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• Robert De Niro opens the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival

  12-08-2016 23:12
  
  Robert De Niro opened Friday the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival, presented Martin Scorsese's restored "Taxi Driver" and received the festival's first lifetime achievement award
  
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• The Latest: Attorney: Avery cheered by ruling for nephew

  12-08-2016 23:08
  
  An attorney for Steven Avery says Avery is thrilled that a judge has overturned his nephew's conviction in the case that was profiled in the popular Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer."
  
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• Ruby Wilson, 'The Queen of Beale Street,' dies in Memphis

  12-08-2016 22:58
  
  The manager for singer Ruby Wilson says the blues, soul and gospel performer known as "The Queen of Beale Street" has died
  
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• 2 Fox News execs named co-presidents, will report to Murdoch

  12-08-2016 22:39
  
  Rupert Murdoch moves to set up a new management structure at Fox News following Roger Ailes' departure amid sexual harassment allegations
  
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• St. Vincent, Bonnie Prince Billy & Okkervil River contributed songs to 'Pete's Dragon' soundtrack (listen)

  12-08-2016 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The film has deep ties to North Texas: it's was directed by an old friend of St. Vincent's, and the score was written by a former member of her band.
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• CORRECTS: Federal judge in Wisconsin overturns conviction of Brendan Dassey, who was featured in "Making a Murderer"

  12-08-2016 22:31
  
  CORRECTS: Federal judge in Wisconsin overturns conviction of Brendan Dassey, who was featured in "Making a Murderer"
  
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• Pundits or Trump campaign coaches? A twist in news coverage

  12-08-2016 22:20
  
  Pundits' interviews with Trump are a twist in political coverage that some observers find troubling, others potentially valuable
  
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• Netflix's 'The Get Down' is out now (listen to the soundtrack & music from the show)

  12-08-2016 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Get Down, the ambitious, pricey new musical drama set from filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliette) debuted on Netflix today...
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• [GALLERY, FUZZY BROOKLYN] Puppy has greatest time ever playing in Brooklyn Museum fountain

  12-08-2016 21:30
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperThis puppy really knows how to spend the dog days of summer!Nine-month-old Crown Heights mutt Callie had the time of her short life frolicking in the fountain outside the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, beating the heat as temperatures soared into the 90s.
  Callie insists on cooling her jets in the water feature every day, her owner said, and he is powerless to stop the 11-pound pooch.“She pull
  
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• Oliver Stone presents Snowden

  12-08-2016 21:01
  Sunday, September 11, 2016 2:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAcademy Award-winning director Oliver Stone, who brought Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK to the big screen, tackles the most important and fascinating true story of the 21st century. Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surv
  
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• Call for artists: Downtown Brooklyn Legends

  12-08-2016 21:00
  What makes a legend? In essence, a great and mighty story must be retold generation after generation to weave its way into our cultural fabric for someone or something to become legendary.Downtown Brooklyn is a legendary spot, filled with legendary stories, and this year, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and celebrate the future of the borough, we are working together with Grumpy Bert gallery to tell the story of ten area&n
  
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• White House releases Obama's summer reading list

  12-08-2016 20:24
  
  The White House released President Barack Obama's summer reading list on Friday as the first family vacationed in Martha's Vineyard
  
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• Iconic Nashville studios to open their doors to tourists

  12-08-2016 20:24
  
  For the first time, 10 of Nashville's Music Row recording studios are preparing to formally open their doors to tour groups
  
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• 'Criminal Minds' veteran Thomas Gibson fired from CBS drama

  12-08-2016 20:21
  Thomas Gibson has been dismissed from the long-running CBS drama "Criminal Minds."
  
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• The Ramones, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed & more in new documentary about music biz legend Danny Fields

  12-08-2016 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If HBO's tone-deaf series Vinyl left you cold but wanting to learn more about the NYC music scene of the '70s, you may want to keep an eye out for new documentary Danny Says which is about legendary music biz figure Danny Fields, who helped the careers of The Ramones, Iggy Pop, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, MC5 and more.
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• Julien Baker covered Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands"; Allison Crutchfield opening NYC show

  12-08-2016 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Julien Baker's original songs are heartbreaking, but she's also got a real knack for putting her own personal spin on other people's songs. We've already heard her cover Jawbreaker, Elliott Smith, and Death Cab for Cutie, and today she's released a take on Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands"...
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• Fox News names Abernethy, Shine as co-presidents

  12-08-2016 20:12
  
  Rupert Murdoch moves to set up a new management structure at Fox News following Roger Ailes' departure amid sexual harassment allegations
  
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• Judge in 'kids for cash' case wants his conviction tossed

  12-08-2016 19:50
  
  A former Pennsylvania judge serving a 28-year federal prison sentence for a scandal that became known as "kids for cash" is trying to have some of his convictions overturned
  
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• Set. Baseball. To. Stun.: Capt. Kirk pitching at Fenway Park

  12-08-2016 19:43
  
  William Shatner, reprising his "Star Trek" role as Capt. James Tiberius Kirk, is in Boston for this weekend's Comic Con
  
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• Belly @ Bowery Ballroom night 2 (review, setlist, pics)

  12-08-2016 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We used this joke last night, but...are you ready to party like it's 1993?" Belly bassist Gail Greenwood asked the Bowery Ballroom crowd Thursday night. The answer to that was a resounding yes...
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• Five Notable Releases of the Week (8/12)

  12-08-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A band with members of The National and Menomena, a solo album from a Broken Social Scene co-founder, a one-man doom project and more.
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• Emerging artists shine at 5th annual BEAT Festival

  12-08-2016 19:27
  All around the world, people are talking about Brooklyn. This global appeal has come about, in part, by the artist community that has always lived, worked and created this vibe that is unmistakably Brooklyn.For the fifth year in a row, the Brooklyn Emerging Artists in Theater (BEAT) Festival is celebrating the creativity and energy that makes our borough so unique. They do this bringing electrifying performance artists out into the streets to interact with audiences and the spaces
  
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• The Latest: JetBlue passenger: Turbulence was 'like a movie'

  12-08-2016 19:23
  
  A woman who was among the 146 passengers on a JetBlue flight that was diverted to South Dakota due to terrible turbulence says the scene inside the aircraft was "like a movie."
  
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• Thomas Gibson fired from 'Criminal Minds'

  12-08-2016 19:17
  
  Thomas Gibson fired from 'Criminal Minds'
  
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• The Rogue One Trailer is Out and IT’S LIT, FAM

  12-08-2016 19:17 via bkmag.com
  
  Late last night, during NBC’s Summer Olympics broadcast, the first full trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story made its debut, and… *rap air horn sounds three times* it’s lit, fam.
  After a not-as-promising teaser and rumors of messy reshoot drama, the new trailer should calm the nerves of the Galaxy Far, Far, Away faithful, as it promises epic musical treatment, action, drama, a weird Forest Whittaker character, oh, and a quick glimpse at that Luke guy’s father:Ro
  
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• No Joke: Brooklyn Rents went Down Last Month

  12-08-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  We’ve all had the experience in the past five years of walking the streets of Brooklyn while dodging excessive scaffolding and construction dust. More of these sites have popped up month by month, more re-routed walks devised to avoid them, and, before long, you’ve forgotten what anything looked like before the whole neighborhood became a construction party.
  But one good thing has come of it all. As DNAinfo tells us, from a report made by Douglas Elliman, this ho
  
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• American at home in Afghanistan, with some help from Prince

  12-08-2016 18:50
  
  Marni Gustavson's eyes brimmed with tears as she watched a dozen Afghan children learning the words to Prince's "Purple Rain." "It's a tribute," she said, to the artist who helped pay for the headquarters of Afghanistan's scout movement
  
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• Who Is The Cockiest Jeopardy! Contestant Ever?

  12-08-2016 18:19 via bkmag.com
  
  Seldom is Jeopardy! trending in the media, let alone real life (unfortunately). Today, however, a man named Alex Jacob is taking the Internet by a storm. Why? Because his level of sass almost broke televisions across America last night. Once Final Jeopardy! rolled around, Jacob had earned more than enough money to beat out his fellow championship contestants. So, instead of trying to earn even more money and proving that he could get the hardest question of the game right, he did a wild thing (
  
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• Pat Cummings: The Art of the Book: Creating Picture Books

  12-08-2016 18:05
  Saturday, September 17, 2016 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterLegendary book illustrator, Coretta Scott King Award winner and Katowitz-Radin Artist-in-Residence, Pat Cummings, details the creative process and craft behind picture books, with panelists Lisa Anchin, Peter Brown, Mary Pope Osbourne. Each speaker will exhibit slides of their work; audience questions will follow.
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] Bike psych! Transportation Alternatives’ Paul Steely White: NYPD must treat traffic crimes as seriously as rape

  12-08-2016 17:29
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Vince DiMiceliBrooklyn PaperThe head of a pro-bike, anti-car advocacy group called on the NYPD to start enforcing the law to save bicyclists’ lives on the latest edition of Brooklyn Paper Radio.Paul Steely White, the chief of Transportation Alternatives — who apparently was calling from a cellphone from inside a deep cave or in an unused subway tunnel — wondered if police officers are even interested i
  
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• 9 things you have to do with the kids before summer is over

  12-08-2016 17:28
  
  The summer heat is still blistering, but the Labor Day countdown is officially on. There’s still time to create a lasting summer memory of going down the longest slide in NYC, retreat from the heat in an air-conditioned mini golf course, and get an insane sugar high from a Fruit Loops-covered ice cream cone.
  Here are 9 kid-approved activities to squeeze in before school starts:
  This indoor miniature golf course is pirate themed, with a Brooklyn spirit. Photo: Meredith Craig de PietroGo: M
  
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• 9 things you have to do with the kids before summer ends

  12-08-2016 17:28
  
  The summer heat is still blistering, but the Labor Day countdown is officially on. There’s still time to create a lasting summer memory of going down the longest slide in NYC, retreat from the heat in an air-conditioned mini golf course, and get an insane sugar high from a Fruit Loops-covered ice cream cone.
  Here are 9 kid-approved activities to squeeze in before school starts:
  This indoor miniature golf course is pirate themed, with a Brooklyn spirit. Photo: Meredith Craig de PietroGo: M
  
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• Charges filed in drug overdose of Ted Nugent's land manager

  12-08-2016 17:07
  
  Charges have been filed in the overdose death of Ted Nugent's property manager in southern Michigan
  
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• Smiley faces at small company making popular emoji apps

  12-08-2016 16:53
  
  Mobile apps that allow users to create their own emojis or share the stylized images of NBA star Stephen Curry and other celebrities are paying off for a small upstate New York company
  
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• TNT to begin Monday night NBA doubleheaders in January

  12-08-2016 16:52
  
  TNT is adding a Monday night doubleheader package to its NBA coverage, starting with an NBA Finals rematch on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  
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• The Bodyguard: Disorder

  12-08-2016 16:08 via bkmag.com
  
  DisorderDirected by Alice WinocourOpens August 12
  It’s no mere coincidence that the protagonist of Disorder, a nerve-jangling French-language thriller about a soldier coming home from Afghanistan, has the all-caps word “CHAOS” emblazoned on his right arm. Once upon a time, Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) must’ve intended the tattoo as a devil-may-care maxim, but now it scans as a sign of the sensory overload he’s prone to. Ringing phones, slamming doors, and overhea
  
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• READYLUCK

  12-08-2016 15:29
  
  Luck is being ready–in life and in love, as we carry ourselves along with open eyes, hearts, and minds.
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  Readyluck is a collective of photographers whose passions lie in creative, articulate storytelling told through a diversity of talents. To be in the right place at the right time involves preparation and an acute awareness of light, form, and detail. It also requires an agreement of chance, of unknown paths crossing, a coming together. Being invited into yo
  
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• Will Chase back on Broadway in a role he helped create

  12-08-2016 15:22
  
  "Nashville" star Will Chase is back on Broadway in "Something Rotten!" having inherited the character of William Shakespeare from Christian Borle, the actor who won a Tony for his performance in the role
  
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• Mother charged after son beats newborn sister to death

  12-08-2016 14:59
  
  A 62-year-old Florida woman is charged with aggravated manslaughter after authorities said her 6-year-old son beat his newborn sister to death while the children and their 3-year-old brother were left alone in the family's minivan
  
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• Robert De Niro to open the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival

  12-08-2016 13:08
  
  Robert De Niro to present restored "Taxi Driver" and receive life achievement award at Sarajevo Film Festival opening night
  
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• The Latest: CBC announcer apologizes for Phelps-Lochte mixup

  12-08-2016 12:45
  
  A play-by-play announcer for Canada's CBC is apologizing for mixing up swimmers Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, announcing Lochte as the winner of the 200-meter individual medley final even though Phelps won.
  
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• Turkey issues arrest warrant for ex-soccer star

  12-08-2016 11:26
  
  Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have issued a warrant for the arrest of former soccer star and legislator Hakan Sukur over his links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, accused by Turkey of masterminding last month's failed coup
  
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• Nate Parker accepts Sundance award, creates youth fellowship

  12-08-2016 10:52
  
  The writer, director, producer and star of "The Birth of a Nation" says the Sundance Institute offered him encouragement and support when he needed it most, and now he hopes to pass that opportunity onto the next generation of filmmakers
  
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• Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan gets US apology for airport stop

  12-08-2016 09:50
  
  Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan tweeted that he gets detained at U.S. airports "every damn time" after he was stopped at the Los Angeles International Airport
  
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• [BROOKLYN IS ANGRY] Trading down: Williamsburg biz worries new homeless refuge will repel customers

  12-08-2016 09:40
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn PaperCall it a shelter tax.A new homeless men’s refuge opening in Williamsburg next month will attract crime and repel customers, undoing the hard work neighborhood entrepreneurs have put into turning a once sketchy area into a successful hub of commerce, a local business leader told city officials at a heated community meeting about the incoming facility on Tuesday night.“Things are getting so much better now, why would you
  
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• [BROOKLYN HEIGHTS] The rest is history: City may finally landmark two buildings left out of ‘Skyscraper’ historic district

  12-08-2016 09:32
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThese Brooklyn Heights buildings are finally making their ’mark.The city may landmark a pair of historic Montague Street buildings after the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted on Tuesday to add them to its calendar, and local architecture fans say the recognition is a long time coming — they’ve been campaigning to protect the two structures ever since the agency left them
  
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• [DOWNTOWN] Beep plasters face on Boro Hall with taxpayer-funded banners

  12-08-2016 09:25
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThese banners are raising some red flags.Borough President Adams is using taxpayer money to finance huge banners bearing his and Deputy Borough President Diana Reyna’s faces on Borough Hall in what they say is an effort to highlight the diverse population of Kings County, but critics say seems more like self-promotion than a public service announcement.
  “They are good public servants, but there is a line that’s not
  
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• [THE RIDE] Walk it off: Cyclones set franchise-record in walks, take down Lake Monsters

  12-08-2016 07:24
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By David Russellfor Brooklyn PaperCyclones 7Vermont 4August 11 at MCU ParkThe Cyclones drew a franchise-record 12 walks in a 7–4 win over Vermont at MCU Park on Thursday in a three hour, 41 minute marathon.“Very strange game,” Tom Gamboa said. “We had 12 walks and three hit batters.”First-round pick Justin Dunn tossed three shutout innings, showing again he had the stuff to move through the system.“I would be very shocked if
  
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• Who's more excited: Michael Phelps or Rowdy Gaines?

  12-08-2016 06:38
  
  NBC's Gaines lets his excitement get the best of him in Phelps' latest medal race; the gold for Fiji, NBC's ratings continue below London levels
  
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] Bike psych! Transportation Alternatives Paul Steely white says NYPD must tackle city’s wreckless driving epidemic

  12-08-2016 06:24
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Vince DiMiceliBrooklyn PaperThe head of a pro-bike, anti-car advocacy group called on the NYPD to start enforcing the law to save bicyclists’ lives on the latest edition of Brooklyn Paper Radio.Paul Steely White, the chief of Transportation Alternatives — who apparently was calling from a cellphone from inside a deep cave or in an unused subway tunnel — wondered if police officers are even interested i
  
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