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• State police: 2 star athletes killed in single-vehicle crash

  20-06-2016 23:46
  
  State police say two former star high school athletes were killed in a crash on an interstate highway in northern New Jersey
  
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• "Finding Dory" breaks record for opening of animated film

  20-06-2016 23:44
  
  "Finding Dory" is officially the record holder for top animated opening of all time in North American theaters
  
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• Anchorwoman fired for Facebook remarks on race sues station

  20-06-2016 23:35
  
  A former Pittsburgh newscaster who was fired after her comments in a Facebook post about a shooting were deemed racially insensitive is suing the TV station
  
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• TV series on Michael Jackson's final years in development

  20-06-2016 23:32
  
  Producer J.J. Abrams is developing a new book about Michael Jackson's final years for TV with its co-author, TV and radio host Tavis Smiley
  
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• Rihanna, Coldplay to headline Made in America festival

  20-06-2016 22:55
  
  Rihanna and Coldplay will headline the Made in America festival on Labor Day weekend in Philadelphia for its fifth season
  
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• Paint-covered horse adopted by Jon Stewart and wife dies

  20-06-2016 22:46
  
  A horse adopted by Jon Stewart and his wife after it was found seemingly abandoned at an auction stable in Pennsylvania has died at their New Jersey farm
  
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• Lil Rel Howery arrested in Chicago after motorist punched

  20-06-2016 22:02
  
  Lil Rel Howery of NBC's "The Carmichael Show" has been arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge
  
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• Game 7 draws top NBA Finals rating since Jordan's last title

  20-06-2016 22:01
  
  Game 7 between the Cavaliers and Warriors has drawn the highest television rating for the NBA Finals since Michael Jordan's last championship
  
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• Jared Leto takes Gucci front row during Milan Fashion Week

  20-06-2016 21:54
  
  Street wear was trumping more formal looks during menswear previews for next spring and summer on the third day of Milan Fashion Week on Monday
  
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• SUV that rolled, killed 'Star Trek' actor is under recall

  20-06-2016 21:38
  
  Government records show the vehicle that killed "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin was being recalled because the gear shifters have confused drivers, causing the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly
  
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• Man charged with hammer attack at beach held without bail

  20-06-2016 21:36
  
  A Massachusetts man charged with shouting racial slurs and swinging a hammer at a group of black and Latino men at a beach has been held without bail pending a hearing to determine whether he is dangerous
  
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• Ali Center gets first big corporate gift since Ali's death

  20-06-2016 21:36
  
  The Muhammad Ali Center in Kentucky has received its first big corporate donation since the boxing great's death
  
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• Judge orders wrestler Jerry Lawler, fiancee to stay apart

  20-06-2016 21:19
  
  A Tennessee judge has ordered wrestler Jerry "The King" Lawler and his fiancee to stay away from one another following their arrest on domestic violence charges
  
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• Ousted campaign manager had unlikely path to Trump Tower

  20-06-2016 20:44
  
  Corey Lewandowski rose from political obscurity to oversee Trump's unlikely rise to the brink of the Republican nomination, but he also became a flashpoint for campaign in-fighting
  
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• David Bowie's hair expected to fetch $4,000-plus at auction

  20-06-2016 20:41
  
  An auction house is expecting a lock of David Bowie's hair to fetch more than $4,000 this weekend
  
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• Balls on Parade: Apparently, It’s Ok for Men to Flash Their Balls on the Subway

  20-06-2016 20:05 via bkmag.com
  
  We live in a big city and, as such, we are witness to a lot of things we’d rather not see. Some of them can’t be avoided—like, say, rats and trash and too many bros. But some of the things we don’t want to see are actually illegal, like lewd exposure of body parts—say, for example, testicles. In an ideal world, when such things are exposed, NYPD would aggressively prosecute the gross bastards who let it all hang out, so that a trend in testicle and other kinds
  
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• Isn’t It Ironic?: Out of the Mouths of Babes Is a Light Summer Frolic and Not Much Else

  20-06-2016 19:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Out of the Mouths of Babes
  Cherry Lane Theatre
  38 Commerce Street
  Israel Horovitz has been churning out serviceable plays for decades, over 70 in all by this point, including a one-act called Line that has been playing continuously at the 13th Street Repertory Theatre since 1974. He divides his time between the US and France, and several of his recent plays have had a Paris setting, like My Old Lady, which starred Estelle Parsons on stage and Maggie Smith on screen.The ironically titled Ou
  
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• Reel Brooklyn: Little Fugitive, Coney Island

  20-06-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Reel Brooklyn is a biweekly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time.
  Kings County paleontologists have swooned over Morris Engel’s Little Fugitive (1953) practically since it was made—a rough, unassuming indie document of Brooklyn-ness in the mid-century, it nevertheless won a top prize at the Venice Film Festival, got nominated for a screenplay Oscar (a feat for largely improvised film with little dialogue), a
  
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• The Latest: SUV that rolled, killed actor was under recall

  20-06-2016 18:43
  
  A Los Angeles coroner's official says the death of "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin has been ruled an accident
  
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• New Jersey school to be named for poet Maya Angelou

  20-06-2016 18:25
  
  A new school in New Jersey will be named for the late poet Maya Angelou
  
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• Imagine Dragons to headline show for Orlando shooting fund

  20-06-2016 18:07
  
  The Imagine Dragons and Nate Ruess will headline a concert that will benefit the OneOrlando Fund established to support the victims and survivors of the gay nightclub shooting
  
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• Outdoor Drinks: Nowadays

  20-06-2016 17:47
  
  Nowadays is more like a park where booze is allowed than your typical bar. Photo: Nicholas Rinaldi
  Not quite a beer garden, Nowadays is probably best described as a park where drinking is encouraged. Any discussion of Nowadays should mention upfront that this place is pretty out of the way, but it’s more than manageable from the L train–the hard-to-sopt entrance is about a five minute walk from the Halsey stop, in a neighborhood you probably wouldn’t have visited five yea
  
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• The Total Red Hook Immersion: July 9, 2016

  20-06-2016 17:38
  
  From our last Immersion in Red Hook, circa 2013. We’re looking forward to revisiting this backyard.
  We’ll take any opportunity to spend a summer afternoon in Red Hook, and Saturday, July 9 we’ve planned a prime one—The Total Red Hook Immersion. The neighborhood is one of our favorites for our day-long beer, food and shopping crawls with Brooklyn Brewery, and this will mark our fourth Immersion in Red Hook!
  Check in is from 1pm to 2pm at Brooklyn Crab, where you’ll
  
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• 'Burn What Will Burn': suspenseful, hard-boiled crime novel

  20-06-2016 17:08
  
  Book Review: "Burn What Will Burn" by CB McKenzie is filled with well-drawn, quirky characters and is written in a tight, literary prose style
  
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• Ping Pong Is the Best New Thing at Riis Beach This Summer

  20-06-2016 17:05 via bkmag.com
  
  Did you go to the beach this weekend? I hope so. The weather was a peach; the food—at Riis Park Beach Bazaar anyway—was filled with fish tacos and Ample Hills ice cream; the live entertainment played an outstanding cover of legendary South Bronx post punk band, ESG; and, last but not least, there was ping pong. Yes, everyone’s favorite childhood basement entertainment was brought above ground and to the board walk. But if you didn’t have the luck, or optimal decision mak
  
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• Book Review: Anne Tyler tames Shakespeare's 'Shrew'

  20-06-2016 16:28
  
  Book Review: Anne Tyler reimagines "The Taming of the Shrew" as Baltimore romantic comedy with immigration twist
  
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• Cavs stop for Vegas party on way home to Cleveland

  20-06-2016 16:25
  
  The NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers celebrated their victory Vegas-style on their way back home
  
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• Head of Chicago parks: Group wants to sabotage Lucas Museum

  20-06-2016 16:06
  
  The head of the Chicago Park District says demands from a group suing to block filmmaker George Lucas from building his museum on Chicago's lakefront are "outrageous."
  
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• Pistorius family reports threats ahead of murder sentence

  20-06-2016 15:33
  
  Pistorius family reports threats in extortion attempt ahead of murder sentence July 6
  
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• Summer in the City: Installing an Air Conditioner Is a New York Rite of Passage

  20-06-2016 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  There was a vibrating, menacing metal box on a concrete slab behind my parents’ house. It hummed all summer long, hiding an electric motor spinning giant metal blades. If I stepped too close, an uncomfortable heat found my face, kept me away. It doesn’t want company. The box was busy conditioning the air.It was late into the summer when I was eleven when our air conditioning failed, the one and only time it ever did. It died sometime after supper, before we’d settled in fo
  
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• Summer In The City: Come On In This House

  20-06-2016 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  There was a vibrating, menacing metal box on a concrete slab behind my parents’ house. It hummed all summer long, hiding an electric motor spinning giant metal blades. If I stepped too close, an uncomfortable heat found my face, kept me away. It doesn’t want company. The box was busy conditioning the air.It was late into the summer and I was eleven when our air conditioning failed, the one and only time it ever did. It died sometime after supper, before we’d settled in for tele
  
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• To make summer show pop, Rockettes turn to light wizards

  20-06-2016 15:10
  
  The Canadian-based multimedia production studio Moment Factory faces one of its biggest tests this summer: Its new canvas is literally the largest indoor theater in the world
  
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• NASCAR driver Mike Wallace attacked after Charlotte concert

  20-06-2016 15:01
  
  NASCAR driver Mike Wallace says he and his daughter were attacked after a Rascal Flatts concert in North Carolina
  
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• Animal cruelty officer featured on 2 reality TV shows dies

  20-06-2016 14:56
  
  A Pennsylvania animal cruelty officer who starred in two reality TV shows has died
  
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• Fox News host Bret Baier working on book about Eisenhower

  20-06-2016 14:32
  
  Fox News host and chief political anchor Bret Baier is working on a book about the waning days of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency and the beginning of John F. Kennedy's administration
  
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• NBC to unveil new theme song for 'Sunday Night Football'

  20-06-2016 14:17
  
  Carrie Underwood won't be "waiting all day for Sunday night" this fall when NBC premieres a new theme song for its primetime "Sunday Night Football" program
  
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• Sir Hew Strachan wins $100,000 military award

  20-06-2016 14:02
  
  Sir Hew Strachan, a Scottish-born historian who specializes in the British military and in World War I, has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize
  
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• [CHANGING BROOKLYN] Electric boogaloo: Developer names new Rheingold complex ‘Bushwick II’

  20-06-2016 13:54
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperStay tuned for “Bushwick Beyond Thunderdome.”Architecture firm ODA New York last week revealed designs for a massive housing development at the old Rheingold brewery site in Bushwick, which the building’s developer has dubbed “Bushwick II” — as first reported by the Real Deal.
  The giant property, bounded by Stanwix and Melrose streets and Evergreen and Flushing
  
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• Four Great Films at BAMcinemaFest, Week 2

  20-06-2016 13:37 via bkmag.com
  
  BAMcinemaFest, the city’s premiere indie film showcase, continues through Sunday, June 26. Here, BK Mag film critic Kenji Fujishima offers up his picks for the second week and closing weekend. All blurbs by Kenji Fujishima.Spa NightDirected by Andrew AhnFor a film about a young closeted gay Korean-American man who discovers forbidden pleasures at a spa he works at, Spa Night is a surprisingly subdued and detached affair. But perhaps the relative stylistic discreetness of writer-director Ah
  
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• Sports stars, celebs react to Cleveland Cavaliers' NBA title

  20-06-2016 13:09
  
  Reaction from the sports world and beyond is pouring in after the Cleveland Cavaliers knocked off the Golden State Warriors in the NBA finals to secure the city's first major title in nearly 52 years
  
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• One Weird Trick (Goat Glands) to Increase Your Potency: Nuts!

  20-06-2016 13:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Nuts!Directed by Penny LaneOpens June 22 at Film Forum
  Penny Lane’s Nuts! tells a story so outrageous that I wondered at times if it were a mockumentary. In fact, Lane’s structure sets out to encourage her spectator to question the truth of her storytelling: Nuts! is a documentary, in which more than half of the footage is animated, that turns into a courtroom drama. It takes the uplifting story of success and triumph over adversity epitomized by Hollywood films like David O. Russel
  
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• [GOWANUS] Developer plans to install tree-filled dumpsters in Gowanus parking spaces

  20-06-2016 13:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperA developer wants to install six dumpsters filled with dirt and plants in parking spaces around Gowanus this summer, which it says will help soak up rainwater to keep it from flooding the canal — surprising locals who say it is nice to see real estate tycoons finally bringing something other than luxury condominiums to the community.
  “It’s new for me to have developers coming t
  
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• Stars react to the death of 'Star Trek' actor Anton Yelchin

  20-06-2016 12:28
  
  Anton Yelchin's friends and colleagues are reacting to the "Star Trek" actor's death at the age of 27
  
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• Reporter’s notebook: Public-drinking crackdown at Mermaid Parade

  20-06-2016 10:32
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn PaperI got a ticket for drinking a beer at the Mermaid Parade — Brooklyn’s largest and most beloved public assembly of drunken perverts.
  Sure, I’m guilty — I accept that I broke the law — but longtime patrons of the 34-years-and-running art party say the citation is totally unheard-of, and proof that Sodom by the Sea is losing its edge.“Man, this place has changed,&
  
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• [AWESOME] Shock-rocker pops question to burlesque queen at Mermaid Parade

  20-06-2016 10:32
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn PaperIt’s a match made in Sodom by the Sea!A burlesque luminary and a founding member of shock-rock outfit Gwar announced their engagement at Coney Island’s 34th Mermaid Parade. Beau Chuck Varga — an art director and costume-maker who portrayed Sexecutioner in the macabre metal act — popped the question to Burlesque at the Beach founder Bambi during the Mermaid on Saturday, and
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Shock-rocker pops question to burlesque queen at Mermaid Parade

  20-06-2016 10:30
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyIt’s a match made in Sodom by the Sea!A burlesque luminary and a founding member of shock-rock outfit Gwar announced their engagement at Coney Island’s 34th Mermaid Parade. Beau Chuck Varga — an art director and costume-maker who portrayed Sexecutioner in the macabre metal act — popped the question to Burlesque at the Beach founder Bambi during the Mermaid on Saturday, and
  
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• [EXCLUSIVE, ►VIDEO, MARINE PARK] Parks Department: ‘We will not use goats to trim overgrown community center roof’

  20-06-2016 10:20
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyWell doesn’t that bleat all!The roof of Marine Park’s $16.5 million Carmine Carro Community Center is covered in weeds, and the city is ignoring the obvious solution — goats. Safety requirements make it tough for Parks Department workers to get on top of the structure, one of the greensward’s wardens told this paper. But the sure-footed mammals are natural climbers and
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Reporter’s notebook: Public-drinking crackdown at Mermaid Parade

  20-06-2016 10:20
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyI got a ticket for drinking a beer at the Mermaid Parade — Brooklyn’s largest and most beloved public assembly of drunken perverts.
  Sure, I’m guilty — I accept that I broke the law — but longtime patrons of the 34-years-and-running art party say the citation is totally unheard-of, and proof that Sodom by the Sea is losing its edge.“Man, this place has changed,&
  
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• Where everybody knows your name: 'Cheers' coming to stage

  20-06-2016 07:21
  
  The bar where everybody knows your name is coming to the stage
  
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• China restricts TV shows based on foreign formats

  20-06-2016 06:08
  
  China is restricting the broadcast of TV shows that use formats from abroad such as "The Voice of China," which is based on a Dutch talent show
  
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