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• Rep: Jason Aldean dressed as Lil Wayne for Halloween

  10-11-2015 23:44
  
  Jason Aldean dressed up as rapper Lil Wayne for Halloween, representative says
  
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• Priest calls killing of 9-year-old 'new low' for Chicago

  10-11-2015 23:40
  
  Priest calls killing of 9-year-old boy in reported gang violence 'new low' for Chicago
  
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• New Orleans musical legend, Allen Toussaint, dies at 77

  10-11-2015 23:39
  
  Songwriter, producer, pianist, gentleman: New Orleans legend, Allen Toussaint, dies at 77
  
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• Why Reality Series “The Bedford Stop” Went Viral One Year Late

  10-11-2015 23:38 via bkmag.com
  
  You could have been watching this 12 sweet months ago
  Last week, The Internet discovered—and then wrote about—the reality web series The Bedford Stop, which chronicles the unremarkable lives of 20-something female friends who work in nebulous fashion jobs and live in Williamsburg. Can you imagine.
  Nobody could stop saying things about the exceptionally loud and swaddled-in-black-pleather-and-white-T-shirts youths who seemed fundamentally boring. Of course, everybody underst
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow launches lifestyle publishing imprint goop

  10-11-2015 23:01
  
  Gwyneth Paltrow launches lifestyle publishing line goop; cookbook 'It's All Easy' due in April
  
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• CBS continues its dominance in scripted programming

  10-11-2015 22:58
  
  CBS' scripted lineup continues its dominance in new television season
  
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• Hir Is a Radical, Angry Play for the Modern Age

  10-11-2015 22:45 via bkmag.com
  
  photo by Joan Marcus
  Hir
  Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  416 West 42nd Street
  When the curtain parts on Taylor Mac’s new play Hir at Playwrights Horizons, we see a house in exuberant disarray: clothes all over the floor, furniture piled by a door, hippie-era decals stuck all over the cabinets, everything topsy-turvy. And it doesn’t take long to discover that this disarray is an exact visual representation of the late-stage struggle that is going in this house between Paige (Kristine Nielsen)
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Nov. 2-8

  10-11-2015 22:24
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Nov. 2-8
  
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• Catholic church leaders prep US dioceses for 'Spotlight'

  10-11-2015 21:45
  
  Catholic church leaders send talking points to US dioceses ahead of 'Spotlight' release
  
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• Wall Collapse Upends Residents

  10-11-2015 21:37
  
  Dara Furlow was given six hours to pack up everything for herself and her three daughters before vacating the Bed Stuy home she’s owned for the past decade. It was October 13, the day after illegal excavation work two doors down caused a shared foundation wall to collapse.
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• Ex-US Marine Phil Klay wins Warwick Prize for literature

  10-11-2015 21:21
  Ex-US Marine Phil Klay wins Warwick literature prize with Iraq War collection 'Redeployment'
  
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• Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to lead 2016 Rose Parade

  10-11-2015 20:59
  
  Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns named grand marshal of 2016 Rose Parade in California
  
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• Third set rally powers Fontbonne Hall to second straight diocesan title

  10-11-2015 20:09
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Brandon MaukBrooklyn DailyA ferocious rally in the third set propelled the Fontbonne Hall’s girls volleyball team to its second straight diocesan titleArchbishop Molloy jumped out to a 23–17 lead in the third frame of the Brooklyn-Queens championship on Nov.5, leaving the Bonnies two points away from a potential 2–1 deficit. Fontbonne responded by showed a champion’s determination and responded with an 8–0 run to take the set a
  
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• Book Review: 'The Promise' is intense, thrilling mystery

  10-11-2015 20:01
  
  Book Review: Robert Crais delivers master class in writing with 'The Promise'
  
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• Urban Tween Farming Is the Wave of the Future

  10-11-2015 19:56 via bkmag.com
  
  Borough President Adams, handing out checks for hydroponic greenhouses
  Last week, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams stood next to Deputy Borough President Diana Reyna in a classroom at the Academy of Urban Planning in Bushwick. Flanking Adams, school representatives from Brownsville, East New York, Canarsie, and Bed-Stuy were showing off oversized checks written by Adams’ office.
  “We are allocating $167,000 to twelve schools to build out hydroponic greenhouse classrooms,&rdq
  
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• And The Pitch Contest Winner Is...

  10-11-2015 19:51
  Five finalists pitched to a packed room at Hill Country Barbecue Market at the Make It in Brooklyn + BE.IN pitch contest on Thursday. Competition was fierce and the finalists – all with an affiliation to one of Downtown Brooklyn’s higher ed institutions – excelled at showcasing their innovative startups.During the contest, each company pitched for two minutes, followed by four minutes of questions from the judges – John Biggs of TechCrunch, Nisha Dua of BBG Vent
  
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• Detectives dig up frozen clues in 'The Girl in the Ice'

  10-11-2015 19:23
  
  Review: Arctic murder proves much beneath the frozen surface in 'The Girl in the Ice'
  
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• Haleek Maul Is New York Rap’s Best Kept Secret, Stream His New Mixtape Prince Midas

  10-11-2015 19:04 via bkmag.com
  
  “They was never fit to touch the mic,” Barbadian-born, New York-raised rapper Haleek Maul raps on “Return,” the lead track off his new mixtape Prince Midas. There’s a reason the album kicks off with a track concerned with returning — Maul hasn’t released a cohesive project in three years. He enjoyed quite a bit of critical acclaim at the tender age of 15 upon releasing his debut EP Oxyconteen, and a collaborative tape with Chicago production duo Supreme
  
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• Haleek Maul Is New York Rap’s Best Kept Secret

  10-11-2015 19:04 via bkmag.com
  
  “They was never fit to touch the mic,” Barbadian-born, New York-raised rapper Haleek Maul raps on “Return,” the lead track off his new mixtape Prince Midas. There’s a reason the album kicks off with a track concerned with returning — Maul hasn’t released a cohesive project in three years. He enjoyed quite a bit of critical acclaim at the tender age of 15 upon releasing his debut EP Oxyconteen, and a collaborative tape with Chicago production duo Supreme
  
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• Terminally ill Texas man who saw new 'Star Wars' film dies

  10-11-2015 19:03
  
  Terminally ill Houston-area man who lobbied for early screening of new 'Star Wars' film dies
  
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• Stephen Hawking cancels public events due to ill health

  10-11-2015 18:59
  
  Physicist Stephen Hawking unwell, canceling several public events, university says
  
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• King ponders death in new 21-story 'Bazaar of Bad Dreams'

  10-11-2015 18:54
  
  King shares writing insights, invites readers to sample from his 'Bazaar of Bad Dreams'
  
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• Lady Gaga, Celine Dion added to Sinatra tribute concert

  10-11-2015 18:43
  
  Lady Gaga, Celina Dion added to Sinatra tribute concert in Las Vegas
  
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• Vito Lopez, disgraced assemblyman, dead

  10-11-2015 18:28
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownThe Brooklyn PaperVito Lopez, former Williamsburg assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic boss, died on Monday night. He was 74.Lopez was a powerful Democratic boss known for bringing home the bacon for his district, but fell from grace when a state ethics panel stripped him of Assembly seniority in 2012 after it found him guilty of sexually harassing his young female interns — including groping and trying to kiss them, telling them to “dr
  
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• Finding serenity at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  10-11-2015 18:00
  
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: communing with muses and finding serenity amid the clamor
  
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• Watch London Trio Daughter’s Shadowy, Mysterious “Numbers” Video

  10-11-2015 17:55 via bkmag.com
  
  Bleeding folk-rock trio Daughter shared “Doing The Right Thing,” the initial single off their sophomore album Not To Disappear, via a a devastating, lonely video directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. That clip was the first in a series of three videos, and today they’ve shared the second installment for “Numbers.” It’s a dark, shadowy tale of a femme fatale caught up in intrigue and violence. This is one of my favorite songs on the record because of this
  
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• New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint dies in Madrid, age 77

  10-11-2015 17:54
  
  New Orleans music great Allen Toussaint dies after heart attack at age 77 in Spain
  
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• Passion Pit Frontman Michael Angelakos Comes Out On Bret Easton Ellis’ Podcast

  10-11-2015 17:37 via bkmag.com
  
  Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos has been vocal in the past about living and dealing with bipolar disorder, initiating much-needed discussions about mental health in America and around the world. Yesterday, he entered into another conversation, one about sexuality, on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, when he shared that he identifies as gay. Angelakos announced his divorce from wife Kristy Mucci on Facebook in August. Previously, the couple lived together in a historic apartment
  
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• Loretta Lynn To Release New Album Full Circle In 2016

  10-11-2015 16:34 via bkmag.com
  
  Loretta Lynn will release a new album in 2016, her first in more than ten years. As Billboard reports, Full Circle will come out next March and was produced by Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash. It was recorded at Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee and features collaborations with Willie Nelson and Elvis Costello, along with renditions of old Appalachian folk songs, other reimagined classics, and some brand new songs.
  The 83-year-old Lynn’s last album was 2004’s Jac
  
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• How Shonda Rhimes broke out of her shell

  10-11-2015 16:31
  
  How Shonda Rhimes broke out of her shell with 'Year of Yes'
  
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• Catify to satisfy: Home enhancement tips for cat owners

  10-11-2015 16:26
  
  Catify to satisfy: New book offers tips on how to create a cat-friendly home
  
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• Toys have best year in a decade

  10-11-2015 16:09
  
  Hollywood movies, technology, drive biggest growth in toy sales in at least a decade
  
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• “Everything Got Better and Weirder”: On the Books that Changed Our Lives

  10-11-2015 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s a truism to say that books change lives, but the commonality of the sentiment doesn’t make it any less real. Brooklyn Magazine asked as many writers and editors and book people it could think of to talk about the piece of writing that changed them. Their answers are myriad, delightful, and as personal as a fingerprint. Time to head to your local bookstore (or library) and stock up.LUCAS ADAMS cartoonist-writer and co-editor New York Review Comics
  McSweeney’s Quarterly
  
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• Sexy Victoria's Secret lingerie show hits 20-year mark

  10-11-2015 15:28
  2 decades later, Victoria's Secret angels continue to generate bombshell buzz in glitzy show
  
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• Spike Lee shares worst film experience, top career moments

  10-11-2015 14:35
  
  Honorary Oscar recipient Spike Lee shares his worst filmmaking experience, top career moments
  
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• Madrid official: New Orleans music great Allen Toussaint dies after heart attack at age 77

  10-11-2015 14:29
  
  Madrid official: New Orleans music great Allen Toussaint dies after heart attack at age 77
  
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• E-edition out for Rick Moody's 'The Ice Storm'

  10-11-2015 14:29
  
  E-editions out for 'The Ice Storm,' 3 other Rick Moody books
  
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• Kate Hudson lifestyle advice book coming out in February

  10-11-2015 14:25
  
  Kate Hudson lifestyle advice book, 'Pretty Happy,' coming out in February
  
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• 'Creed' star proudly plays hearing impaired character

  10-11-2015 14:18
  
  'Creed' star Tessa Thompson proudly plays hearing impaired character; feels it can empower
  
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• Despite trolls, industry, public embrace diversity casting

  10-11-2015 14:17
  
  Despite trolls, industry, public embracing diversity casting, but too slowly
  
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• Win for French magazine in Prince Albert free press case

  10-11-2015 12:26
  
  European court rejects Prince Albert's privacy claim in win for magazine that wrote about son
  
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• FLATBUSH: Pedestrian killed in deadly Flatbush Ave car flip

  10-11-2015 10:54
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownThe Brooklyn PaperA driver hit and killed a pedestrian in Flatbush on Monday evening after jumping the curb and flipping his car into the victim, according to a police report.The 58-year-old motorist was driving a 3-year-old boy Midwood-bound along Flatbush Avenue at around 5:27 pm, when he veered onto the sidewalk between Albermarle Road and Regent Place, overturning his black Nissan Sentra and smashing into a 50-year-old man, police said.Police
  
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• BEDFORD-STUYVESANT: Woodhull apartment building will house below-market tenants, mental-health patients

  10-11-2015 10:13
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperBedford-Stuyvesant’s Woodhull Hospital plans to erect an apartment building on its grounds where community members and mental-health patients will live under one roof — and a local panel thinks it is a great idea.Community Board 3 last week voted 33–1 with one abstention to approve the six-story below-market-rate apartment building at the corner of Throop and Park avenues.Psychiatric patients who have been tr
  
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• Smells like savings! How to apply for below-market units in new Canal-side building

  10-11-2015 08:28
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperYou don’t need to buy a Brooklyn Bridge Park condo or a Bay Ridge mansion to get waterfront views!
  The city’s housing department is now accepting applications for 86 below-market-rate units in a new building slated to open next year on the banks of the scenic Gowanus Canal.
  Along with the sweeping vistas of Lavender Lake, developer Lightstone Group’s 12-story, 429-apartment complex at 365 Bond St. between Firs
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG: New food museum passes the sniff test!

  10-11-2015 07:54
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Dennis LynchThe Brooklyn PaperWelcome to Flavortown!The Museum of Food and Drink Lab opened its Williamsburg doors this week with “Flavor: Making It And Faking It,” an exhibit about the so-called real and artificial flavors. Museum organizers want visitors to learn that the difference between “natural” and “artificial” is not necessarily the same as “good” and “bad.&
  
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• New food museum passes the sniff test!

  10-11-2015 07:54
  
  Exhibit dishes up the chemicals that create flavor. Read more.
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG: Taste-makers: Exhibit dishes up the chemicals that create flavor

  10-11-2015 07:43
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyWelcome to Flavortown!The Museum of Food and Drink Lab opened its Williamsburg doors this week with “Flavor: Making It And Faking It,” an exhibit about the so-called real and artificial flavors. Museum organizers want visitors to learn that the difference between “natural” and “artificial” is not necessarily the same as “good” and “bad.&rdqu
  
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• PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS: Greenlight Bookstore opening second store in PLG high-rise

  10-11-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperTalk about getting in the good books!
  Fort Green’s Greenlight Bookstore has inked a deal to open an outlet inside a controversial new Prospect Lefferts Gardens apartment building next year, and locals say the developer made a canny decision recruiting such a beloved store to its hated high-rise.“I think it’s incredibly shrewd,” said Tim Thomas, author of neighborhood
  
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• PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS: Greenlight Bookstore opening second store in controversial PLG high-rise

  10-11-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperTalk about getting in the good books!
  Fort Green’s Greenlight Bookstore has inked a deal to open an outlet inside a controversial new Prospect Lefferts Gardens apartment building next year, and locals say the developer made a canny decision recruiting such a beloved store to its hated high-rise.“I think it’s incredibly shrewd,” said Tim Thomas, author of neighborhood
  
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• Not so grand finale: Grand Street drops title game to Beacon in double overtime

  10-11-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyHe never saw it coming.The game-winning score went in right under the goalie’s nose when Beacon beat Grand Street 1–0 during the Public School Athletic League Class A title match at St. John’s University’s Belson Stadium on Nov. 7.With two minutes left in double overtime, Beacon’s Cameron Bonfils fired a shot from the top of the box, and Grand Street keeper Jamari Warrack — whose view was bl
  
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