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• 'Begin Again' director apologizes for slamming Knightley

  01-06-2016 23:52
  
  "Begin Again" director John Carney has apologized for slamming actress Keira Knightley in a recent interview in which he negatively compared her to "a supermodel."
  
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• Review: A mixtape of music parody, 'Popstar' cranks it to 11

  01-06-2016 23:47
  
  Film Review: In "Popstar" is the full panoply of pop music's glorious, ego-warped idiocy, from the demented bubble of an entourage to pseudo poses of humility by the famous
  
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• Gambler tied to Mickelson pleads not guilty in trading case

  01-06-2016 23:19
  
  A New York judge has set bail at $25 million for a professional gambler linked to golfer Phil Mickelson in an insider-trading scandal
  
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• Xenia Rubinos shows us her dazzling spirit on “Black Terry Cat”

  01-06-2016 23:11
  
  Xenia Rubinos Photo: Shervin Lainez
  With her eclectic musical influences–R&B, hip-hop, jazz, rock and Afro-Latin are just a few styles you can hear in her songs–Xenia Rubinos comes across like the most sophisticated of native New Yorkers. When she moved here a decade ago though, she was as wide-eyed as any newbie.
  “I was like, ‘Oh man, the Village Vanguard! How cool would it be to go to the Village Vanguard?'” she recalls. “I remember going to the Va
  
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• Flavor Flav DUI cases closed in Las Vegas, Henderson

  01-06-2016 23:11
  
  Entertainer Flavor Flav has completed court requirements on misdemeanor driving under the influence cases in Las Vegas and neighboring Henderson
  
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• Caro returns to old high school to give award named for him

  01-06-2016 23:04
  
  Robert Caro, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, returned Wednesday to his former high school and presented an award named for him
  
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• NBC production company making series with Denise Brown

  01-06-2016 22:41
  
  Denise Brown, sister of O.J. Simpson's murdered wife, developing a true crime series for NBC News' production company
  
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• Mark Salling dropped from miniseries after child porn charge

  01-06-2016 22:39
  
  The "Glee" actor charged with receiving and possessing child pornography has been dropped from his latest project
  
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• Judge: 'Superfly' Snuka incompetent to stand trial

  01-06-2016 22:13
  
  A Pennsylvania judge says pro wrestling star Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka is incompetent to stand trial in the 1983 death of his girlfriend
  
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• Summer's here: fun and games dominate TV ratings

  01-06-2016 22:08
  
  Competition shows, NBA playoffs dominate television ratings in week leading up to Memorial Day
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for May 23-29

  01-06-2016 22:07
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for May 23-29
  
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• Jon Bon Jovi campaigns with Hillary Clinton in Newark

  01-06-2016 20:57
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has received an assist from New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi
  
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• 'Love Story' and beyond: A few classic romantic tearjerkers

  01-06-2016 20:31
  
  While we wait to indulge in the saga of Lou and Will in "Me Before You," here are some romantic classics to prepare those tear ducts for maximum waterworks
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Caity Weaver

  01-06-2016 20:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Caity Weaver
  When Caity Weaver live-tweeted an hour-long phone call with cable provider Optimum, we followed along her winding Twitter path, which climaxed with her almost, but not quite (and not really even close) talking to the president of Optimum Cable. During this time we realized that Weaver provides the kind of weird Twitter we need. Via her platform at GQ, where she perfectly profiles perfect (or “perfect”) human Justin Bieber, Weaver elevates pop culture coverage to searingl
  
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• Bonnaroo at 15: Memorable moments from years past

  01-06-2016 20:26
  
  Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee has gone from a jam band festival to one of the top U.S. fests with a diverse lineup from rock, rap, blues and more without losing its popularity among fans
  
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• [GOWANUS] Man on a mission: ‘Americans’ studio owner fights city land grab

  01-06-2016 20:20
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe Gowanus studio where cable network FX films its sexy Cold War spy drama “The Americans” is on a not-so-secret mission to stop the city seizing its land as part of the federal Canal cleanup.The owner of Eastern Effects Studios on Nevins Street has mounted a public relations assault to convince city officials that there are several better lots nearby, after they told him last month
  
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• Ousted Baylor president Starr resigns from chancellor role

  01-06-2016 20:18
  
  Ken Starr has resigned as Baylor University's chancellor, a week after he was removed as president of the Texas school amid a scandal over its treatment of sexual assault cases involving football players
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner to mark Olympic anniversary on SI cover

  01-06-2016 20:17
  
  Caitlyn Jenner to mark 40th anniversary of Olympic win with Sports Illustrated cover
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Gordon Baker-Bone

  01-06-2016 20:11 via bkmag.com
  
  Gordon Baker-Bone 
  When we met Gordon Baker-Bone briefly, he confronted the obvious: “It’s a kind of weird name.” He doesn’t shy away from things, is the point—in life or in standup. “If you’re annoying, I’m going to go after you,” he says of his crowd. But if this makes it sound like Baker-Bone is something other than completely amiable and talkative, that would be wrong. You can see Baker-Bone headlining at clubs across the country, a
  
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• Shaquille O'Neal goes undercover as Lyft driver

  01-06-2016 20:10
  
  Lyft is showing off a video of Shaquille O'Neal going undercover as a driver in Atlanta
  
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• Prince smashes Billboard sales records following death

  01-06-2016 20:04
  
  The late artist Prince smashed some chart records at Billboard for the first full week after his death
  
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• Your Ideal Week: June 2 – June 8

  01-06-2016 19:54
  
  Mellow out in Prospect Park every Thursday this summer. Photo: Bend and Bloom
  Rabbit, rabbit, everyone! Somehow it’s already June, and that means things are really about to ramp up around here in terms of being packed to the hilt with fun things to keep you occupied. I was one of the people who stuck around town last weekend, and after a fantastic three days of bike riding, day drinking and dining, two trips to the Rockaways that included fish tacos from this joint and the inexplicably de
  
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• 'Me Before You,' a storybook romance in superhero season

  01-06-2016 19:47
  
  It's not all superheroes and sequels at the multiplex this summer, and the tender romance "Me Before You," starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin as an unlikely couple, might be just the antidote for blockbuster fatigue
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: John Howell Harris

  01-06-2016 19:46 via bkmag.com
  
  John Howell Harris
  When you google John Howell Harris, which you should, one of the first things that comes up is a 7 second video of him at a nice brunch, shouting and screaming incoherently, sitting shirtless with two very attractive men who are also screaming incoherently. The other salient items are articles from The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, including a list of old sayings—“Here today, here tomorrow. I mean, it’s a pretty big rock.”—and some writing on
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: John Early

  01-06-2016 19:45 via bkmag.com
  
  John Early
  John Early is everywhere. He’s been on 30 Rock, had his own episode of the Netflix character showcase/SNL audition reel The Characters, appeared on basically every short-lived standup special that exists, and has starred in movies like the super Brooklyn-centric Fort Tilden.  It’s kind of no wonder that all of this is true: he’s a great actor, hilarious, able to be serious and emotional when it’s called for (as in the touching/insane short Santa Monica, w
  
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• Barbra Streisand going to Tonys for the 1st time since 1970

  01-06-2016 19:41
  
  Barbra Streisand will take the stage at this month's Tony Awards for the first time in 46 years
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Naomi Fry

  01-06-2016 19:19 via bkmag.com
  
  Naomi Fry
  As the copy chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Fry lends her discerning eye to the minutia of moveable type, sure. But where she really shines is examining the uncouth and campy cultural ephemera we all love to hate, like the reality show Vanderpump Rules, or the unlikely beauty contained in the Instagram account of Brett Ratner. Fry takes small, muddy things and recasts them as gleaming, iconic, and infinitely laughable—the same transformative force at work in the h
  
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• Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna to star in E! reality series

  01-06-2016 19:07
  
  E! has greenlit a new reality series that will look inside the lives of Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna on the heels of their engagement and pregnancy news
  
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• Manning, Spurrier debut on College Hall of Fame ballot

  01-06-2016 19:01
  
  Peyton Manning, Marshall Faulk and Steve Spurrier will be on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot for the first time this year
  
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• Nastia Liukin to call gymnastics for NBC at Rio Olympics

  01-06-2016 18:57
  
  Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin will work as a gymnastics analyst for NBC during this summer's Rio Games
  
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• Book Review: The Emperor's Revenge

  01-06-2016 18:51
  
  Book Review: "The Emperor's Revenge" is a blend of action-adventure and history by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison
  
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• Surrogacy struggles abound in 'A House for Happy Mothers'

  01-06-2016 18:45
  
  Book Review: "A House for Happy Mothers" follows complex surrogacy journey of two women worlds apart
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Erin Gloria Ryan

  01-06-2016 18:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Erin Gloria Ryan
  Wisconsin native and East Williamsburg resident Erin Gloria Ryan is the current deputy editor at Vocativ, and formerly worked at Jezebel and VH1’s Best Week Ever. But beyond all of that, Ryan is insanely good on Twitter. Proof? On Mother’s Day Ryan tweeted “Happy Mother’s Day to my sweet sweet girl” and attached a picture of a pink IUD. Yes, Ryan is here to remind us that some of the best jokes do not come from traditional venues like standup
  
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• Muscadet Is Not Moscato, or: A Guide to the Perfect Wine to Pair with Oysters

  01-06-2016 18:15 via bkmag.com
  
  Picture a warm afternoon, sitting under as shaded canopy, with an enormous platter of shimmering oysters before you. Now, what’s in your glass? The answer is Muscadet. Not to be confused with Moscato, the sweet Italian wine, Muscadet—pronounced [MUS-KAH-DAY]—is a completely dry, bright, incredibly well priced wine from France’s Loire Valley. For a long time, it was made in bulk, and not particularly good—but in recent decades, a small group of organically farmed fa
  
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• The Total LIC Immersion is this Saturday and the weather looks divine

  01-06-2016 18:00
  
  … Read MoreThe post The Total LIC Immersion is this Saturday and the weather looks divine appeared first on Brooklyn Based.
  
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• Last Day of Early Bird Registration for the Brooklyn Greenway Half and 5K

  01-06-2016 18:00
  
  Sponsored By Brooklyn Greenway Initiative.Brooklyn Greenway Initiative is the 501c3 non-profit committed to the development, establishment and long-term stewardship of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.Created By BlankSlateOn October 16, 2016, experience the wonder of the Brooklyn shoreline at the only half marathon and 5K exclusively held on the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.
  The Brooklyn Greenway Half & 5K, hosted by Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and produced by NYCRUNS will ta
  
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• In Prospect Heights, Olmsted Is a Garden of Eating

  01-06-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Patrons peer at each other across rows of raised beds, biding their time with bouquets of fried fiddlehead ferns, and glasses of rosé. It’s like the world’s most idyllic DMV, instead of awaiting the renewal of a drivers license in some featureless, suffocating room, supplicants are anticipating admittance to dinner at Olmsted; Prospect Height’s brand new, backyard-to-table restaurant.
  Cultivated by horticulturist Ian Rothman, knobs of Jerusalem artichoke, diamonds of sa
  
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• Genre Is a Woman: Kelly Reichardt’s Subversive Night Moves and Meek’s Cutoff

  01-06-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Writing in Cinema Scope, Blake Williams describes Kelly Reichardt as a filmmaker who “has tended to train her attention on subjects trying, and inevitably failing, to navigate the world outside of the established order.” To take it a step further, her two latest (discounting Certain Women, which premiered at Sundance and will likely see a release later this year), Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves, are about women failing to fit into worlds prescribed by genre. In these films, onl
  
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• Thai palace says king's medical condition satisfactory

  01-06-2016 17:56
  
  Thailand's royal palace says the country's hospitalized 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej last month was treated for swollen knees, fever and cough, fluids pressuring the spinal cord and an irregular heartbeat, along with stomach problems
  
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• Rocking fatherhood: A dude's how-to guide on staying cool

  01-06-2016 17:55
  
  A music writer and father of 2 has written a pregnancy how-to guide for dads-to-be
  
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• Police: Colombian soccer player accused of domestic violence

  01-06-2016 17:52
  
  Authorities say a 29-year-old Colombian national soccer player has been arrested on a domestic violence charge after an altercation at a Miami Beach hotel
  
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• Exclusive: Bar Chuko to Close at the End of the Month

  01-06-2016 17:52 via bkmag.com
  
  Per a recent conversation with Jamison Blankenship—co-owner of Prospect Heights’ beloved ramen shop, Chuko—BK Mag learns that their izakaya offshoot, Bar Chuko (located mere steps away on Vanderbilt Avenue), will shutter on the 25th of the month. “The food was spectacular, we had an amazing chef, we’re proud of everything we did, but after two years, it just never hit the midweek numbers that we wanted,” Blankenship explained. “Whereas at the ramen shop
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Adam Goldman

  01-06-2016 17:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Adam Goldman
  We’re in the middle of what one might call a Webseries Boom, and the current wave of enterprising filmmakers bypassing the gatekeepers of traditional owe a debt to Adam Goldman, who raised the bar with The Outs in 2012. Directed by and starring Goldman, who wrote the series with co-star Sasha Winters, The Outs depicts the excruciating horrors of love and lust in modern-day Brooklyn (and managed to do so before Lena Dunham all but cornered the market—The Outs premiered a
  
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• District upset Fetty Wap got OK to shoot rap video at school

  01-06-2016 17:43
  
  A New Jersey school district is investigating how rapper Fetty Wap was allowed to record a music video that included drug references and a pole dancer in his old high school
  
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• Lawyers argue over witness IDs in ex-Saint Will Smith's case

  01-06-2016 17:30
  
  A judge met behind closed doors with prosecutors and defense attorneys for the suspect in the shooting death of retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith
  
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• The Latest: No ruling from judge in ex-Saints star case

  01-06-2016 17:24
  
  A judge says she wants to read a police report about the shooting death of retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith that doesn't have the names of witnesses omitted before deciding whether to release it to defense attorneys
  
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• Go to Sea Wolf, a Brief Seaside Vacation

  01-06-2016 17:15 via bkmag.com
  
  New York City is surrounded by a lot of sea. The Northeast corner of Wyckoff Avenue and Troutman Street in Bushwick, however, is not one of those places. That coordinate once, briefly, and recently, was home to Lorenzo’s; its swift departure was a mystery but not one we could ruminate on for too long because—just like that—it has become home to Sea Wolf. As mentioned, the new seafood-heavy, all-day, seven-days-a-week restaurant is not on the water or anywhere very close t
  
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• Review: Neil Gaiman has a lot to say about a lot

  01-06-2016 17:08
  
  Book review: Neil Gaiman offers his take on comics, fantasy and much more in "The View from the Cheap Seats"
  
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• The Wailing

  01-06-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The WailingDirected by Na Hong-jinOpens June 3
  The devil is in the details, but the tragedy of Korean director Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing is that no one can identify the lord of the underworld until it’s too late. Damnation follows its own timetable. And so does this atmospheric-to-a-fault horror feature, which runs a shade over two-and-a-half hours—justifiably so, for the most part.
  The setting is a rural Korean village, though the production filmed in numerous locations acros
  
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• Burlesque dancer told to change outfit before JetBlue flight

  01-06-2016 16:46
  
  A burlesque dancer says JetBlue employees at Boston's Logan International Airport forced her to change clothes before she was allowed to board a connecting flight to Seattle
  
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