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• Burberry expands on heritage in impressive show at new venue

  19-09-2016 23:53
  
  Burberry show offers a celebration of all things British rather than mimicking the French or Italian approach to fashion
  
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• Tom Waits, his wife, John Prine receive songwriting awards

  19-09-2016 23:23
  
  Tom Waits and folk singer John Prine have been honored at a ceremony in Boston
  
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• Scully heads into final week behind mic at Dodger Stadium

  19-09-2016 23:13
  
  As an 8-year-old in the Bronx, Vin Scully would grab a pillow, place it on the crosspiece under his family's four-legged radio and lay his head directly under the speaker to hear whatever college football game was on the air in 1936
  
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• Fans snap up tickets for Prince tribute concert in St. Paul

  19-09-2016 22:58
  
  Fans have snapped up tickets to next month's Prince tribute concert in St. Paul
  
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• Angela Lansbury revives 'Beauty and the Beast' role in NY

  19-09-2016 22:52
  
  For one night only, Angela Lansbury served audiences a live performance as Mrs. Potts
  
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• Anticipating debate, Trump says he thinks system rigged

  19-09-2016 22:33
  Donald Trump has expressed doubt that debate moderators will be fair to him, one week away from his first encounter with Hillary Clinton
  
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• Robert Durst's lawyer: Indiana prison doesn't make sense

  19-09-2016 22:01
  
  An attorney for real estate heir Robert Durst says it doesn't make sense to send Durst to a prison in Indiana, when he faces a murder trial in Los Angeles
  
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• Review: Dave Hollister's new album not memorable

  19-09-2016 22:00
  
  Dave Hollister's new album "The MANuscript" is loaded with smooth R&B songs focusing on his infatuation of women
  
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• Redskins, rock band battle government in trademark fight

  19-09-2016 21:59
  An Asian-American rock band called The Slants and the Washington Redskins are unusual legal allies as the Supreme Court decides whether to hear a First Amendment challenge to a law barring trademarks for offensive names
  
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• Bill Clinton hosts last charity event amid election scrutiny

  19-09-2016 21:19
  
  Former President Bill Clinton is hosting his final gathering of the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual meeting of world leaders, philanthropists and celebrities
  
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• Zimmer tells radio show that Peterson has torn meniscus

  19-09-2016 21:13
  
  Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer tells local radio station KFXN-FM that running back Adrian Peterson has a torn meniscus in his right knee
  
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• The Latest: Bill Clinton hosts his final CGI meeting

  19-09-2016 21:01
  
  Former President Bill Clinton is hosting his final gathering of the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual meeting of world leaders, philanthropists and celebrities
  
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• Ken Burns says new Nazi documentary evokes refugees' plight

  19-09-2016 20:54
  
  Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns hopes his newest project will prompt viewers to think about how the United States should respond to the world's refugee crisis
  
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• [UPDATE, BAY RIDGE] Police release five arrested in Brooklyn in connection to Chelsea bombing

  19-09-2016 20:51
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyFederal agents have released the five New Jersey men they arrested in Brooklyn on Sept. 18 after determining they did not have a hand in Saturday’s bombing in Chelsea.Officials pulled the five over on the Belt Parkway in Bay Ridge on Sunday night after they came over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Staten Island. Cops could not provide a time, but the arrest came around 9:30 pm, according to a local pol’s social m
  
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• Andrea Wulf's Humboldt biography wins Science Book Prize

  19-09-2016 20:46
  
  A biography of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt has been named science book of the year
  
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• Emmy telecast hits another record low

  19-09-2016 20:38
  
  Nielsen says an estimated 11.3 million people watched the Emmy Awards, a new low for television's biggest night
  
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• Smashing Taboos: A Vital Revival of A Taste Of Honey

  19-09-2016 19:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Shelagh Delaney was only nineteen years old when her first play A Taste of Honey caused a sensation on the London stage in 1959, after which it moved to Broadway with Joan Plowright as the sensitive protagonist, Jo, and Angela Lansbury as her earthy mother, Helen. Delaney said that she wrote her play as a response to seeing Terence Rattigan’s Variations on a Theme, which she felt was false to her own experience of life. With John Osborne and several other playwrights of that time, Delaney
  
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• New trial date set for Vince Neil in Las Vegas battery case

  19-09-2016 19:39
  
  Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil's trial has been postponed in a misdemeanor case alleging he grabbed a woman and pulled her to the ground in April outside a Las Vegas Strip resort
  
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• Review: 'Queen of Katwe' a story of chess, dreams and Uganda

  19-09-2016 19:32
  
  The colors and rhythms of life in the slums of Uganda are what set "Queen of Katwe" apart from other underdog chess movies
  
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• Kiefer Sutherland rises to power as 'Designated Survivor'

  19-09-2016 19:31
  
  Kiefer Sutherland, who spent a decade as "24" action hero Jack Bauer, recasts himself for "Designated Survivor" as a cabinet member suddenly made chief executive after an attack on the U.S. Capitol kills the incumbent president.
  
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• London Fashion Week hits climax with Burberry, Erdem, Kane

  19-09-2016 19:21
  
  Christopher Kane and Erdem lead a hectic day of catwalk shows at London Fashion Week, with all eyes on a highly-anticipated display by luxury label Burberry
  
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• Willkommen In Oktoberfest With Brooklyn’s Best German Dishes

  19-09-2016 19:20 via bkmag.com
  
  As opposed to the lone calendar date assigned to cultural celebrations like St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo, where you have to cram your corned beef eating and tequila drinking festivities into the span of a few mere hours, Oktoberfest–which officially takes place from September 17th-October 3rd this year–rolls out over 17 straight days. Some spots even extend their revelries up until Halloween! Which is to say, you’d be well advised to pace yourself–starting wi
  
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• Schilling agrees to settlement in failed video game venture

  19-09-2016 19:20
  
  Curt Schilling agrees to a $2.5 million settlement in failed video game venture
  
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• The Latest: Curt Schilling agrees to 38 Studios settlement

  19-09-2016 18:35
  
  Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and others have agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle their part of a lawsuit brought over Rhode Island's disastrous $75 million deal with 38 Studios
  
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• [BAY RIDGE] Five arrested in Brooklyn in connection to Chelsea bombing

  19-09-2016 18:35
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyFederal agents arrested five New Jersey men in Brooklyn on Sept. 18, believing they had a hand in Saturday’s bombing in Chelsea.Officials pulled the five over on the Belt Parkway in Bay Ridge on Sunday night after they came over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Staten Island. Cops could not provide a time, but the arrest came around 9:30 pm, according to a local pol’s social media post.“Update from the NYPD:
  
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• Amal Clooney discusses effort to legally fight Islamic State

  19-09-2016 17:46
  
  Amal Clooney is pushing for the United Nations to investigate and prosecute Islamic State group commanders for genocide
  
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• Downtown Brooklyn Partnership names new president

  19-09-2016 17:21
  Over the last nine years, she helped transform Brooklyn Bridge Park from an industrial waterfront to a world-class destination welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, and now Regina Myer will take over the helm of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.Regina has served as President of Brooklyn Bridge Park since 2008, and will begin work at the Partnership in early November. 
“This was an opportunity I just couldn’t refuse – a chance to really come full circle,&rdq
  
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• Ex-Red Sox pitcher Schilling agrees to 38 Studios settlement

  19-09-2016 17:18
  
  Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and others have agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle their part of a lawsuit brought over Rhode Island's disastrous $75 million deal with 38 Studios
  
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• Lella Alimentari: A little bite of Italy in Williamsburg’s Little Italy

  19-09-2016 17:14
  
  There is no shortage of red sauce Italian cuisine in the Graham Avenue section of Williamsburg. Lella Alimentari though, may be the only Italian spot in the neighborhood that makes you forget you’re in Brooklyn. The bustling grocery-café-piadineria is run by the delightfully, aggressively Italian husband-and-wife team of Massimiliano Nanni and Paola Citterio, who treat it as second home.
  Italian staples like dried pasta, olive oil and canned tomatoes line the walls, while custo
  
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• Colbert, Oliver to join forces for film festival fundraiser

  19-09-2016 16:47
  
  Stephen Colbert and John Oliver will soon be joining forces for an event that will benefit a New Jersey film festival
  
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• Review: 'Home' by Harlan Coben is suspenseful & twisty tale

  19-09-2016 16:46
  
  Book Review: Harlan Coben brings back his iconic series character Myron Bolitar to tackle a mystery over 10 years old in "Home."
  
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• At Home with “Brownstone”: the Metropolis Ensemble Celebrates Ten Years

  19-09-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Age mansion’s parlor on 5th Avenue, now the home of the American Irish Historical Society. In a connecting room, in between an oyster bar and a bar-bar, are the woodwinds. I stand looking at the oboist for the longest time—I used to play oboe. Walking down the fan of marble steps into the subdued, grotto-like lobby, a xylophone note greets each footstep. Alone there, it echoes off the polished stone, crystalline and otherworldly. Upstairs, above the parlor floor, is another wood-pane
  
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• Marc Jacobs apologizes for response to critics of dreadlocks

  19-09-2016 15:42
  Marc Jacobs has apologized for his response to criticism over showcasing his models in dreadlocks during New York Fashion Week
  
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• The Lovers and the Despot: Man, That Kim Jong-Il Sure Loved Movies…

  19-09-2016 15:37 via bkmag.com
  
  The Lovers and the DespotDirected by Rob Cannan and Ross AdamOpens September 23
  Even after the disaster of The Interview, the West’s appetite for stories of North Korean tyranny rolls on. The Lovers and the Despot tells the tale of the kidnapping of South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and his wife Choi Eun-hee, who were forced to work in the North Korean film industry under Kim Jong-il’s supervision. Kim dreamed of rivaling Hollywood, or at least winning prizes at the Berlin Film Fes
  
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• Same colors, new sport: Tim Tebow arrives at Mets camp

  19-09-2016 15:37
  
  Tebow arrives at Mets' instructional league, his football-to-baseball quest beginning in earnest
  
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• Carnival Corp. launching 3 TV shows about vacations, travel

  19-09-2016 14:43
  
  Carnival Corp. is launching 3 half-hour TV programs about cruise-based vacations and travel
  
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• Tom Waits, wife, others to be honored with songwriting award

  19-09-2016 13:03
  
  Tom Waits, his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and folk singer John Prine are being honored for their songwriting at a ceremony in Boston
  
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• The Brooklyn 100: Melissa Anderson, Film Critic

  19-09-2016 13:00 via bkmag.com
  
  There is a Great Man history of the Village Voice film section—Mekas to Sarris to Hoberman—that doesn’t do justice to the plurality of, well, voices that have used their alt-press column inches to speak up for diverse (better not say “marginal”) subject matter, style, even ways of seeing and writing. Continuing that tradition, longtime contributor and now senior film critic Anderson keeps a gimlet eye on the sensory pleasures and sexual politics of cinema in her re
  
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• [BOERUM HILL] Developer pushing to close Schermerhorn block: ‘You’ve probably never heard of it’

  19-09-2016 12:01
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt’s just a little street in Boerum Hill, you’ve probably never heard of it.Honchos from a luxury housing developer petitioning the city to permanently close the block of Schermerhorn Street at Flatbush Avenue tried to convince members of Community Board 2 last week that the passage is a little-known lane they likely didn’t even realize was there and certainly wouldn’t mi
  
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• [GREENPOINT] The life alcoholic: Bill Murray pours drinks at son’s Greenpoint bar

  19-09-2016 11:35
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperCan I have one more of these with some booze in it, please?Wildly popular movie star Bill Murray tended bar at his son’s new restaurant in Greenpoint on Friday and Saturday nights, dancing and drinking behind the counter while pouring out shots for guests at the private event.
  News of the “Space Jam” actor’s stint had spread as far as India and Australia, and fans crowded
  
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• Surprises, sure things and Trump joke at Emmys

  19-09-2016 09:54
  
  Emmy Awards contained some expected winners, some surprises and its share of political humor
  
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• Redskins, rock band form unusual alliance in trademark fight

  19-09-2016 09:25
  
  An Asian-American rock band called The Slants and the Washington Redskins are unusual partners as the Supreme Court decides whether to hear a First Amendment challenge to a law barring trademarks for offensive names
  
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• Yowser! Centerfold-worthy critters only for our Cutest Pet Contest!

  19-09-2016 07:09
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.for Brooklyn PaperThis is one centerfold everybody will want to look at!Community News Groupis on the prowl for the Big Apple’s prettiest pooches, knockout kitties, huggable hamsters, ravishing rabbits, and other comely critters for its inaugural Cutest Pet Contest, sponsored by the Mill Basin Veterinary Clinic.It’s easy to register and vote:• Sign up on Facebook, check out our advertisement on BrooklynPaper.com or click here.• Click on t
  
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• Tom Waits, others to be honored with songwriting award

  19-09-2016 07:02
  
  Tom Waits, his wife Kathleen Brennan and folk singer John Prine are being honored for their songwriting at a ceremony in Boston
  
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• The Latest: Emmy winners wined, dined at Governor's Ball

  19-09-2016 06:50
  
  The Latest: The first post-show stop for most Emmy guests is the Governors Ball across the street from the Microsoft Theater, an event that transforms a normally drab Los Angeles Convention Center meeting hall into a fairy-tale-like garden
  
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• Terrence Howard drops expletive during live Emmys interview

  19-09-2016 06:40
  
  Terrence Howard isn't mincing words about his "Empire" character, calling him an expletive on the Emmy Awards red carpet during a live television interview
  
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• Who rocked the Emmys red carpet: Washington, Paulson, Culpo

  19-09-2016 06:15
  
  Who rocked the Emmys red carpet: A very pregnant Kerry Washington, a very twirly Priyanka Chopra and a very green Sarah Paulson, among others
  
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• Rock my chain? Maggie Smith Rule? Memorable Emmy moments

  19-09-2016 06:09
  
  Memorable Emmy Award moments include _ rock my chain, the Maggie Smith Rule and
  
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• [REZONING] The silent treatment: LICH talks at standstill nine months after DeBlasio tries to resuscitate

  19-09-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperBeeeeeeeeeep!Negotiations have flatlined between Cobble Hill residents, local pols, the city, and the developer of the controversial plan to erect luxury housing towers on the former Long Island College Hospital site, and they aren’t any closer to reaching a compromise the community can support since they all last met nine months ago, according to a local civic group leader.“We haven’t spoken to Fortis [Property Gr
  
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• [IT’S ONLY MY OPINION] Stan takes a swipe at the other Clinton

  19-09-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyI was glued to the tube when they cut away to Clinton the Liar. No, not that Clinton. The first one. The Clinton who swore a thousand times that he did not have sex with that woman — Miss What’s-Her-Name? Then after the stain on her blue dress was analyzed, the front page of newspapers from almost every city in America showed a blowup of him with — in very bold print — the words “Liar, liar, li
  
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