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• Spike Jonze gives peek at new Viceland channel

  06-01-2016 23:58
  
  New Viceland TV channel features hard-edged shows with Page, Huang and Williams
  
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• LeVar Burton says time is right for 'Roots' remake

  06-01-2016 23:27
  
  LeVar Burton, who starred in the influential 1970s miniseries "Roots," said the remake is arriving at a crucial time
  
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• Even Adele couldn't stop decline in album sales in 2015

  06-01-2016 23:12
  
  Although Adele made history with '25', music album sales continue to decline by 6.1 percent in 2015 as on-demand streaming surges
  
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• George Takei musical 'Allegiance' to close next month

  06-01-2016 23:08
  
  George Takei musical 'Allegiance' starring Lea Salonga and Telly Leung to close next month
  
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• Football scored big with viewers last week, with ESPN on top

  06-01-2016 22:55
  
  Football won big with viewers last week, putting ESPN atop the ratings heap
  
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• Nielsen's top 20 programs for Dec. 28-Jan. 3

  06-01-2016 22:52
  
  Nielsen's Top 20 programs for the week of Dec. 28-Jan. 3
  
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• The Creation of a Bushwick 200 List Incites a Racially Charged Debate

  06-01-2016 22:48 via bkmag.com
  
  Bushwick: Full of “influencers”
  The new year has ushered in new controversy in Bushwick as local art gallery Fuchs Projects prepares to launch its “200 Most Influential People in 2016” list, in the hopes of acknowledging the neighborhood’s women and men who have been “transforming the conventional.” The list has sparked a tense, racially charged debate, which started not long after Fuchs Projects posted a Facebook event inviting the commun
  
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• 'Sister Wives' stars won't be charged if polygamy law stands

  06-01-2016 22:30
  
  Utah prosecutors say a polygamous family made famous by a reality TV show 'Sister Wives' won't face charges if a law against plural marriage stands
  
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• Make new connections this year at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP

  06-01-2016 22:27
  
  Be part of a community that is exploring new technologies and creating the future of media. From now and until the end of January, use the code NewYear2016 to get 20% off both Community Workspace and Incubator Membership at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP for six months.
  Whether you’re working in virtual reality, journalism, gaming, interactive video, or all things media, create connections with a strong network of industry experts and have access to diverse resources, classes and works
  
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• Nicholas Caldwell, singer with The Whispers, dies at age 71

  06-01-2016 22:01
  
  Nicholas Caldwell, co-founder of R&B vocal group The Whispers, dies at age 71
  
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• US seeks sentencing cut for baseball drug clinic owner

  06-01-2016 21:58
  Federal prosecutors: Reduce prison term for ex-owner of clinic that supplied drugs to players
  
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• Patriots player's carport rankles in historic neighborhood

  06-01-2016 21:52
  
  Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola catching grief from neighbors over temporary carport
  
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• 911 transcript: Rocker Scott Weiland found 'stiff' on bus

  06-01-2016 21:44
  
  Transcript of 911 call reveals moment when bandmates found Scott Weiland's body on bus
  
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• HBO pulling plug on hit comedy 'Girls'

  06-01-2016 21:41
  
  HBO says sixth season of 'Girls' will be its last
  
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• Kelly Rowland, Snoop Dogg join new BET series'

  06-01-2016 21:40
  
  Kelly Rowland, Snoop Dogg join new BET series'
  
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• Need-to-Know Basis: Making a Murderer, Serial, and the New True Crime

  06-01-2016 21:20 via bkmag.com
  
  True crime used to be tawdry, on late-night network television and low-numbered basic cable channels, hidden on bookshelves in a back corner of the bookstore, featured in magazines you’d be embarrassed if your mailman saw. Now stories about Making a Murderer, the latest zeitgeist-conquering entry into the genre, are at the top of the New York Times trending list; Seth Meyers made his return from the holiday break with a parody; and tens of thousands of people have signed a petition about
  
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• Review: 'Making a Murderer' depicts justice gone awry

  06-01-2016 20:28
  
  Review: Netflix 'Making a Murderer' docuseries portrays law and order gone awry
  
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• Why aren't smart TVs very clever?

  06-01-2016 20:16
  
  Turns out that making TV sets smarter may not have been the world's brightest idea
  
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• 'Trainwreck,' 'Straight Outta Compton' snag writing nods

  06-01-2016 19:53
  
  'Trainwreck,' 'Straight Outta Compton' and 'Steve Jobs' are among the 2016 Writers Guild Award nominees
  
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• Who's ready to see a play set in a hotel _ at a hotel?

  06-01-2016 19:48
  
  Terry Johnson's 'Insignificance,' set in NY hotel room, will be staged in NY hotel room
  
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• Netflix expands into 130 more countries in surprise move

  06-01-2016 19:25
  
  Netflix moves into 130 more countries to nearly complete worldwide expansion ahead of schedule
  
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• Bad Times Mean Good Films at Neighboring Scenes, a Showcase of New Latin American Cinema

  06-01-2016 19:19 via bkmag.com
  
  Bleak Street, Courtesy of Leisure Time Features
  Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American CinemaJanuary 7-10 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
  Amidst grim news trickling in from Latin America, from Brazil’s slumped economy, budget cuts and scandals to fears that other countries, from Argentina and Venezuela to Mexico, are unable to tackle their corrupt political systems, Latin American film nevertheless continues its steady rise against all odds, garnering prizes at major international fe
  
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• BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: TONIGHT: Cadman Plaza West residents will discuss proposed Pineapple Walk tower

  06-01-2016 19:13
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperTenants of a Cadman Plaza West co-op building will host a public forum on Wednesday night to urge residents of a neighboring building to turn down a lucrative offer to sell part of their property to developers, who want to build a 40-story tower and shopping complex there.
  An unnamed developer is offering residents at 75 Henry St. $75 million for the slice of land on Pineapple Walk — which includes beloved Park Plaza Resta
  
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• BET announces miniseries on Nelson Mandela

  06-01-2016 19:12
  
  Laurence Fishburne to star in BET miniseries on Nelson Mandela
  
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• Your Ideal Week: Jan. 7-13

  06-01-2016 19:05
  
  Happy New Year, Brooklyn Based readers! We’re excited to be back to our regularly scheduled Ideal Week, now that the holidays have passed. We get it though–between Sober January, the credit card statement that just landed in your inbox, the deep chill that is visiting us from points north and the all around quietness of January, this might be one of the best weeks of the year to come straight home from work and curl up on the couch, eat soup and watch The Americans, or&nbs
  
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• Q&A: A look at Netflix's documentary 'Making a Murderer'

  06-01-2016 19:01
  
  Q&A: A look at the popularity behind Netflix's documentary 'Making a Murderer'
  
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• Pierre Boulez, leading figure of classical music, dies at 90

  06-01-2016 19:01
  
  Pierre Boulez, who ranged from avant-garde composer to star conductor, dies at age 90
  
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• FORT GREENE: Fiend robs woman on Fulton Street

  06-01-2016 18:36
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn Paper88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillWalking nightmareA goon robbed a woman as she walking home on Fulton Street on Dec. 18.The victim said she was strolling home at 11:25 pm near St. James Place when a very tall man wearing dark clothing approached her and hissed, “Run your pockets.”
  He then snatched her cellphone and her purse, which contained credit cards and her identification card, and fled, police reporte
  
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• It Takes a Village: Saving Fort Greene’s Beloved Madiba Restaurant

  06-01-2016 18:25 via bkmag.com
  
  “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.” So reads a sticker haphazardly placed on the metal gate that separates the lounge of Madiba from its dining room. It’s lost amidst the curated clutter of woven dolls, dusty pelts, and contemporary Nelson Mandela portraits; it’s just one more thing in a space dominated by conversations amongst restaurant-goers and the lig
  
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• Stressed Out New York Babies Now Have Their Own Yoga Studio

  06-01-2016 17:58 via bkmag.com
  
  (Via Monkey Do! Yoga Instagram)
  Everyone knows born-and-bred New Yorkers are their own kind of people. By the age of four or five they are professionals at doing things that shocked and thrilled me as a teenager, like eating sushi, and wearing semi-cool clothes.
  Same goes for yoga. I first tried it in earnest after a breakup (namely, when I was an adult) because I needed something that emotionally calmed and centered me. And now in Gowanus, a new yoga studio fills the same need for high-str
  
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• Cut on the Bias: Talking to Performance Artist Chris Thorpe about his New Show, Confirmation

  06-01-2016 17:34 via bkmag.com
  
  Chris Thorpe
  photo by Arnim Friess
  The performance artist Chris Thorpe has been causing a stir in his native England for several years now, particularly in the shows he has done with Hannah Jane Walker. His controversial solo show Confirmation, which examines the views of a white supremacist, recently premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and now Thorpe is taking it on a tour that will include a slot at the Coil Festival at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn from January 13-17. Confi
  
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• CRIME: Weasel offers to assist elderly woman, robs her instead

  06-01-2016 17:19
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn Daily61st PrecinctSheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
  Manhattan Beach—GravesendBad SamaritanA cad took advantage of an elderly woman’s faith in humanity, robbing her as she walked home from the supermarket with hands full of groceries on Dec. 28.The guy walked up to the 84-year-old woman near the corner of Avenue V around 5:15 pm and asked her if she needed help bringing home her bags, but then he grabbed her purse and pus
  
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• CRIME: Maniac stabs man five times during intimate moment

  06-01-2016 17:19
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily60th PrecinctConey Island—Brighton Beach—SeagateBad dateSome wacko stabbed a man not once, not twice, but five times as the victim was on a romantic romp with his girlfriend under the boardwalk in Brighton Beach on Dec. 31.The victim told police that he was embracing his “Russian girlfriend” under the boardwalk by Brighton Sixth Court at 12:40 am when the deranged knife man appeared suddenly and started stab
  
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• BENSONHURST: Man follows stripper from Jersey to Brooklyn and robs her

  06-01-2016 17:19
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachIt came from JerseyA deranged man robbed a 23-year-old stripper who gave him a lap dance — after stalking her from Jersey to 79th Street on Jan. 1.The victim told police that the patron paid her for a show at the strip club where she works in Patterson, NJ, and that, after she clocked out, he followed her all the way to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and then to 79th Street between 1
  
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• BAY RIDGE: Burglar takes thousands from convenience store

  06-01-2016 17:19
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn Daily68th PrecinctBay Ridge—Dyker HeightsHow convenientA cat burglar hit a Third Avenue convenience store in the early morning hours of Dec. 31, according to police.Surveillance footage shows him cutting his way into the store near 96th Street around 4 am and breaking open “numerous” cash registers, the store owners told police.The burglar tripped an alarm in the process. The owners got a call from their alarm company
  
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• WILLIAMSBURG: Lout slices man with razor blade

  06-01-2016 17:18
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn Paper90th PrecinctSouthside–WilliamsburgSlasherA brute slashed a man with a razor blade at the corner of Grand and Catherine Streets on the night of Jan. 2.The victim was drinking alcohol at the intersection at 10:20 pm when he got into an argument with a passing stranger, according to a police report. The lout then pulled a razor blade and sliced the guy across the stomach, cops said.Day blowA couple of goons snatched a lady
  
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• GREENPOINT: Bar-goer bashes woman with glass at New Year’s party

  06-01-2016 17:18
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn Paper94th PrecinctGreenpoint–NorthsideNew Year’s bashA troublemaker bashed a bar patron with a glass at a popular Frost Street watering hole in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.The victim told cops she was out with friends at the bar near Lorimer Street at 1:30 am when a woman got into a verbal spat with her friend. The victim said she told the lady to calm down, and the scamp bashed her in the head with
  
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• CARROLL GARDENS: Police: Man arrested for carrying gun

  06-01-2016 17:18
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Dennis Lynchfor The Brooklyn Paper76th PrecinctCarroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red HookNo gun for youQuick-thinking cops nabbed an armed man after spotting him with a gun tucked into his waistband on Columbia Street on Jan 1, police reported.Officials say the suspect was standing near the corner of Lorraine Street around 2:10 am when officers on patrol caught a glimpse of the pistol.
  The guy made like the wind when he saw police had spotted him, but the o
  
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• 'Orange' star trades jailbird jumpsuit for designer denim

  06-01-2016 16:21
  
  'Orange' actress Ruby Rose trades jailbird jumpsuit for designer denim in new fashion campaign
  
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• Maryland-based dance institute moving headquarters to NY

  06-01-2016 15:53
  
  Maryland-based American Dance Institute moving headquarters to former upstate NY lumberyard
  
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• Contest offers writing time in Hemingway studio in Key West

  06-01-2016 15:49
  
  Contest offers writing time in Hemingway's studio in Key West, Florida
  
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• Lamb: Can a Man and an 11-Year-Old Girl Really Be Friends?

  06-01-2016 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  LambDirected by Ross PartridgeOpens January 8
  Montaigne says not to look for friendship between relatives, and it’s best to skip his thoughts on friendships between men and women. That “correspondence of manners, parts, and inclinations, which begets the true and perfect friendships” he describes is as difficult to find as to explain; it’s founded not on childlike naiveté but in an ineffable childhood clarity: an instinct that feels like the truth.
  Can the relatio
  
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• January Asceticism

  06-01-2016 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Look, it’s January. No judgement here for your “Drynuary” pledges or your fervent gym promises. Hey, that actually sounds kind of nice.Follow Matt Lubchansky on Twitter, visit his Patreon page here, or check out his store here.
  
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• Beauty company looking to help change red carpet chatter

  06-01-2016 14:21
  
  Those in Hollywood looking to change red carpet conversation have new ally for Golden Globes
  
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• French conductor, composer Pierre Boulez dies at 90

  06-01-2016 14:15
  
  French conductor, composer Pierre Boulez dies in Germany at age 90
  
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• Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor, has died, Paris Philharmonic says

  06-01-2016 12:47
  
  Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor, has died, Paris Philharmonic says
  
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• VINEGAR HILL: Controversial Vinegar Hill school rezoning gets passing grade

  06-01-2016 12:32
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperThe city will to go ahead with a controversial plan to expand a Vinegar Hill elementary school zone next year to include students from Dumbo, after a panel of public school parents voted Tuesday to approve the scheme.
  Members of the local community education council voted 6-3 in favor, despite objections from families in both neighborhoods that the education department is rushing in without considering what will happen when it p
  
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• CLASS ACTION: Controversial Vinegar Hill school rezoning gets passing grade

  06-01-2016 12:32
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperThe city will to go ahead with a controversial plan to expand a Vinegar Hill elementary school zone next year to include students from Dumbo, after a panel of public school parents voted Tuesday to approve the scheme.
  Members of the local community education council voted 6-3 in favor, despite objections from families in both neighborhoods that the education department is rushing in without
  
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• RED HOOK: Mountain do! Red Hooker trains for Kilimanjaro on Brooklyn Bridge

  06-01-2016 11:23
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonThe Brooklyn PaperTalk about peak condition!A Red Hook woman is lugging a 20-pound pack over the Brooklyn Bridge during her daily hike to work, training to scale Mount Kilimanjaro on Jan. 16.“I’m pretty determined to make the climb,” said 41-year-old Jamie Slater, who is tackling the mountain to raise funds for research into multiple myeloma — a form of cancer that kills more than 11,000 people in the United States per ye
  
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• VINEGAR HILL: Controversial Vinegar Hill school rezoning is a go

  06-01-2016 10:22
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillThe Brooklyn PaperThe city will to go ahead with a controversial plan to expand a Vinegar Hill elementary school zone next year to include students from Dumbo, after a panel of public school parents voted Tuesday to approve the scheme.
  Members of the local community education council voted 6-3 in favor, despite objections from families in both neighborhoods that the education department is rushing in without considering what will happen when it p
  
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