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• Huma Abedin: Clinton aide is known as her 'second daughter'

  29-08-2016 23:43
  
  Often called Hillary Clinton's second daughter, Huma Abedin is a deeply trusted aide who is rarely far apart from the Democratic presidential nominee
  
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• Fox News calls Tantaros an 'opportunist' in lawsuit response

  29-08-2016 23:36
  
  Fox News Channel says Andrea Tantaros is not a "victim" but "an opportunist" in its response to the sexual-harassment lawsuit filed last week by the former Fox News host
  
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• Box Office Top 20: 'Don't Breathe' inhales $26.4 million

  29-08-2016 23:29
  
  The modestly budgeted horror movie "Don't Breathe" scared off competitors at the box office this weekend, taking first place with $26.4 million in its first days in theaters
  
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• Kaepernick's decision to sit through anthem scrutinized

  29-08-2016 23:09
  
  From the White House to San Francisco police union headquarters and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Colin Kaepernick's name came up Monday as his decision to sit down for the national anthem reached far beyond football
  
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• Mel Brooks, Gervais, more pay tribute to Gene Wilder

  29-08-2016 22:56
  
  Tributes from peers and admirers poured in Monday for legendary actor, writer and director Gene Wilder, who died Sunday at the age of 83 of complications from Alzheimer's disease
  
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• Parole denied for the 9th time for John Lennon's killer

  29-08-2016 22:38
  
  John Lennon's killer will remain behind bars after being denied parole a 9th time
  
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• Mr. Fuji, former star wrestler and manager, dies at 82

  29-08-2016 22:19
  
  World Wrestling Entertainment says former star wrestler and manager Harry Fujiwara, better known as Mr. Fuji, has died
  
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• Taylor Swift reports for jury duty in Nashville

  29-08-2016 22:02
  
  Pop star Taylor Swift surprised Davidson County residents when she showed up to jury duty in Nashville. Media outlets report that Swift reported for jury duty Monday morning at downtown Nashville's courthouse with security in tow
  
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• Actor Gene Wilder, star of Mel Brooks movies, dies at 83

  29-08-2016 21:54
  
  Gene Wilder, the star of such comedy classics as "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," has died
  
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• Amid a marriage split, Showtime announces 'Weiner' debut

  29-08-2016 21:41
  
  Amid fresh sexting reports and a marriage split, Showtime announces it will air the documentary about Anthony Weiner
  
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• Correction: House 2016-Minnesota story

  29-08-2016 21:32
  
  Correction: House 2016-Minnesota story
  
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• Nephew: Gene Wilder, star of Mel Brooks movies, dies at 83

  29-08-2016 21:30
  
  Gene Wilder, the star of such comedy classics as "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," has died
  
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• Gene Wilder, star of 'Willy Wonka' and Mel Brooks comedies, is dead at 83, his family says

  29-08-2016 21:18
  
  Gene Wilder, star of 'Willy Wonka' and Mel Brooks comedies, is dead at 83, his family says
  
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• Fassbender, Vikander commit to 'Light Between Oceans'

  29-08-2016 21:06
  
  Since shooting Derek Cianfrance's sweeping 1920s drama "The Light Between Oceans," which DreamWorks will release Friday, Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender have been a couple: one of the movies' most decorated if discreet pairings
  
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• Mexicans say 'adios' to beloved singer Juan Gabriel

  29-08-2016 20:33
  
  Juan Gabriel was more than just a songwriter and singer for the hundreds of fans in his native Mexico who thronged Mexico City's Garibaldi square to wish him farewell
  
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• Several Good Reasons to Avoid Marriage

  29-08-2016 20:08 via bkmag.com
  
  Arthur Schopenhauer, famous for his positive outlook and sunny disposition* said, “Marrying means to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find an eel amongst an assembly of snakes.” I couldn’t agree more! My wedding is in two weeks! I’m deep in the sack!
  Of course, most of the following terrors are automatically alleviated by avoiding marriage. Everything will also be fine if you don’t have a family but do have sacks of money, if you&nbs
  
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• The Night Of Took John Turturro From That Guy To The Guy

  29-08-2016 19:57 via bkmag.com
  
  John Turturro has one of those faces that you just know. Whether he’s showing up in Coen Brothers films, taking anything from bit parts to lead roles, or stealing a scene to make a point for Spike Lee, or hamming it up in Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, or even with pseudo-cameos in Adam Sandler vehicles, you see him and you just know him.
  An interesting phrase that people use for character actors, sometimes, is to refer to them as a  ‘that guy’. Typically, I
  
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• Batman v. Deathstroke? Speculation high after Affleck tweet

  29-08-2016 19:42
  
  Speculation is rampant about Ben Affleck's upcoming stand-alone Batman film after the actor tweeted what appears to be some footage featuring a famous DC Comics villain
  
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• Walter’s, a Breaking Bad-Inspired Café, Is Up and Cooking in Bushwick

  29-08-2016 19:35 via bkmag.com
  
  This winter, when we heard a Breaking Bad-inspired café, Walter’s, would open in Brooklyn sometime this summer, we thought: that is hilarious! But also, maybe cool? And, finally, it sorta makes sense, because both coffee and watching Breaking Bad are addictive. As is, of course, meth, one of the show’s main characters. And yet, when we saw the hazmat suits and blue rock candy featured in the first Walter’s in Istanbul, we couldn’t not be skeptical: could this caf&e
  
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• Review: 'Only the Hunted Run' is fast-moving, suspenseful

  29-08-2016 18:51
  
  Book Review: "Only the Hunted Run" by Neely Tucker is fast-moving and suspenseful
  
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• Alex Marwood delivers gripping cautionary tale

  29-08-2016 18:50
  
  Book Review: Alex Marwood delivers gripping cautionary tale about how 1 person's dominating personality can infect those around him in "The Darkest Secret."
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' star Carice van Houten gives birth to son

  29-08-2016 18:32
  
  Carice van Houten, the Dutch actress who plays red priestess Melisandre in the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones," has given birth to a baby boy
  
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• Tom Wolfe talks Darwin, Chomsky and human speech

  29-08-2016 18:12
  
  After making his name as the satirist of everything from "radical chic" to modern architecture, Tom Wolfe is now mining the mystery of language and the reputation of the most influential linguist of our time, Noam Chomsky
  
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• Foot Locker looks to play up the store experience

  29-08-2016 17:42
  
  Foot Locker is set to open Tuesday its newly redesigned store in Manhattan, its hometown as it looks to create a better shopping experience
  
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• Montana plane crash kills 'Ice Road Truckers' TV show star

  29-08-2016 17:40
  
  A plane crash in western Montana has killed the star of the History channel reality show "Ice Road Truckers" and one other person
  
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• “The Gardener and the Carpenter” reimagines modern parenting as love not work

  29-08-2016 17:14
  
  When you are expecting your first child well-meaning friends, family members and total strangers love to regale you with horror stories about how difficult it is to have an infant. How you’ll never sleep again. How the baby will cry for hours on end. How life as you know it is soon to O-V-E-R. (The last part is absolutely true, though not necessarily in a bad way.)
  I actually found my son’s early months to be mellow and almost soothing compared to the intense anticipation and anxiet
  
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• Costume Party: Discreet Charms and Obscure Objects

  29-08-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Costume Party is a monthly column exploring fashion, personal style, and historical aesthetics in film.
  Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967) is a constant on any list of the most fashionable films, but the women in his 1970s output are just as well-dressed. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), playing at Film Forum as part of their double feature series, both showcase a variety of chic ensembles in the midst of narrative weirdness.
  The
  
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• Creature Features: Ben Kilgore Builds Lifelike Computer Generated Imagery for Hollywood Blockbusters

  29-08-2016 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  In the first few minutes of the 2014 hit Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, not one human appears. A pack of majestic apes hunt deer through a lush rain forest, dense with trees that seem to reach upward forever. Their faces are expressive, their hair ripples in the gentlest breeze, and their muscles tense and relax beneath their skin. When a trigger-happy Homo sapiens finally barges in, it’s hard not to side with the apes – which is a testament to the skill and discipline of Fashion In
  
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• Beyonce and Rihanna most tweeted topics during MTV VMAs

  29-08-2016 16:08
  
  Beyonce and Rihanna got the most social media buzz during Sunday night's MTV Music Video Awards
  
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• The Brooklyn 100: Ric Leichtung, Founder, AdHoc

  29-08-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Right when we thought we’d seen enough of Ric–the Market Hotel announced they were opening their doors again after five long years. Ric and his events collective, AdHoc, are (of course) attached to the famed venue, ensuring it boasts a calendar worthy of it’s name. AdHoc is already everywhere–but now the AdHoc zine is back in print as well, with New Yorker cartoonists now contributing to it’s pages. 
  Tell us a little about your work via AdHoc. What drew you to
  
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• The Brooklyn 100: Ric Leichtung, Co-Founder, AdHoc

  29-08-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Right when we thought we’d seen enough of Ric–the Market Hotel announced they were opening their doors again after five long years. Ric and AdHoc–the company he co-founded with its current Editorial Director Emilie Friedlander–are (of course) attached to the famed venue, ensuring it boasts a calendar worthy of its name. AdHoc is already everywhere–and with a monthly newsprint zine with contributions from New Yorker cartoons now attached to it’s&
  
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• Facebook post from Michael Phelps fan with autism inspires

  29-08-2016 15:28
  
  A Michael Phelps fan who has autism has become an inspiration on his own after sharing his dream of competing in the Olympics one day on the swimmer's Facebook page
  
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• Cate Blanchett and Josh Groban lead Broadway's fall season

  29-08-2016 15:17
  
  Some big celebrities are coming to Broadway when the weather cools, including Cate Blanchett, Diane Lane, Janet McTeer, Josh Groban and Liev Schreiber
  
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• Photos: 2016 MTV Video Music Awards

  29-08-2016 15:11
  
  The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards were held at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Aug. 28 in New York.
  
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• Reel Brooklyn: Buzzin’ Around, Midwood

  29-08-2016 14:39 via bkmag.com
  
  Reel Brooklyn is a biweekly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time.
  Movies as archaeology: when the medium was invented, that’s what a lot of people saw, a way finally to freeze history in its tracks. Documents of prewar Brooklyn neighborhoods are not common, as most film production migrated to the predictable sunshine of southern California by the mid-20s. But check out Buzzin’ Around (1933), an early-talkie
  
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• Man shot at Young Jeezy nightclub event in identified

  29-08-2016 14:22
  
  Virginia Beach police have identified a man who was shot to death during a party hosted by rapper Young Jeezy
  
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• Former Michigan State star Appling arrested in Detroit

  29-08-2016 13:55
  
  Former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling is in trouble again with police
  
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• Pro wrestling's Mr. Fuji dies at 82

  29-08-2016 12:54
  
  World Wrestling Entertainment says the former star wrestler and manager Harry Fujiwara, better known as Mr. Fuji, has died at age 82
  
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• Kerry Washington: 'Two pregnancies have been very different'

  29-08-2016 12:09
  
  It's a busy time for Kerry Washington _ juggling shoots for the hit show "Scandal," the Emmy season, and her second pregnancy
  
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• [CLINTON HILL] Sister of cyclist killed on Classon Ave. demands bike lane

  29-08-2016 11:06
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe city must install a bike lane on Classon Avenue after a driver fatally hit a cyclist there earlier this year, says the sister of the late biker and thousands of others who signed a petition she launched last week.
  A motorist ran over and killed Crown Heights resident Lauren Davis as she was peddling to work on the street near Lexington Avenue in Clinton Hill on April 15, and her sister says a path will ensure other riders don&rs
  
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• Beyonce proves she's in a lane of her own at MTV VMAs

  29-08-2016 07:33
  
  Beyonce proved once again she is a contemporary rock star, and she used the MTV Video Music Awards stage to showcase her skills and outshine her peers, from Rihanna to Britney Spears
  
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• Drake went in. Rihanna leaned back. Twitter was all over it.

  29-08-2016 07:07
  
  Drake presented Rihanna with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award Sunday night at the MTV Video Music Awards, but he didn't turn over the Moon Man until he went in for a kiss
  
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• Beyonce dominates an Olympic-sized VMA awards

  29-08-2016 07:06
  
  Beyonce soared with an extended "Lemonade" medley on the MTV Video Music Awards
  
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• Complete list of winners of Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards

  29-08-2016 06:37
  
  Winners of Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards presented at New York's Madison Square Garden
  
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• 'Believeland' corn mazes celebrate Cleveland Cavaliers

  29-08-2016 06:32
  
  An Ohio farm is honoring the Cleveland Cavaliers through several corn mazes designed in the shape of their championship trophy, LeBron James' head and the words "Homegrown Hero" and "Believeland."
  
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• Beyonce slays at MTV VMAs, Drake honors Rihanna

  29-08-2016 06:07
  
  Beyonce owned the MTV Video Music Awards by winning video of the year and giving a 16-minute performance featuring her recent hits from "Lemonade," while Drake honored Rihanna when he presented her with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award
  
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• [THE RIDE] Cyclones take rubber match in Williamsport

  29-08-2016 06:01
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By David Russellfor Brooklyn PaperCyclones 2Williamsport 1August 28 at WilliamsportThe Cardiac Clones scored a pair of seventh-inning runs to pull out a come-from-behind 2–1 win at Williamsport on Sunday.The Crosscutters jumped out to a lead in the second inning as Lucas Williams reached on a bunt single and scored on Gregori Rivero’s triple. Brooklyn starter Merandy Gonzalez was able to limit the damage, however, as the righty struck out Luis Enca
  
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• [►VIDEO] A is for ‘automaton’: Sunset Park group shows teachers how to incorporate robots into lesson plans

  29-08-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyTeachers practice using robots during the workshop.
  Courtesy Sunset SparkThey’re hoping to ignite teachers’ passion for robotics.Husband-and-wife tech duo Sunset Spark schooled Brooklyn teachers over the summer on coding and robots in workshops that aimed to help teachers reprogram their lesson plans to emphasize technology this school year. The couple hosted the workshop to demystify droids and help educators integ
  
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• [PROSPECT HEIGHTS] Blue man troupe: ‘Avatar’-inspired circus show comes to Barclays

  29-08-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyIt’s out of this world!An alien planet will emerge from the movies and invade Brooklyn during eight performances of “Toruk: The First Flight” at Barclays Center, starting on Sept. 7. The high-flying Cirque du Soleil acrobatic troupe created the show, inspired by the James Cameron sci-fi flick “Avatar,” which dazzled audiences with its blue-skinned aliens and sp
  
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• [MARINE PARK] At cross purposes: New utility pole blocks crosswalk signal

  29-08-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThe city needs to get moving to replace a crosswalk signal that is blocked by a new utility pole, Marine Parkers are demanding.People trying to traverse Avenue S at E. 36th Street cannot see whether they have the go-ahead to cross, because Con Ed installed a new utility pole right in front of a crosswalk signal on July 14 — and more than a month later the Department of Transportation has
  
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