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• Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey talk parenting, 'Kubo'

  15-08-2016 23:42
  
  Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey take on parental roles in their new film, "Kubo and the Two Strings." Off camera, the two Oscar winners discussed their real-life approach to raising kids
  
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• Box Office Top 20: 'Sausage Party' scarfs up $34.3 million

  15-08-2016 23:31
  
  It was a feast for the raunchy animated comedy "Sausage Party" at the box office this weekend
  
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• NFL, Pepsi respond to Adele's Super Bowl show turn-down

  15-08-2016 22:35
  
  NFL and Pepsi said they have had "several conversations" with artists about performing at the Super Bowl, but said they didn't extend a "formal offer" to Adele or any other performer just yet
  
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• Olympic fans injured outside arena when camera falls

  15-08-2016 22:30
  
  The operators of a television camera say that seven people were injured when the heavy camera fell about 60 feet to the ground in the Olympic park
  
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• Cubs fire DJ who played song with references to violence

  15-08-2016 21:12
  
  The Chicago Cubs fired a DJ who played a song with references to violence after reliever Aroldis Chapman left the mound against the St. Louis Cardinals
  
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• The Latest: Olympic park aerial camera falls, injures 2

  15-08-2016 21:05
  
  A television camera fell in the Olympic park, falling about 30 feet and injuring two women
  
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• Regina Spektor Announces Limited Brooklyn Show At Rough Trade

  15-08-2016 20:25 via bkmag.com
  
  Ever since Regina Spektor wrote and performed the theme song for Netflix’s hit series Orange Is The New Black, the singer-songwriter’s profile has grown considerably. More and more people have been exposed to her back catalogue, including her most recent album, 2012’s What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, which was her sixth full-length record.
  On September 30th, Spektor will release her 7th album, Remember Us To Life, which will be her first release since Orange made her voice and
  
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• Study finds women competitors dominate NBC's prime time

  15-08-2016 20:22
  
  A study finds that nearly 59 percent of the prime-time Olympic competition shown so far on NBC involved women athletes
  
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• Extreme makeover: Graceland updating visitor center

  15-08-2016 20:17
  
  A new entertainment complex being built across the street from Graceland _ Elvis Presley's former home-turned-museum _ will include a large soundstage for live performances and movie screenings, and an exhibit honoring music producer Sam Phillips.
  
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• Chance the Rapper Is All Over Your TV; Check Him Out Now On Good Morning America

  15-08-2016 20:11 via bkmag.com
  
  Chance the Rapper has been on a massive avalanche of success ever since releasing his second mixtape, Acid Rap, in 2013, before putting out Surf with friend/collaborator Donnie Trumpet a year ago, showing up as a featured artist on various songs—including a transcendent verse on Kanye West’s “Ultralight Beam”—and eventually leading to one of the best records of 2016, Coloring Book, which came out in May.
  Meanwhile, Mr. The Rapper has been making the rounds—and
  
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• The omakase box at Osakana is a $50 fish feast

  15-08-2016 19:56
  
  The omakase box from newly opened fish shop, Osakana, could not be prettier. Photo: Annaliese Griffin
  In a borough known for its artisan butcher shops, bakeries, purveyors of fine mayonnaise and small batch ice creameries, Brooklyn is surprisingly underserved by fishmongers. For the past several years, my go-to for anything from the ocean has been Fresh Direct, in part because they will refund you if your fish isn’t as fresh as promised or your Gulf-caught shrimp has that awful iodine fla
  
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• Why Cockroaches Fly (Heat, Duh) But Will Never Reach the Hamptons

  15-08-2016 19:48 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s August! It’s hot! Planners, geniuses, and rich people spent this past weekend (or longer, if they’re really geniuses) at a villa in Italy, or oceanside in Montauk, or upstate where there are tons of ponds and fresh vegetables. These people, so full of forethought and money, are raising their glasses of frozé and picking buttered corn from their teeth in places where mice are cute and cockroaches don’t exist.
  The rest of us stayed right here in beautiful
  
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• Behold: La Croix Has Taken on Cake Form at Williamsburg’s Whole Foods

  15-08-2016 19:39 via bkmag.com
  
  Love it or hate it, there’s little doubt that La Croix fever has taken the country by storm. And now, that fever is taking other forms apart from the fizzy, seltzer-esque beverage itself.
  Photos surfaced last week of various La Croix-themed desserts at the newly-opened Williamsburg Whole Foods.
  These include a full-sized cake:
  the williamsburg whole foods has a lacroix cake pic.twitter.com/q6lufYHq91
  — Becca Laurie, PI (@imbeccable) August 9, 2016And what’s a cake without it&rs
  
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• The Latest: Anti-doping system hack worries whistleblower

  15-08-2016 19:33
  
  Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova in says she fears for her safety since hackers infiltrated both her email account and the anti-doping system that tracks her whereabouts
  
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• Gamby sees stars: Clones skipper reunites with Mets star he discovered

  15-08-2016 19:33
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyCyclones manager Tom Gamboa can’t quite remember what year it was when he changed the course of baseball history, but he knows it was a Saturday afternoon — he decided to drive to Santa Barbara, Calif., and check out a little pitching prospect he had heard about named Jesse Orosco. Three decades later, the pair reunited at MCU Park on Aug. 11 when Orosco threw out the first pitch as part of a Cyclones promotion honoring
  
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• Cobble Hill Is Officially More Expensive than Manhattan

  15-08-2016 19:15 via bkmag.com
  
   Handsome streets lined with stately trees and brownstones, just a few F stops from Manhattan, and an increasing number of high-end retailers like Rag & Bone; an entire store dedicated to giving sugar fixes to children, called Sugar Shop; and one of the city’s best restaurants—La Vara—and most charming green spaces—Coble Hill Park—all, as expected, make Cobble Hill an outlandishly expensive place to buy a home. And now this has become so true that
  
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• ESPN acquires US rights to 2020 European Championship soccer

  15-08-2016 18:51
  
  ESPN will televise the European Championship for the fourth straight time in 2020
  
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• [GERRITSEN BEACH] Bringing the heat: Brooklyn boxer ready to shine the spotlight on women in the sport

  15-08-2016 18:49
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyShe hits like a girl — and she’s proud of it.Gerritsen Beach native Heather “The Heat” Hardy has spent her entire boxing career working to prove that, being a woman in the boxing world isn’t a bad label, it’s a badge of honor. Hardy (17–0, 4 knockouts) is slated to face off against arch-rival Shelly “Shelito’s Way” Vincent (18–0, 1 knockout) on Aug. 21, in the night&r
  
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• Schumer keeps it real in 'Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo'

  15-08-2016 17:37
  
  Book Review: Amy Schumer continues to keep it real in "The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo"
  
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• Larry Wilmore-hosted 'Nightly Show' axed by Comedy Central

  15-08-2016 17:25
  
  Comedy Central's "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" is coming to an end
  
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• A lotta waiting: Lott House fix puts events on hold

  15-08-2016 17:10
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyAll work and no play makes the Lott House a dull venue.Events hosted at the historic Hendrick I. Lott House in Marine Park have been put on hold as construction crews tear down the columns on the back porch as part of a major renovation.The repairs to the city-owned 19th century home on E. 35 St. between Fillmore Ave. and Avenue S interrupts the popular yoga sessions, open mic nights, and even
  
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• Olympic-goers get an eyeful of Rio's beauty-consumed culture

  15-08-2016 16:49
  
  Visitors to South America's first Olympic games are getting an eyeful of the beauty- and fitness-obsessed culture that is synonymous with Rio
  
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• Fyvush Finkel, plastic-faced character actor, dead at 93

  15-08-2016 16:39
  
  Stage and screen character actor Fyvush Finkel has died at age 93
  
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• Broadway's best to light up Coney Island at Elsie Fest

  15-08-2016 16:34
  The second annual Elsie Fest, a one-day outdoor music festival celebrating theater stars, is set for Sept. 5 at the 5,000-seat Ford Amphitheater at the Coney Island boardwalk
  
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• Stellan Skarsgard proud of his sons for being 'good humans'

  15-08-2016 15:35
  
  Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard feels that his sons are talented actors, but it's more important to him that they're "nice people."
  
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• Taraji P. Henson is busy: Cookie, a NASA hero and a memoir

  15-08-2016 14:56
  
  Taraji P. Henson is back as Cookie in "Empire," has an autobiography out in October, stars in a movie about a real-life NASA mathematician in January _ and says she's just getting started
  
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• 'Rise the Dark' by Michael Koryta is filled with suspense

  15-08-2016 14:02
  
  Book Review: Mark Novak is still seeking answers regarding his wife's murder in Michael Koryta's thriller "Rise the Dark."
  
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• Candidate wants Dartmouth to reinstate 'Animal House' frat

  15-08-2016 13:36
  
  A New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate vows he will work to restore the status of a Dartmouth College fraternity that loosely inspired the 1978 comedy film "Animal House."
  
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• Justin Bieber takes heat from Selena Gomez fans on Instagram

  15-08-2016 13:12
  
  Justin Bieber is threatening to go private on Instagram after getting negative comments from fans of ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez on pictures he posted alongside Sofia Richie
  
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• Reel Brooklyn: The French Connection: Gravesend/Bensonhurst

  15-08-2016 13:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Reel Brooklyn is a biweekly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time.
  One of the authentic pathmarks of the American New Wave, William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971) was more New York than any movie anyone had ever seen—more New York than Shadows (1959), more than Rosemary’s Baby (1968), more than Midnight Cowboy (1969). There was something about the way the movie smelled—an unmistakable com
  
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• [GREENPOINT] Polish it up! Night Bazaar embracing old banquet hall’s look for new venue

  15-08-2016 10:11
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn PaperIt is going from bazaar to down-right spooky!
  Popular late-night flea market and live music series Brooklyn Night Bazaar is finally reopening in the old Polonaise Terrace Polish banquet hall on Greenpoint Avenue on Sept. 9, after more than a year since losing its last venue. The proprietors say they’re really running with the labyrinthine 118-year-old building’s creepy, kitschy look, holding onto floor-to-ceiling mirror
  
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• [CHANGING BROOKLYN] No BJ’s for Hookers! Sitt building office complex instead

  15-08-2016 10:08
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperWell that sucks. Or does it?The developer of a Red Hook waterfront property once slated to house a hotly anticipated outpost of BJ’s Wholesale Club says the dream of buying bulk toilet paper and buckets of candy en route from Ikea to Fairway is well and truly dead, because he is instead building offices aimed at hip tech startups.“It’s going to be a campus-type structure that&r
  
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• The Latest: It wasn't pretty: Andy Murray wins gold in Rio

  15-08-2016 09:33
  
  Andy Murray became the first tennis player in Olympic history with two singles gold medals, winning his second in a row by wearing down Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 in a 4-hour final Sunday in Rio de Janeiro
  
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• Happy Birthday and a spot in the semis for Walsh Jennings

  15-08-2016 07:09
  
  Kerri Walsh Jennings celebrated her 38th birthday by advancing to the semifinals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament
  
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• New film explores Jacqueline Kennedy's hand in JFK's legacy

  15-08-2016 06:52
  
  A new documentary examines the role the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis played in shaping President John F. Kennedy's public persona
  
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• [THE RIDE] Cyclones edge out win ahead of All-Star break

  15-08-2016 06:05
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By David Russellfor Brooklyn PaperCyclones 2West Virginia 1August 14 at MCU ParkThe Cyclones offense did just enough to grab a series-clinching 2–1 victory over West Virginia on Sunday at MCU Park. Gabriel Llanes tossed seven strong innings, holding the lead on the mound as Brooklyn went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position.
  The teams struggled at the plate early, but West Virginia broke the scoreless tie in the fourth. Arden Pabst connected on a two
  
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• [IT’S ONLY MY OPINION] Stan fends off another scammer

  15-08-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyThis is the second time and they still haven’t learned. The phone rang and I noticed the call was from some travel company. I picked it up and heard a sweet female voice telling me I was selected to receive a seven-day, all-inclusive, vacation for two at a wonderful five-star hotel in St. Lucia, absolutely, positively free of charge. I picked the date and was stopped cold when she asked for the numbers on my credit ca
  
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• [HEALTH] Carnies get classy: Sideshow school teaches fire breathing and more

  15-08-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Laura MeltzerWant to run away and join the circus? Then step right up!Coney Island sideshow performers will offer a peek behind the curtain this summer, revealing teaching classic carny tricks like fire breathing and sword swallowing during a three-day session starting on Aug. 22. The Coney Island Sideshow School will give 10 students the opportunity to learn a whole host of death-defying — or at least very danger
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Carnies get classy: Sideshow school teaches fire breathing and more

  15-08-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura MeltzerBrooklyn DailyWant to run away and join the circus? Then step right up!Coney Island sideshow performers will offer a peek behind the curtain this summer, revealing teaching classic carny tricks like fire breathing and sword swallowing during a three-day session starting on Aug. 22. The Coney Island Sideshow School will give 10 students the opportunity to learn a whole host of death-defying — or at lea
  
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• Star time for NBC's Olympics coverage with Usain B

  15-08-2016 05:29
  
  Another Olympic great, Usain Bolt, lives up to his billing with a star turn on NBC's coverage
  
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• Adele: I won't sing at Super Bowl; show 'not about music'

  15-08-2016 02:38
  
  Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Adele says she turned down an offer to perform at the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show
  
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• Andy Murray 1st to win 2 Olympic tennis singles golds

  15-08-2016 02:17
  
  Andy Murray became the first tennis player in Olympic history with two singles gold medals, winning his second in a row by wearing down Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 at the Rio de Janeiro Games
  
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• Gabby Douglas calls Twitter bullying 'really hurtful'

  15-08-2016 01:35
  
  Gabby Douglas calls Twitter bullying 'really hurtful' as she leaves Olympic stage
  
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• Canada's Mackenzie Hughes wins first Web.com Tour title

  15-08-2016 01:04
  
  Canada's Mackenzie Hughes won the Price Cutter Charity Championship on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour victory and a likely spot on the PGA Tour next season
  
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• Lochte: US swimmers are 'safe and unharmed' after robbery

  15-08-2016 00:57
  
  Ryan Lochte says he and teammates are 'safe and unharmed' after robbery at gunpoint
  
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• Former NBA player Travis Outlaw arrested on drug charge

  15-08-2016 00:21
  Former NBA forward Travis Outlaw has been arrested on a felony marijuana charge
  
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