time we spend face-to-face with each other, based upon hours of interviews with students, CEOs, singles, and parents.
  We have all experienced this, or done this ourselves&mdash
  
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• DiCaprio finds joy in Macau project with De Niro, Scorsese

  27-10-2015 10:36
  
  DiCaprio says working with cinema 'fathers' De Niro, Scorsese on Macau film was like heaven
  
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• GOP debate No. 3: A guide to the Republican 2016 candidates

  27-10-2015 09:59
  
  Grab your binoculars: A field guide to the Republican White House candidates ready to debate
  
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• Obama puts White House light on diversity in American music

  27-10-2015 09:36
  
  Obama showcases diversity in music at White House with R&B, soul and jazz performances
  
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• Suge Knight, Katt Williams due back in Los Angeles court

  27-10-2015 07:11
  
  Suge Knight and comedian Katt Williams due back in Los Angeles court in robbery case
  
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• Poets latest to be snared in Iranian hard-liners' crackdown

  27-10-2015 07:03
  
  2 Iranian poets are latest target in hard-liners' crackdown on expression in Iran
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG–GREENPOINT WATERFRONT: Atlas sludged! New map charts Greenpoint’s most toxic spots

  27-10-2015 06:29
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperHow green was my alley? This map has the answers!An environmental activist group just launched an interactive map of Greenpoint and Williamsburg’s toxic hot spots that lets residents uncover the dirty secrets beneath their land with the click of a mouse.The Greenpoint-Williamsburg ToxiCity Map charts the neighborhoods filthiest features in vibrant colors — a cheery yellow marks contaminated soil, purple dots design
  
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• PARK SLOPE: G-aaargh-den party! Haunted Walk returns to Prospect Park

  27-10-2015 06:17
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperCostumed kids flocked to Brooklyn’s Backyard for the 36th annual Halloween Haunted Walk and Fair on Saturday, a spook-tacular neighborhood tradition that parents say hasn’t lost its charm from one generation to the next.“It’s something I’ve been doing with my kids forever and something I was raised in,” said Karen Moultrie, who grew up in Park Slope. &ldq
  
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• CLEANING OUR WATERWAYS: Toxic shock! Marine life returning to Newtown Creek

  27-10-2015 06:09
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperNewtown Creek is back from the dead!
  A group of eco-activists who built a natural aquarium on the fetid waterway in spring say it is now teeming with marine life — proof, they claim, that Brooklyn’s second most toxic body of water is slowly becoming healthier.
  “A lot of people who are familiar with the creek came to see it as a dead zone where nothing is living,” sa
  
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• 'Spotlight' film illuminates Boston clergy abuse scandal

  27-10-2015 05:50
  
  'Spotlight' film illuminates Boston clergy sex abuse scandal and journalists who exposed it
  
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• MARINE PARK: Re-animated: Marine Park civic revives Halloween walk

  27-10-2015 05:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyA Marine Park Halloween tradition came back from the dead.The Marine Park Civic Association revived its All Hallows’ Eve celebration on Oct. 24 — the first time it’s held the neighborhood festival since a lawsuit two years ago forced the group to cancel amid fears its liability insurance would skyrocket. Locals were glad the civic resurrected the frightening fete, one parent said.“I thought it was awesome!&r
  
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• Made in Brooklyn: World Series-bound Mets field seven former Cyclones

  27-10-2015 05:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By David RussellBrooklyn DailyMeet the Mets — because most of them were made in Brooklyn!Seven the World Series-bound New York Metropolitans cut their teeth playing for the Brooklyn Cyclones in Coney Island. Taking the field at the People’s Playground may be a fond memory for some of the Cyclones Seven, but it only feels like a distant dream for one Mets rookie whose whirlwind ascendancy took him from scooping
  
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• HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Late second goal hands Poly tough defeat

  27-10-2015 05:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyIt was a familiar blow to the Blue Devils, but this one was the toughest to take yet.
  Poly Prep has competed all season with the top girls’ soccer teams in the Ivy League, but has consistently come up short of cracking the elite group. And so it was on Oct. 21, when Poly appeared on the verge of taking down league leader Horace Mann, only to see the Lions score in the closing seconds.Olivia Becker’s goal off a scra
  
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