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• Obama honors Mel Brooks, others in arts and humanities

  22-09-2016 23:57
  
  President Barack Obama paid tribute to comedian Mel Brooks, chef Jose Andres, NPR interviewer Terry Gross and others at a White House ceremony celebrating the arts and humanities
  
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• Sheila E. to play Minneapolis benefit

  22-09-2016 23:30
  
  Prince's former protege Sheila E. is coming to his hometown to play a benefit concert
  
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• Witnesses: Sacramento mayor tackled man who hit him with pie

  22-09-2016 23:14
  Witnesses say a man took a pie from a grocery bag, grabbed Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson from behind and smacked him in the face with the creamy dessert at a charity event, leading the former NBA star to start swinging and then tackle the man
  
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• Flush with opportunities, Chris Pratt plays a new hand

  22-09-2016 23:14
  
  Antoine Fuqua's "The Magnificent Seven" was the first thing Chris Pratt decided to do after "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Jurassic World" made him an A-list star
  
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• Gigi Hadid fends off man-handler between runway turns

  22-09-2016 22:54
  
  Gigi Hadid stars on the Max Mara and Fendi runways, drawing unwanted attention in between from a prankster who assailed her outside a Milan Fashion Week venue
  
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• Clinton yukks it up 'Between Two Ferns'

  22-09-2016 22:16
  
  Hillary Clinton fielded oddball questions on power ties, pant suits and the Scott Baio vote on the online comedy program, "Between Two Ferns."
  
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• Satellite technology beams expertise to remote Alaska clinic

  22-09-2016 21:22
  
  The only clinic in one of the nation's busiest commercial fishing ports is so remote in Alaska's Aleutians that even conventional telemedicine for emergency assistance has been impossible for its limited staff _ until this week
  
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• Ramin Karimloo to star in musical 'Anastasia' on Broadway

  22-09-2016 21:15
  
  Ramin Karimloo, who played the title role in "The Phantom of the Opera" in London and Jean Valjean in the latest Broadway reboot of "Les Miserables," is going into another epic tale _ "Anastasia" on Broadway
  
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• Christie works to shore up legacy as trial threatens it

  22-09-2016 20:18
  
  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has insisted for three years that he had no prior knowledge of a plot to create traffic jams as part of a political vendetta
  
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• Attorneys of Ernie Banks' widow withdraw from estate lawsuit

  22-09-2016 20:18
  
  Attorneys representing the widow of baseball great Ernie Banks have withdrawn from a lawsuit over his estate
  
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• With new album 'Harder II Love,' Usher gets harder to love

  22-09-2016 20:15
  
  If music stops panning out for him, Usher has bright prospects in fortune telling; by naming his eighth studio album "Hard II Love," he knew exactly what the future held
  
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• Ex-Atlantic City councilman pleads guilty in tax fraud case

  22-09-2016 20:14
  
  A former City Councilman from Atlantic City has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS of nearly $120,000 in taxes from a Boardwalk rolling chair business he owned with two other people
  
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• PBS' "Poldark" is back: Flawed hero, satisfied star

  22-09-2016 19:56
  
  A hero's deepest flaws emerge as PBS' drama series "Poldark" returns Sunday, and star Aidan Turner says he's relishing the change
  
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• From Street Kid to Hamburger King:

  22-09-2016 19:50 via bkmag.com
  
  Snow cones were commonly referred to as “Hard Times Sundaes” way back in the Great Depression—being not just the rare treat that people could actually afford, but also a viable business venture for struggling entrepreneurs, due to exceedingly low overhead. And while it seems a clunky pseudonym for a Brooklyn food truck largely associated with burgers, it attains a striking lyricism when applied to the origin story of  its owner, Andrew Zurica—and not only due to the
  
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• Fill Your Weekend With These Three Lovely Art Things

  22-09-2016 19:32 via bkmag.com
  
  A weekly compendium of mostly Brooklyn-based, always edifying art happenings. 
  If you’re not decorating your apartment with gourds, you should be seeing Rachel Libeskind perform tonight at the Center for Jewish History (with music from Danielle Aykroyd and Elvis Perkins). If you’re not protesting pumpkin spice, you should head to Red Hook for some delusional duality at Fastnet Gallery on Saturday night. If you’re not spending several hours planning your Hall
  
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• Man hits Sacramento mayor with pie, sports shiner in photo

  22-09-2016 19:11
  
  A man smacked Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson in the face with a pie at a charity dinner Wednesday night, and an official says the former NBA star went on the defensive
  
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• Music Review: Rachael Yamagata takes her act a little higher

  22-09-2016 18:49
  
  Searching for purpose, Rachael Yamagata turned "Tightrope Walker" into an album about perseverance
  
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• Parsons, fellow 'Big Bang' actors top Forbes' best-paid list

  22-09-2016 18:44
  
  "The Big Bang Theory" does a bang-up job of making its stars rich
  
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• Music review: Woody Allen's zany 'Gianni Schicchi' on DVD

  22-09-2016 18:34
  
  Music review: Woody Allen's only opera production, a zany staging of Puccini's 'Gianni Schicchi," released on DVD
  
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• Attorneys of Ernie Banks' widow withdraw in suit over estate

  22-09-2016 18:30
  
  Attorneys representing the widow of Ernie Banks have withdrawn from a lawsuit over the late Chicago Cubs great's estate
  
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• Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo Encourage Us To Vote (for You know Who) In New PSA

  22-09-2016 18:26 via bkmag.com
  
  Forty-seven days, people. That’s all the time that’s left in the 2016 election cycle, which is a period of time that always feels like an eternity, except, now, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. November 8 is way less than two months away; and, well, this election is important. Not in the same way everybody always says that’s true (though, hint: they are not wrong), but even more so this time because one of the two major-party candidates is a racist, sexist, m
  
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• Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, And Many More Encourage To ‘Save The Day’ By Voting In New Joss Whedon-Made PSA

  22-09-2016 18:26 via bkmag.com
  
  47 days, people. That’s all the time thats left in the 2016 election cycle, a time period that seems like an eternity since it’s kicked, and always seems like another eternity until it finally comes to a close—except, now, we’re finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. November 8 is less than two months away, and, well, this election is important. Not in the way that people always say every election is important (hint: they are), but in the literal way, the fact
  
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• Judge sets date for closed hearing in Prince estate case

  22-09-2016 18:21
  
  A Minnesota judge has scheduled a closed hearing next Thursday to deal with a dispute between potential heirs and the trust company overseeing the estate of the late rock superstar Prince
  
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• Brooks, Freeman lead list of award winners at White House.

  22-09-2016 18:20
  
  President Barack Obama is honoring Mel Brooks, Morgan Freeman and others at a White House ceremony
  
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• Winning in the kitchen: Curry cooks up career with new book

  22-09-2016 17:56
  
  Ayesha Curry remembers the first meal she cooked for her ultra-popular NBA player-husband Stephen Curry, a baked chicken dish, but the meal Stephen whipped up for his chef-wife wasn't as tasty, or edible
  
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• Costume Party: Isabelle Huppert Forever

  22-09-2016 17:41 via bkmag.com
  
  Costume Party is a monthly column exploring fashion, personal style, and historical aesthetics in film.
  In her forty-plus year career, Isabelle Huppert has been a stalwart of French cinema, enlivening any number of auteur productions with her aloof redheaded presence. Huppert stars in two films premiering at the New York Film Festival in October, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle (in theaters November 11) and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (in theaters December 2). In anticipation of a
  
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• Toxic Bros Will Be Toxic Bros: Goat

  22-09-2016 17:33 via bkmag.com
  
  GoatDirected by Andrew NeelOpens September 23
  An after-school special for cultural sophisticates, Goat adapts Brad Land’s memoir of his time pledging a frat at Clemson University, which included brutal hazing and eventually the death of another pledge. Co-written by David Gordon Green, produced by indie powerhouse Christine Vachon (plus James Franco and seven other people), and featuring Nick Jonas’s official bid for Serious Actor-dom, the film clearly aspires to blow the whistle on
  
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• 2 Yutes Joins Forces With Michael & Ping’s, Making This Gowanus Storefront a One-Stop Food Hub

  22-09-2016 17:29 via bkmag.com
  
  Well before the charmingly scraggy streets of Gowanus were paved with barbecue hubs and oyster bars, Michael and Ping’s was a rare bright spot on Gowanus’s food landscape, supplying prescient residents and underserved warehouse workers with all-natural Chinese food in a certified green space. Which is why, after all these years, it’s probably disconcerting for passerby to spot a sandwich board outside announcing 2 Yutes, especially since the kitchen within still churns out
  
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• Watch Hillary Clinton Join Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns

  22-09-2016 16:42 via bkmag.com
  
  2016 may be one for the books for Mr. Zach Galifianakis. A few months back, the bearded comedian starred in his own FX series, Baskets, a bizarre and surreal take on an insane man on the path to becoming a clown, which just won Louie Anderson the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for playing the role of Galifianakis’ mother. Yep.
  Now, on the heels of headlining a pair of new releases—Masterminds comes out on September 30, and Keeping Up With The Joneses drop
  
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• Alex Cameron brings his dark electro-pop and love of bowling to Baby’s All Right

  22-09-2016 16:42
  
  From left to right: Alex Cameron and Roy Molloy  Photo: Cara Robbins
  You have to admire an artist with a cutting sense of humor, who doesn’t take himself too seriously. The first indication that Australian musician Alex Cameron might fall into this category is his website, which looks like it was made in 2000 on Geocities. On the site, Cameron states his policy about press interviews. His rules include: 1) that the interview has to be conducted inside a bowling al
  
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• Alex Cameron brings his dark electro-pop and love of bowling to AVIV

  22-09-2016 16:42
  
  From left to right: Alex Cameron and Roy Molloy  Photo: Cara Robbins
  You have to admire an artist with a cutting sense of humor, who doesn’t take himself too seriously. The first indication that Australian musician Alex Cameron might fall into this category is his website, which looks like it was made in 2000 on Geocities. On the site, Cameron states his policy about press interviews. His rules include: 1) that the interview has to be conducted inside a bowling al
  
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• “Take Me (I’m Yours)” at The Jewish Museum sends you off with art in hand

  22-09-2016 15:46
  
  Claire Fontaine, JETON (PLEASE GOD), 2016 Photo: Regina Mogilevskaya
  Take Me (I’m Yours), an exhibit that opened last weekend at The Jewish Museum, allows visitors to touch, inspect, eat and take home works of art by 42 international artists, many of whom created specifically commissioned pieces for the show. It subverts the usual look-but-don’t-touch museum experience, and watching how visitors interact with the exhibits is as fascinating as the show itself. 
  Take Me
  
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• George Takei musical 'Allegiance' will be broadcast in Dec.

  22-09-2016 15:26
  
  If you weren't able to catch George Takei's musical "Allegiance" on Broadway, here's another chance _ at your local movie theater
  
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• UK quiz show champ arrested on suspicion of Amsterdam murder

  22-09-2016 15:13
  
  A quiz-show champion who appeared on the long-running BBC show "Eggheads" has been arrested over an alleged murder, after writing in a memoir that he might have killed a man in Amsterdam almost 30 years ago
  
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• The Latest: Mayor: Charlotte considers curfew after protests

  22-09-2016 15:11
  
  The mayor of Charlotte says the city is considering a curfew after two nights of violence in the wake of the shooting of a man by police
  
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• Founder of J. Geils Band facing drunken driving charge

  22-09-2016 15:05
  
  The founder and namesake of 1970s and '80s-era rockers The J. Geils Band is facing drunken driving charges
  
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• Things to Come: Bold New Films from the Toronto International Film Festival

  22-09-2016 13:01 via bkmag.com
  
  Film festivals are what you make of them. Well, most of the time anyway. But it’s especially the case with a behemoth like the Toronto International Film Festival. With its 41st edition just concluded, TIFF is comfortably coasting into middle age, perhaps a bit too content to view itself as the center of gravity for the film world. With more than 400 films screening across 11 days, it’s by far North America’s biggest festival and the one where the deals go down. This last bit
  
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• To reach millennials, Clinton reserves digital ad time

  22-09-2016 12:04
  
  Hillary Clinton reserving $30 million in digital advertising as she seeks to connect with young voters
  
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• Mary Berry quits 'Great British Bake Off' to stay at BBC

  22-09-2016 11:50
  
  Cookery writer Mary Berry says she will quit the hit TV show "The Great British Bake Off" when it leaves the BBC next year for another channel
  
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• [DOWNTOWN] Teen found dead in LIU bathroom stall

  22-09-2016 10:40
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperPolice found a teenage boy dead in a bathroom stall at Long Island University’s Downtown campus on Wednesday evening, according to a report.Authorities discovered the body of 19-year-old Bronx resident Edmund Otoo inside a restroom at the college near Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue at around 6:30 pm after responding to a 911 call, and paramedics declared him dead on the scene, cops said.
  It wasn’t immediately
  
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• [MEAN STREETS] DOT apologizes for surprise Boerum Hill Citi Bike racks, but still won’t move them

  22-09-2016 10:21
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperWe made our bed — and now you have to bike in it!The Department of Transportation messed up by not consulting Boerum Hill residents about where to install new Citi Bike stations in their neighborhood, officials admitted on Tuesday, but they said the agency has no plans to take locals’ advice now by relocating the hated docks to sites they’d prefer, as it could just make things worse.“There is a challenge to m
  
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• [GOWANUS] ‘Adam Ruins Everything’ star: Presidential election too far gone to spoil

  22-09-2016 10:10
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn Daily“Adam Ruins Everything” — except this.Comedian Adam Conover will take on the upcoming presidential election in a Sept. 25 live performance at Gowanus’s Bell House. The gig will still use the name of his aforementioned Tru TV show, but the funny-man admits people’s opinion of the showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton can’t sink much lower, and instead he’ll actually be trying to
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Lutheran Medical Center eyes expansion

  22-09-2016 09:55
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperThey have a prescription for growth!Lutheran Medical Center hopes to expand its Sunset Park campus with two new buildings in order to beef up its cancer-treatment programs, capacity for outpatient procedures, and add in-patient beds, a rep told Community Board 10 on Sept. 19. And the potential for expanded health care options is a boon for area residents who have fewer places to get medical treatment as other hospitals close, o
  
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• [NIGHTLIFE] Five Brooklyn bars screening the first debate

  22-09-2016 09:55
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperVote 1 beer.The first presidential debate is on Sept. 26, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will spend another two hours droning on about e-mail servers and beautiful walls. The only logical way to get through it is by drowning your sorrows in booze surrounded by your fellow miserable citizens, so here are five watering holes around the borough where you can do just that.Stadium seatingCal
  
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• [NIGHTLIFE] ‘Adam Ruins Everything’ star: Presidential election too far gone to spoil

  22-09-2016 09:55
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn Paper“Adam Ruins Everything” — except this.Comedian Adam Conover will take on the upcoming presidential election in a Sept. 25 live performance at Gowanus’s Bell House. The gig will still use the name of his aforementioned Tru TV show, but the funny-man admits people’s opinion of the showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton can’t sink much lower, and instead he’ll actually be trying to
  
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• Assault arrest for man who hit Sacramento mayor with pie

  22-09-2016 09:07
  
  A man smacked Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson in the face with a pie at a charity dinner Wednesday night, and an official says the former NBA star went on the defensive
  
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• Remote Alaska port clinic goes modern with telemedicine

  22-09-2016 08:36
  
  The only clinic in one of the nation's busiest commercial fishing ports is so remote in Alaska's Aleutians that even conventional telemedicine for emergency assistance has been impossible for its limited staff _ until this week
  
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• NY teacher's Holocaust train rescue project subject of book

  22-09-2016 07:06
  
  An upstate New York teacher's effort to reunite Jewish survivors of a Nazi concentration camp train with the U.S. soldiers who rescued them is told in a newly published book
  
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• 23 'genius' grants announced by MacArthur foundation

  22-09-2016 06:33
  
  Gene Luen Yang, a prize-winning author and the national ambassador for young people's literature, and Claudia Rankine, one of poetry's most innovative stars, are among this year's 23 MacArthur fellows and recipients of the so-called "genius grants."
  
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• Placid scene may replace NY village's controversial logo

  22-09-2016 06:32
  
  A 20-year-old college student's design is being considered to replace an upstate New York village's official logo, which appears to show a white man throttling an Indian
  
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