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• Russian Film Series: Marina Razbezhkina

  08-03-2016 23:55
  Saturday, March 26, 2016 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterMarina Razbezhkina, a documentary and feature film director and screenwriter, made her first feature film, "Harvest Time" (2004) garnered a dozen of awards from Russian and international film festivals. Her second fiction feature "Yar" was based on a little-known novella by Sergei Esenin.
  Razbezhkina wrote and directed scores of documentaries. She is also a co-founder of the prestigious School of Documentary Film and Theater in Moscow.
  
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• 50 Cent: Stacks of cash in social media photos aren't real

  08-03-2016 22:18
  
  50 Cent says the stacks of cash that drew questions from a bankruptcy court judge aren't real
  
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• 'Elvis & Nixon' to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival

  08-03-2016 21:41
  
  "Elvis & Nixon," a comedy about the 1970 meeting between the King of rock 'n' roll and the president, will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Feb. 29-March 6

  08-03-2016 21:28
  
  "NCIS" topped the top 20 programs for viewership for the week of Feb. 29
  
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• 'Downton Abbey' ends run before 9.6 million viewers

  08-03-2016 21:22
  
  PBS reached an estimated 9.6 million viewers with the series finale of 'Downton Abbey.' That's the fourth most-watched episode of the series in its six years on the air, with the number expected to climb when time-delayed numbers are added later
  
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• A team of photographers, in work and life, who can tell the story of your wedding

  08-03-2016 20:44
  
  Dutton + James are giving away a photo package at Wedding Crashers valued at over $5500. Photo: Dutton + James
  Dutton + James are a husband and wife photography team operating out of Brooklyn and the Catskills. They love natural light, the mountains, the city, and telling stories. Telling the story of your wedding is an honor that they treat as such, and they take huge pride in creating happiness through their images.They are offering an incredible photo package for one lucky winner at Wedding C
  
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• Watson, Whitaker kick off HeForShe Arts Week

  08-03-2016 20:25
  
  Emma Watson says she wants people to understand the importance of gender equality not only on a rational level, but also on a visceral one, and books, movies and other art forms are the best vehicles for accomplishing that
  
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• Musical 'Nerds' will not open on Broadway

  08-03-2016 20:17
  
  "Nerds," a new musical about the tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has scuttled plans for its spring Broadway debut and plans to tour instead
  
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• Queen Latifah, Paula Patton eager to see Saldana as Simone

  08-03-2016 19:58
  
  Queen Latifah and Paula Patton are putting aside the controversy surrounding the Nina Simone biopic, "Nina," and waiting to see how Zoe Saldana does in the title role
  
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• Lawyers want DA to say Bobbi Kristina's death wasn't murder

  08-03-2016 19:52
  
  Lawyers for Bobbi Kristina Brown's partner are calling on a prosecutor to tell the public she wasn't murdered
  
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• Correction: Music-AC/DC story

  08-03-2016 19:46
  
  Correction: Music-AC/DC story
  
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• Review: Cassandra Clare launches new shadowhunters series

  08-03-2016 19:40
  
  Book Review: Cassandra Clare launches a new shadowhunters series with debut of "Lady Midnight"
  
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• Review: 'Two-Family House' is tale of secrets kept

  08-03-2016 19:04
  
  Review: Debut novel by Lynda Cohen Loigman, "The Two-Family House," is tale of 1 house, 2 families and secrets kept
  
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• Review: 'Peacekeeping' transcends pre-quake Haiti setting

  08-03-2016 18:29
  
  Book Review: In his new novel, "Peacekeeping," Mischa Berlinski immerses the reader in an environment so richly detailed that one almost hears the buzz of insects through the pages
  
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• Police shootings of blacks influence crime fiction genre

  08-03-2016 18:19
  
  The wave of police killings that helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement is also influencing a genre that captured tensions between police and non-white communities well before the rise of social media and cellphone videos
  
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• The Latest: Romanians celebrate International Women's Day

  08-03-2016 18:14
  
  Romanians are celebrating International Women's Day by giving gifts of flowers and dedicating songs and poems to their mothers, wives, girlfriends and colleagues
  
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• Title and release date announced for Amy Schumer's book

  08-03-2016 18:09
  
  Amy Schumer's upcoming book has an indelible title: "The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo."
  
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• Q-Tip joins Kennedy Center as hip hop director

  08-03-2016 18:05
  
  Hip hop is heading to the Kennedy Center _ this time, to stay
  
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• Review: Assassin shows versatility on 1st album in years

  08-03-2016 17:19
  
  1 of Jamaica's most underrated yet diverse and creative lyricists, Assassin A.K.A. Agent Sasco releases his first studio album in almost a decade
  
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• Chef Art Smith giving life back to hometown with new school

  08-03-2016 17:19
  
  Oprah Winfrey's former chef Art Smith and his husband have long been a fixture on the celebrity circuit, but now the gay rights advocates are on a mission to bring jobs and life back to Jasper, a small Florida city of about 1,600 and Smith's birthplace.
  
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• Review: Nada Surf's 'You Know Who You Are' refines power pop

  08-03-2016 17:01
  
  Expanded to a full-time quartet, New York's Nada Surf continues to refine its glorious power pop on "You Know Who You Are." There's a tinge of melancholy across much of the album, albeit with an optimistic if guarded outlook
  
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• Henin, Safin elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame

  08-03-2016 16:39
  
  Justine Henin, Marat Safin elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame
  
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• ABC's Muir takes prime-time hour for heroin report

  08-03-2016 16:38
  
  The growing problem of heroin abuse is getting media attention, and ABC anchor David Muir devotes an hour to the topic on Friday
  
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• J.K. Rowling launching 4-part series on wizarding school

  08-03-2016 16:29
  
  J.K. Rowling is launching a series called "Magic in North America," a 4-part backstory for this fall's film adaptation of the Harry Potter prequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
  
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• Mood loose as 'Fiddler on the Roof' cast makes album

  08-03-2016 16:19
  
  The mood was loose as the 22-piece orchestra and 32 cast members of the Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" spent the day knocking out a digital copy of 1 of the last great musicals of Broadway's Golden Age
  
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• 'Team Casts' to air during NCAA title game for 1st time

  08-03-2016 16:15
  
  'Team Casts' will air during college basketball's national championship game for 1st time this season
  
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• 10 updates for your urban everyday carry, #EDC

  08-03-2016 16:00
  
  I’m not saying you’ll need these things, but I’m not saying you won’t.
  You don’t have to be a total paranoid survivalist to see the upside of preparation. Your Everyday Carry–it’s enough of a thing that The New York Times is on it, and take a look at #EDC on Instagram if you want to see a wild variety of pocket contents–is just what it sounds like, the gear you carry from day to day to be ready for whatever the world throws at you. 
  
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• PODCAST: MEDIA: Gersh’s mouth roars — and now he owes a young Brooklyn filmmaker 300 bucks!

  08-03-2016 15:15
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Armand DiphthongBrooklyn PaperBrooklyn Paper Radio again lit up the webcast waves on Monday as Gersh and Vince were joined by Adonis Williams, who discussed his new film “Civic Minds” about the rise and fall of Brooklyn bodegas — and the boys got a chance to try out for a big part in the movie that Williams is trying to fund.In a stunning move, notoriously cheap Kuntzman vowed to match any contribution
  
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• PODCAST: MEDIA: CLIP: Lauren Gill and Danielle Furfaro talk about a new subway entrance Downtown

  08-03-2016 15:15
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.Brooklyn PaperDon’t have time to hear the whole show? Here’s a short clip you’ll love.Comment on this story.
  
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• PODCAST: MEDIA: CLIP: Allegra Hobbs talks about allowing offices in business districts

  08-03-2016 15:15
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.Brooklyn PaperDon’t have time to hear the whole show? Here’s a short clip you’ll love.Comment on this story.
  
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• PODCAST: MEDIA: CLIP: Adonis Williams considers us for a part in his movie — and earns $600!

  08-03-2016 15:15
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.Brooklyn PaperDon’t have time to hear the whole show? Here’s a short clip you’ll love.Comment on this story.
  
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• TRANSIT: MTA: Expect Marine Parkway Bridge delays tomorrow morning

  08-03-2016 07:29
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThe Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge will intermittently close early tomorrow morning, and pre-dawn drivers leaving Queens may want to find another way back to Brooklyn, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced.Workers will close the bridge for 20-minute spans from 12:01 am to 5 am on March 9 to test lifting mechanisms, officials said.The bridge’s Queens-bound roadway is closed from 7 am Monday to 1 pm Frida
  
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• CONEY ISLAND: Clones staying put! Team: Promo not a sign we’re moving to West Coast

  08-03-2016 07:29
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyThey’re just hoping for a fuller house.The Cyclones are not moving to the West Coast — despite images of team jerseys emblazoned with San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge circulating the Internet. The Brooklyn Dodgers’ 1957 departure still has Brooklyn baseball fans sore, but the Clones aren’t blowing outta town, a spokesman said.“A team from Brooklyn moving to California? That would never happen &
  
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• Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 13-19

  08-03-2016 07:05
  
  Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 13-19
  
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• POLITICS: Trump this: The Donald-themed massage raises money for Dem’s campaign

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperGet a rubdown, and feel the Bern.
  A Prospect Heights masseuse is helping Brooklynites ease their anxiety about the increasing likelihood that Donald Trump will become the Republican nominee with a special rubdown package dubbed the “Moneybags Massage,” with a portion of all sales going to raise money for Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders grassroots presidential campaign.“A lot of pe
  
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• PODCAST: MEDIA: Now’s your chance to hear the most exciting Brooklyn Paper Radio episode ever!

  08-03-2016 06:00
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Armand DiphthongBrooklyn PaperBrooklyn Paper Radio again lit up the webcast waves on Monday as Gersh and Vince were joined by Adonis WIlliams, who discussed his new film “Civic Minds” about the rise and fall of Brooklyn bodegas — and the boys got a chance to try out for a big part in the movie.And this week’s “Morning Papers” segment was one for the ages, as Brooklyn Paper reporter La
  
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• PODCAST: MEDIA: Here’s our interview withAllegra Hobbs!

  08-03-2016 06:00
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• PODCAST: MEDIA: Here’s our interview with Adonis!

  08-03-2016 06:00
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• Pas de new: Ballet duo debut dance of love and time

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
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• HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Wisseh, Xaverian upset Hayes in overtime

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyNyonty Wisseh took control when his team needed it most.The Clippers senior guard put a lackluster first half behind him and carried this team to a 62–57 overtime win against Archdiocesan champion Cardinal Hayes in the Catholic Class AA boys’ basketball quarterfinals at Fordham University on March 6.
  “I said to myself, ‘This is my team. This is my game. I had to take over,’ ” Wisseh said.
  He
  
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• HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Trio of stars align for Jefferson semifinals win

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Troy MaurielloBrooklyn DailyThomas Jefferson guard Shamorie Ponds had the first of what he hopes will be many memorable games at his future home arena.
  The St. John’s University-commit scored a game-high 23 points as he helped the second-seeded Orange Wave pull out a 74–65 win over No. 3 Wings Academy in the Public School Athletic League Class AA boys’ basketball at St. John’s home court Carnesecca Arena on March 5.
  The win sends Jef
  
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• HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Brown’s big night powers Lincoln back to Garden

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyKlay Brown didn’t start Abraham Lincoln’s semifinal game against George Westinghouse, but he sure did finish it.The Christ the King transfer fought back cramps, scored 14 points, and made two of the game’s biggest hustle plays in the fourth-seeded Railsplitters’ 59–50 win over No. 8 George Westinghouse in the Public School Athletic League’s Class AA boys’ basketball semifinals on March
  
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• DUMBO: Pas de new: Ballet duo debut dance of love and time

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyIt’s a new home and new show!An acclaimed ballet company that made the grand jeté from Manhattan to Dumbo last year will debut an original production this month. Creating the piece “Stealing Time,” which opens on March 17, is a bold new step for the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet, said its founder.
  “It’s the first time we’ve had a full story ballet, original
  
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• DANCE: Pas de new: Ballet duo debut dance of love and time

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperIt’s a new home and new show!An acclaimed ballet company that made the grand jeté from Manhattan to Dumbo last year will debut an original production this month. Creating the piece “Stealing Time,” which opens on March 17, is a bold new step for the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet, said its founder.
  “It’s the first time we’ve had a full story ballet, original
  
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• CLEANING OUR WATERWAYS: Dirty photos! Shutterbug makes himself sick shooting artsy Canal waste

  08-03-2016 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperTalk about suffering for your art.A daring photographer endured years of nausea and mysterious rashes while capturing artsy shots of industrial waste on the noxious waters of the Gowanus Canal.“It was so foul that it literally made you sick,” said shutterbug Steven Hirsch, who was born in Williamsburg but lives now in Manhattan, a neighboring borough. “It felt like inhaling multiple gas station smells on their wors
  
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• CHANGING BROOKLYN: There are drugs and homeless, but at least it’s cheap!

  08-03-2016 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsBrooklyn PaperIt is the high cost of affordable housing.
  Rent-stabilized tenants of a luxury Greenpoint apartment building are sick and tired of dealing with the drugs and violence that flood into their streets from a cluster of nearby homeless shelters — but many of the residents scored below-market-rate deals on the fancy Manhattan Avenue flats and now they have to choose between the sweet deals and their peace of mind.“Nobody wan
  
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• BUSHWICK: Turn up, tune in, Bern out: Sanders supporters say not all of Bushwick is behind Brooklyn’s son

  08-03-2016 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsBrooklyn PaperNot all of Bushwick can feel the Bern.A band of hipster Brooklyn Bushwickans on the stump for Bernie Sanders from inside local industrial loft spaces is having a tough time convincing old-school neighbors to get out and vote for Brooklyn’s son, say the passionate organizers.“There’s the original Bushwick community and the gentrified Bushwick community,” said Magenna Brink of the Bushwick Berners, who regula
  
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• BOROBEAT: Pier-less! Volunteers remove mounds of garbage from Canarsie Pier

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThey want litter to take a long walk off a short pier.Volunteers pulled two dumpsters’ worth of trash from the shoreline around Canarsie Pier during a cleanup on March 5. The once-peerless jetty has gotten grimy in recent years, but one do-gooder said he was glad folks are trying to return it to its former glory.“I grew up in Canarsie, so I remember back in the day, it was cleaner — we used to actually go to the
  
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• BOROBEAT: Mazel tall! Mayor drops by Jewish council’s awards ceremony

  08-03-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThese awardees were really shepping nachas.Nearly 1,000 people packed Kol Yaakov Hall in Midwood for a morning of shmear and shmoozing during the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush’s 37th-Annual Legislative Breakfast on March 6, when 12 mensches received awards for their service and leadership in the community. And attendees were freilach when Mayor DeBlasio made a surprise &mda
  
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• ART: Beep salutes culture bigs for making Bklyn art-smarter

  08-03-2016 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey’re the “Wonder Women” of Brooklyn’s art scene.Brooklyn Academy of Music president Katy Clark, Brooklyn Arts Council executive director Charlotte Cohen, and Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak are fierce females with enough girl power to bring new innovations and wider audiences to our creative institutions — and increase Brooklyn’s mojo as the cultural heart of the world —said the b
  
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