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• [PARK SLOPE] Park Slope designer: My Hillary tees are better than Hillary’s!

  13-07-2016 23:55
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperWell, this is one way to take big money out of politics.
  The proprietor of a Park Slope home-goods store is selling a line of T-shirts supporting Hillary Clinton, kicking in $1 from the sale of each $28 tee to the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign.
  The Fifth Avenue fashionista acknowledges supporters could take more of their money directly to the candidate’s own merchandise store, but says the pre
  
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• Hinchcliffe returns to Canada in search of year's 1st win

  13-07-2016 23:47
  
  A year after a life-threatening crash during practice for last year's Indianapolis 500, Canadian James Hinchcliffe is back home and searching for his first victory of the season
  
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• The Latest: Man robbed while playing 'Pokemon Go'

  13-07-2016 23:17
  
  Four suspects have been arrested after an Alabama man told police that he was robbed at gunpoint while he was playing "Pokemon Go."
  
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• CFP will consider moving semifinal games off New Year's Eve

  13-07-2016 23:12
  
  The College Football Playoff is considering moving future semifinals off New Year's Day after television ratings for last season's games plunged
  
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• A look at 'Pokemon Go' and how it works

  13-07-2016 23:05
  
  Confused by 'Pokemon Go' mania
  
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• Germany's Schweinsteiger weds Serbian tennis ace Ivanovic

  13-07-2016 22:59
  
  German soccer international Bastian Schweinsteiger has tied the knot with Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic
  
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• [FORT GREENE] Irate woman beats tween with cellphone

  13-07-2016 22:31
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn Paper88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillPhone fiendA baddie beat a 12-year-old boy with her cellphone in Fort Greene Park near Willoughby Street on July 5.Authorities said the victim was strolling through the park by St. Edwards Street at 12:10 am when the villain started chasing him as she yelled, “You think you can talk to me any kind of way!”
  She then repeatedly hit him with her phone, cutting the boy, before she f
  
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• Pokemon players are trespassing, risking arrest or worse

  13-07-2016 21:50
  
  The "Pokemon Go" craze across the U.S. has people wandering into yards, driveways and cemeteries in search of cartoon monsters
  
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• CNN revealing Lewandowski's severance payments

  13-07-2016 21:49
  
  CNN has begun telling viewers that its commentator, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, is getting severance pay from the Trump campaign
  
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• 2 more 'Hamilton' principals leave; Chicago cast revealed

  13-07-2016 21:41
  
  Two new Tony Award-winners from "Hamilton" _ Daveed Diggs and Renée Elise Goldsberry _ will soon leave the Broadway company, while producers unveiled the new cast of the show's upcoming Chicago production
  
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• Disney-owned networks to simulcast Obama town hall

  13-07-2016 21:26
  
  ABC News is pulling together a town hall on race and police issues involving President Barack Obama for Thursday night
  
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• Listen To PJ Harvey’s Surging New Song “Guilty”

  13-07-2016 21:22 via bkmag.com
  
  Polly Jean Harvey, aka PJ Harvey, has been recording music since 1988, and she’s still going strong. Originally Harvey worked with a band, but switched to solo work in 1993, and she’s managed to morph in other external ways while still maintaining an essential PJ sound through the near 30 years she’s been performing. Whether you’re watching her 1993 MTV performance or a 2016 show in Moscow, Harvey’s skillfully commanding stage presence and eclectic sound has remaine
  
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• Baseball All-Star Game draws record low TV rating

  13-07-2016 21:18
  
  The baseball All-Star Game has drawn a record-low television rating for the second straight year
  
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• CFP willing to consider moving semifinals off New Year's Eve

  13-07-2016 21:17
  
  College Football Playoff will consider moving future semifinals off New Year's Eve if it can help increase viewership
  
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• “The Fire Line” begins at the end

  13-07-2016 21:12
  
  The Fire Line begins at the end, with the death of 19 firefighters who were killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona on June 30, 2013. It’s a difficult way to start, to commit to spending 200 pages with 19 men who you know will be dead by the time you’re done reading. Fernanda Santos, Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times, makes it worth the heartbreak with a heartfelt and fascinating look into the world of wildland firefighting.
  At the time of their deaths, t
  
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• Football player tells cops: I was punched by Draymond Green

  13-07-2016 21:10
  
  Police say Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green struck a Michigan State football player in the jaw during a weekend confrontation near campus, tried to apologize and then had to sit in jail for a while until he could sober up
  
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• Music Review: Steven Tyler's country album shines

  13-07-2016 20:50
  
  The opening stanza of Steven Tyler's move into country music includes references to Jesus, mama, bullets and whiskey
  
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• Swift says she co-wrote ex's latest hit; Harris lashes out

  13-07-2016 20:48
  
  Taylor Swift has confirmed that she co-wrote ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris' latest hit song under an alias, prompting the DJ-producer to send a series of angry tweets Wednesday
  
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• Greenpoint’s New Salon-Next-Door Bull In The Heather Is Devoted To Messy Femininity

  13-07-2016 20:34 via bkmag.com
  
  From the minute you walk in, Bull In The Heather feels more like being in the apartment of a particularly chic friend than a hair salon. The Greenpoint space, which the owners Tracy Rasmussen and Jill Syslo converted from its past life as an old Polish massage parlor, balances crisp white, tin ceilings, and dark floors with a relaxed environment inspired by Rasmussen’s California roots. We highlighted the salon as one of five of the best emerging salons in Brooklyn, and today offer a close
  
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• Lawyers may have 'potentially relevant' info on Prince heirs

  13-07-2016 20:26
  
  A judge says a Minnesota law firm may have "potentially relevant" information for determining who should inherit Prince's estate
  
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• [PROSPECT HEIGHTS] Act of faith: Religious leaders pray for peace at Grand Army Plaza

  13-07-2016 20:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperHundreds of Kings County residents gathered with pols, police, and religious leaders in Grand Army Plaza on Monday for a candlelight vigil to pray for shooting victims around the country last week.Speakers mourned the black men shot by police in Louisiana and Minnesota as well as the five officers killed by a gunman in Dallas, condemning both and emphasizing a message of peace and unity for all
  
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• On Yesterday’s Massive K2 Overdose in Bed-Stuy

  13-07-2016 19:51 via bkmag.com
  
  Yesterday, a bad batch of synthetic marijuana—known as K2—sold near the border of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick sent 33 people to the hospital, according to Gothamist and several other outlets. The police responded to a call yesterday morning, in which it was reported that several people wandering the streets were demonstrating “altered mental status.” Witnesses on the scene, or anyone who has ever seen a person reacting to it, more simply say it turns users into zombies; yester
  
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• For Trump, it's about America's ego _ and his own

  13-07-2016 19:50
  
  Donald Trump once wrote that every deal he's ever done has been at least partly about his ego
  
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• US writer, beloved in Brazil, tests bond with country

  13-07-2016 19:40
  
  With a new book of highly critical essays, American writer Benjamin Moser, beloved in Brazil for his acclaimed biography of once-obscure Brazilian writer, tests his bond with the South American nation
  
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• Your Ideal Week: July 14 – July 20

  13-07-2016 19:38
  
  Ride your penny farthing to Green-Wood Cemetery on Saturday. Photo: Green-Wood Cemetery
  Last week was a sobering one, as we were reminded yet again of the sinister vein of hatred and violence that exists in our nations, and threatens to bring everything crashing down if we aren’t dogged and unyielding in our efforts to keep it at bay. For those of us who weren’t directly affected by the tragic events in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Texas, it’s hard to know what to do, a
  
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• Café Society

  13-07-2016 18:49 via bkmag.com
  
  Café SocietyDirected by Woody AllenOpens July 15
  Woody Allen has been making movies so long and so frequently, through changing times and plenty of personal scandal, that it’s especially hard to tell when he’s entered the final phase of his career, even as he pushes into his ninth decade of life. Café Society, his latest, is too slight to be called a sum-up of everything he’s done before. The most it can do is sum up the last decade or so, or at least certain ele
  
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• Watch Jennifer Lopez and Lin Manuel Miranda Perform A Tribute For The Pulse Shooting Victims

  13-07-2016 18:38 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s been just over a month since the tragic shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. With 49 dead and 53 wounded, it was the worst mass shooting in American history, particularly for the specific populations targeted in the attack–it was during a Latin Night at Pulse, which is a gay bar, and just preceding Pride weekend. The racially-charged nature of this hate crime on the queer community means the tragedy hit harder than could possibly be imagined.
  Last night on The Tonight Sh
  
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• Browns' Crowell pledges to Dallas police fund as apology

  13-07-2016 18:27
  
  Cleveland Browns running back Isaiah Crowell says he will donate to a fallen officers fund in Dallas as part of his apology for posting a drawing on Instagram last week showing a police officer getting his throat slashed
  
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• Czech astronomer, cartographer Antonin Ruekl dies at 83

  13-07-2016 18:18
  
  The Prague Planetarium says Antonin Ruekl, a Czech astronomer, cartographer and author of books on astronomy, has died at age 83
  
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• Best friends with Down syndrome make epic zombie movie

  13-07-2016 18:11
  
  Two best friends with Down syndrome are living their dreams of making an epic zombie movie and becoming celebrities
  
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• Dr. Phil sues National Enquirer over spousal abuse articles

  13-07-2016 18:06
  
  Television talk show host "Dr. Phil" McGraw and his wife are suing The National Enquirer for $250 million, charging that the supermarket tabloid falsely accused him of being an abusive husband and a hypocrite who doesn't practice what he preaches.
  
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• $65M expansion set for historic downtown Albany theater

  13-07-2016 18:06
  
  Major changes have been announced for the historic Palace Theatre that include adding a new, smaller theater to the downtown Albany music and entertainment venue
  
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• NBC's Luke Russert says he's leaving network

  13-07-2016 18:05
  
  NBC's Luke Russert, who joined the network out of college following his father Tim's sudden death, says he's leaving NBC on Friday
  
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• [DYKER HEIGHTS] Teens tear down park’s ‘Trump’ banner

  13-07-2016 17:44
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn PaperCall them politically active.A pair of teens scaled a baseball diamond backstop in Dyker Heights to tear down a pro-Donald Trump banner someone hanged there on July 11 because they thought the posting was racist, a witness said. An apparent fan of the divisive presidential hopeful posted the campaign paraphernalia in view of Dyker Beach Park’s soccer pitch, and the kids thought that was a d
  
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• À Table! The New Chez Oskar Is Open for Dinner in Bed-Stuy

  13-07-2016 17:43 via bkmag.com
  
  Yesterday, just before dinner service began at Chez Oskar—the French bistro opened by artist-turned-restauranteur, Charlotta Janssen, 18 years ago in Fort Greene—we stopped in to say hello. Only we were not in Fort Greene; we were in Bed-Stuy.
  Since news broke several months ago that Chez Oskar would close its original location due to increased rents, its long-devoted clientele got very sad at the prospect of losing their favorite lamb burger, and dollar oysters, and family-fri
  
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• What late-night TV gender barrier? Chelsea Handler is global

  13-07-2016 17:32
  
  After being the only woman in late-night TV during most of her 7-year run on "Chelsea Lately," Chelsea Handler was ready to talk about something new
  
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• Charles Barkley: Black people have 'to do better'

  13-07-2016 17:06
  
  Charles Barkley says black people have "got to do better" in response to the last week's shootings of black men by police and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dallas
  
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• The American: Don’t Blink – Robert Frank

  13-07-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Don’t Blink – Robert FrankDirected by Laura IsraelOpens July 13 at Film Forum
  “The best way to be is to be curious, stand up, keep your eyes open, don’t shake, don’t blink,” advises the photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank near the end of Laura Israel’s dynamic new documentary portrait, which takes its title from that last imperative tossed off by the artist. Frank, a Swiss-born American who will turn 92 this fall, remains most famous for the immense
  
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• Chicago 'Hamilton' cast to be led by veterans; Diggs leaving

  13-07-2016 16:42
  
  Broadway veterans Miguel Cervantes and Karen Olivo will lead the cast of "Hamilton" in Chicago, while new Tony Award-winner Daveed Diggs is leaving the Broadway company of the show soon
  
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• Visiting Buffalo’s Famous, A Ditmas Park Eatery Devoted to Central New York Fare

  13-07-2016 16:41 via bkmag.com
  
  Having grown up in Brooklyn, it was tough to reconcile ourselves to the signature dishes of Syracuse during our university tenure, which we quickly realized was largely limited to salt potatoes — i.e. salted potatoes. Though when we cast our net a bit wider, we eventually developed a sort of captive fondness for the various regional specialties of Central New York, from Rochester’s white hots to Utica’s chicken riggies.
  Save for its branch of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, though (no
  
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• Shuffle Off To Buffalo’s Famous, A Ditmas Park Eatery Devoted to Central New York Fare

  13-07-2016 16:41 via bkmag.com
  
  Having grown up in Brooklyn, it was tough to reconcile ourselves to the signature dishes of Syracuse during our university tenure, which we quickly realized was largely limited to salt potatoes — i.e. salted potatoes. Though when we cast our net a bit wider, we eventually developed a sort of captive fondness for the various regional specialties of Central New York, from Rochester’s white hots to Utica’s chicken riggies.
  Save for its branch of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, though (no
  
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• Q&A: Laughing along with the wickedly funny 'Ghostbusters'

  13-07-2016 16:25
  
  Q&A: "Ghostbusters" stars Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon talk about their new film
  
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• Japan's Emperor Akihito, 82, reportedly considering retiring

  13-07-2016 16:15
  
  Japan's Emperor Akihito has expressed his intention to retire and relinquish his title in a few years, rather than reduce his duties as he ages, reports said
  
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• Kobe Bryant announces new 'Baby Mamba' on the way

  13-07-2016 16:12
  
  Kobe Bryant will be keeping busy with daddy duties in retirement
  
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• Views From The CCTV: Rap And Paranoia In Obama’s America

  13-07-2016 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Barack Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009, but Obama’s America was founded on September 2, 2008, the release date of Young Jeezy’s The Recession. The album was standard Jeezy fare–everyman coke rap laced with mid-aughts trap exuberance–but its narrative arc was unmistakable: The first track is “The Recession” and the last track is the Obama-boosting “My President.” Straight up: Obama’s America was the promised land. Then and now, it was h
  
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• Heather Cox to be NBC's Thursday night sideline reporter

  13-07-2016 15:14
  
  Heather Cox will be the sideline reporter on NBC's new "Thursday Night Football" package
  
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• Program seeks to showcase 'garden' side of the Garden State

  13-07-2016 15:10
  
  New Jersey public TV program aims to showcase the 'garden' side of the Garden State
  
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• Jailed Cosa Nostra boss dies, decade after capture in Sicily

  13-07-2016 14:55
  
  Longtime Cosa Nostra 'capo,' Bernardo Provenzano, has died, a decade after he was captured in Sicily, having spent much of his life as a fugitive
  
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• Chasing the presidency is Donald Trump's ultimate ego trip

  13-07-2016 14:46
  
  Donald Trump once wrote that every deal he's ever done has been at least partly about his ego
  
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• Celebrities back Jennifer Aniston's tabloid takedown

  13-07-2016 14:31
  
  Jennifer Aniston's takedown of tabloid culture is winning support among fellow celebrities
  
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