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• Cosby accuser planned earlier confrontation but backed off

  02-06-2016 23:58
  
  Newly public police records in Bill Cosby's criminal sex-assault case show his accuser planned to confront him weeks after their 2004 encounter but backed off when he got too close to her
  
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• Extinct otter species named after Grateful Dead guitarist

  02-06-2016 23:56
  
  A U.S. National Park Service paleontologist and Grateful Dead fan has been credited with identifying an extinct species of otter found in south-central Idaho and named it after the band's guitarist
  
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• Peruvian court approves extradition to US of ex-soccer boss

  02-06-2016 23:47
  
  Peru's Supreme Court has cleared the way for the extradition to the U.S. of the country's former soccer boss for his alleged involvement in multibillion-dollar FIFA bribery scandal involving marketing and broadcasting rights
  
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• Palestinian reality TV show shines light on democracy woes

  02-06-2016 23:45
  
  Palestinians got to choose a new "president" _ but only in a TV reality show that reminded the public it hasn't had a chance to cast an actual ballot in over a decade
  
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• Prince joins a list of stars dead from drug overdoses

  02-06-2016 23:27
  
  A Minnesota medical examiner said Thursday that Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid painkiller
  
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• Garrison Keillor suffers brain seizure, but show goes on

  02-06-2016 22:44
  
  "Prairie Home Companion" radio show host Garrison Keillor says he has suffered a brain seizure but that this week's show apparently will go on
  
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• Supergroup Dead & Company to donate $100K from NC show

  02-06-2016 22:42
  
  The supergroup Dead & Company says it will perform a concert in North Carolina this month, but will also donate $100,000 to organizations that fight against discrimination
  
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• Extra Crispy, the First Website Dedicated to Breakfast, is Looking to Hire a Bacon Critic

  02-06-2016 22:23 via bkmag.com
  
   Not sure if you’ve heard but, the New York Times recently told us there is “nothing magical about breakfast.” In essence, every human who has ever told you that to skip the first meal of the day is to actively sabotage one’s health, has been misinformed. Several regularly-cited breakfast studies, it seems, were funded by—yes—the food industry. And they would prefer you buy their products as often as possible, including for meals that happe
  
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• Fielding Lead Concerns

  02-06-2016 22:09
  
  Authorities temporarily shut seven ball fields in Red Hook amid findings of elevated lead levels in the soil. Meanwhile,  an adjacent track remains open.
  The fields, which ordinarily draw throngs of baseball and soccer players, were built on a site that housed smelting companies from the 1920s to the 1940s.  Environmental officials, who are working on a plan to decontaminate the parkland, plan to hold a public meeting on the issue this summer.
  
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• Medical examiner: Prince died of fentanyl overdose, accident

  02-06-2016 21:52
  
  The findings confirm suspicions that opioids played a role in the death of the superstar musician, who was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate.
  
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• Your Favorite Canadian Indie Band Covered Your Favorite EDM Song

  02-06-2016 20:20 via bkmag.com
  
  Stars, one of the best Canadian indie bands of our generation, covered Mike Posner’s inescapable EDM downer-anthem and one of our songs of the summer “I Took A Pill In Ibiza” (yes, it’s the Seeb remix, not the acoustic original), and it’s just wonderful. They do a monthly cover series and this is the latest entry; previous renditions include songs like Kanye West’s “Streetlights” and “It Ain’t Me Baby” by a little folk singer name
  
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• Music Review: Boundary-busting country from Robert Ellis

  02-06-2016 19:48
  
  Texas singer-songwriter Robert Ellis doesn't test the boundaries of country music so much as bowl them over, like a lovesick ex-convict fueled by a 12-pack driving his pickup truck into a row of honky-tonks
  
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• Police: Suspect in Indiana killings inspired by 'Purge' film

  02-06-2016 19:41
  
  A 19-year-old Indianapolis man is charged with killing three people over four nights, and authorities say he was inspired by horror movie "The Purge."
  
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• Review: Train faithfully, needlessly cover 'Led Zeppelin II'

  02-06-2016 19:37
  
  Train's "Does Led Zeppelin II" is a faithful, needless cover of the British band's 1969 classic
  
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• APNewsBreak: Official says Prince died of opioid overdose

  02-06-2016 19:31
  
  A law-enforcement official tells The Associated Press that tests show the music superstar died of an opioid overdose
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Kenny DeForest

  02-06-2016 19:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Kenny DeForest
  Kenny DeForest, co-host of Comedy at the Knitting Factory, doesn’t want you to be comfortable. He wants you to think about race, about sex, about all the bullshit that keeps you comfortable. After five years in the Chicago comedy scene, DeForest is immune to discomfort (at least on stage). He thinks it’s hilarious to have to rapidly decide if you’re going to laugh when he says white men don’t get enough credit for letting women vote. “We didn’t
  
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• The Latest: Source: Prince autopsy to be released Friday

  02-06-2016 19:24
  
  A person with knowledge of the medical examiner's plan tells The Associated Press that Prince's autopsy results are expected to be released Friday
  
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• Prince's death adds to opioid overdose epidemic's grim toll

  02-06-2016 19:22
  
  Music superstar Prince's death from an opioid overdose is a stunning example of a national epidemic of overdose deaths driven by prescription opioid painkillers
  
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• Ex-PepsiCo CEO who helped lead "Cola Wars" has died

  02-06-2016 19:14
  
  PepsiCo says its former CEO Roger Enrico, who helped lead the company during the "Cola Wars" advertising battle with Coca-Cola in the 1980s, has died
  
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• 'Property Brothers' star avoids charges in bar incident

  02-06-2016 19:06
  
  Authorities say no charges will be filed against one of the twin brother stars of HGTV's "Property Brothers" following an incident at a North Dakota bar
  
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• How Lebanese Indie Rockers Mashrou’ Leila Balance Boycotts And Touring

  02-06-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  “Saying that the band must be banned from playing […] because our songs address themes of sexuality, homosexuality or support righteous democratic protests against social or political problems, is essentially saying that any artist addressing basic human rights through their work should be banned,” — excerpt from the Mashrou’ Leila’s Facebook post in wake of their ban in Jordan.Lebanese indie band Mashrou’ Leila didn’t hold back after Jordan&rsquo
  
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• Call Girls, Shysters and Other Freelancers: The Girlfriend Experience, Better Call Saul and the Gig Economy on TV

  02-06-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The lone wolves of Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience and AMC’s Better Call Saul will probably never find the occasion to share a drink, but if they did, they might be surprised by the communion they’d forge. Firstly, like most of us, the former’s Christine (Riley Keough) and the latter’s Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) both need money. Like many creative, eccentric people with unorthodox social skills, they have a difficult time playing by the rules of conventional American s
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Michelle Wolf

  02-06-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Michelle Wolf
  Is a writer and correspondent on the Daily Show, and came to that job from two years of working as a writer for Seth Meyers’ on Late Night. But don’t be too jealous, because Wolf is genuinely funny (actually maybe that makes you more jealous!). Her work is perfect for these big national forums: she talks about broadly relatable stuff like going to the gym, not looking lonely and gross in selfies, and changing the types of Diabetes from I and II to “not your
  
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• Q&A: Ziggy Marley on political new album, acting, Snapchat

  02-06-2016 18:52
  
  Ziggy Marley tries to push outside his comfort zone with political references in new album, acting on 'Hawaii Five-O'
  
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• Plaza Swing Series: StringsNskins

  02-06-2016 18:43
  Wednesday, July 6, 2016 6:30 pmCentral Library, PlazaThe traditional sound of the djembe along the classical sound of the violin. The rhythms of Haiti combined with the exotic Afro sounds of Colombia with an urban twist from Brooklyn. StringsNskins takes you on a journey through the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. The high energy sets include traditional dances, songs in English, Spanish and Haitian creole, and the message of unity.
  Dance lessons are at 6:30, band starts at
  
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• [FEARLESS PARENTING] The day a deer told Steph what to do

  02-06-2016 18:33
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Stephanie Thompsonfor Brooklyn PaperI found the house on a walk from my in-laws, five years ago. It was just down the road from their house in Long Island, around a curve. I’d stopped to watch a deer in the wetlands who was staring at me menacingly across the tops of the brush, on high alert. She locked me in her gaze and wouldn’t step away. I felt slightly scared, not like she was going to charge exactly, but like there was some reason she was
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Will Miles

  02-06-2016 18:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Will Miles
  Will Miles is a writer on probably the coolest show on TV right now, The Chris Gethard Show. It’s no wonder; his mix of honesty, sadness, and fun is pretty much a perfect fit. Race is a big part of Miles’ act, who says he “grew up black, and I’m still black today. . . . I tried to use Ancestry.com, but it went back a few hundred years and then just said ‘boat,’” he said in a recent set. “Then my computer exploded.”A Chicago native,
  
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• AP sources say Prince died of opioid overdose

  02-06-2016 18:30
  
  A law-enforcement official tells The Associated Press that tests show the music superstar died of an opioid overdose
  
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• Review: 'Ninja Turtles' sequel is a cartoon on steroids

  02-06-2016 18:24
  
  Review: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows" is a Saturday morning cartoon on Michael Bay steroids
  
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• Frank Sinatra stage musical in the works for 2018

  02-06-2016 18:16
  
  A new jukebox musical about the life of Frank Sinatra is in the works for 2018
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Janelle James

  02-06-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Janelle James
  Your life changes when you get older. Janelle James is not old by any stretch of the imagination, but her life is changing, and she embraces it. “I used to be a dominatrix, and now my favorite shit to do is go to Costco,” she said in a recent set about the joys of abandoning Brooklyn for the suburbs. (The crowd booed, don’t worry.) 
  This is the start of a solid bit about eating samples at Costco, behind a big guy waiting for a tiny slice of chocolate cake.&n
  
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• Law enforcement official tells AP that tests show Prince died of an opioid overdose.

  02-06-2016 17:58
  
  Law enforcement official tells AP that tests show Prince died of an opioid overdose.
  
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• Maison Premiere’s Little Sister Was Born to Be Sauvage

  02-06-2016 17:45 via bkmag.com
  
  The nature of our job makes it difficult to regularly revisit restaurants. And yet, we can rarely resist the pull of Maison Premiere; especially if we’re anywhere near the eatery between 4-7pm, when we can avail ourselves of absinthe cocktails, and its preeminent oyster happy hour. And so, we’ve been hawkishly following the progress of its long anticipated little sibling, Sauvage, which finally debuted in the desirable, easily accessible Lokal space, mere steps from the subway and d
  
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• New book documents deaths in Glacier National Park

  02-06-2016 17:38
  
  A new book documents all 264 human deaths in Glacier National Park since the park was created in 1910
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Hadiyah Robinson

  02-06-2016 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Hadiyah Robinson
  You remember when a chocolate replica of your asshole was a thing you could buy for the person you loved on Valentine’s Day? The internet was convinced that a dozen delicately carved, tasty buttholes was an excellent gift idea—Hadiyah Robinson, thank god, remained unconvinced. One of her best videos on Internet Action Force warned “Just picture your grandmother buying your grandfather a box of her chocolate buttholes. ‘Mmm, that’s delicious,’
  
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• Fear Of Men’s Splendid Isolation

  02-06-2016 17:25 via bkmag.com
  
  Fear of Men jammed into their car and drove to the nearest gas station to call me. They’d been practicing all day at a remote farm that belongs to the parents of drummer Michael Miles. It’s about two hours from their homes in Brighton and the cell reception there is spotty at best.It’s not surprising that they’d want to rehearse out in the middle of nowhere, because isolation has plays a big part in the band’s mythology. After finishing their tour to promote their 2
  
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• Meet Tony Award nominee Cynthia Erivo, 'a force of nature'

  02-06-2016 17:13
  
  Cynthia Erivo's measured performance in "The Color Purple" _ as well as a voice that lifts the roof off the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre _ has earned Erivo, an actress few Americans knew a year ago, a Tony Award nomination on her Broadway debut
  
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• Brooklyn’s 50 Funniest People: Jordan Temple

  02-06-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Jordan Temple
  Jordan Temple sounds pretty relaxed, but don’t let it fool you. He’s got something serious to say—albeit with giggly absurdity. Temple says he used to get teased for being an Oreo: black on the outside, white on the inside. “Yeah, I am an Oreo,” he said, “And any other cookie that can read better than you. That joke is about the state of our country’s reading levels, because anthropomorphized Oreo is reading at a graduate level.”&nbs
  
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• How To Get $200,000 Worth Of Revenge, Or How Mishka Shubaly Stopped Dodging Success

  02-06-2016 16:45 via bkmag.com
  
  About a hundred pages into Mishka Shubaly’s memoir I Swear I’ll Make It Up to You, which came out this March, our hero, in a drunken haze, makes a four-point plan for world domination. One is “Graduate college and make mama proud.” Two is “Do something incredible.” Three is “Become successful.” Four is simply, “Get revenge.”Last month when I ask him how his plan was going, he laughs and says “Um, good and bad,” offering an e
  
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• [BRIDGE ‘PARK’] City unveils new plans for Pier 6 towers, park board will vote Tuesday

  02-06-2016 15:55
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperCity Hall has unveiled new plans for two housing high-rises it wants to build in Brooklyn Bridge Park — and park honchos intend to vote on the revised blueprints next week, despite losing state support for the project last month.The revamped proposal for the properties at Pier 6 calls for slightly smaller towers with fewer units — especially fewer below-market units — and nixes a planned pre-kindergarten space.Here
  
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• Nezet-Seguin to become Met Opera music director in 2020-21

  02-06-2016 15:44
  
  Yannick Nezet-Seguin will succeed James Levine as music director of the Metropolitan Opera but will not take over until the 2020-21 season
  
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• 10 Culture Essentials for June

  02-06-2016 15:42
  
  We’ve officially arrived at that time of year when our attention spans dwindle and our desire to be outside as much as possible steadily grows. Fortunately, the curators of local cultural events have heard our prayers and are offering plenty of ways to enjoy both the great outdoors and some great events. Couple that with a pair of page-turning beach reads, as well as a few indoor activities that are sure to be well air-conditioned, and you’ve got your cultur
  
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• Indiana man accused in 3 deaths modeled on 'The Purge' movie

  02-06-2016 15:15
  
  A 19-year-old Indiana man is accused of killing three people over four days, in a series of attacks modeled after the movie "The Purge." Jonathan Cruz's initial hearing on murder, robbery and other felony counts is scheduled Thursday in Indianapolis
  
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• [PERSPECTIVE] The day a deer told Steph what to do

  02-06-2016 15:03
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Stephanie Thompsonfor Brooklyn PaperI found the house on a walk from my in-laws, five years ago. It was just down the road from their house in Long Island, around a curve. I’d stopped to watch a deer in the wetlands who was staring at me menacingly across the tops of the brush, on high alert. She locked me in her gaze and wouldn’t step away. I felt slightly scared, not like she was going to charge exactly, but like there was some reason she was
  
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• Christian rock star Trey Pearson comes out as gay

  02-06-2016 14:29
  
  Christian rock star Trey Pearson has come out as gay in a magazine interview
  
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• John Legend to perform anthem at Game 1 of NBA Finals

  02-06-2016 14:04
  
  Grammy-winning singer John Legend will perform the national anthem for Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers
  
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• Can't stop the singing: Spotify predicts songs of the summer

  02-06-2016 14:01
  
  Spotify says Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling" will be a summer song you can't stop singing
  
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• The Witness: The Unincredible True Story of New York’s Most Famous Murder

  02-06-2016 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The WitnessDirected by James SolomonOpens June 3 at IFC Center
  You’ve no doubt heard the story. In 1964, Kitty Genovese was murdered in Kew Gardens, Queens. According to news reports, 38 neighbors witnessed the three-part attack. Apparently, none of them called the police, not wanting to get involved. Supposedly, had police or paramedics come after her first scream was heard, she could have been saved.
  The appeal of this incident for journalists and cultural commentators is easy to see, a
  
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• B-52s, Jennifer Hudson, Marcus Mumford to honor songwriters

  02-06-2016 13:13
  
  Presentations and performances by the B-52s, Jennifer Hudson, Marcus Mumford and Sister Sledge will be featured at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards dinner in New York City on June 9
  
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• [MUSIC] Down for the count: Opera stars a no-account nobleman

  02-06-2016 12:58
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Tatiana Hernandezfor Brooklyn PaperThis guy has some bad habits.A farcical French opera opening in Bushwick this week will star a debauched count and his entourage dressing up in nun costumes. The director of “Le Comte Ory,” says the Loft Opera company chose the story about a womanizing count because it combines great music and costumes with a fun, rebellious attitude that audiences can relate to.
  “The count is the one who says, ‘F--
  
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