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• Clinton scores prized endorsement from Gov. Jerry Brown

  31-05-2016 23:33
  
  Hillary Clinton has landed a coveted endorsement from California Gov. Jerry Brown, patching up a strained relationship between the two Democrats
  
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• Jason Terry to host weekly show on SiriusXM NBA Radio

  31-05-2016 23:14
  
  Veteran guard Jason Terry, a confident shooter and talker, will host a show on SiriusXM NBA Radio
  
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• Warriors' Game 7 has largest cable TV audience for NBA game

  31-05-2016 22:55
  
  The Warriors' Game 7 win to complete a comeback from down 3-1 in the Western Conference finals drew the largest TV audience for an NBA game on cable
  
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• 'Shield' actor convicted of murder in killing of wife

  31-05-2016 22:48
  
  A jury has convicted an actor who played a police officer on TV's 'The Shield' of second-degree murder in the killing of his wife
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Gary Richardson

  31-05-2016 22:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Gary Richardson
  “Alt-comic” is an overused, empty phrase at this point, signifying only that the person whom it describes doesn’t fit within the usual parameters of easily classifiable comedy (or, basically, someone who doesn’t do standard stand-up). Gary Richardson, by all technicalities, is what you’d call an alt-comic. He’s not a stand-up, per se, although you can certainly see him doing solo work in Brooklyn. His best work, however, is performing improv&m
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Blunt board 'Mary Poppins' sequel

  31-05-2016 21:45
  
  Walt Disney Studios announced Tuesday that Emily Blunt would be taking over the part of the P.L. Travers-created nanny in a sequel to the 1964 classic, with "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda joining as a new character, Jack the street lamplighter
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Sue Smith

  31-05-2016 21:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Sue Smith
  A couple years ago, on assignment for UCB1, Sue Smith went to the Gathering of the Juggalos (avid fans of Insane Clown Posse) in Thornville, Ohio. To get there, she had to drive through her hometown in Pennsylvania and skip a family reunion, but she’s not friends with her mom on Facebook, so everything turned out mostly fine. When Smith asked a Jugalette how many dicks she’d have to suck to be officially recognized as a Jugalette, I was relieved her mom wasn’t watchi
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Albertina Rizzo

  31-05-2016 21:28 via bkmag.com
  
  Albertina Rizzo
  Sometimes you forget there’s a whole room full of writers behind something like The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon—not because you’re stupid or thoughtless, but because it’s flawless and the famous people are so famous and shiny, you just forget. Albertina Rizzo is one of those writers, tucked high up in a boring conference room in 30 Rock. She’s been writing for Jimmy Fallon since 2012, right after she officially “gave up on comedy”
  
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• Review: Alan Furst's 'A Hero of France' lacks intensity

  31-05-2016 21:26
  
  Book Review: Action in "A Hero of France" by Alan Furst is plodding, lacks in intensity
  
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• CBS exec behind popular 1960s and 1970s shows dies at age 94

  31-05-2016 21:21
  
  Michael Dann, the man behind the programming of several 1960s and 1970s CBS shows such as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "60 Minutes" and "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died at his Florida home
  
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• Gina Rodriguez makes teen's prom dress dream come true

  31-05-2016 21:10
  
  Actress Gina Rodriguez lends a Buffalo, New York, teen the dress she wore to the Golden Globe Awards in 2015 after a Twitter plea
  
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• Lundquist to step down from SEC football on CBS after 2016

  31-05-2016 21:08
  
  Verne Lundquist will step down from calling Southeastern Conference football for CBS after the coming season, with Brad Nessler replacing him
  
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• 'Jurassic Park' paleontologist retiring from museum he built

  31-05-2016 21:08
  
  Jack Horner, the paleontologist who helped the world understand how dinosaurs lived, plans to retire from the Museum of the Rockies in June
  
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• Meet Penina Roth, the Unassuming Heart of Literary Brooklyn

  31-05-2016 21:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Penina Roth knows nearly everyone in Manhattanville Coffee on Rogers Avenue. It’s only a few blocks from her home—she’s lived in Crown Heights since 1994—but it’s also the venue for her latest project: the Manhattanville Reading Series. “There’s a really long waiting list,” she says of the wildly successful Franklin Park Reading Series, which she founded in 2009, and which has become her calling card. She created the Manhattanville series, which h
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Nicole Silverberg

  31-05-2016 20:53 via bkmag.com
  
  Nicole Silverberg
  Headlines like ‘I Changed My Boyfriend and Now He’s Perfect’ and ‘I Want a Good Sex’ (plus stock photo of a leering woman in a shitty suit) are Nicole Silverberg’s bread and butter on Reductress, where she’s associate editor of content that will “help you become the woman you never wanted to be.”
  Silverberg is also a regular contributor at GQ, where she writes about things like how noveau bro Justin Trudeau needs to be stop
  
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• Actor convicted of 2nd-degree murder in killing of wife

  31-05-2016 20:51
  
  A jury has convicted an actor who played a police officer on TV of second-degree murder in the killing of his wife
  
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• Summer Film & Photography Series: Photography and Impressionism by John Milisenda

  31-05-2016 20:50
  Wednesday, June 29, 2016 7:00 pmCentral Library, Info Commons Lab
  This presentation by photographer John Milisenda is about the invention of photography and the artists and inventors who were mavericks in its creation. With the invention of photography, a new bewildering view of the natural world unfolded. It changed the way we view everything. We will uncover a hidden history of photography and its often dismissed impact on art.
  Be sure to visit John Milisenda’s exhibition in the Grand Lo
  
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• Summer Film & Photography Series: From Darkroom to Daylight by Harvey Wang

  31-05-2016 20:50
  Wednesday, July 13, 2016 7:00 pmCentral Library, Info Commons Lab
  This book and documentary film project tells the stories of photographers, inventors and other navigating the epic changes from film to digital in photography.  Harvey Wang interviewed and photographed more than 40 important photographers and prominent figures in the field, including Jerome Liebling, George Tice, Elliott Erwitt, David Goldblatt, Sally Mann, Gregory Crewdson, Susan Meiselas and Eugene Richards, as well as inno
  
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• Bryan Cranston helps 'Breaking Bad' co-star in local race

  31-05-2016 20:43
  
  Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston is giving a castmate from hit TV series "Breaking Bad" some help in his campaign for local office in New Mexico
  
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• The Latest: 'Shield' actor convicted of 2nd-degree murder

  31-05-2016 20:23
  
  A Los Angeles jury has convicted an actor who played a police officer on TV of second-degree murder in the killing of his wife
  
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• Messi's lawyer says player and father 'calm' about trial

  31-05-2016 20:20
  
  Lionel Messi's lawyer said the Argentina star and his father were both feeling calm and ready to counter the charges against them as their tax fraud trial opened on Tuesday in a Barcelona court
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Gabe Gronli

  31-05-2016 20:18 via bkmag.com
  
  Gabe Gronli
  Greenpoint resident Gabe Gronli got his start in comedy in high school, doing a local access cable show with friends. Little did he know that, about a decade later, that niche interest pursued in Madison, Wisonson, would help land him a job as a writer for one of the universe’s funniest people, Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. Gronli started as a PA before graduating to footage producer—which he did for 6 years—and, after a working on IFC’s Bunk, i
  
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• Trinity Broadcasting's Jan Crouch dies days after stroke

  31-05-2016 20:12
  
  Televangelist Jan Crouch, who co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with her husband more than four decades ago, has died just days after she suffered a stroke
  
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• Rick MacLeish, Flyers star of 1970s title teams, dies at 66

  31-05-2016 20:07
  
  Rick MacLeish, star on Flyers' Stanley Cup winners in 1974 and 1975, dies at 66
  
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• The Best Uzbeki Food in Brooklyn Is in This Woman’s Home

  31-05-2016 20:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Last Sunday in Borough Park, I sat around the dining room table of Damira, a cardiologist from Uzbekistan. In front of us was a feast: cinnamon bread made from an Uzbek family recipe, a Georgian pastry filled with a tangy farm cheese, a bowl of crystalized sugar made from grape juice that, in Uzbekistan, is an aphrodisiac eaten on wedding days, and yet another traditional baked-dough pocket filled with vegetables and cheese.
  “Usually, dinner or lunch begins with pastries like you see on t
  
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• Review: 'Before the Fall' by Noah Hawley

  31-05-2016 19:59
  
  Review: "Before the Fall" by Noah Hawley is cleverly constructed
  
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• Jury convicts actor who played police officer on TV of second-degree murder in killing of wife

  31-05-2016 19:47
  
  Jury convicts actor who played police officer on TV of second-degree murder in killing of wife
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Jeremy Beiler

  31-05-2016 19:42 via bkmag.com
  
  Jeremy Beiler
  Jeremy Beiler writes for Saturday Night Live and has appeared on and written for Inside Amy Schumer. Like fellow funny person Gabe Gronli, Beiler is from Madison, Wisconsin. Of Beiler, Gronli attests: “He’s been one of the planet’s funniest people since at least the time he was 12—which is when I met him.” For our part, we can attest he’s been funny at least since he’s been writing for two of TV’s best shows. On Inside Amy
  
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• Lawyers say Johnny Depp's wife gave statement to police

  31-05-2016 19:41
  
  Lawyers for Johnny Depp's estranged wife say they have spoken to Los Angeles police to give updated info about an alleged domestic violence incident involving the actor
  
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• Music Review: The groove's still the thing for Paul Simon

  31-05-2016 19:35
  
  No '60s folkie has written more great music for dancing than Paul Simon, and at 74 he still wants us to feel the beat
  
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• Review: Beth Orton turns to nature on electronic 'Kidsticks'

  31-05-2016 19:26
  
  Beth Orton's sixth album, "Kidsticks," amalgamates electronic sounds with profuse references to nature, counterparts evenly matched in the intriguing mix
  
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• Suggestions for summer reading

  31-05-2016 19:17
  
  Suggestions for summer reading at the beach or park, on the plane or train, or wherever you find yourself wanting to turn a page to escape
  
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• [DYKER HEIGHTS] Driver smashes through Dyker insurance agency

  31-05-2016 19:17
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyLuckily, they were covered.A 13th Avenue insurance company is back up and running after a car smashed through its Bensonhurst storefront on May 27. The building still needs serious repairs, but the destruction will give shopkeepers a chance to improve the store, according to an owner who said the irony of an accident at an insurance office was lost on no one.“That was a big joke with the firemen — they said, ‘I hope
  
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• Supercut: Thom Andersen’s The Thoughts That Once We Had

  31-05-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The Thoughts That Once We HadDirected by Thom AndersenJune 3-12 at Anthology Film Archives
  Though he shares with the so-called movie brats—his fellow baby-boomers and film-school grads—an appreciation of cinema history, Thom Andersen’s own project is lonelier and less familiar: cinema as history. Thus when an opening title card announces his latest feature as “a personal history of cinema,” it means, in addition to the obvious sense, personal history rendered from
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Justin Sayre

  31-05-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Justin Sayre
  A regular bon vivant, Justin Sayre lives a bi-coastal lifestyle: he alternates between Los Angeles, where he is a writer for 2 Broke Girls, and New York, where he hosts his monthly variety show The Meeting* at Joe’s Pub. The Meeting*, which pays tribute each month to a different queer icon (recent honorees include Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Elton John), is comprised of guest performers’ musical tributes—as well as Sayre’s exuberant monologues about t
  
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• Many brands opt out of Milan men's runway shows this year

  31-05-2016 18:28
  
  The Milan Fashion Week men's calendar is full of holes
  
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• Adele calls out fan for filming show instead of watching it

  31-05-2016 17:18
  
  Adele wants concertgoers to look at her with their own eyes instead of through a camera lens
  
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• Couric takes blame for 'misleading' pause in gun documentary

  31-05-2016 17:15
  
  Katie Couric has reversed course and taken responsibility for an edit that misrepresents the response of gun rights activists to a question she poses in a new documentary
  
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• Indian comedian faces backlash for video mocking celebrities

  31-05-2016 17:10
  
  Police in India have asked Facebook and YouTube to remove a video posted by a comedian that mocks a legendary Indian singer and a cricket player
  
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• Two new Navy Yard oases: The Gatehouses and Rooftop Reds

  31-05-2016 17:07
  
  A row of hammocks at the ready for happy hour at Rooftop Reds. Photo: Nicole Davis
  The Brooklyn Navy Yard has been getting a lot of attention lately, with Fly by Night, the recent announcement that Brooklyn Brewery will open a new facility there in 2018 and a whole summer’s worth of events (including sunset yoga and dinners) underway at the Brooklyn Grange.
  What may have flown under your radar are two new Navy Yard spots for outdoor drinking, Rooftop Reds and the new tastin
  
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• Kennedy relatives visit South Africa to mark anniversary

  31-05-2016 17:06
  
  In 1966, Robert F. Kennedy traveled to apartheid South Africa and spoke about equality and the rule of law in speeches that were informed by the civil rights struggle roiling the United States at the time
  
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• The Latest: 18-year-old injured in migrant fight in Greece

  31-05-2016 16:59
  
  Greek authorities say an 18-year-old man has been injured during a fight between migrants in a makeshift camp in the country's main port of Piraeus, near Athens
  
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• Summer reads include local favorites and national hits

  31-05-2016 16:24
  
  With summer approaching, bookstores are offering local favorites and national hits, faraway adventures and stories quite close to home
  
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• Rewind! Germany's top court nixes Kraftwerk sample verdicts

  31-05-2016 16:01
  
  German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk have suffered a legal setback at Germany's highest court in a suit over a two-second sample
  
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• Yellowstone urges tourists to carry bear spray, just in case

  31-05-2016 15:49
  
  A new Yellowstone National Park education campaign urging tourists to carry bear spray features celebrities like Bozeman climber Conrad Anker, whose feats include three Everest ascents
  
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• Ronnie Wood, wife Sally Humphreys welcome twin daughters

  31-05-2016 15:36
  
  Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has become a father again at 68 after his wife Sally Humphreys gave birth to twin girls
  
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• New Wally Lamb novel to come out first as an app

  31-05-2016 14:00
  
  Wally Lamb's new novel, "I'll Take You There," will come out in paper this November
  
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• The Latest: Czech police break up document forgery network

  31-05-2016 13:49
  
  Czech police say they have broken up an international criminal network that was producing and distributing forged Lithuanian documents for migrants in European Union countries
  
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• NYC rapper held without bail in fatal concert venue shooting

  31-05-2016 13:03
  
  A Brooklyn rapper is being held without bail in connection with last week's fatal shooting at a popular Manhattan concert venue
  
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• Parade canceled, NY band performs on WWII veteran's lawn

  31-05-2016 12:48
  
  Members of a New York community band didn't let the cancellation of a Memorial Day parade stop them from paying tribute to a recently stricken World War II veteran
  
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