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• Broadway play wins lawsuit over heirs to 'Who's on First'

  17-12-2015 23:29
  
  Abbott and Costello heirs lose copyright suit against Broadway play over 'Who's on First' bit
  
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• 'Concussion' movie subject exaggerated role, researchers say

  17-12-2015 23:28
  
  Fellow researchers: 'Concussion' movie subject Omalu exaggerated role in discovering disease
  
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• Group hoping to gain control of NYC Opera to stage 'Tosca'

  17-12-2015 23:26
  
  Group hoping to gain control of NYC Opera to stage 'Tosca' based on 1900 premiere production
  
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• Federal tax code change will help live theater nationwide

  17-12-2015 23:22
  
  Federal tax code change will help live theater and live shows nationwide
  
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• Meek Mill faces prison time next year over parole violations

  17-12-2015 23:20
  
  Meek Mill faces prison time next year after judge finds him guilty of probation violations.
  
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• See Independent Films Made By Local Filmmakers at Nitehawk’s Local Color Series

  17-12-2015 23:19 via bkmag.com
  
  Men Go to Battle (2015)
  Now through March, Nitehawk, in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival, is showcasing independent films from local filmmakers in its series Local Color. Tonight, Williamsburg-based director Hank Bedford screens his first feature, Dixieland.
  On Tuesday, I went to another Local Color screening, Men Go to Battle, by New York-based directory Zachary Treitz. The movie—made over the course of three years on a shoe-string budget—is gorgeous. Treitz and
  
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• Sentencing reset again for Darren Sharper in Vegas sex case

  17-12-2015 23:11
  
  Sentencing reset to March for ex-NFL player Sharper in Vegas sex case in 4-state plea deal
  
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• Philadelphia police talk tough about Star Wars spoilers

  17-12-2015 23:00
  
  Philadelphia police talk tough about cracking down on Star Wars spoilers; politician agrees
  
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• Jury sides against Cox in 'trailblazing' music piracy case

  17-12-2015 22:37
  
  Cox loses in online music piracy case, may mean stronger crackdown on downloaders
  
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• The 20 Best Rock Albums Of 2015

  17-12-2015 22:14 via bkmag.com
  
  Rock music needs no defending. It’s absolutely awesome, and probably a big part of the reason why most people started loving music in the first place. Truthfully though, a lot of the elements that made rock interesting several decades ago started to become boring upon endless repetition. But then, something incredible happened. Different voices began to take those elements and bend them to fit different agendas. Women began to gain confidence, and came for a genre that long excluded them.
  
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• Cavs guard Iman Shumpert delivers fiancee's baby

  17-12-2015 21:45
  
  Special delivery: Cavs guard Iman Shumpert helps deliver fiancee's baby in home bathroom
  
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• A Guide: What Even Is a Christmas Bird Count and Why You Should Do It

  17-12-2015 21:07 via bkmag.com
  
  “PPPB” (Via Prospect Park Instagram)
  Each year, for the last 115 years, the Audubon Society has counted every bird in all of North, Central, and northern South America for its Annual Christmas Bird Count. What is an Annual Christmas Bird Count? And why does it even exist? Good questions! Good questions with kind of disturbing answers. The Audubon Society’s annual bird count actually started as a reaction to a kind of awful-but-typical-of-America-in-1900 prac
  
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• Music Review: Chris Brown is multi-dimensional on 'Royalty'

  17-12-2015 20:45
  
  Music Review: Chris Brown is multi-dimensional on solid seventh album, 'Royalty'
  
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• Puff Daddy rereleases free mixtape and readies final album

  17-12-2015 20:40
  
  Puff Daddy rereleases free mixtape; readies final album and New Year's show with Pitbull
  
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• States, feds involved in movie theater antitrust inquiries

  17-12-2015 20:37
  
  Feds, states investigate possible antitrust violations among big movie theater chains
  
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• Ciara to sing anthem before College Football Playoff

  17-12-2015 20:13
  
  Ciara to sing national anthem before College Football Playoff; Canaan Smith also to perform
  
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• A year in pop culture: Hellos, goodbyes, and Caitlyn Jenner

  17-12-2015 20:03
  
  A selective journey through the 2015 pop culture universe
  
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• Egypt rights groups rally against TV celebrity over privacy

  17-12-2015 19:51
  
  Egypt rights groups denounce TV anchorman over airing photos compromising elected lawmaker
  
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• Universal to distribute films by Spielberg's Amblin

  17-12-2015 19:22
  
  Universal to distribute 4 to 7 films from Spielberg's Amblin starting next year
  
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• Meek Mill gets love from Kenny Gamble in fight to avoid jail

  17-12-2015 19:03
  
  Meek Mill gets support from Kenny Gamble as he tries to avoid jail over parole issues
  
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• Once Upon a Mattress Is a First-Rate Fractured Fairy Tale

  17-12-2015 18:52 via bkmag.com
  
  Once Upon a Mattress
  photo by Carol Rosegg
  Once Upon a Mattress
  Abron Arts Center
  466 Grand Street
  A fractured version of the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea, Once Upon a Mattress made a Broadway star of Carol Burnett in 1959, and Burnett re-did it as a TV movie in 2005, this time playing the villainous Queen Aggravain. It features the only really notable musical score written by Mary Rodgers, the daughter of the great composer Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Hart and Rodgers and Hammerstein
  
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• 'Force Awakens' starts with $14.1 million overseas

  17-12-2015 18:49
  
  'Force Awakens' starts with $14.1 million overseas after debut in France
  
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• Funny robots, crazy hair: Pop culture appeal of 'Star Wars'

  17-12-2015 18:29
  
  Funny robots, wacky hair, light sabers: 10 ways 'Star Wars' became a pop-culture fixation
  
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• Retired Letterman enjoys reaction to his beard

  17-12-2015 18:26
  
  Everyone's creeped out by Letterman's bushy beard -- and he enjoys it
  
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• Exec who jacked up price of a life-saving drug is arrested

  17-12-2015 18:25
  
  Exec who jacked up price of a life-saving drug is arrested on securities fraud charges
  
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• BAY RIDGE: It’s a Go-wanus! State fixes confusing expressway signs

  17-12-2015 18:22
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailySometimes you have to stick with the classics.The state Department of Transportation took down confusing temporary signs marking the Belt Parkway’s split from the Gowanus Expressway and uncovered old signs that correctly mark the divergence just one day after a Courier Life article pointing out the misleading markers. The reversion should provide some relief to perplexed drivers, a local
  
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• Where to Eat on Christmas Eve and Christmas in Brooklyn

  17-12-2015 18:18 via bkmag.com
  
  Christmas Eve and Day dining is a fabulous racket in Manhattan—with all the best restaurants open for business and happy to charge upwards of $150 a head, for the pleasure of spiking your eggnog, roasting your chestnuts, or stuffing your holiday goose. But you know how it is in touchy-feely Brooklyn—eateries largely elect to give their staff a break come Christmas, so they can take their kiddies caroling, have an actual sit-down dinner with their families, or, you know, decimate sle
  
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• Margaritaville madness: Jimmy Buffett musical in the works

  17-12-2015 18:01
  Next stop, Margaritaville: Musical using laid-back Jimmy Buffett songs in the works
  
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• Living Maps and Legends: The Creation of Meaning

  17-12-2015 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The Creation of MeaningDirected by Simone Rapisarda CasanovaDecember 17-23 at MoMA
  Taking root on a mountainside in the Apuan Alps, the Italian quasi-doc The Creation of Meaning manages to look beyond all the golden sunlight, examining recent history as it makes itself felt at the highest earthly altitudes. Up in these climes, air traffic whirs overhead, joining chorus with the chirping insects, but things are perhaps not so peaceable as they appear: Here, the Germans dug in along their Gothic
  
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• Meek Mill hopes to avoid jail over probation issues

  17-12-2015 17:21
  
  Rapper Meek Mill hopes to avoid jail over travel, suspect drug test during probation
  
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• Heather Woods Broderick steps onto her own stage

  17-12-2015 17:00
  
  Heather Woods Broderick | photo: Dusdin Condren
  Heather Woods Broderick may not be a household name, but if you’re an indie rock fan, you’ve probably seen her onstage or heard her on record, even if you didn’t realize it . For the last couple years, Broderick has been a member of Sharon Van Etten’s band, playing keyboards and singing while touring and recording with her.
  Broderick has recorded several records, but she hasn’t had the opportunity to perform on h
  
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• Jamie Lee Curtis to speak at publishing convention

  17-12-2015 16:11
  
  Jamie Lee Curtis among featured speakers at next year's publishing convention
  
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• That “Brooklyn” movie you may have heard about

  17-12-2015 16:00
  
  Saoirse Ronan stars in Brooklyn.
  In Brooklyn, the movie adaptation of Colm Toibin’s 2009 novel of the name name, Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan, who you may recognize from Hanna) is defined by her tensions: between countries, men and identities. Eilis can find only occasional work in post-WWII Ireland, and cannot help her sister, Rose (Fiona Glascott), support their weary, widowed mother (Jane Brennan). Ever practical, Rose arranges for a new job, a new home, an entire new life a oc
  
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• FEARLESS PARENTING: Learning to love and let go

  17-12-2015 15:58
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Stephanie Thompsonfor The Brooklyn PaperI sometimes rue my decision to give my kids freedom to roam.
  Most afternoons over the last number of years, I have tried to make sure I can be available for my boys after school, to make them popcorn and ask about their day. But increasingly, I encourage them not to be here with me at all, but rather to join things, hang out with friends, explore on their own. More and more I schedule things myself so that our old pat
  
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• N.W.A. joins quartet of 1970s hit-makers in rock hall

  17-12-2015 15:50
  
  Rappers N.W.A. join rock hall with Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and Steve Miller
  
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• How 'The Force' is invading 'Disney Infinity' game series

  17-12-2015 15:45
  
  How 'The Force Awakens' is uniquely invading the 'Disney Infinity' video game series
  
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• On with the show: Western NY drive-in open for 'Star Wars'

  17-12-2015 15:10
  
  No snow, so on with the show: Western New York drive-in theater open for 'Star Wars' movie
  
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• Refugees Welcome: An analog campaign gone viral

  17-12-2015 15:03
  
  In an age where much of what we think of as social activism happens on Facebook, and simply changing your profile picture has the power to make you feel as though you’ve gotten involved in a cause, it seems almost retro for a grassroots campaign to flourish outside the confines of social media. Yet when they do go viral, offline campaigns really stand out. Such is the case with Refugees Welcome, a storefront sticker project created in response to the conversation surro
  
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• New Orleans-style mirth marks arrival of 'The Force Awakens'

  17-12-2015 14:28
  
  'The Force Awakens' New Orleans-style revelry with the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus
  
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• The Sisterhood Strikes Back: Sisters

  17-12-2015 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  SistersDirected by Jason MooreOpens December 18
  Sisters may be too formulaic to pose a challenge to the status quo and too silly to be mistaken for a manifesto, but it’s more than just another party-to-end-all-parties bromance with women in the starring roles. The plot (childishly furious that their parents have sold their childhood home, two 40-ish sisters throw one last wild party, hoping to scotch the deal, and spurring a series of epiphanies) may be as predictable as the sunset, but i
  
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• 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens ' hits New Jersey in full Force

  17-12-2015 12:49
  
  Hit the alarm: 'Star Wars' wakes again; early praise likely to further fuel box office bonanza
  
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• Egypt theater cancels Star Wars showings on opening day

  17-12-2015 11:48
  
  Egypt IMAX theater cancels Star Wars showings on opening day because of 'corrupt' copy
  
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• MEAN STREETS: Con-dis-cord Street: New Manhattan Bridge exit plagues residential road

  17-12-2015 10:12
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperThings have taken a turn for the worse.A city decision to allow traffic coming off the Manhattan Bridge to turn down a tiny Downtown street has transformed a residential road into a dangerous de facto off-ramp, and officials must close it again before someone gets hurt, say nearby residents.
  “Somebody is going to get killed,” said Downtowner Juan Salazar, who lives near Concord Street — the troubled thoroughfar
  
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• BAY RIDGE: UPDATED: Sign fix is a Go-wanus!

  17-12-2015 09:30
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Dennis LynchThe Brooklyn PaperSometimes you have to stick with the classics.The state Department of Transportation took down confusing temporary signs marking the Belt Parkway’s split from the Gowanus Expressway and uncovered old signs that correctly mark the divergence just one day after a Courier Life article pointing out the misleading markers. The reversion should provide some relief to perplexed drivers, a lo
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG–GREENPOINT WATERFRONT: Anchors aweigh! Greenpoint Civil War buffs score cash for Naval museum

  17-12-2015 09:18
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperBreak out the bubbly — then smash it against a boat!A Greenpoint couple say their decades-long dream to clean up a stretch of waterfront property and build a museum celebrating a local Civil War ship on the site may finally set sail thanks to a recent cash injection.“It’s something we’ve worked on for a long time, and finally something is working out nice for it,&rd
  
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• N.W.A. joins quartet of 1970s hitmakers in rock hall

  17-12-2015 08:47
  
  Rappers N.W.A. join rock hall with Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and Steve Miller
  
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• Actor who played Screech on sitcom to start jail in January

  17-12-2015 07:12
  
  Actor who played Screech on 1990s TV show 'Saved by the Bell' to start jail time in January
  
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• GO THERE NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN: Ciao down: Court Street Italian joint Brucie closing

  17-12-2015 06:01
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperSay pasta la vista.Beloved Cobble Hill restaurant Brucie will close its doors on Feb. 15 after five years of serving up homey Italian food on Court Street, because the owner says she wants to do something else.
  “The past five years have been especially rewarding and exciting but it has come to a time when I’m realizing I have different priorities as a result of the things we’ve been able to accomplish here at B
  
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• STANDING O: It’s Rad!

  17-12-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyPark SlopeIt’s totally rad!The docs are doing it again at New York Methodist Hospital. Cutting-edge oncologists are offering a new treatment in the fight against advanced stages of metastatic prostate cancer. The therapy, called radium-223 dichloride, is administered once a month for six months on an outpatient basis with a simple injection. It specifically targets and kills cancer cells that have spread to a patient&rsquo
  
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• STANDING O: Helping hands lighten Santa’s load

  17-12-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyDyker HeightsSanta’s load got a little lighter this year thanks to his helping elves — Reaching Out Community Services founder Thomas Neve, Fort Hamilton Army Base commander Col. Joseph Davidson, 68th Precinct Community Council president Ilene Sacco, 68th Precinct commanding officer Capt. Raymond Festino, Councilman Vincent Gentile (D–Bay Ridge), Dyker Heights Civic Association president Fran Vella-Marrone, and members of the ci
  
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