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• The Latest: 'Very special meeting' set for Sanders delegates

  20-07-2016 23:59
  
  Bernie Sanders plans to meet with 1,900 of his delegates right before the start of the Democratic National Convention on Monday
  
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• Actor takes plea deal over prop pellet gun used in film

  20-07-2016 23:25
  
  An actor who played a bit part in an independent gangster film and used a prop pellet gun without a New Jersey gun permit likely won't have to serve a prison term
  
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• Don’t think twice about seeing Mike Birbiglia’s new movie

  20-07-2016 22:19
  
  When I sat down for a screening of Don’t Think Twice, the new comedy from Mike Birbiglia, I was in a mood. It had been a long day at work, I had just booked it across midtown in a most unfavorable pair of heels, and, frankly, I wasn’t all that excited about the film I was about to see. Many indie films are a slow burn, sure, but a feature length film about improv comedy subculture? I didn’t have the highest expectations. An hour-and-a-half later, discreetly trying to wipe
  
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• Trump speechwriter takes blame for Melania Trump's speech

  20-07-2016 22:16
  
  A speechwriter is taking the blame for Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention
  
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• Never Say Never: On Seeing Justin Bieber And Letting Go Of Regret

  20-07-2016 21:44 via bkmag.com
  
  I’ve never really been one to feel regret, or, never been one to feel like it’s too late to say I’m sorry, if you will. But, a few months ago, after watching ticket prices for Justin Bieber at Barclays Center rise and fall, and rise again, and still making the decision not to go, I found myself drowning in regret the next day. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t pulled the trigger. I knew I was going to have to fix it.Cut to Tuesday night a month or so later
  
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• Cruz backers chant 2020 as 2nd White House run possible

  20-07-2016 21:22
  
  To chants of "2020, 2020," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday left open the possibility of a second White House run even as Donald Trump arrived in Cleveland to accept the GOP presidential nomination
  
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• Miniature wall appears around Trump's Hollywood star

  20-07-2016 20:56
  
  On the day Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, a miniature wall appeared around the former reality TV host's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  
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• Reclaim & Refashion: Artist Christine Garvey Embraces Unique Style

  20-07-2016 20:42 via bkmag.com
  
  When the New York-based artist Christine Garvey first visited Florence, ten years ago, she was most moved not by the Botticelli at the Uffizi Gallery nor the Michelangelo at the Galleria dell’Accademia, but by a small and eclectic natural history museum called La Specola, and by a sub rosa resonance she perceived between its collection of wax anatomical models and the stockpile of historical scientific instruments at the Museo Galileo, a science history museum located just across the Arno
  
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• Third Eye Blind Trolls RNC Audience In Act Of True Patriotism

  20-07-2016 20:11 via bkmag.com
  
  We’re entering the third day of the Republican National Convention’s four day stint in Cleveland, Ohio, but last night marked a night of borderline chaos for the Republican party. Yesterday was filled with antics–most notably Melania Trump’s plagiarism of a 2008 Michelle Obama speech that explained the shared values of the Trump family–yikes.The convention isn’t filled solely with speeches, though and last night at a charity concert for the Rock and Roll Hall
  
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• Is There a Right Kind of Gay: HBO’s Looking, the Movie

  20-07-2016 20:01 via bkmag.com
  
  Looking: The MovieDirected by Andrew Haigh
  HBO, premiering July 23
  When Looking premiered in 2014 it was dubbed by many “the gay Girls,” a mostly inaccurate and unfair comparison. Both series air on HBO, both make use of audacious, caps-locked typefaces in their opening credits, and both operate as fictitious ethnographies of a small group of friends kind-of-but-not-really figuring things out in vast cityscapes. The similarities end there, and in its first and only two seasons, Look
  
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• Trump speechwriter apologizes for Melania Trump's speech

  20-07-2016 19:54
  
  A speechwriter for Donald Trump's company says she made a mistake and apologized for using passages from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech in the convention speech delivered by Melania Trump
  
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• How millennial nostalgia fueled the success of 'Pokemon Go'

  20-07-2016 19:53
  
  How millennial nostalgia is fueling the success of 'Pokemon Go'
  
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• Your Ideal Week: July 21- July 27

  20-07-2016 19:42
  
  Thursday, July 21 GOWANUS, The Goonies drinking game, 8pm, tickets $8↠
  Friday, July 22 PARK SLOPE Psycho Beach Party, 8pm, free↠
  Saturday, July 23 GREENPOINT Pokemon Go Bar Crawl, 1pm, free, plus your bar tab(s)↠ • FORT GREENE PARK Jazz Festival, 3-7pm, free↠
  Sunday, July 24 RED HOOK Ragas Live Festival, noon Saturday-noon Sunday, tickets $40↠
  Monday, July 25 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS Fed Up, 6:30pm, free with RSVP↠
  Tuesday, July 26 COBBLE HILL Backfat V
  
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• New Minnesota Vikings stadium to host X Games in 2017, '18

  20-07-2016 19:37
  
  The Minnesota Vikings' new stadium will host ESPN's X Games in 2017 and 2018
  
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• Watch Jenny Lewis’ New Band Nice As Fuck Make Their Late Night Debut

  20-07-2016 19:35 via bkmag.com
  
  Incredibly prolific indie rockstar, Jenny Lewis, is back with her newest music project–this one titled Nice As Fuck. Lewis began her career, of course, as Rilo Kiley, then began pursuing a solo career, along with a duo project called Jenny and Johnny with her then boyfriend, Johnathan Rice.
  But the old has gone the new has come and Lewis has teamed with two new musical partners: Erika Forster–well known from her work in the band Au Revoir Simone–plays bass for the group, and Te
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Slope old folks’ home owner fails to pay $3M settlement to elderly residents

  20-07-2016 19:27
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThe owner of embattled Park Slope old folks’ home Prospect Park Residence failed to pay his elderly tenants $3.1 million he owes them as part of a lawsuit settlement.
  Landlord Haysha Deistch in June agreed to pay a handful of seniors $3.35 million to leave the tony Grand Army Plaza building he has been trying to boot them out of for two years — but, as first reported by the Post, he
  
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• US goes after more than $1B taken from Malaysian fund

  20-07-2016 19:17
  
  The United States moved Wednesday to recover more than $1 billion that federal officials say was stolen from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund and used for high-end real estate, fancy artwork and movie productions
  
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• Kat Von D cuts ties with makeup artist Jeffree Star

  20-07-2016 18:42
  
  Tattoo artist and reality show star Kat Von D has cut business ties with makeup artist Jeffree Star
  
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• Melania Trump's speechwriter admits mistake, says she has offered resignation; Trump rejects it.

  20-07-2016 18:35
  
  Melania Trump's speechwriter admits mistake, says she has offered resignation; Trump rejects it.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner: Easier to come out as trans than Republican

  20-07-2016 18:32
  
  Prodding her party, Caitlyn Jenner says it was easier to come out as transgender than as a Republican and conceded Democrats promote more inclusive policies
  
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• Elton John: LGBT people must be part of AIDS fight

  20-07-2016 18:12
  
  LGBT people must be part of AIDS fight, Elton John tells global meeting in South Africa
  
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• Real-life dramas echo in Ralph Fiennes' 'Richard III'

  20-07-2016 17:32
  
  Real-life dramas echo in Ralph Fiennes' 'Richard III'
  
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• Mazda gives CX-9 new look and engine, helping it stand out

  20-07-2016 17:30
  
  Mazda gave the CX-9 bolder styling, a new engine and superb handling for 2016, making it a seven-passenger SUV that separates itself from the crowd
  
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• Birbiglia gives improv its first close-up on the big screen

  20-07-2016 17:09
  
  Mike Birbiglia's "Don't Think Twice" gives improv comedy its first close-up on the big screen
  
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• UL Crown first step on run-up to women's golf at Rio Games

  20-07-2016 17:07
  
  Eight nations compete in this week's UL Crown International, a women's golf event that could preview the Summer Games
  
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• Third Eye Blind provokes crowd during concert near RNC

  20-07-2016 16:59
  
  Third Eye Blind has used a performance near the site of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to speak out on gay rights
  
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• Liar. Lucifer. Lock her up. GOP denounces Clinton

  20-07-2016 16:55
  
  Liar. Lucifer. Lock her up. GOP denounces Clinton
  
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• Why Sulu's husband is Asian in 'Star Trek Beyond'

  20-07-2016 16:54
  
  For 'Star Trek Beyond' actor John Cho, finding the right husband for Sulu character meant he would also be of Asian descent
  
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• Inside Swell Dive: Just Your Average Filipino Tex-Mex Taco Spot

  20-07-2016 16:51 via bkmag.com
  
  Roy Choi essentially gave birth to the modern food truck movement, when he debuted L.A.’s Korean taco-serving Kogi back in 2008. Not only that, but he asserted the tortilla as an ideal vessel for unifying wholly disparate cuisines, conveying everything from bulgogi to curry to Jewish brisket. Which is why eight years later and on the other side of the continent, a Bed-Stuy spot called Swell Dive, trumpeting Filipino/Tex-Mex, barely raises an eyebrow. Especially since it too views tortillas
  
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• Jeremih And Lil Yachty Both Dropped New Projects Last Night

  20-07-2016 16:50 via bkmag.com
  
  Hope it was a good night’s sleep for hip-hop fans, because while they were down for the count last night, both a veteran of the trade and an up-and-comer dropped new music for their thousands of fans, always salivating for new music.
  Jeremih, fresh off the success of last year’s underrated Late Nights–featuring hit singles “Oui” and “Planez”–dropped Late Nights: Europe, a 14-track mixtape mostly produced by frequent collaborator
  
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• Midwestward Ho! On the Wonders of Vacationing in the Middle of America

  20-07-2016 16:41 via bkmag.com
  
  We’re New Yorkers so we think America is a huge landmass with two nodes: New York City and Los Angeles. Ok, we might also add minor nodes Austin, Seattle, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Less frequently, and for very different reasons, we might throw Detroit in the mix. Those reasons are usually opportunistic, rather than wanting it and finding it appealing for what it already intrinsically is.
  And, despite being called “The Second City”—correct me if your experience is
  
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• Williamsburg’s Self Salon Breaks Down Your Summer Hair Rescue: The Brazilian Blowout

  20-07-2016 16:12 via bkmag.com
  
  Last Saturday morning it was a typical New York summer day–ninety degrees and a cloying 50% humidity. Yet my hair, naturally wavy and prone to frizz, remained perfectly coiffed as I walked down Bedford Avenue to have brunch with a friend. I tend to identify as low-maintenance when it comes to beauty, as a former athlete who is frequently practicing hot yoga or heading out on a run, my hair is a relatively low priority. So, skeptical though I was about a beauty salon’s cure-all summer
  
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• Romanian actor Radu Beligan dies at 97

  20-07-2016 16:04
  
  A hospital in Bucharest says Romanian actor Radu Beligan, whose career spanned almost 80 years, has died
  
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• The 8 Best Pools in Brooklyn

  20-07-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  As much as we hate to concede to the likes of Queens, or God forbid, Jersey, we know it’s true: Brooklyn is not known for its beaches. At least, not the type with pristine layers of perfect sand, clear blue ocean water, or picturesque Californian piers. If you’re looking for that kind of beach, not only are you in the wrong city, but more likely, on the wrong coast. With that said, Brooklynites still have plenty of good options if they’re committed to escaping the scorching cli
  
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• United against Clinton, GOP seeks to rebrand Trump

  20-07-2016 15:50
  
  Nomination finally in hand, the Donald Trump campaign charged ahead Wednesday with a convention-week mission to redefine to its loose-lipped, jet-setting celebrity as a serious-minded family man
  
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• Gotta Catch Em All: One Pokemon Go Take To Rule Them All

  20-07-2016 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  One thing Brooklyn will never run out of is takes. Luckily, our fearless residents will not rest until they have either spouted, caught, countered, or caught, them all. After recapping why these little critters are taking over the internet–and the real world–it’s time to take a look at the ways Pokemon have been turned into content.
  Follow Matt Lubchansky on Twitter, visit his Patreon page here, or check out his store here.
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• No sign of Trump endorsement, but plenty of Cruz ambition

  20-07-2016 15:12
  
  Sen. Ted Cruz's Texas-size political ambitions will be on full display Wednesday as the primary runner-up delivers a prime-time convention speech
  
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• Prominent journalist killed in car bombing in Ukraine

  20-07-2016 14:20
  
  A prominent journalist was killed in a car bombing in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, on Wednesday, sending shockwaves through the Ukrainian journalist community
  
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• Comic-Con launches with preview night, 'Trek' premiere

  20-07-2016 14:12
  
  The hordes of zombies, legions of Stormtroopers, leagues of superheroes and crews of Starfleet officers have already begun crawling, marching, flying and beaming into San Diego for Comic-Con
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, July 20-26

  20-07-2016 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Cocksucker Blues (1972)Directed by Robert Frank and Danny SeymourThis seldom-screened documentary, whose title comes from an unreleased LP by The Rolling Stones, follows the band members during their 1972 North American tour, a short time after the release of the album Exile on Main Street and three years after the sad events at Altamont. The black-and-white film was made in vérité fashion by the Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker Frank and his assistant Seymour, and it captured
  
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• Statue honoring late actor Don Knotts to be unveiled

  20-07-2016 13:49
  
  The city of Morgantown is planning a two-day celebration of the late actor Don Knotts
  
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• Florida project breeds 'Finding Dory' fish in captivity

  20-07-2016 13:33
  
  Researchers at the University of Florida say fish like the animated character Dory may become easier to find for home aquariums
  
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• Shannen Doherty shaves head amid cancer battle

  20-07-2016 13:21
  
  Actress Shannen Doherty has shaved her head amid a battle with breast cancer
  
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• Griffey, Piazza Hall of Fame plaques set for road trips

  20-07-2016 12:59
  
  The Baseball Hall of Fame plaques of Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza will be hitting the road for visits to Seattle and New York City just a few days after they're installed in Cooperstown
  
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• Clown Dimitri, beloved Swiss performer, dead at 80

  20-07-2016 12:05
  
  Clown Dimitri, a beloved Swiss clown and mime over nearly six decades who studied under Marcel Marceau and spread smiles from Broadway to Congo with a traditional style that shunned high-tech theatrics, has died, his office said Wednesday
  
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• 'Pretty Woman' filmmaker Garry Marshall dies at age 81

  20-07-2016 09:49
  
  Movie, TV writer-director Garry Marshall of 'Pretty Woman,' 'Happy Days' fame, has died at age 81
  
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• Defense wants prosecutors off Will Smith shooting case

  20-07-2016 09:28
  
  A judge in New Orleans is set to hear arguments on whether the local district attorney's office should be barred from prosecuting the suspect in the shooting death of retired Saints star Will Smith
  
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• Reaction to the death of writer-director Garry Marshall

  20-07-2016 07:59
  
  Stars react to the death Tuesday of TV, film writer-director Garry Marshall of "Happy Days" and "Pretty Woman" fame
  
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• [BAY RIDGE] Gone to pot! Planter vandalism sign of Fifth Ave.’s decline, biz owners say

  20-07-2016 07:22
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperIt’s a case of bouquets and brickbats.Vandals pulverized plants and tossed hunks of dirt on the sidewalk in front of Fifth Avenue hooch shop Long’s Wines & Liquors overnight on July 18 — reportedly the latest in a series of flower-bashings on the block — and now Bay Ridgites who fear the vandalism flourishing trend are demanding the city nip it in the bud.“
  
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• Writer-director Garry Marshall dies at age 81

  20-07-2016 06:36
  
  Writer-director Garry Marshall has died at age 81
  
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