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• Hollywood superhero proves to be Kryptonite to fraud scheme

  17-06-2016 22:34
  
  Prosecutors say an international identity-theft ring is believed to have roped in hundreds of victims and millions of dollars, even co-opting the image of a Hollywood actress who played Supergirl on TV for a fake passport
  
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• 'Orange' star: Shootings stole every gay persons' security

  17-06-2016 22:12
  
  A feeling of safety was stripped from every gay person with last weekend's massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
  
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• Phillipa Soo of 'Hamilton' to star in 'Amelie' musical

  17-06-2016 22:10
  
  Tony Award-nominee and "Hamilton" star Phillipa Soo has a new whimsical gig lined up _ she'll lead a musical stage version of the film "Amelie" that hopes to land on Broadway in 2017
  
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• The Latest: FBI confirms prior contact with body armor shop

  17-06-2016 22:01
  
  The FBI is confirming that agents spoke last month with a Florida gun shop where Orlando shooter Omar Mateen asked to buy body armor and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition
  
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• Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs overcome obstacles

  17-06-2016 21:33
  
  Musical trio of Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs find a trio album is harder in practice than it was in theory
  
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• Identity theft ring tripped up by Hollywood superhero

  17-06-2016 21:31
  
  Prosecutors say an international identity-theft ring is believed to have roped in hundreds of victims and millions of dollars, even co-opting the image of a Hollywood actress who played Supergirl on TV for a fake passport
  
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• Electric Daisy Carnival to begin 3-night run in Las Vegas

  17-06-2016 21:27
  
  The Electric Daisy Carnival returns to Las Vegas this weekend, with hundreds of thousands of revelers expected at the three-night music and entertainment festival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway
  
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• Brooklyn’s Biggest Artisanal Punchline Is Dead

  17-06-2016 21:12 via bkmag.com
  
  Listen up, Brooklyn, for here is some sad news. You will no longer be able to visit a brick and mortar store dedicated exclusively to variously-flavored artisanal whipped egg and oil, because Empire Mayonnaise—opened in 2012 in Prospect Heights by Sam Mason of OddFellows ice cream, and partner Elizabeth Valleau—is closing late next month, Gothamist reports.
  Sure, when it first opened, it seemed a ridiculous and almost sad sign of the times in Brooklyn, and The General State of Thing
  
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• [►CLIP, PODCAST] Here’s our interview with Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

  17-06-2016 21:11
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.Brooklyn PaperDon’t have time to listen to the whole show? Here’s a clip of Gersh and Vince talking with Adam Duritz of Counting Crows.Enjoy! And notice how Adam’s call interrupts Kuntzman and DiMiceli’s scintillating conversation about Tom Cruise’s career.Brooklyn Paper radio is recorded and podcast live every Thursday at 4:45 pm — for your convenience — from out studio in America
  
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• Fancy to whimsical: Joan Rivers belongings up for auction

  17-06-2016 20:12
  
  From fine French furniture to Faberge picture frames: Joan Rivers' belongings up for auction
  
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• How to Get Free Citi Bike This Weekend

  17-06-2016 19:55 via bkmag.com
  
  Have you been too busy or lazy or unsure if you’ll use Citi Bike to sign up for it? Personally, I have been all of those things. But guess what? If you take five measly seconds out of your day, right now, click on this link, and then fill in your first name, last name, and email address, you can ride Citi Bike for free, all weekend long, starting now. This is not a joke! It is for real. I am so bad at signing up for things, and yet I just did this and it didn’t pain m
  
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• The Latest: Economist says Zeppelin songs earning millions

  17-06-2016 19:54
  
  An economist has testified that "Stairway to Heaven" and other Led Zeppelin songs have produced nearly $60 million in revenue over the past five years
  
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• Anna North Talks about Sophie Stark, Bisexuality, and the Human Cost of Art

  17-06-2016 19:50 via bkmag.com
  
  A magnetic novel, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark tells the story of a young filmmaker’s meteoric rise and sudden disappearance as relayed by the people closest to her. I recently talked with its author, Anna North—who is fresh off a Lambda Literary Award and the novel’s (her second) paperback release—about art and work and ethics. Which is to say, the fun stuff. North is appearing in Brooklyn this upcoming Sunday and Monday—talking about sex at BookCourt on Jun
  
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• Just Say Yes: What It’s Like Inside a Bushwick Almost Sex Party

  17-06-2016 19:40 via bkmag.com
  
  Last night, inside the main room at House of Yes, was a sight that you probably haven’t seen before: Naked men and women, lying on padded bed-like tables and covered with spreads of sumptuous food arranged artistically all over their supine bodies. These human platters were covered in steak, sushi, huge grilled mushrooms, fried quail, and cake—much of which had sauce drizzled all over it. Attendees had been asked to dress in “black tie fetish” (so, put on
  
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• DiCaprio deposition ordered in 'Wolf of Wall Street' lawsuit

  17-06-2016 19:35
  
  A federal judge says actor Leonardo DiCaprio can be questioned for litigation stemming from "The Wolf of Wall Street."
  
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• Review: Mumford & Sons' 'Johannesburg' a rich, rhythmic romp

  17-06-2016 19:28
  
  Music review: Mumford & Sons' new 5-song mini-album blends the band's folk sounds with African rhythms, instruments and vocals with rich results
  
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• [►CLIP, PODCAST] Here’s our interview with Joshua Fischer, author of ‘Meet the Regulars’

  17-06-2016 19:24
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperThe author of a book about bars and restaurants and other places where famous and not-so-famous Brooklynites like to hang out apologized to Brooklyn Paper Radio host Gersh Kuntzman for not including him in the tome — and promised to get the fledgling playwright into his next work.
  Joshua Fischer, who wrote “Meet the Regulars — People or Brooklyn and the Places They Love&rdq
  
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• [CLIP, ►AUDIO, PODCAST] Here’s our interview with Joshua Fischer, author of ‘Meet the Regulars’

  17-06-2016 19:24
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperThe author of a book about bars and restaurants and other places where famous and not-so-famous Brooklynites like to hang out apologized to Brooklyn Paper Radio host Gersh Kuntzman for not including him in the tome — and promised to get the fledgling playwright into his next work.
  Joshua Fischer, who wrote “Meet the Regulars — People or Brooklyn and the Places They Love&rdq
  
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• [CLIP, ►AUDIO, PODCAST] Here’s our interview with Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

  17-06-2016 19:24
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.Brooklyn PaperDon’t have time to listen to the whole show? Here’s a clip of Gersh and Vince talking with Adam Duritz of Counting Crows.Enjoy! And notice how Adam’s call interrupts Kuntzman and DiMiceli’s scintillating conversation about Tom Cruise’s career.Brooklyn Paper radio is recorded and podcast live every Thursday at 4:45 pm — for your convenience — from out studio in America
  
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] What’s the greatest song Counting Crows has ever written?

  17-06-2016 19:24
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperThe breakout hit that launched the career of Adam Duritz and his band Counting Crows is not the greatest song the rocker has written, the singer told Brooklyn Paper Radio, claiming that the band’s most-popular ditty “Mr. Jones” is not as good as some of its more recent work.The singling-out of his 2014 single “Palisades Park” as better than the seminal ’90
  
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• Aguilera pens song to benefit shooting victims' families

  17-06-2016 18:50
  
  Pop star Christina Aguilera has released a new song, "Change," following the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub and says proceeds from the sale will go to benefit the victims and their families
  
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• In a New Production of The Flying Doctor, Molière Meets Andy Warhol

  17-06-2016 18:45 via bkmag.com
  
  The Flying Doctor
  Central Booking Art Space
  21 Ludlow Street, New York
  The Flying Doctor is a one-act written by the legendary French playwright Molière when he was in his early twenties (it was his first play), and so it seems fitting that it gets such an exuberantly fun and energetic production by a group of young actors who have staged it at the back of Central Booking, an art gallery and performance space on the Lower East Side. You can look at some of the art for sale in front and t
  
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• Review: Laura Mvula's vocals sublime on 'The Dreaming Room'

  17-06-2016 18:34
  
  Laura Mvula creates a festival of vocals on "The Dreaming Room," an ambitious album with songs suitable for recital halls and dance floors
  
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• 'Finding Dory' takes in a record $9.2M in Thursday previews

  17-06-2016 18:22
  
  The Pixar sequel "Finding Dory" took in $9.2 million in Thursday previews, a record for an animated film
  
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• Alabama Shakes And Kamasi Washington Win Big At The Independent Music Awards

  17-06-2016 18:13 via bkmag.com
  
  While the independent music scene certainly has an international scope, Brooklyn is a hub, home and haven for many of the artists and labels that are involved. Last night I took the train up from our Brooklyn office to the spacious confines of the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom to attend the fifth annual Libera Awards, a mini award show hosted by the American Association of Independent Music that seeks to highlight excellence in this realm.Sitting up in the balcony waiting for the show
  
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• 2 Dope Queens Co-host Phoebe Robinson Debuts a Brand New Podcast

  17-06-2016 17:55 via bkmag.com
  
  These days, if someone asks, “What podcast are you listening to,” one answer is likely “2 Dope Queens,” hosted by Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson. These Brooklyn comics are friends, hilarious, and host a hell of a show broadcast live from Bell House every Sunday, covering a range of pressing issues like periods, hailing taxis, and dad bods, and they definitely do not shy away from conversations that highlight blatant, and often very funny (only because the
  
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• [►VIDEO, PODCAST] What’s the greatest song Counting Crows has ever written?

  17-06-2016 17:30
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperThe breakout hit that launched the career of Adam Duritz and his band Counting Crows is not the greatest song the rocker has written, the singer told Brooklyn Paper Radio, claiming that the band’s most-popular ditty “Mr. Jones” is not as good as some of its more recent work.The singling-out of his 2014 single “Palisades Park” as better than the seminal ’90
  
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• Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers reflective on 'The Getaway'

  17-06-2016 17:29
  
  The Red Hot Chili Peppers' first album in 5 years, "The Getaway," is a melancholy set, even when the rhythms accelerate
  
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• Post-Haste: 1500 Words That Won’t Tell You What Mark Lanegan’s Bubblegum Sounds Like

  17-06-2016 17:20 via bkmag.com
  
  At age 26, you run out of markers. Your adolescence is just first after first after first: first wet dream, first period, first guilty masturbation, first fight, first drunk, first boob touch, first weird homoerotic dream, first crotch warmth detected through jeans, first high, first shoplifting, first lay, first heartbreak, first blackout. So, too, with rock ‘n roll–emblematic, iconic first after first: Look What the Cat Dragged in, Appetite for Destruction, London Calling, And Just
  
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• [A BRITISHER’S VIEW] Islamo-moderates pray while Islamo-nuts prey on Americans

  17-06-2016 16:18
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyIt’s the ideology, stupid.Radical Islam is plotting around the clock to kill us — even on holy days — but the West is participating in its own suicide with hobbled policies and doddering mindsets that bolster Islamo-extremists and prop Islamo-moderates, whose stupor over creeps in their community is a jig on the graves of the dead.The Orlando terrorist attack killed 49 people on Sunday, less than a week after a
  
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• It's 'Howdy Doody' Time again with July 4th TV marathon

  17-06-2016 15:01
  
  After a half-century, it's time again for Howdy Doody, the redheaded, freckle-faced marionette born at the dawn of television
  
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• Wrestler Jerry Lawler, girlfriend arrested in Memphis

  17-06-2016 14:22
  
  Police in Tennessee say wrestler Jerry "The King" Lawler and his girlfriend have been arrested on charges of domestic violence
  
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• BAMcinemaFest: Get to Know Keith Poulson, “That Guy” of NYC Indie Film

  17-06-2016 13:17 via bkmag.com
  
  If there’s a “That Guy” of NY indie film, it’s probably Keith Poulson. He’s been in so many films that have played BAMcinemaFest, from a creepy art scenester in Hellaware to a cult leader in Stinking Heaven to a smarmy novelist in Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip. (He’s also worked on and appeared in two of Perry’s other four films.) Yet his latest role as an Iraq War veteran in Zach Clark’s excellent and moving Little Sister (premiering a
  
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• Services to be held Friday for slain 'Voice' singer

  17-06-2016 11:27
  
  Family and friends are gathering in New Jersey to remember "The Voice" singer Christina Grimmie
  
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• Minister disowns comment that UAE's role in Yemen is over

  17-06-2016 10:07
  
  A top diplomat for the United Arab Emirates has stepped back from his earlier comments that their part in the Saudi-led war in Yemen was "over."
  
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• Led Zeppelin's Page dodges court questions, riffs air guitar

  17-06-2016 10:06
  
  Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page demonstrated a deft touch at deflecting questions aimed at showing he might have lifted a passage for the introduction to the 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven."
  
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• Conflicting testimony fills Baltimore officer's trial

  17-06-2016 09:28
  
  Baltimore Judge Barry Williams will be sorting through plenty of contradictory and confusing testimony as he decides the case of a police officer charged with murdering a black prisoner whose neck was broken in a police transport van
  
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• Singer Meat Loaf collapses during concert in Canada

  17-06-2016 08:36
  
  Rock singer Meat Loaf has collapsed on stage during a concert in Edmonton, Alberta
  
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• Ronnie Claire Edwards, Corabeth on 'Waltons,' dies at 83

  17-06-2016 07:47
  
  A friend of Ronnie Claire Edwards, who played Corabeth Godsey on "The Waltons," says the actress has died
  
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• LeBron has heartfelt exchange with Craig Sager after win

  17-06-2016 07:12
  
  After beating the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, Cavaliers star LeBron James had a heartfelt exchange with popular sideline reporter Craig Sager
  
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• Film production tax credit approved for eastern NY counties

  17-06-2016 07:10
  
  The state Legislature has approved an expansion of state film tax credits to eight eastern New York counties after a lobbying effort that included numerous celebrities from the Hudson Valley and Catskills
  
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• Key Prince career executives retained for estate management

  17-06-2016 06:16
  
  The entertainment assets of Prince's estate will be managed by two key figures in his career
  
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• [►VIDEO, BAY RIDGE] Overnight R train to run borough-wide starting this fall

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyIt’s about to get a lot easier coming home to Bay Ridge late at night.The after-hours R train will make all stops in Brooklyn starting this fall, connecting nocturnal Ridgites to six additional subway lines, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials announced on June 16. Right now, Bay Ridge’s lone locomotive only chugs between 36th and 95th streets, so the change can’t come soon enough for locals who endure
  
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• [MARINE PARK] Sears ya later! Department store departing Kings Plaza, makeover to follow

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyEverything must go!Iconic American department store Sears is shutting its doors after 20 years in Marine Park’s Kings Plaza mall, and high-end European clothing stores Primark and Zara will replace it, mall owners announced on June 16. The tony couture-purveyors will help transform the mall into a more fashion-forward spot, said an executive from Macerich, the company that owns Kings Plaza.
  “We are very pleased that bo
  
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• Follow that bird!

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperThere are plenty of eggcellent birding spots throughout Brooklyn. Heather Wolf, author of “Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront” recommended some of the borough’s best locations — other than Brooklyn Bridge Park — for spotting our feathered friends.
  Prospect Park
  The most popular birding spot in Brooklyn is Prospect Park — and for good reason! The park’
  
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• [DUMBO] Bird is the word! Have you heard about birding at the Bridge?

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyGo birding this summer — you won’t egret it!
  A Brooklyn bird-watcher reveals the best places in Brooklyn Bridge Park to spot avian activity in the new book “Birding at the Bridge.” First-time author Heather Wolf, who will also lead a birding class at Brooklyn Brainery on June 22, says that she wanted to share the colorful birds in the manmade park with anybirdy willing
  
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• [BOROBEAT] Beam them up! Kensington middle-schoolers tour solar-powered plane

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Tatiana HernandezBrooklyn DailyThey really warmed up to this field trip.
  Student from Kensington’s IS 62 and the Brooklyn Science and Engineering Academy in East Flatbush had a blast learning about a solar-powered airplane at John F. Kennedy airport on June 15, according to an organizer. The middle-schoolers especially enjoyed meeting and doing science experiments with the jets’ eco-conscious creators and pilots, who are travelling around the wo
  
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• [BOOKS] Bird is the word! Have you heard about birding at the Bridge?

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperGo birding this summer — you won’t egret it!
  A Brooklyn bird-watcher reveals the best places in Brooklyn Bridge Park to spot avian activity in the new book “Birding at the Bridge.” First-time author Heather Wolf, who will also lead a birding class at Brooklyn Brainery on June 22, says that she wanted to share the colorful birds in the manmade park with anybirdy willing
  
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• [BAY RIDGE NIGHTS] Bay Ridge Nights is poppin’

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyTake your papa out all night!It is Father’s Day weekend in Bay Ridge, so show the old man a copy of Bay Ridge Nights and let him decide what to do for once. Dads come in all shapes, sizes, and ages — and we have something for all of them.Older dads — and grandads — will love Back Trax at Schnitzel Haus (7319 Fifth Ave. between 73rd and 74th streets) on Friday night. If your paterfamilias can stay up until 9:
  
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• [24/7] Follow that bird!

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThere are plenty of eggcellent birding spots throughout Brooklyn. Heather Wolf, author of “Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront” recommended some of the borough’s best locations — other than Brooklyn Bridge Park — for spotting our feathered friends.
  Prospect Park
  The most popular birding spot in Brooklyn is Prospect Park — and for good reason! The park’
  
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