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• Country star Loretta Lynn hurt in fall, requires surgery

  07-09-2016 23:38
  
  Country music star Loretta Lynn has postponed shows after suffering injuries in a fall that will require minor surgery
  
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• REVIEW: JT LeRoy doc explores absorbing literary scandal

  07-09-2016 23:29
  
  "Author: The JT LeRoy Story" explores the fascinating story of the woman behind one of the biggest literary scandals of recent years.
  
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• The Way We Dress Now: Crown Heights Style

  07-09-2016 22:49 via bkmag.com
  
  For our September print issue—the style issue—we sent our photographers to ten Brooklyn neighborhoods (from Greenpoint, to Flatbush, and eight others in between) to document the way Brooklyn is dressing now. Style is different than fashion, and our goal was to capture the highly individual, creative, and inspiring styles representative of the people who sported them, and the spirit of the neighborhoods in which they walked. This is Crown Heights.  Nikiesha Hamilto
  
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• Pandas Are Now Vulnerable and Going to Therapy

  07-09-2016 22:47 via bkmag.com
  
   If you’re a panda fan—please, think carefully before you claim this title (for an accurate example of ‘panda fan’, look at these images of Jackie Chan with pandas)—and even if you’re not, the panda news this week was surprisingly good, and weird.
  After approximately zillions of years on the endangered species list, and a tenure of equal length as icon of the World Wildlife Fund, the panda has been given a reduced sentence, and therefore inadvertently per
  
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• ESPN gets back in the hockey game with the World Cup

  07-09-2016 22:44
  
  ESPN gets back in the hockey game with the World Cup, reigniting the debate over whether the NHL needs the network in the U.S.
  
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• Eat, Drink, And Watch Movies: Nitehawk Cinema Is Coming To Park Slope

  07-09-2016 22:25 via bkmag.com
  
  After years of rumors swirling around Park Slope’s lone remaining movie theater, The Pavilion, whether it would be shut down, renovated, or turned into a condominium complex, some clarity has finally come forth: the theater will become a Nitehawk Cinema by Fall of 2017.Nitehawk, which opened its initial location in Williamsburg back in 2011, has been a huge success since its opening, offering full food and bar service in addition to a wide variety of film programming. The Park Slope locati
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Aug. 29-Sept. 4

  07-09-2016 21:55
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Aug. 29-Sept
  
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• Return of college football boosts ABC in ratings

  07-09-2016 21:33
  
  ABC wins the week's television ratings competition with the help of two Labor Day weekend football games
  
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• Hanks, Eckhart take flight as real-life heroes in 'Sully'

  07-09-2016 20:59
  
  As far as everyday heroes go, commercial airline pilots might be among the most unsung _ a truth not lost on Tom Hanks, who plays Captain Chesley Sullenberger, aka "Sully," in Clint Eastwood's latest, out Friday
  
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• $3 million in jewels missing from Drake tour bus

  07-09-2016 20:37
  
  Phoenix police say $3 million worth of jewelry was taken from a tour bus being used by rapper Drake and DJ Future the Prince
  
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• Review: Wilco's "Schmilco" is meditation on loss, loneliness

  07-09-2016 20:29
  
  Wilco's "Schmilco" finds the Chicago sextet in a mostly acoustic mood, musing on happiness, loneliness, isolation and loss
  
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• Mideast drama series 'Tyrant' ending 3-season run on FX

  07-09-2016 20:28
  
  The TV reign of "Tyrant" is at an end on FX, the channel announces just hours before the finale is set to air
  
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• Florida diocese investigating ex-head of Rhode Island school

  07-09-2016 20:26
  
  An Episcopal diocese in Florida says it is still investigating a former headmaster at the elite Rhode Island boarding school St. George's
  
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• LeBron James 'sings' birthday wishes to teammate Kevin Love

  07-09-2016 20:24
  
  LeBron James has posted a signing Instagram message to teammate Kevin Love, who celebrated his 28th birthday Wednesday
  
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• Three-day festival to celebrate black history museum opening

  07-09-2016 20:15
  
  A festival featuring workshops, storytelling and performances including concerts with bands such as Public Enemy and The Roots will celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture this month
  
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• Your Sneakers Or Your Life: Kicks

  07-09-2016 20:10 via bkmag.com
  
  KicksDirected by Justin TippingOpens September 9
  “Sometimes it feels like everyone is cooler than me,” the downtrodden Brandon confesses toward the beginning of Kicks, yet another daydreamy cruel-story-of-youth to follow in the footsteps of George Washington, but one that nonetheless marks the promising feature debut of director Justin Tipping. Small for his age and more visibly impoverished than most of the other students at his East Bay high school, the 15-year-old Brandon (Jahkin
  
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• Hip Hops Hooray: Other Half’s Five Favorite Hop Varieties

  07-09-2016 20:02 via bkmag.com
  
  First We Feast published a #juicy article on the growing trend of “New England-style” IPAs and their limited releases in cans on Monday, and it’s definitely recommended reading to anyone interested in what may coax Jimi Hendrix’s corpse to play a concert in the middle of a hop farm, performing revamps of such legendary songs as “Purple Haze” (“A Haze Daze for Dayz”) and “All Along the Watchtower” (“All Along the Hop Vine
  
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• UAE leader returns to Abu Dhabi after several months abroad

  07-09-2016 19:53
  
  The president of the United Arab Emirates, who has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke more than two years ago, has returned to the country after a private visit abroad
  
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• Music review: Anna Netrebko's 'Verismo' justifies excitement

  07-09-2016 19:53
  
  Anna Netrebko's 'Verismo' is one of the most anticipated opera albums of the year, and it justifies the excitement
  
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• Review: 'The White Mirror' by Elsa Hart is compelling novel

  07-09-2016 19:20
  
  Book Review: "The White Mirror" by Elsa Hart, set in 18th-century China, is steeped with vivid scenery and believable characters
  
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• Lawsuit over Britney Spears' darkest days settled

  07-09-2016 19:20
  
  Britney Spears' caretakers and her former confidante have settled a long-running lawsuit that centered on events before the pop star's public meltdown in 2008
  
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• Your Ideal Week: September 8 – September 14

  07-09-2016 19:18
  
  Labor Day has come and gone, and that means a month or two of awesome weather ahead, the return of that old, familiar back-to-school feeling (which seems to persist no matter how far out of school you get), and, this week in particular in this place in particular, a reminder of a nightmarish day 15 years ago that changed everything forever.
  Every New Yorker has his or her own story of where they were on 9/11, and the disparity among these seems increasingly sharp to me in recent years, as I&rsqu
  
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• Photos: Rascal Flatts at Jones Beach

  07-09-2016 18:53
  
  Rascal Flatts - Rhythm & Roots Tour, featurig Rascal Flatts, Kelsea Ballerini and Chris Lane.
  
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• AP source: Bills Henderson appealing NFL 4-game suspension

  07-09-2016 18:33
  
  A person with direct knowledge of the situation has told The Associated Press that Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson is appealing the NFL's ruling to suspend him for four games for testing positive for marijuana
  
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• Williams, Murray, del Potro seek to book spots in US Open SF

  07-09-2016 18:02
  
  The last spots in the U.S. Open semifinals will be decided Wednesday, with Serena Williams, Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro seeking to keep their dominant runs going
  
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• What to Watch, and Watch For: Your Fall TV Preview

  07-09-2016 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  In years past, just as with film, Fall was the prestige season for television. This perhaps reached its peak in the mid-2000s, when ABC released Lost, featuring a pilot directed by J.J. Abrams, a killer cast, a beautiful locale, and an addicting premise.
  A decade later, though, and the biggest show on TV is HBO’s Game of Thrones, which enjoys its 10-episode run typically in the spring through early summer, and for its final two seasons will shift even later to accommodate for the reduction
  
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• Court official: Madonna, Ritchie resolve son's custody case

  07-09-2016 17:18
  
  Madonna and Guy Ritchie have resolved a months-long custody dispute in New York over where their teenage son should live
  
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• The Retail Awards: The Best Boutique Shopping Experiences in Brooklyn

  07-09-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The secret’s long been out: Brooklyn is a hell of a place to go shopping. Boutiques that sell good-looking, innovative fabrics seen all over the streets of Kings County are in abundance here. Given this reality, selecting the most outstanding among them is no walk in the park. But with a lot of input, and, let’s be honest, shopping trips of our own, those that excelled at this—selling some of the most exciting, creative, tasteful, classy, and unique items out there—stood
  
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• Review: A guide to the history of 'Star Trek'

  07-09-2016 16:49
  
  Review: "The Fifty-Year Mission" by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross is a guide to the history of "Star Trek."
  
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• Ex 49er was in sandwich fight before later assault arrest

  07-09-2016 16:46
  
  Hours before former 49er tight end Bruce Miller was arrested for assault, a manager at a San Francisco restaurant says the player got in a fight over a sandwich and was kicked out
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, September 7-13

  07-09-2016 16:18 via bkmag.com
  
  Laura (1944)Directed by Otto Preminger
  Leave Her to Heaven (1945)Directed by John M. Stahl
  Their surfaces couldn’t be more different: Laura a chilly black-and-white mystery noir, Leave Her to Heaven a lurid Technicolor domestic melodrama. And yet, place both these films next to each other, and some fascinating convergences emerge beyond featuring the same leading lady. In Preminger’s film, Gene Tierney plays the titular object of three different men’s obsessions: detective Mar
  
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• The Way We Dress Now: Fort Greene Street Style

  07-09-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  For our September print issue—the style issue—we sent our photographers to ten Brooklyn neighborhoods (from Greenpoint, to Flatbush, and eight others in between) to document the way Brooklyn is dressing now. Style is different than fashion, and our goal was to capture the highly individual, creative, and inspiring styles representative of the people who sported them, and the spirit of the neighborhoods in which they walked. This is Fort Greene.Jeremy, 31
  Where are you headed?The Park
  
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• The Brooklyn 100: Lindsay Zoladz, The Ringer

  07-09-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Winner of the 2016 American Society of Magazine Editors “Next Award” for journalists under 30, Lindsay Zoladz can break down David Bowie with the best of them. Smart, thoughtful, curious, her work at New York Magazine—and more recently as a staff writer at The Ringer—embodies the best of cultural criticism.
  What about the work at New York Magazine is most exciting for you?
  Just being a part of what I can honestly say is my favorite magazine. I still get giddy every other&
  
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• Q&A: Rihanna on new fashion line, confidence and more

  07-09-2016 15:17
  
  Rihanna says if the Addams Family worked out in the gym, they would sport her new collection for Puma
  
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• AP Interview: Newly crowned Miss Japan proud of Indian roots

  07-09-2016 14:45
  
  The newly crowned Miss World Japan is hardly a typical Japanese woman
  
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• Review: The action never lets up in 'The Dread Line'

  07-09-2016 14:32
  
  Book Review: The action never lets up in Bruce DeSilva's "The Dread Line."
  
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• Sharon Olds wins $100,000 poetry prize

  07-09-2016 14:03
  
  One of the country's leading poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds, has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement award
  
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• Spain picks Pedro Almodovar's "Julieta" as Oscar contender

  07-09-2016 13:23
  
  Spain's film academy has selected Pedro Almodovar's film "Julieta" as its entry for best foreign language film at next year's Oscars
  
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• Marilyn's 'Happy Birthday' gown going to auction in the fall

  07-09-2016 13:14
  
  The flesh-colored, form-fitting gown Marilyn Monroe wore during her breathless rendition of "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy is going on the auction block
  
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• Possession: Marcin Wrona’s Demon

  07-09-2016 12:57 via bkmag.com
  
  DemonDirected by Marcin WronaOpens September 9
  Cynics and pragmatists suggest that unknown factors surface after marriage. Demon, an often auspicious union of satire and horror, offers a variation. The night before his country-house wedding, Piotr (Itay Tiran) conducts the traditional investigation of a suspicious noise, and is sucked down into the mud, where unknown factors enter into him. In one of the film’s several clever anti-climaxes, his friend and future brother-in-law Jasny (Toma
  
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• [BROOKLYN IS ANGRY] ‘Raging anti-Semite’ 9-11 truther speaking in Boerum Hill tonight

  07-09-2016 11:14
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt is a question of Commons’ decency.Boerum Hill event space the Commons is hosting a 9-11 “truther” on Wednesday who will preach that the Sept. 11 attacks and War of Terror are a Jewish conspiracy, outraging patrons and neighbors who plan to picket the event and say they’ll never go back.“The Commons has made itself a place where bigotry and demonizing historically oppressed groups … will be wel
  
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• 2nd night of prelims on tap for Miss America pageant

  07-09-2016 06:49
  
  The second night of preliminary competition in the Miss America pageant is set for Wednesday in Atlantic City
  
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• Looking at Cosby's past for a pattern of drugging, sex abuse

  07-09-2016 06:14
  Thirteen women who say Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them over the years have agreed to testify against him in the only criminal case stemming from his alleged behavior
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Shelter exposed: Residents say Sunset Park home not helping homeless

  07-09-2016 06:11
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperThey’re calling it a bad Samaritan.Residents of a Sunset Park homeless shelter claim operator Samaritan Village has not been making good on promises to help them find employment or permanent homes. Reps from the company — which runs the controversial, 150-bed shelter in a former hotel on 49th Street between Second and Third avenues — say they conduct weekly workshops to help people living there get out of pove
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Brute shoves man in parking space dispute

  07-09-2016 06:11
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Paper78th PrecinctPark Slope
  Off-road rageSome jerk shoved a 63-year-old man on Dean Street amid an argument over a parking space on Aug. 20.The victim told police he was between Sixth and Flatbush avenues at 10:15 pm when he got caught in an argument with a younger man. Their disagreement turned violent when the goon shoved the driver, causing him to scratch his hand, cops said.
  SpoonedA vandal hurled a wooden spoon at through a window
  
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• [BENSONHURST] Lowlife tries to strangle man with a shoelace

  07-09-2016 06:11
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Paper62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachShoelace stranglerA brute viciously attacked a man and attempted to strangle him with a shoelace on 20th Lane on Sept. 3, police said.
  The victim told police he was walking toward his car near Shore Parkway at 1:55 am when a man came up behind him and tried to strangle him with some sort of string. Police say the ruffian then repeatedly punched the man in the face causing swelling, redne
  
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• [BAY RIDGE] Police: Suspect beat man with a metal pipe

  07-09-2016 06:11
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Paper68th PrecinctBay Ridge—Dyker HeightsPipe beatingPolice arrested a man for striking a man with a metal pipe on Wakeman Place and Third Avenue on Aug. 31, said police.The victim told police that at 6:54 pm the two men got into a verbal dispute that escalated to the suspect striking the victim across the back with the metal pipe, said police. The victim suffered swelling and bruising to his back and neck, said police.Shot fi
  
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• Gardner makes leaping catch for last out, Yanks stop Jays

  07-09-2016 06:06
  
  Brett Gardner made a leaping catch at the top of the left-field wall on Justin Smoak's bases-loaded drive for the final out, and the New York Yankees held on during a nervy ninth inning to beat the AL East-leading Toronto Blue Jays 7-6 on Tuesday night
  
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• Shelter exposed: Residents say Sunset Park home not helping homeless

  07-09-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThey’re calling it a bad Samaritan.Residents of a Sunset Park homeless shelter claim operator Samaritan Village has not been making good on promises to help them find employment or permanent homes. Reps from the company — which runs the controversial, 150-bed shelter in a former hotel on 49th Street between Second and Third avenues — say they conduct weekly workshops to help people living there get out of pove
  
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• [NOT FOR NUTHIN’] Jo bids farewell to ‘Rizzoli & Isles’

  07-09-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyAfter seven seasons, Turner Network Television said goodbye to “Rizzoli & Isles” on Sept. 5. The police drama pitted Det. Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) and Dr. Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander) against the most heinous criminals that Boston has ever seen. The dynamic duo put the bad guys behind bars while doing what girls do — dating, drinking wine, and bonding — and they always solved the mystery whodunnit
  
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