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• Triumphant return for Cuban baseball defectors Puig, Abreu

  15-12-2015 23:49
  
  Baseball defectors Puig and Abreu make triumphant return to Cuba as part of Major League trip
  
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• The Latest: Freddie Gray jury ends day without verdict

  15-12-2015 23:42
  
  The Latest: Gray jury ends 2nd day of deliberations without verdict, to resume work Wednesday
  
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• The Latest: Gray jury nears end of 2nd day of deliberations

  15-12-2015 22:45
  
  The Latest: Gray jury nears end of 2nd day of deliberations after saying its deadlocked
  
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• Olympic champion Hughes goes for academic gold at Penn

  15-12-2015 22:39
  
  Olympic figure skating champion Hughes goes for academic gold at University of Penn law school
  
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• Shaq launches construction jobs program in his native Newark

  15-12-2015 22:38
  
  Shaq joins with mayor to launch construction jobs program in his native Newark in New Jersey
  
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• The Very Best Thing I Ate in Brooklyn This Year Is… a Vegetable Side Dish

  15-12-2015 22:14 via bkmag.com
  
  photos by Jane Bruce
  This year has been, like literally every other year ever, one of ups and downs. (And some damned good writing.) But through it all, one thing has remained consistent: I’ve eaten some really, really good things. All of us have, I’d guess! In fact, our Food Editor Sarah Zorn has an excellent rundown of her ten favorite dishes of the year right here, and you could literally dine out on that list alone (as well as this list of the best new Brooklyn restaurants and th
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Dec. 7-13

  15-12-2015 22:03
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Dec. 7-13
  
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• Dolly Parton movie a hit for NBC

  15-12-2015 22:01
  
  Family-friendly programming does well for NBC
  
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• Review: Holocaust tale 'Son of Saul' haunts and provokes

  15-12-2015 21:53
  
  Review: Hungarian Holocaust drama 'Son of Saul' is a harrowing, provocative debut
  
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• Bite Me: The 10 Best Brooklyn Dishes of 2015

  15-12-2015 21:19 via bkmag.com
  
  It goes without saying: Our favorite restaurants of 2015 also served the best stuff we ate all year, from Mekelburg’s baked potato and Faro’s porridge to Bar Bolinas’ burger and The Finch’s beet salad. And did we mention Mekelburg’s bangin’ baked potato?
  But there are other eateries that managed to make an equally lasting impression with just a single, spot-on dish, which is why we’re honoring them here, places like Werkstatt with its ingenious vegetari
  
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• Williams back on air for NBC News with LA school closures

  15-12-2015 21:16
  
  Brian Williams back on NBC News' airwaves; subs for ill Lester Holt on LA school closures
  
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• The Realest Real Estate: Here’s a Brooklyn Building Worth a Billion Dollars

  15-12-2015 21:14 via bkmag.com
  
  DUMBO’s Watchtower building, long the primary hub for the religious group most-likely-to-come-knocking-at-your-door-trying-to-save-your-soul-before-the-inevitable-Rapture (aka Jehovah’s Witnesses) has officially been placed on the market and estimates have valued the building at one billion dollars.  And in case you’re wondering what the Jehovah’s Witnesses stand to make off this whole thing, well, the group purchased the property in 1969 for $3 million.Th
  
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• Pete Rose contrite, holds out hope for Hall of Fame

  15-12-2015 20:58
  
  Pete Rose contrite, but still holds out hope for Hall of Fame
  
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• The World’s Oldest Human Lives in Brooklyn and Reminds Us to Eat Our Bacon

  15-12-2015 20:20 via bkmag.com
  
  Yesterday, we learned from New York Magazine that the world’s oldest person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, lives in Brooklyn. Generally speaking, I think people who have inhabited Earth for any period nearing this number of years should be considered global treasures. Whatever they do, say, or think must, on some level, be valuable; time has proven things to them, perhaps all the more so because they have so little of it left.Same holds for people who live knowi
  
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• Aged Against The Machine

  15-12-2015 20:08 via bkmag.com
  
  I was a big believer in second chances long before I ever got one. F. Scott Fitzgerald once infamously said “There are no second acts in American lives,” but he was a raging alcoholic who wore his wing-like hair in a middle part, so maybe he was just projecting.Most of my teenage years were spent doing regrettable things while regretting them in real time. Every day seemed to bring some new situation in dire need of a do-over, some kind of adjustable instant replay in which I wasn&r
  
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• Schumer, Morgan, make Barbara Walters' most fascinating list

  15-12-2015 19:45
  
  Amy Schumer, Tracy Morgan, part of Barbara Walters' '10 Most Fascinating' list for 2015
  
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• Celebs at 'Star Wars' premiere offer glowing reviews online

  15-12-2015 19:14
  
  Celebs at 'Star Wars' premiere gush with glowing reviews of 'The Force Awakens' online
  
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• Tasteful Nudes: Celebrating the Female Body with Leah Goren

  15-12-2015 19:12 via bkmag.com
  
  Leah Goren
  If you read the New York Times, you’ve probably come across Leah Goren’s name. No, she isn’t the byline of that Styles writer you hate-read or the subject of some think piece about millennials, she’s an illustrator and surface pattern designer whose illustrations have frequently graced the pages of the paper. While she’s perhaps better known for her delicate, gestural cats and floral drawings, Goren gracefully executes her work in a my
  
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• Pentatonix and more join ABC's 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' show

  15-12-2015 19:10
  
  Final performers added to Hollywood party for ABC's 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' telecast
  
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• Plunging into hell of Auschwitz, 'Son of Saul' confounds

  15-12-2015 18:53
  
  By plunging into hell of Auschwitz, Holocaust drama 'Son of Saul' astonishes and confounds
  
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• Broadcaster Mark Rolfing returns after scary cancer battle

  15-12-2015 18:20
  
  Hawaiian blessing: Mark Rolfing, diagnosed with rare cancer, is broadcasting again at Kapalua
  
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• Lawmaker: Adele reason Atlantic City needs tax break

  15-12-2015 18:15
  
  Lawmaker: Adele's snub of New Jersey another reason Atlantic City needs performer tax break
  
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• Showtime starting a weekly series on campaign

  15-12-2015 18:06
  
  Showtime network will launch weekly documentary series on presidential campaign
  
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• Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley named hosts of ACM Awards

  15-12-2015 18:01
  
  Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley named hosts of Academy of Country Music Awards next year
  
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• Fiance of 'Downton Abbey' star Michelle Dockery dies at 34

  15-12-2015 17:48
  
  John Dineen, fiance of 'Downton Abbey' star Michelle Dockery, dies at 34
  
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• Sting regales Carnegie Hall crowd with old favorites

  15-12-2015 17:47
  
  Sting regales Carnegie Hall crowd with old classics in a show both intimate and grand
  
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• Ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle appealing child porn sentence

  15-12-2015 17:47
  
  Ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle appealing sentence for child porn possession, sex with minors
  
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• Critics of Thai junta face charges of insulting monarchy

  15-12-2015 17:19
  
  Thai junta steps up crackdown on critics by charging them with insulting monarchy
  
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• By-Hand Culinary–expand your idea of the home-cooked meal

  15-12-2015 17:18
  
  Expand your skill set in the kitchen–and have a little fun.
  Foodie friends who love culinary experimentation. An experience you’ll remember long after the dishes have dried. New techniques to bring home to your own kitchen. A night with By-Hand Culinary combines all of these elements into one memorable party.
  Chef Michelle Warner of By-Hand Culinary specializes in teaching cooking skills to food-lovers of all abilities, and she wants to help you spend a night wit
  
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• Josh Ritter stepping out of the confessional

  15-12-2015 17:12
  
  Singer Josh Ritter's exuberant new music: taking a step out of the confessional
  
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• Jenner interview, 1st podcast win Columbia broadcast awards

  15-12-2015 17:10
  
  Sawyer's Jenner interview, 1st podcast among 16 winners of Columbia broadcast awards
  
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• At last, lovemaking for Sheldon, Amy on 'Big Bang Theory'

  15-12-2015 17:05
  
  At last, lovemaking for Sheldon, Amy on 'Big Bang Theory'; Bob Newhart back as Obi-Wan Proton
  
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• As 'Star Wars' returns, a new generation quakes

  15-12-2015 16:57
  
  As 'Star Wars' returns, a new generation quakes before the movie colossus
  
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• Chosen Crowdfunding: How Jewcer Will Help You Crowdfund Your Jewish Project

  15-12-2015 16:55 via bkmag.com
  
  Recently, I watched a video on YouTube made by New York University film student, Barak Barkan. It features his mother sitting at the family’s kitchen table, slicing carrots. “Dinner will be ready in about an hour,” she tells Barkan, when he sits down next to her. “Great,” he replies, “but I’m here to talk to you about something else: my movie. You can tell me if you have a problem with the script.”
  The film—“Killing the Fidle
  
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• Joanna Newsom Is Bigger Than Indie Rock

  15-12-2015 16:34 via bkmag.com
  
  via Instagram
  In 2006, I found myself in a sweaty rock club in the middle of Ohio, bound on all sides by messy, sweaty college kids. It was a rock club I’d been to dozens of times — I’d seen Xiu Xiu and Bright Eyes and Blood Brothers and Rilo Kiley and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah there. But on this night, when the air conditioner was surely broken, the trappings of rock ‘n roll as I knew it were absent. Onstage, there was no drum kit, no synths, no guitars. Just some sparse,
  
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• Un-fruitcake America.

  15-12-2015 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  This holiday, don’t take the conventional approach to gift giving. Defy expectation and give Continuing Education courses at The New School.Access courses in art and design at the world-renowned Parsons School of Design, music at Mannes School of Music, media, writing, languages, management, and more. As members of the New School community, students have access to our distinguished faculty, exclusive artist talks, lectures, and free film screenings. They can also revel in the rich hi
  
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• The Year in Great Sentences, 2015

  15-12-2015 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  These are some really good sentences.
  photo via Margaret Eby
  There are many ways to assess a year, but a sentence is a particularly good unit of measurement. Short (or long) and sweet (or bitter, or uproarious, or melancholy), sentences are their own distinct and self-contained structures. Strung together word after word—not unlike a series of days—they come together to make a whole. Before you know it, a sentence is over, and you are already halfway through the next one. We decided
  
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• Industry City: A day trip that doesn’t take all day–unless you want it to

  15-12-2015 16:00
  
  Welcome to Industry City. Photo: Regina Mogilevskaya
  If you’ve ever browsed the Rooftop Films schedule during the summer months and avoided screenings at Industry City you’re not alone. It probably wasn’t just that you were unfamiliar with Sunset Park, but also that you were unfamiliar with the D train. Plus, you were definitely unsure whether or not you’d even make it to the screening on time, trekking from work. How long does it take to get down there, anyway? And
  
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• Edith Piaf celebrated on 100th anniversary of her birth

  15-12-2015 15:55
  
  100th anniversary of French icon Edith Piaf's birth marked by embrace of her voice once again
  
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• 'The Affair,' 'Mad Men' and 'Frontline' among year's 10 Best

  15-12-2015 15:50
  
  'The Americans,' 'Better Call Saul' and 'Narcos' reign among year's 10 Best TV series
  
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• Patti Labelle, LA Reid, Lee Daniels among BET honorees

  15-12-2015 15:28
  
  Singer Patti Labelle, music exec LA Reid, filmmaker Lee Daniels and more among BET honorees
  
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• Fairytale of New York: The Music of A Very Murray Christmas, and a Holiday That’s Never as Good as You Imagine

  15-12-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Why is it, then, that so much of the music, or at least the presentation of the music, in A Very Murray Christmas—Sofia Coppola’s new hour-long Netflix film and her first since the wrongfully maligned The Bling Ring —is so dull? The band Phoenix performs “Alone on Christmas Day” in a moment that is supposed to be celebratory and reassuring, but a still camera and a lack of on-screen movement makes a respectable performance difficult to watch. Even when Maya Ru
  
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• 1774 Letter written by Jane Fonda ancestor found in New York

  15-12-2015 14:39
  
  1774 letter mentioning Boston Tea Party, written by Jane Fonda ancestor, found in NY archives
  
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• 'Star Wars' premiere crowd cheers for familiar faces

  15-12-2015 14:32
  
  'The Force Awakens' premiere crowd excitedly greets familiar 'Star Wars' faces; new ones, too
  
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• Howard Stern announces 5-year deal with Sirius XM

  15-12-2015 14:30
  
  Howard Stern, Sirius XM agree to 5-year deal; radio network secures access to Stern library
  
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• Spain: Opera star Caballe convicted of tax fraud

  15-12-2015 14:09
  
  Spain: Opera star Caballe gets suspended sentence of 6 months, fined for tax fraud
  
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• Michelle Yeoh reprises her role in 'Crouching Tiger' sequel

  15-12-2015 12:52
  
  Michelle Yeoh says she's been waiting many, many years for upcoming 'Crouching Tiger' sequel
  
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• AMC theater chain names Starwood boss Aron as new CEO

  15-12-2015 12:50
  
  AMC theater chain names Starwood interim boss Aron as new CEO
  
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• BOROBEAT: The frozen people: Islanders celebrate Hanukkah with menorah made of ice

  15-12-2015 11:46
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyCall it a hockey shtick!The Islanders celebrated Hanukkah at Barclays Center on Sunday night with an appropriately frosty reception — lighting up a menorah carved out of ice.And the double-meaning cut both ways, said an organizer — the pro athletes’ perseverance is a great analogy for the festival of lights, which celebrates the triumph of Jewish people over religious persecution.“A hockey game is one of thos
  
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• BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: Street-sign fight after CB2 OKs co-naming for fallen Levin aide

  15-12-2015 11:14
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperDowntown-area thoroughfares may start to look thoroughly unfair after a neighborhood panel okayed co-naming a street for a white former Council staffer who died at age 22, while rejecting a proposal to grant the same courtesy to a long-serving local black businessman, says Borough President Adams.“An accomplished 20-something has been recognized as worthy of a street co-naming, while an accomplished 70-something has been d
  
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