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• Ubisoft goes 'Steep' at E3

  13-06-2016 23:55
  
  For its next open-world game, Ubisoft is combining collaborative multiplayer action with snowy extreme sports
  
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• Janet Waldo, voice of Judy Jetson and Josie, dies

  13-06-2016 22:31
  Janet Waldo, who provided the voice for Judy Jetson and many other cartoon characters, has died
  
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• Box office top 20: 'The Conjuring 2' tops 'Warcraft'

  13-06-2016 22:17
  
  In a trio of debuts, the horror sequel "The Conjuring 2" bested the video-game adaptation "Warcraft" and the magic caper "Now You See Me 2" at the weekend box office
  
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• Copa America crowds below World Cup but above projections

  13-06-2016 22:12
  
  Copa America crowds averaging more than 40,000, a figure below World Cup but above projections
  
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• Adam Levine offers to pay funeral expense for 'Voice' singer

  13-06-2016 21:40
  
  Pop star Adam Levine has offered to pay the funeral expenses for a singer gunned down after a Florida concert
  
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• Amid tragedy, Ringo Starr wants to spread more peace, love

  13-06-2016 21:21
  
  Ringo Starr, who spreads a message of peace and love every year on his birthday in July, said he was wants message to hit home harder in the wake of the devastating shooting in Orlando
  
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• Brooklyn’s First Puppy Brunch Was Exactly as Amazing as You’d Think

  13-06-2016 21:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Yesterday, outside of Cafe de la Esquina in Williamsburg, you might have encountered something strange: 20 people, standing in line, waiting to enter the restaurant’s outdoor seating area, before noon. People love a Brooklyn brunch, but, typically, it is not enough to lure anyone, hungover or not, out of bed and into the public sphere before 2pm. And yet, there they all were. Was this Bizarro Williamsburg—i.e. Williamsburg in 2016—the new Normal Williamsburg
  
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• The Latest: Apple message app to be more versatile, engaging

  13-06-2016 20:54
  
  Apple is trying to make its messaging app smarter, more versatile and more engaging as part of an upcoming update to its iPhone software
  
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• Razing Riviera casino will level part of Vegas' mobster past

  13-06-2016 20:46
  
  The Riviera Hotel and Casino will officially exit the scene on Tuesday with a cinematic implosion, complete with fireworks
  
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• Hamilton books high on Amazon best-seller list

  13-06-2016 20:37
  
  The day after "Hamilton" won 11 Tony awards, books related to the musical are also thriving
  
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• Join the club: Palahniuk now part of coloring book craze

  13-06-2016 20:31
  
  The author of "The Fight Club" has joined the coloring book club
  
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• Clinton vows to prioritize stopping 'lone wolf' attackers

  13-06-2016 20:18
  
  Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton vowed Monday to make stopping "lone wolf" terrorists a top priority if elected president
  
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• Announcing the winners of the 2016 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival

  13-06-2016 19:53
  
  We would like to thank all of our 2016 Official Selections for making the 6th Annual AoBFF a truly outstanding event and for representing the best in new Brooklyn-centric independent film. ​2016 AoBFF Winners:Animation
  THINK INK
  Directed by Wally Chung
   
  Narrative Super Short
  FIRST NIGHT OUT
  Directed by Will Mayo
   
  Dark Side Award
  PHOTO OP
  Directed by Dave Solomon
   
  Narrative Feature
  LIFE OF SIGNIFICANT SOIL
  Directed by Michael Irish
   
  Vanguard Award
  SUPER FUN SHOW
  
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• What Is Melissa Broder’s Last Sext?: Talking Poetry, God, and LA with the Darkly Brilliant Writer

  13-06-2016 19:25 via bkmag.com
  
  If you’ve ever happened upon a tweet from @SoSadToday, you’re already familiar with Melissa Broder’s dark, existential sense of humor. She started the Twitter account anonymously back in 2012 as an outlet for her anxious thoughts, and quickly built an audience of thousands. Her tweets range in subject matter from ghostwriting for Drake, to identifying sexually as “lost.” The nearly 400,000 followers she’s garnered, mostly while still anonymous, points to a big
  
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• Tonys audience largest since 2001, viewers up by 2.2 million

  13-06-2016 19:15
  
  CBS' Tony Awards telecast on Sunday beat last year's audience by one-third
  
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] Bed-Stuy man killed in mass shooting at gay club in Orlando

  13-06-2016 19:09
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperA Bedford-Stuyvesant man was one of 49 people a gunman shot dead during a terror attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando early on Sunday morning, and now his family are raising money to bring his body back to Brooklyn.Twenty-five-year-old Enrique Rios was at Pulse nightclub during a vacation in Florida when Omar Mateen opened fire, according to a crowd-funding page his mother set up to cover the costs of bringing her son back home for a
  
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• Historic sites get more visitors thanks to 'Hamilton' fans

  13-06-2016 18:59
  
  Historic sites connected to Alexander Hamilton are getting a lot more visitors than they used to, thanks to a little Broadway show you might have heard of
  
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• Father’s Day giveaway: Grass-fed steak lover gift box from Hamlet Meats

  13-06-2016 18:42
  
  This Steak Lover Gift Box from Hamlet Meats would make one dad very happy, but you can also enter to win these grass-fed, dry-aged, antibiotic and hormone-free steaks, plus lots of fixings for yourself. The gift box is valued at $184.99 and Hamlet Meats includes the following in each:2 Rib-eye, Sirloin, or Porterhouse Steaks
  2 Filet Mignon Steaks
  1 Jones Of Boerum Hill Workwear Apron
  1 Armstrong’s All Natural Butcher Block Wax
  1 Greenpoint Trading Co. T-Bone Spice Rub
  1 Hamlet Meats Therm
  
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• Father’s Day Giveaway: A Steak Lover Gift Box from Hamlet Meats

  13-06-2016 18:42
  
  This Steak Lover Gift Box from Hamlet Meats would make one dad very happy, but you can also enter to win these grass-fed, dry-aged, antibiotic and hormone-free steaks, plus lots of fixings for yourself. The gift box is valued at $184.99 and Hamlet Meats includes the following in each:2 Rib-eye, Sirloin, or Porterhouse Steaks
  2 Filet Mignon Steaks
  1 Jones Of Boerum Hill Workwear Apron
  1 Armstrong’s All Natural Butcher Block Wax
  1 Greenpoint Trading Co. T-Bone Spice Rub
  1 Hamlet Meats Therm
  
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• Diversity, persistence and tending nonprofits win at Tonys

  13-06-2016 18:42
  
  Five things to note following the Tony Awards on Sunday night include the diversity of the winners, a great host in James Corden and the nurturing role of nonprofits
  
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• Holy Smoke: Tacos to save your soul

  13-06-2016 18:09
  
  Eat tacos and sip rose for a good cause this summer. Photo: Regina Mogilevskaya
  Be honest–when was the last time your good deed for the day was purchasing and devouring tacos? Never? That’s about to change. For the rest of the summer you’ll be able to pop by the backyard at Greenpoint’s San Damiano Mission, fill up on some seriously delicious tacos, and know that your money is going toward a noble cause–the repair and restoration of the church’s 104-year
  
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• Vigil for slain 'Voice' singer set for New Jersey hometown

  13-06-2016 17:38
  
  The New Jersey hometown of a singer gunned down after a Florida concert is holding a candlelight vigil in her honor
  
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• Oscar Pistorius a 'broken' man as defense seeks leniency

  13-06-2016 17:33
  
  Oscar Pistorius is a 'broken man' argues his defense, urging a lenient sentence for murder, but prosecution challenges that
  
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• New York’s Low ABV Cocktails Trend: More Drinks, Fewer Headaches

  13-06-2016 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Have you noticed something peculiar about your cocktails lately? Perhaps that they seem a bit, less, well, alcohol-y? Don’t chalk it up to the fact that you’ve finally developed an impressive tolerance, or that bars and restaurants are trying to deprive you of your well earned (and accordingly paid for) buzz. But rather, this experience is due to the rise of low ABV (or low proof, or session) libations, built around aperitifs and digestifs such as vermouth, sherry and amaro, as oppo
  
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• Chicago-area woman who created beehive hairdo dies at age 98

  13-06-2016 17:28
  
  Margaret Vinci Heldt, who became a hairstyling celebrity after she created the famous beehive hairdo in 1960, has died at age 98.
  
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• Bill Murray to receive top US comedy prize at Kennedy Center

  13-06-2016 17:25
  
  Despite his move into serious roles, Bill Murray never stopped making people laugh
  
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• Court vacates $1.8M Ventura award in 'American Sniper' case

  13-06-2016 17:05
  
  A federal appeals court has thrown out a $1.8 million judgment awarded to former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who says he was defamed in the late author Chris Kyle's bestselling book "American Sniper."
  
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• D∆WN: An Interview With The R&B Phoenix

  13-06-2016 16:53 via bkmag.com
  
  Dawn Richard doesn’t move forward, she evolves. Since our introduction to the singer over a decade ago as a contestant and eventual champion on MTV’s Making the Band, Richard has run through the cycle of artistic birth and death innumerable times–first as a member of the Diddy-assembled girl group Danity Kane, then as a member of Puff’s side project Dirty Money, and now as a visionary solo performer. It’s no surprise, then, that her current, futurist spin on R&B
  
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• Police: Man who threw bottle at Phillies' Howard cited

  13-06-2016 16:47
  
  Police say a man accused of throwing a beer bottle near Phillies player Ryan Howard during a game earlier this month has been cited for disorderly conduct
  
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• New York poised to expand access to breast cancer screening

  13-06-2016 16:39
  
  New York state will expand access to breast cancer screening under an agreement reached by top lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who made combatting the cancer a priority after the successful cancer treatment of his girlfriend, Food Network star Sandra Lee
  
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• Seeing The Invisible: Talking With Debut Memoirist Mychal Denzel Smith

  13-06-2016 16:35 via bkmag.com
  
  Mychal Denzel Smith’s vital debut memoir Invisible Man, Got The Whole World Watching adopts its title from a song on Mos Def’s 1999 debut album Black On Both Sides. It’s the perfect metaphor for Smith to stand upon as a soapbox to speak on the duality of how black male identity is flattened, commodified, and consumed voraciously by the American masses. Check the ratings on this week’s NBA Finals or that ever-growing number below the frame on popular rap videos on YouTube
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Ballsy move! Man shot in crotch drives himself to hospital

  13-06-2016 16:17
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn PaperThis is nuts!A guy with seven gunshot wounds to his groin and arm drove from Sunset Park to a Park Slope hospital — and into two other cars — on June 11, police and witnesses say.The 45-year-old was likely involved in a shooting at 53rd Street and Third Avenue, and he showed up to Methodist Hospital at 4:57 pm, officials said.He hit two cars turning the wrong way onto Sixth Street at
  
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• [IT’S ONLY MY OPINION] Stan issues a Warren-ing to the senator from Massachusetts

  13-06-2016 16:17
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyLooks like there won’t be a debate between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. That’s too bad. It would have been more than just entertaining. For the first 20 minutes, they would have tossed harmless, insulting, trash talk at each other. Then, with the signal from the producers, they would have moved into actual campaign mode with each doing their thing against Hillary.Can you picture a million people watching a g
  
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• [CRIME] Ballsy move! Man shot in crotch drives himself to hospital

  13-06-2016 16:17
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThis is nuts!A guy with seven gunshot wounds to his groin and arm drove from Sunset Park to a Park Slope hospital — and into two other cars — on June 11, police and witnesses say.The 45-year-old was likely involved in a shooting at 53rd Street and Third Avenue, and he showed up to Methodist Hospital at 4:57 pm, officials said.He hit two cars turning the wrong way onto Sixth Street at
  
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• 'The Illusionists' look backward for next Broadway stop

  13-06-2016 16:05
  The magic supergroup "The Illusionists" is coming back to Broadway for a new holiday show _ and this time they're bringing a time machine
  
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• Wounds of the Mind: Zoltán Huszárik’s Rare Shorts at the Spectacle

  13-06-2016 15:48 via bkmag.com
  
  Three Short Films by Zoltán HuszárikJune at the Spectacle
  Hungarian fatalist Zoltán Huszárik’s seductive masterpiece Szindbád unspools memories of lust and gluttony from the brain of a dying debauched man, tangled in a web of regret and exultation. A woman bending over, revealing enchanting red panties from behind would be a typical fever flash in Szindbád, but it happens to take place over a grave in As You Like It (1976), one of three shorts acc
  
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• How Queens Became a Bookstore Desert, and How that Can Change

  13-06-2016 15:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Booksellers Vina Castillo, Natalie Noboa, and Holly Nikodem first met at the Forest Hill Barnes and Noble. They met again when the store was closing—the three women returned to B&N’s Forest Hills location at the end of 2015 intending to say goodbye to the store and reminisce with fellow coworkers. They weren’t planning on opening a new bookstore, but that was before the three realized that without the B&N, Queens—a borough with a population of close to 2.3 million
  
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• Review: 'Widowmaker' by Paul Doiron is fast-paced tale

  13-06-2016 15:25
  
  Book Review: "Widowmaker" by Paul Doiron is a violent, suspenseful, fast-paced tale
  
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• Triby, a gift dads will actually use

  13-06-2016 15:23
  
  Triby lets you catch up on the news, stay connected with loved ones and listen to music, no iPhones or landlines needed.
  June 19 is six days away. If you are racking your head for the perfect gift for your favorite dad, Triby is a cool tech toy that will make his Father’s Day and improve everyone else’s home life, too.This smart, portable Bluetooth speaker sticks to your fridge and features voice control with the Alexa Voice Service, so you can ask Alexa to hear the news, listen to
  
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• Court clears Bollywood drug film for release with just 1 cut

  13-06-2016 14:27
  
  A Bollywood movie about drug abuse in India's northern state of Punjab can be released in theaters with one potentially offensive scene removed, rather than the many cuts sought by censors, a court ruled
  
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• Woman convicted of fatally poisoning husband dies in prison

  13-06-2016 13:53
  
  A New York woman convicted of fatally poisoning her husband with antifreeze and trying to kill her daughter in similar fashion has died in prison
  
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• Review: History, travel & comedy collide in 'Wonder Trail'

  13-06-2016 13:51
  
  Book Review: History, travel and comedy collide in a journey from California to Chili in Steve Hely's "The Wonder Trail."
  
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• Across the world, shock and condemnation at Orlando massacre

  13-06-2016 13:46
  
  From across the world, condemnation and shock over the Florida mass shooting that killed at least 50
  
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• Photos: 2016 Tony Awards

  13-06-2016 13:25
  
  'Hamilton' won the 2016 Tony Award for best new musical, as many in the Broadway community rallied to embrace the LGBT community after the Orlando mass shooting.
  
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• Psychologist at sentencing hearing: Pistorius 'broken' man

  13-06-2016 12:30
  
  Psychologist at sentencing hearing: Pistorius a 'broken' man who shouldn't be jailed again
  
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• Top Tony moments: Miranda's tearful sonnet, Corden's antics

  13-06-2016 11:35
  
  Top moments of the Tony Awards included a tearful sonnet by Lin-Manuel Miranda referring to the Orlando shooting, and the refreshing, Broadway-loving antics of host James Corden
  
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• Convicted murderer Pistorius appears at sentencing hearing

  13-06-2016 10:38
  
  Oscar Pistorius is in a South African court for a sentencing hearing after the double-amputee Olympian was convicted of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
  
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• [PROSPECT HEIGHTS] Make a knight of it! Library hosts real-life chess game

  13-06-2016 10:33
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperGetting kids to read is child’s play!The Brooklyn Public Library kicked of its annual summer reading program at the Central branch in Prospect Heights on Thursday, with a games-themed party that included a live-action chess match where kids stood in as the game pieces. And the youngsters had such a blast acting as knights and rooks, they even managed to stay skill on the giants chess b
  
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] Brodsky rejects DeBlasio’s $100M offer for Bushwick Inlet Park site: rep

  13-06-2016 10:31
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperA Williamsburg property mogul rejected Mayor DeBlasio’s $100-million offer to buy land he owns on the neighborhood’s waterfront, thwarting Hizzoner’s effort to make good on a decade-old promise to turn the site into parkland, according to his broker.City officials met with developer Norm Brodsky on Thursday to make the offer on his burnt-out CitiStorage warehouses at Kent Avenue and N. 11th Street, but Brodsky turne
  
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• [CLEANING OUR WATERWAYS] Two thumbs up: Feds OK city plan to sieze Gowanus film studio

  13-06-2016 10:31
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperHe’s hoping for a Hollywood ending.The owner of an imperiled Gowanus film studio is making a last-ditch plea to the DeBlasio administration to spare his soundstage from the wrecking ball, after the Feds on Thursday signed off on the city’s plan to seize the property for use in the Canal cleanup effort.
  If the city really cares about the $9-billion local film industry it is so fond on
  
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