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• 'Survivor' sues Huckabee campaign over 'Eye of the Tiger'

  18-11-2015 23:13
  
  'Survivor' band member sues Huckabee campaign for using 'Eye of the Tiger' at rally
  
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• Find a New Way to Be Lazy: Hoverboards Are Actually Illegal in New York City

  18-11-2015 22:19 via bkmag.com
  
  You can now get a big fine for riding these puppies 
  As people, we enjoy exerting as little effort as possible to travel the farthest distances. Most recently, two-wheeled, self-balancing scooters AKA “hoverboards” (which do not, disappointingly hover) have given us this pleasure. Of late, I’ve seen adults in Brooklyn running errands (er, hovering errands?) on hoverboards, morning commuters commuting on them, and lots and lots of teenagers wearing sneakers that m
  
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• Sinatra Centennial Cinema: On the Town

  18-11-2015 21:59
  Tuesday, December 8, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterNew York, New York, it’s a wonderful town – especially when sailors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin have a 24-hour shore leave to see the sights…and when those sights include Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, and Vera-Ellen.  Co-directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, based on the Broadway hit and set to an Academy Award-winning score, On the Town changed the landscape of movie musicals, mixing on-location s
  
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• Sinatra Centennial Cinema: Guys and Dolls

  18-11-2015 21:59
  Tuesday, December 15, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterSinatra stars as professional gambler Nathan Detroit, the operator of "the oldest-established permanent floating crap game in New York." Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine are dazzling in this smash film version of one of Broadway’s most popular musicals. Featuring hits like “Luck Be a Lady” and “A Woman in Love.” (1955; 150 minutes)
  
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• Sinatra Centennial Cinema: Anchors Aweigh

  18-11-2015 21:59
  Tuesday, December 1, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterFrank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson headline this wartime tale of two sailors on leave in Hollywood.  A musical in the old MGM tradition, memorable tunes from the film include "I Fall in Love Too Easily"; "We Hate to Leave"; "I Begged Her" and "If You Knew Suzie".   (1945; 139 minutes)
  
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• Silent Film Series: Wings

  18-11-2015 21:59
  Sunday, December 6, 2015 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThis celebrated World War I epic tells the story of two young American pilots, played by Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen, who enter the war as enemies, but find mutual respect and friendship.  Soon-to-be "It" Girl Clara Bow plays the girl-next-door, who loves Rogers.  Director William Wellman had WWI combat flying experience, and put the camera and his actors into real planes for authentic flying footage, which earn
  
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• 3 startups that want to get millennials saving money

  18-11-2015 21:42
  
  To lure young savers, tech companies try to make saving money easy
  
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• With precision and power, Todd Haynes captures 'Carol'

  18-11-2015 20:50
  
  With precision and power, Todd Haynes captures lesbian love in 'Carol'
  
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• Brooklyn Magazine Presents: Philly Psych-Poppers Palmas Headline Pianos

  18-11-2015 20:46 via bkmag.com
  
  Philly-based five-piece Palmas just released their debut EP To The Valleyon November 13. To celebrate that accomplishment, Brooklyn Magazine is presenting their headlining show at Pianos on 12/6. Get familiar with their surf-pop sound below and buy tickets here.
  The To The Valley EP is out now via Lost Colony Music. Get it here.
  
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• Illinois officer spent embezzled money on coffee, movies

  18-11-2015 20:08
  
  Court documents: Illinois officer who staged death spent embezzled money on coffee, movies
  
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• The Folksbiene Troupe: Mama's Loshn Kugel

  18-11-2015 20:03
  Sunday, January 24, 2016 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterA musical revue featuring new and classic Yiddish comedy and music, performed in Yiddish with English translation supertitles. The Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, which celebrated its centenary in 2015, is the longest continuously producing Yiddish theatre company in the world.  
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• dweck-lec'-tic: Alash Ensemble

  18-11-2015 20:03
  Thursday, January 21, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAlash are masters of Tuvan throat singing, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing, Alash are deeply committed to traditional Tuvan music and culture. Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve, the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new, yet
  
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• Classical Interludes: The Daedalus Quartet

  18-11-2015 20:03
  Sunday, January 24, 2016 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThe Quartet performs Leos Janacek’s Kreutzer Sonata, Jean Sibelius’s Quartet, Voces Intimae and Anton Dvorak’s String quintet in G Major, Op. 77. Featuring Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul, violins; Jessica Thompson, viola; Thomas Kraines, cello and Peter Weitzner, double bass. Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.
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• Practical Magic: This Waterproof Cashmere Hat Is Spectacular

  18-11-2015 19:59 via bkmag.com
  
  Wear this cashmere through New York’s worst wintry mix and back
  Cashmere may not be the first fabric you think of throwing on your head on a rainy day, or on a run, or if you’re doing anything other than remaining still and looking pretty—but what if it could be? What if, as a New Yorker, you could wear one of our city’s most collectively loved winter items—the beanie—only, have it be made of the very tips of the softest goat hair (i.e. cashmere), look classic
  
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• Eagles of Death Metal is safe, 'horrified' by Paris attacks

  18-11-2015 19:57
  
  US band Eagles of Death Metal is home safe, but 'horrified' by Paris attacks
  
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• Broadway's 'The Lion King' pushes into virtual reality

  18-11-2015 19:51
  
  Broadway's 'The Lion King' pushes into virtual reality with a new 360-degree video
  
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• Sir Simon Rattle on Beethoven: brilliant and perhaps insane

  18-11-2015 19:24
  
  Rattle on Beethoven: 'His most intelligent contemporaries thought that he was insane'
  
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• American Field Comes to Brooklyn, Bringing Old-World Manufacturing and Modern Style to Industry City

  18-11-2015 19:23 via bkmag.com
  
  For Mark Bollman, founder of Ball and Buck, a made-in-America menswear brand, quality counts. He has a true appreciation for the details—small and large—which added up together make for a high-performing company which prizes itself on the quality of its products and its ethical manufacturing practices. Or, as Bollman told me recently, “[Ball and Buck] was kind of created out of this genesis of seeing a gap in the market and seeing so many brands g
  
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• Enya returns with ethereal style she's made her own

  18-11-2015 19:18
  
  Enya back with emotional music -- and maybe, finally, a concert tour
  
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• The Cosmos Of Enya

  18-11-2015 19:11 via bkmag.com
  
  photo by Simon Fowler
  When I was twelve, Enya released her oeuvre-establishing record A Day Without Rain. The album came out on November 21, 2000, went on to sell over 15 million copies, and became the top-selling New Age album of that entire decade. It won the Grammy for Best New Age Album, an honor she’s earned four separate times now, and spawned her highest-charting single to date, “Only Time.”
  The song was released in November of 2000 as the lead single for the album, but
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, November 18-24

  18-11-2015 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Courtesy Film Forum via Photofest.
  Fat City (1972)Directed by John Huston
  The Hustler is not really about pool, and great boxing movies—Raging Bull, Champion, The Set-Up—aren’t really about pugilism. Like much of his work, Huston’s late classic Fat City, set in a Stockton, California, befogged in the barren karma of the early 1970s, concerns the morbid silliness of dreams. Stacy Keach’s Tully, a soddenly weary palooka-cum-itinerant farmhand, and Jeff Bridges’
  
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• Latest channel to offer itself sans cable bundle: Univision

  18-11-2015 18:38
  
  Univision is latest channel to sell video stream straight to watchers with no cable sub needed
  
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• Watch Courtney Barnett’s Swaggering Cover Of Patti Smith’s “Redondo Beach”

  18-11-2015 18:15 via bkmag.com
  
  About a month ago, Courtney Barnett’s Australian label Milk! Records partnered with Melbourne Festival to perform a pair of tribute shows honoring Patti Smith and the 40th anniversary of her iconic album Horses. Today, they’ve put several of those performances online, the most compelling of which is Barnett gracing the stage to perform a swaggering rendition of “Redondo Beach.” Watch below.Courtney Barnett’s latest album Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Ju
  
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• Correction: Michelle Obama-Arts Awards story

  18-11-2015 18:00
  
  Correction: Michelle Obama-Arts Awards story
  
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• Make Your Next Beer a Barrel-Aged Beer

  18-11-2015 17:58 via bkmag.com
  
  Photos by Sasha Charoensub.
  Walk into KelSo’s new taproom in Clinton Hill and the first thing you’ll see (besides the gleaming industrial sized fermenters grumbling away) are barrels. Barrels lining the gleaming bar area marked with the signature KB and signifiers of the liquids once held in those vessels–Jameson Irish Whiskey, bourbon, wine, and the list goes on.Kelly Taylor, the brewmaster of KelSo, is no stranger to barrel-aged beers; the Jameson Aged IPA (made for Jameson&r
  
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• CHANGING BROOKLYN: Stepping up! Stairway-like tower set to rise 23 stories above Flatbush

  18-11-2015 17:57
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperThey want to take Flatbush to new heights.Developers are moving forward with a glitzy, staircase-shaped 23-story tower at the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Albermarle Road. The developer admits the building will stick out among area the area’s predominantly one- to six-story structures, but said it is going to be a boon neighborhood.“It’s not going to fit in,” said developer Eli Karp, who heads luxury con
  
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• Eagles Of Death Metal Break Silence After Paris Attacks

  18-11-2015 17:32 via bkmag.com
  
  Last Friday a horrific terrorist attack took place during an Eagles Of Death Metal show at the Bataclan in Paris. Although the band survived the tragedy, some members of their crew were killed, including Nick Alexander, Thomas Ayad, Marie Mosser, and Manu Perez. Today, the band shared a brief note on Facebook honoring those lost, reiterating their support for the victims in Paris, and postponing all shows until further notice. Read their words below.
  While the band is now home safe, we are horr
  
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• A Last-Minute Guide to Dining In Brooklyn on Thanksgiving

  18-11-2015 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  If you eat out, you won’t have to chop this.
  Being that Brooklyn is so thickly settled by transplants, it’s not a given that everyone can make it home for the holidays. But if you’re left floundering for backup at the last minute (and when it comes to Thanksgiving, any post-Halloween plans qualify as last minute), you’re right to assume that your options are dwindling by the day. So save yourself the stress of finagling a ten-pound turkey into your toaster oven, and check
  
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• Kentridge offers feast for the eye in 'Lulu' HD

  18-11-2015 17:12
  
  William Kentridge creates visual feast for Met's HD presentation of Berg's 'Lulu'
  
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• Garry Kasparov: Winter is Coming

  18-11-2015 17:10
  Sunday, January 17, 2016 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterKasparov urges a forceful stand, diplomatic and economic, against Vladimir Putin, whom he argues is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty.  Kasparov spent 20 years as the world’s top-ranked chess player. In 2005, he retired from professional chess to lead the pro-democracy opposition against Vladimir Putin, and ran for the presidency of Russia in 2008.
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• Classical Interludes: Yuri Liberzon

  18-11-2015 17:10
  Sunday, January 17, 2016 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterLiberzon ranks among today’s foremost classical guitarists in the United States and... the world. He performs compositions by Domenico Scarlatti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rudnev and others. Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.
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• Your Ideal Week: Nov. 19 – Nov. 25

  18-11-2015 17:08
  
  During the Fall Crawl on Saturday, you can get a free lunch at Fawkner (that’s their fried chicken sando above), plus a pint at Floyd, The Bell House and Union Hall and three rides from Lyft, all for $20. Photo: Sam Horine
  In a little over a week, you will probably be in a tryptophan-induced stupor sprawled out in front of a football game somewhere wishing you had passed on that third helping of mashed potatoes. You can sleep then– for now, get out and about and enjoy the stellar li
  
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• Bulldogs in love: New movie tells dog wedding story

  18-11-2015 17:06
  
  Bulldogs and pickles: Dual movie plot shows bulldogs in love and fight to save pickle factory
  
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• “Cinema offers a kind of dreamlike eternity”: Talking to Filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi

  18-11-2015 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  House
  The Japanese film I Are You, You Am Me (aka Exchange Student, 1982) lovingly tells a familiar tale. Its two main characters are Kazuo (Toshinori Omi) and Kazumi (Satomi Kobayashi), teenage male and female schoolmates in the small seaside city of Onomichi. Their initially rivalrous relationship transforms one day when, following a tumble down a Buddhist temple’s steps, they discover that they have magically exchanged bodies. They swear to keep the switch secret until they can figure o
  
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• Q&A: Rick Ross on new album, Meek Mill and 50 Cent beef

  18-11-2015 16:42
  
  Q&A: Rapper Rick Ross talks new album, beef with 50 Cent and Meek Mill-Wale drama
  
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• 35 years ago, 'Dallas' fans found out who shot J.R. Ewing

  18-11-2015 16:18
  
  35 years ago, viewers learned who shot J.R. Ewing, including the 'Dallas' star who 'shot' him
  
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• Tickets going on sale for 2016 Hangout Music Festival

  18-11-2015 15:40
  
  Lineup released, tickets going on sale for 2016 Hangout Music Festival
  
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• Fuck Turkey

  18-11-2015 15:37 via bkmag.com
  
  Thanksgiving is in eight days. We all know what this means. In eight days from now, we’re going to sit around a table with a lot of people we like and some we even love and also sometimes hate and we’re going to eat a big meal, which is going to center around one thing: turkey.
  Fuck turkey.
  Turkey is not a good-tasting bird. Fuck turkey for not even tasting as good as fucking bland-ass chicken, which is a pretty low bar to begin with. Fuck turkey for not tasting
  
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• For all your gift giving needs _ The best food books of 2015

  18-11-2015 15:31
  
  Need a special something for the foodie in your life? Here are the best food books of 2015
  
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• Simon says part of 'You're So Vain' is about Warren Beatty

  18-11-2015 15:29
  
  40 years later, Carly Simon says 2nd verse of 'You're So Vain' is about Warren Beatty
  
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• Humble Danny Burstein as Tevye: 'I'm as shocked as you are'

  18-11-2015 15:21
  
  'I'm as shocked as you are' _ a humble Danny Burstein on landing 'Fiddler on the Roof'
  
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• Democrats: Party Politics, Litigation, and the Everyday Heroism Behind the Zimbabwean Constitution

  18-11-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Courtesy of Upfront Films.
  DemocratsDirected by Camilla NielssonOpens November 18 at Film Forum
  There are real lives at stake in Democrats, but the gravity of this documentary is borne in on the audience gradually, almost imperceptibly. Seemingly mundane questions of bureaucracy build to a dramatic peak that towers above the magic mountains of most recent features, in which cities are amusingly obliterated while characters set fire to one another’s capes. Harare is not destroyed in Democra
  
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• 'West Wing' actor Martin Sheen praises son Charlie's courage

  18-11-2015 14:57
  
  Martin Sheen says his son Charlie had been working up to HIV status announcement for months
  
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• Soccer star David Beckham is People's Sexiest Man Alive

  18-11-2015 14:56
  
  Soccer star David Beckham says being named People's Sexiest Man Alive is a huge honor
  
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• Fans, friends, old rivals saddened by death of Jonah Lomu

  18-11-2015 12:18
  
  Death of Jonah Lomu brings tributes from fans, friends and former rivals across world rugby
  
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• Cool as cats: ‘Catlady Craft Night’ embraces kitty obsessions

  18-11-2015 11:12
  
  Calling all cat ladies! Read more.
  
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• BENSONHURST: Knife-toting villain’s blade deflected by cellphone

  18-11-2015 09:50
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn Paper62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachSaved by the cellA knife-wielding wacko nearly stabbed a man in an 82nd Street robbery on Nov. 14, but the blade was miraculously deflected by the victim’s cellphone.The victim told police that he and a lady friend had just exited a cab near 23rd Avenue at 3 am when the goon approached them from behind and drew his weapon.“Give me your backpack,” the crook growled.But t
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Crook swipes cash from event hall

  18-11-2015 09:50
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Dennis LynchThe Brooklyn Paper68th PrecinctBay Ridge—Dyker HeightsNot so safeA burglar ripped off an event hall on 86th Street sometime over the weekend of Nov. 6, police say.A worker there said he left the hall at the corner of 13th Avenue around 3:30 pm, and when he came back on Monday morning he found someone had got into the main office and drilled into the safe there. The pillager made away with $1,570.Honda hijackingPolice arrested a man who the
  
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• FUZZY BROOKLYN: Cool as cats: ‘Catlady Craft Night’ embraces kitty obsessions

  18-11-2015 09:47
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Bill RoundyThe Brooklyn PaperCalling all cat ladies!A Greenpoint craft space will be full of female feline fans for “Catlady Craft Night,” an evening of kitty-centric arts activities on Nov. 21. The event’s organizer says the idea cat ladies are lonely weirdos is outmoded, and that people are now embracing the term.
  “People used to think of cat ladies as a kind of sad spinster motif, but these da
  
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• FLATBUSH: Stepping up! Stairway-like tower set to rise 23 stories above Flatbush

  18-11-2015 09:44
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperThey want to take Flatbush to new heights.Developers are moving forward with a glitzy, staircase-shaped 23-story tower at the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Albermarle Road. The developer admits the building will stick out among area the area’s predominantly one- to six-story structures, but said it is going to be a boon neighborhood.“It’s not going to fit in,” said developer Eli Karp, who heads luxury con
  
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