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• Lundquist dives into his last season as voice of SEC on CBS

  25-08-2016 23:53
  
  Verne Lundquist recently returned from summer vacation to find an email with 309 pages of stories on Texas A&M and UCLA
  
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• Rio police charge Lochte with false report of robbery

  25-08-2016 23:50
  
  Brazilian police have charged American swimmer Ryan Lochte with filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
  
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• The Latest: Kaine says Trump can't be trusted on immigration

  25-08-2016 23:34
  
  Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine says GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's shifting positions on immigration can't be trusted
  
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• A look at the rape allegations against ex-NFL star Sharper

  25-08-2016 23:34
  
  Former NFL star Darren Sharper is expected to spend at least the next 18 years in prison after he pleaded guilty or no contest to charges that he drugged as many as 16 women with the intention of raping them
  
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• Fox News' Ed Henry returning in new role after 4 months off

  25-08-2016 23:15
  
  Fox News' Ed Henry is returning to the air four months after allegations of an extramarital affair led to his "taking some time off," as the network said then
  
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• Ex-Wailers members go to court over use of band's name

  25-08-2016 22:56
  
  Former members of the Jamaican reggae band The Wailers, which played alongside Bob Marley, are going to court to try to stop the group they left from performing under the same name
  
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• Housing aid theft: probation for bounce artist Big Freedia

  25-08-2016 22:22
  
  Bounce artist Big Freedia sentenced to three years' probation, fined $35,000 after admitting to bilking the federal government out of housing aid
  
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• [CHANGING BROOKLYN] Disarmed! Besmirched developer backs out of Crown Heights armory project

  25-08-2016 22:01
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt has laid down its armory!
  The embattled developer tapped to turn Crown Heights’ Bedford-Union Armory into housing has backed out of the project, apparently bowing to pressure from the city following revelations about its involvement in a scandal surrounding the sale of a Manhattan nursing home it plans to convert into luxury condos.
  Slate Property Group sold its firm shares in the project to minority partner BFC Partners la
  
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• ProPublica Live: How to Fight Back if Your Rent is Too High

  25-08-2016 21:08
  Thursday, October 20, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterMany New Yorkers chalk up high rent, and steep rent hikes, as unavoidable downsides of living in the city. Residents lucky enough to get a rent-stabilized apartment, however, are supposed to get a break from that. As a recent ProPublica investigation found, thousands of local landlords are breaking a law designed to designed to rehabilitate buildings and preserve affordable housing – all while collecting thousands of dollars in
  
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• Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on the Euro

  25-08-2016 21:08
  Wednesday, November 2, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterIn 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the “eurocrisis.” It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency―the eurozone―have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have been in depression for years while the governing powers of the eurozone have careened from emergency to emergency, most notably in Greece.
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• Garth Risk Hallberg with Rob Spillman

  25-08-2016 21:08
  Tuesday, November 1, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterNew York City, 1976.
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• Classical Interludes: Alex Fiterstein, clarinet, and Michael Brown, piano

  25-08-2016 21:08
  Sunday, October 23, 2016 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterFiterstein and Brown perform clarinet sonatas by Leonard Bernstein and Mieczysław Weinberg; Bohuslav Martinů’s Sonatina for Clarinet, and Piano and Mercury Soul composed by Mason Bates.  Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.
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• Languages, langues: Philippe Faucon, Fatima

  25-08-2016 21:05 via bkmag.com
  
  FatimaDirected by Philippe FauconOpens August 26th
  An interview with the director (English translation)
  A bit neorealist and a bit cinéma vérité, a bit documentary and a bit new wave, a bit political and a bit sociological, a bit delicate and daring as well, Fatima, the new film by Philippe Faucon, is also an utterly tender and engaging work, and one that should be not merely seen, but also lived—for despite the complexity of the themes at its core, this touching film
  
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• The Latest: Venice film fest cancels gala dinner after quake

  25-08-2016 20:55
  
  The Venice International Film Festival says it is cancelling a traditional gala dinner and reception on the opening day of the festival in a gesture of solidarity with the victims of the earthquake in Italy
  
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• Homeland Security investigating Leslie Jones website hack

  25-08-2016 20:55
  Department of Homeland Security investigators are looking into the hack of Leslie Jones' personal website
  
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• Sarah Jessica Parker cuts ties with EpiPen after price hike

  25-08-2016 20:49
  
  Saying she is "disappointed, saddened and deeply concerned" by the price hike of the EpiPen, actress Sarah Jessica Parker has cut ties with the company that makes the emergency allergy treatment
  
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• ICE, Homeland Security investigate Leslie Jones website hack

  25-08-2016 20:15
  
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security investigators are looking into the hack of Leslie Jones' personal website
  
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• Review: A band with a fresh sound emerges from Asheville

  25-08-2016 20:14
  
  From the city of Asheville, an eclectic mix of retirees, back-to-the-land hippies, tourists and natives to the region, comes the River Whyless, a band that blends American and international influences into an evocative, spiritual mixture
  
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• Michael Phelps, Final Five gymnasts to present at MTV VMAs

  25-08-2016 20:11
  
  Recent Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps and the Final Five are heading to the MTV Video Music Awards
  
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• This Weekend: Sell Your Guns, Hang With Grandmas

  25-08-2016 19:58 via bkmag.com
  
  A brand-new Glock 30, the “handgun of choice for plainclothes officers and security personnel” with “excellent out-of-box precision,” ergonomic frame, and the “big bore power” of the .45 in a more compact size, costs $649 at Bass Pro Shops. And this Saturday, August 27, the NYPD will buy it from you for $200 at a church in Flatbush.
  Obviously, a gun like this might cost much less around the corner from Bass Pro Shops, or in anything other than an over-th
  
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• Review: Streisand's new album with Hollywood stars is uneven

  25-08-2016 19:41
  
  Judging by the 10-song, vanity project that is Barbra Streisand's "Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway," her musical world is a calculated and mannered one, characterized by oodles of false sentimentality
  
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• Stream Vince Staples’ Prima Donna EP A Day Early

  25-08-2016 19:37 via bkmag.com
  
  Just under two weeks after announcing that he’d follow up last year’s stellar debut LP Summertime ’06 with a new EP, Prima Donna, Vince Staples has released the project, appearing today on Beats 1 Radio with Zane Lowe to debut it, and releasing it to the public immediately after. The project wasn’t expected to be released until tomorrow.
  Prima Donna on Spotify and Apple Music now.
  — Vince Staples (@vincestaples) August 25, 2016Staples is well known for his witty per
  
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• Yumm or Dumm: Eating Momufuku Nishi’s Impossible Burger

  25-08-2016 19:20 via bkmag.com
  
  Every once in awhile, a dumb food science story comes along that’s so compelling basically everyone has to cover it. Soylent! Superfoods! Whether or not wine is good for you (I think it is right now but don’t quote me).This summer, that story has been The Impossible Burger, a wheat-based fake meat product from a Silicon Valley company called Impossible Foods that’s trying to disrupt meat. In the Wall Street Journal, its founder called cows “an inefficient technology,&rdq
  
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• Herb Alpert endows LA City College music education

  25-08-2016 19:04
  
  Herb Alpert's foundation has given $10.1 million to endow music education at Los Angeles City College
  
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• Ocon hopes to emulate Verstappen as he prepares for F1 debut

  25-08-2016 18:16
  
  A month before his 20th birthday, Frenchman Esteban Ocon will make his Formula One debut for the Manor team at this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix _ against his former rival Max Verstappen
  
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• Ex-NFL-star Sharper gets 20 years in Louisiana rape case

  25-08-2016 18:11
  
  A Louisiana judge has formally imposed a 20-year prison sentence on former NFL star Darren Sharper
  
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• 3 finalists announced for Thurber Prize for American Humor

  25-08-2016 18:01
  
  Authors Jason Gay, Harrison Scott Key and Mary Norris have been named finalists for the Thurber Prize for American Humor
  
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• The Latest: After US sentence, Sharper goes to state court

  25-08-2016 17:47
  
  A Louisiana judge has formally imposed a 20-year prison sentence on former NFL star Darren Sharper, who last week was sentenced by a federal judge to 18 years and four months in a drug and rape case with victims in four states
  
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• Egyptian lawyer in solitary confinement for defying el-Sissi

  25-08-2016 17:45
  
  For more than 100 days, Egyptian rights lawyer Malek Adly has been locked away in solitary confinement, with almost no communication with the outside world and sleeping on a bare floor in conditions his lawyers say amount to torture
  
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• With the Opening of Faun, Vanderbilt Avenue Cements its Spot as Brooklyn’s Premiere Restaurant Row

  25-08-2016 17:05 via bkmag.com
  
  Thanks to Olmsted, neighborhood-y Prospect Heights has become a full-blown dining destination, with Manhattan’s complete contingent of restaurant rubberneckers anxiously awaiting tables while sipping rosé, in the eatery’s pastoral, largely consumable garden.
  But just a block over, there’s a backyard that’s just as idyllic and only marginally less edible (boasting melons, pepper plants and a fledgling fig tree), that happens to be attached to a restaurant equally de
  
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• Six podcasts to spend the rest of the summer with

  25-08-2016 16:30
  
  Whether you’re headed out of town for Labor Day, already planning ahead for a fall road trip, or just need something new to listen to while you clean your apartment or commute, here are the six podcasts we’ve been buzzing about here at Brooklyn Based. Since so many podcasts figure out what they are as they go along, they often change significantly, over time, so starting out at the beginning can be disappointing or misleading. With that in mind, we’ve provided suggestions for
  
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• The Brooklyn 100: Oliver Ackermann, DIY Pioneer & Pedal Maker

  25-08-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Being the frontman of A Place to Bury Strangers (or “the loudest band in New York”) and founder of the legendary Death By Audio–Ackermann certainly has made waves in the sphere of Brooklyn music. While his band rages on, Death By Audio sadly closed its doors in 2014, falling victim to a building buy out. While the space is now closed, it ignited a conversation about shared spaces, live music, and how to preserve the DIY spirit of music in ever-expensive Brooklyn. The pedal
  
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• Barack and Michelle’s First Date: Southside With You

  25-08-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Southside with YouDirected by Richard TanneOpens August 26
  What a difference two terms make: Around this point in George W. Bush’s administration, Oliver Stone was putting the final touches on W., a lacerating if also somewhat empathetic portrait of our then-sitting president as an unloved alcoholic dope with a chip on his shoulder. In the final months of his successor’s presidency, Southside with You gives Barack and Michelle Obama the Before Sunrise treatment. The movie takes some
  
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• Designer Sonia Rykiel, known for a relaxed style, dies at 86

  25-08-2016 12:16
  
  French designer Sonia Rykiel, the "queen of knitwear" whose relaxed striped sweaters helped liberate women from their stuffy suits, has died at age 86
  
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• Belarusian leader treats action hero Seagal to local melons

  25-08-2016 12:12
  
  Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has treated American action hero Steven Seagal to a harvest of carrots and watermelons at his country residence
  
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• Springsteen performs for nearly 4 hours at MetLife Stadium

  25-08-2016 12:01
  
  Bruce and the boys are back in the swamps of Jersey and they're in no rush to get off the stage
  
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• Water pipe break forces cancellation of 'Cats' performance

  25-08-2016 11:51
  
  A water supply break at a New York City theater has forced the cancellation of a performance of the Broadway musical "Cats."
  
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• Sonia Rykiel, known for liberated fashion style, dies at 86

  25-08-2016 11:50
  
  French designer Sonia Rykiel, the "queen of knitwear" whose relaxed striped sweaters helped liberate women from their stuffy suits, has died at age 86
  
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• Designer Sonia Rykiel, famed for liberating women's fashion, has died at 86, French president's office says

  25-08-2016 11:44
  
  Designer Sonia Rykiel, famed for liberating women's fashion, has died at 86, French president's office says
  
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• Postscript: After US sentence, Sharper goes to state court

  25-08-2016 11:15
  
  A week after he was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison in federal court, disgraced ex-football star Darren Sharper is set for formal sentencing in state court to related charges that he drugged and raped multiple women
  
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• [BREAKING CHEWS] Get on the flavor train! Breakfast taco stand opens inside Clark Street station

  25-08-2016 11:10
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperCall it the Mmmm-TA!Two Brooklyn Heights cousins opened a breakfast-taco stand inside Clark Street station on Tuesday, where they hope to tap into its steady stream of 2 and 3 train straphangers by stopping them dead in their tracks with delicious smells each morning.“You have a lot of foot traffic from people going to work, there’s the college kids who live upstairs, and a lot of tourists use this stop to get to the Bro
  
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• Elton John, Britney Spears join Apple Music Festival lineup

  25-08-2016 09:21
  
  Elton John, Britney Spears, Alicia Keys and Calvin Harris will be among the performers at this year's Apple Music Festival
  
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• PGA Tour playoffs get start at The Barclays

  25-08-2016 08:50
  
  The top five players on the PGA Tour this season should be plenty rested going into the FedEx Cup playoffs
  
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• Fan-made 'Star Trek' sets become tourist attraction in NY

  25-08-2016 07:29
  Sets mimicking those of the 1960s TV series "Star Trek" have become a tourist attraction in upstate New York
  
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• [STANDING O] She’s EM-powered!

  25-08-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBorough WideShe’s EMPowered!Brooklyn’s very own Cynthia Steele, executive vice president of EMPower, received an alumni citation from her alma mater in Granville, Ohio, when Denison University president Dr. Adam Weinberg conferred her the highest honor at ceremonies in June.Cynthia graduated the university in 1976, and presently oversees grant-making, program initiatives, and foundation relationships, and co-leads or
  
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• [STANDING O] For the very young at heart!

  25-08-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailySunset Park
  To-be moms can rest easy, thanks to Dr. Shailini Singh, site director of maternal fetal medicine at NYU Lutheran.The physician works closely with moms to get an early start on monitoring the prenatal well-being of unborn babies.
  “The joint fetal-echo program is especially significant to our unit because of a high prevalence of diabetes in our pregnant patient population,” she said.The top doc employs comp
  
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• [PARTY LINE] McCreight takes heat over Trump Village redevelopment

  25-08-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyA political hopeful got an icy reception in Brighton Beach when he stumped against a long-maligned 40-story tower planned over the old Trump Village shopping center.Locals called Bay Ridgite Chris McCreight a Johnny-come-lately for finally publicly opposing the contentious tower, which has been in the works for years. McCreight is running for male Democratic district leader in the 46th Assembly District, which stretches from Coney
  
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• [MUSIC] Dub-ble take: DJ tries to revive music genre

  25-08-2016 06:00
  
  He’s bringing a dab of dub to Brooklyn! Read more.
  
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• [MIDWOOD] City: ‘Polite sign is still illegal’

  25-08-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyOh please!The employees of a private summer camp in Midwood took the law into their own hands and put up cardboard “no parking except school buses” signs outside their headquarters, which city reps say is illegal. But administrators claim the signs are only a suggestion — and that people should know it’s not an officially sanctioned notice because the posting, which says “please,” is too polite
  
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• Just keep swinging: Cyclones shortstop working to improve his presence at the plate

  25-08-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyIt don’t mean a thing if he ain’t got that swing.The Mets selected Michael Paez in the fourth round of the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft, but the converted second baseman has struggled at the plate this season and Cyclones skipper Tom Gamboa knows why.“Paez is struggling strictly because his college program teaches a hitting approach that I’ve never heard of before,” Gamboa said. “Collapse your backside and
  
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