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• Country music artist Tommy Overstreet dies at 78

  04-11-2015 23:29
  
  Country music artist tommy Overstreet dies at 78; had several hit songs in the 1970s
  
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• AOL co-founder Steve Case writing book, 'Third Wave'

  04-11-2015 23:13
  
  AOL co-founder Steve Case writing book on Internet 'Third Wave,' to be published in April
  
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• Police: Probe widens in Bobbi Kristina Brown fake nurse case

  04-11-2015 22:58
  
  Investigation widens of woman accused of impersonating nurse, caring for Bobbi Kristina Brown
  
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• Ce N’est Pas Cool: Brooklyn Has Fully Taken Over Paris

  04-11-2015 22:27 via bkmag.com
  
  Before you know it, this beauty may read “J, M, Z”
  The first sign of weirdness came more than three years ago via an article in the New York Times about food trucks in France: “Among Parisians, there is currently no greater praise for cuisine than ‘très Brooklyn,’ a term that signifies a particularly cool combination of informality, creativity and quality.”
  For a person who–shocking disclosure–grew up in the Midwest envying&nb
  
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• You Have No Messages: How Adele Fits Eternity Into A Phone Call

  04-11-2015 22:26 via bkmag.com
  
  The numbers have rolled in for Adele’s new single “Hello,” and boy did they roll deep. She’s obliterated a digital downloads record that was previously held by Flo Rida’s mindless DJ-sex masturbatory radio fodder “Right Round.” And “Hello” is by no means a traditional radio banger, it’s a tangled yarn of the grief-rage that fuels most of her music, bolstered by some whale song Enya harmonies. The song debuted at #1 on the Hot 100, marki
  
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• GREENPOINT: In it to bin it! Get to know every single garbage can in Greenpoint with this trashy map

  04-11-2015 21:31
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperTalk about a can-do attitude!Greenpoint streets are covered in litter because the neighborhood doesn’t have enough bins, says a local business group — and it plans to solve the problem with a new online map that charts all the current cans and allows locals to suggest sites where new ones should go.“We think that part of the reason there’s so much litter on the stre
  
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• BEDFORD-STUYVESANT: Police: MTA bus driver fatally hit 70-year-old woman in Bed-Stuy then drove off

  04-11-2015 21:25
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperPolice arrested a bus driver who they say hit and killed an elderly woman in Bedford-Stuyvesant early on Tuesday morning before fleeing the scene.
  Seventy-year-old Carol Bell, who lived in a Brownsville women’s shelter, was crossing Fulton Street on Sackman Street at around 6:14 am when a driver allegedly plowed into her with a Metropolitan Transit Authority B51 bus — which was not in service at the time — as
  
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• There’s Now a Map of All the Remaining Pinball Machines in Brooklyn

  04-11-2015 21:19 via bkmag.com
  
  While most of the games we play these days are strictly on our smart phones, there are times when we find ourselves thinking about simpler times, when we could head over to the arcade and spend countless hours and all of our spare change on round after round of pinball. There was something about those blinding bright lights and all the literal bells and whistles as we catapulted that tiny steel ball to its doom that just can’t be replicated with Candy Crush. But the rise of
  
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• Ex-Journey drummer admits abuse during post-rehab interview

  04-11-2015 21:12
  
  Former Journey drummer Deen Castronovo admits to abusive behavior
  
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• Honor for the Eagles postponed because of Frey's health

  04-11-2015 20:49
  
  Kennedy Center Honor for the Eagles postponed because of Glenn Frey's health
  
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• 'Brooklyn' bridges life and fiction for Saoirse Ronan

  04-11-2015 20:45
  
  Her bags packed for New York, 'Brooklyn' bridges life and fiction for Saoirse Ronan
  
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• 'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah recovering from appendectomy

  04-11-2015 20:30
  
  'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah recovering from appendectomy, expected back at his desk Thursday
  
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• Judge tosses arbitration that said MASN owes Nats $298M

  04-11-2015 20:14
  
  Judge throws out arbitration decision that said MASN owes Nats $298 million for 2012-16 rights
  
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• SNL alums to be honored for 'Ingenuity'

  04-11-2015 20:07
  
  SNL alums Hader, Armisen to be honored with 'American Ingenuity Awards'
  
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• Judge throws out arbitration decision that said MASN owes Nats $298 million for 2012-16 rights

  04-11-2015 19:59
  
  Judge throws out arbitration decision that said MASN owes Nats $298 million for 2012-16 rights
  
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• Spinal Tap comes to Bushwick in the award-winning feature Hunter&Game, starring Nico Tortorella and Cameron Scoggins. Watch it free on Brooklyn On Demand!

  04-11-2015 19:52
  
  click to embiggenWriter/Director Kevin Alexander doesn't like the word 'mockumentary' so he prefers to call his award-winning film about an up-and-coming Brooklyn electronic music duo a 'fictional documentary.' Hunter&Game is very funny, but it's not exactly a comedy. And the performances and original songs are so strong that you'll have to remind yourself you're watching a fictional account of a fake band.  It's hard to describe... but luckily it's now streaming for free on Brooklyn On
  
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• Hundreds attend memorial service for longtime radio host

  04-11-2015 19:36
  
  Hundreds attend memorial service for longtime Atlantic City radio host Pinky Kravitz
  
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• Husband arrested in 1981 cold case; reality TV show credited

  04-11-2015 19:25
  
  Detective: Husband charged with murder in 1981 cold case, reality TV show played key role
  
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• Animal Planet introduces world to 'Dr. Dee, Alaska Vet'

  04-11-2015 19:15
  
  Her patients range from dogs to moose: New Animal Planet star 'Dr. Dee, Alaska Vet'
  
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• The Literary Adaptation to End All Literary Adaptations: Rivette’s Out 1, Featuring Thirteen Radical Hours of Political Conspiracy and Greek Tragedy, at BAM, at Last

  04-11-2015 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Out 1: Noli me Tangere (1971)Directed by Jacques RivetteNovember 4-19 at BAM
  It sometimes feels as if you watch Out 1: Noli me Tangere, Jacques Rivette’s thirteen-hour improvisational opus shot in 1970 and only now making its world-theatrical premiere at BAM in a new digital restoration, as much as it watches you. This long-unavailable landmark of the French New Wave, which takes place in the dashed-dreams aftermath of the radical movements of 1968, concerns the ad hoc formation of games,
  
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• Classical Interludes: Sofya Melikyan

  04-11-2015 18:51
  Sunday, November 15, 2015 4:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterArmenian-born pianist Sofya Melikyan is recognized as an artist with a unique voice and enthusiastic zeal for her work. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, she performs compositions by Aram Khachaturian, Komitas Vardapet, Eduard Sadoyan , Alexander Arutunian, Jirayr Shahrimanyan, and Arno Babadjanian. Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.RSVP here.
  
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• Seal releases album of love, heartbreak and healing

  04-11-2015 18:43
  
  Songwriting is therapy for Seal, whose new album is about love, heartbreak and healing
  
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• This Weekend, Bed-Stuy Is Brooklyn’s Very Own Wine Country

  04-11-2015 18:30 via bkmag.com
  
  So apparently drinking is a social activity that shouldn’t usually be done alone. Apparently having a glass (or an entire bottle) of wine by yourself at the end of a long day isn’t totally socially acceptable, even though we’ve found it’s the best over-the-counter remedy for insomnia and restlessness.But we guess that only drinking alone in the shower isn’t really for everybody, and so if you want to drink with a huge group or are maybe jus
  
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• Your Ideal Week: November 4 – November 11

  04-11-2015 17:58
  
  Don’t give into winter just yet: Dig into a legit Cajun blue crab boil at 40 Knots on Saturday. Photo: Brooklyn Crab Festival
  Despite the 70-degree days, it is November, and you can tell because leaving work in the daylight already feels like a distant memory. You don’t need to start holing up with your Netflix queue just yet though–there’s enough stuff happening this week to keep even the most social butterfly on his or her toes.
  If you’re looking for laughs
  
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• Be Nicer

  04-11-2015 17:52 via bkmag.com
  
  Yesterday, Twitter announced its switch from stars to hearts, thereby allowing people to like, even love a Tweet, rather than rank it as a favorite. “You might like a lot of things,” said Twitter Product Manager Akarshan Kumar, but the heart, “is more expressive, enabling you to convey a range of emotions and easily connect with people.” In other words, Twitter–the conduit through which people’s entire lives have been dismantled from mob-m
  
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• Watch Dilly Dally Howl Through “The Touch” Video

  04-11-2015 17:18 via bkmag.com
  
  Dilly Dally is a lip-curling punk outfit from Toronto who released their debut album Sore a few short weeks ago. It has quickly become the most-played album in my music library, and the four-piece seem to be gaining speed at every turn, hurtling toward the kind of year that changes a band’s trajectory forever. I can’t overstate how impressive this album is — it’s one of the strongest debuts of the year. Core members Katie Monks and Liz Ball have a decade-plus friendship,
  
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• Fun facts about the 49th Country Music Association Awards

  04-11-2015 16:54
  
  Guitars & coffee: behind the scenes at the 49th annual Country Music Association Awards
  
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• Aaron Hernandez won't attend Florida shooting lawsuit trial

  04-11-2015 16:36
  
  Ex-NBL star Aaron Hernandez won't attend trial in Florida lawsuit over 2013 shooting of friend
  
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• 'I don't follow the rules' _ visionary director Ivo van Hove

  04-11-2015 16:05
  Visionary stage director Ivo van Hove on why theater should be a 'pressure cooker'
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, November 4-10

  04-11-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Courtesy Film Forum.
  Spartacus (1960)Directed by Stanley KubrickSure, Kubrick was technically a director-for-hire on Spartacus, and certainly there’s little evidence in it of the distinctive personality of the auteur that would later in the 1960s fashion an ironically lyrical montage out of mushroom clouds and send human beings through a light-show trip “beyond the infinite.” But if humanity—or, rather, the lack of it—could be said to be a consistent theme of Kubric
  
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• Little Big Town set to make big splash at the CMA Awards

  04-11-2015 14:48
  
  Little Big Town set to make big splash at CMA Awards with 5 nominations; Church up for 5, too
  
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• Daytime TV host Wendy Williams succeeds by broadening appeal

  04-11-2015 14:31
  
  How's Wendy Williams doing? Things aren't bad for the daytime TV host
  
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• Sepp Blatter latest celebrity to be burned in effigy

  04-11-2015 13:09
  
  Suspended FIFA President Blatter the latest celebrity to be burned in effigy on Bonfire Night
  
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• Director Danny Boyle on the job of selling 'Steve Jobs'

  04-11-2015 11:24
  
  Director Danny Boyle unfazed by disappointing US box office for awards-contender "Steve Jobs"
  
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• Woman arrested for posing as nurse at Bobbi Brown hospice

  04-11-2015 10:20
  
  Police say woman caring for Bobbi Kristina Brown stole license number from Atlanta nurse
  
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• BUSHWICK: Variety score: Thieves pinch condoms, eyeglasses, cigars, and more in $25K Bushwick robbery spree

  04-11-2015 09:51
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownThe Brooklyn PaperA thieving twosome with eclectic tastes went on a robbery spree in Bushwick last month, looting more than $25,683 worth of cash and goods from neighborhood stores, according to a police report.The male and female duo first ransacked a discount grocery store on Irving Avenue, between Grove and Linden streets, at around 10:30 pm on Sept. 29 by cutting a lock to the basement, police said. The rogues nabbed $4,035 in cash and almost
  
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• Puff Daddy celebrates birthday by releasing free music

  04-11-2015 08:55
  
  Puff Daddy celebrates birthday by releasing free music; calls project 'sonic motion picture'
  
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• POLITICS: Harris by a mile: Coney, Ridge elect first black assemblywoman

  04-11-2015 08:26
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyThe Coney candidate surfed to victory.Coney Island Democrat Pamela Harris trounced Bay Ridge Republican Lucretia Regina-Potter in a special election to fill the vacant 46th Assembly district seat on Nov. 3, winning 61 percent of the vote in the district spanning Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Coney Island.Harris will be the first black assemblywoman to represent the district, which has a large b
  
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• GREENPOINT: Punks hold up guy at gunpoint and take cash

  04-11-2015 07:06
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn Paper94th PrecinctGreenpoint–NorthsideLethal weaponsA pair of punks pulled a gun on a guy and took his cash on Milton Street in the early morning hours of Oct. 30.The victim told cops he was between Franklin Street and Manhattan Avenue at 2:30 am when the dastardly duo approached from behind and from the side.
  One of the fiends showed a silver revolver and demanded the guy’s money, and the victim forked over $150, cops
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG: Gunfire strikes man in arm and chest

  04-11-2015 07:02
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn Paper90th PrecinctSouthside–WilliamsburgInvisible gunAn unseen gunman shot a guy who was sitting in front of a Havemeyer Street apartment on the night of Oct. 31.The victim told cops he was sitting on the stoop between S. Third and S. Second streets at 9 pm when he heard gunfire and a bullet struck his left arm. He ran down the street, and the shooter hit him again in the abdomen, according to a police report.
  The victim is n
  
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• FORT GREENE: Train robbers take man’s phone in subway car

  04-11-2015 06:54
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn Paper88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillC-rook trainThree rascals robbed a man on a Manhattan-bound C train as it departed from the Franklin Avenue stop on Oct. 26.The victim told police that he had just boarded the train at the station near Fulton Street at 1:25 pm when the trio attacked him. One of the brigands held him down, while the other two snatched the cellphone from his hands and darted out past the closing doors, c
  
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• HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Big help: Diminutive forward’s goal earns Eagles crown

  04-11-2015 06:42
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyThe smallest player on the field delivered big.
  Sprite-like St. Edmund forward Josephine Romano delivered the game-winning goal in St. Edmund’s 1–0 victory over Monsignor McClancy in the Diocesan Championship at Aviator Sports and Events Center on Nov. 2, avenging the Eagles’ loss to McClancy at the end of the regular season.The sophomore’s size concealed her skill, the squad’s skipper said.&ldquo
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Pioneers! O pioneers! Merchant group honors Third Avenue’s settlers

  04-11-2015 06:33
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyThey came, they opened up shop, and they conquered.The Merchants of Third Avenue feted local business owners and civic leaders at its 22nd annual Pioneers of Third Avenue awards at Bay Ridge Manor on Oct. 26.It takes more than just opening a business on Bay Ridge’s most bustling thoroughfare to get an award — you’ve gotta be an active avenue functionary, according to a merchant group honcho.“A pioneer means
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Basis: Loaded! Former Mets drop by Ridge pub for Game 3

  04-11-2015 06:33
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyTalk a bout a relief pitcher!Former New York Mets Lenny Dykstra and Wally Backman swung by the Ridge bar Lock Yard to watch the Amazin’s seal Game 3 of the World Series on Oct. 30. Nearly 100 people turned up for a chance to knock back a pitcher with the stars, who brought some serious Mets mojo, according to Lock Yard owner Bob Casatelli.“There was definitely a lot of energy,” Casatelli said. “People were r
  
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• SHEEPSHEAD BAY: Unexcused absence: Sheepshead Bay special needs school’s abrupt closure confounds parents, students

  04-11-2015 06:32
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyIt was a schoolhouse shock.Sheepshead Bay special needs school Beachbrook Nursery School abruptly closed on Oct. 16, leaving mentally disabled pupils and their parents in a lurch. The school’s sudden absence especially confused kids — some of whom are blaming themselves for the mysterious closure, one parent said.“She thinks the school’s closing is her fault,” said Nicole Longo, whose learning-disabled
  
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• NOT FOR NUTHIN’: Black and white issues have Jo seeing red

  04-11-2015 06:18
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyRacism is being blamed again. This time Spirit Airlines is the culprit.
  I am so tired of hearing people scream “racism” every time there is an incident involving an African-American person, and I’m even more tired of all these grainy, cell phone videos uploaded to YouTube that only reflect an incident’s aftermath and not the moments leading up to the altercation.
  No matter how many videos I see, none seem
  
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• CRIME: Masked marauders use Taser to rob man on Halloween

  04-11-2015 06:18
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn Daily61st PrecinctSheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
  Manhattan Beach—GravesendHalloween mayhemA group of delinquents used a Taser to rob another teen on Avenue X on Halloween night.The victim told cops he was minding his own business near E. 18th Street around 6:30 pm when a group of masked marauders came up behind him and fired the barbs in his back. They grabbed his cellphone and ran off, according to a police report.Assault
  
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• CRIME: Gunman robs contractor leaving work site

  04-11-2015 06:18
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily60th PrecinctConey Island—Brighton Beach—SeagateContract thiefA gunman robbed a contractor as he exited a Neptune Avenue home he was working at on Oct. 27.The victim told police he first spotted the ne’re-do-well as he was approaching the house between W. 35th and W. 36th streets at 1 pm, eyeing the man lingering outside the work site. The victim was on his way out when the robber put a pistol to his head, and utt
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Gun-toting muggers threaten man and steal his phone, wallet

  04-11-2015 06:18
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn Daily68th PrecinctBay Ridge—Dyker HeightsRobbed at gunpointTwo brigands robbed a man at gunpoint on Ridge Boulevard on Nov. 1.They ran up on their victim near 72nd street at 2:30 am. One man pulled out the gun and told the victim to empty his pockets, while the other went through said pockets, according to police. They took his wallet and phone.Halloween heistA sneaky burglar broke into an apartment on 13th avenue on Oct. 31, lift
  
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• Award-winning 'Spinal Tap in Bushwick'  feature Hunter&Game – starring Nico Tortorella and Cameron Scoggins – is now streaming online and on Roku on Brooklyn On Demand

  04-11-2015 06:13
  
  click to embiggenWriter/Director Kevin Alexander doesn't like the word 'mockumentary' so he prefers to call his award-winning film about an up-and-coming Brooklyn electronic music duo a 'fictional documentary.' Hunter&Game is very funny, but it's not exactly a comedy. And the performances and original songs are so strong that you'll have to remind yourself you're watching a fictional account of a fake band.  It's hard to describe... but luckily it's now streaming for free on Brooklyn On
  
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