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• Music director at Catholic church fired for gay marriage

  26-09-2016 23:57
  
  A music director at a Catholic church in Rhode Island says he has been fired because he married a man
  
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• For Golf Channel, Arnold Palmer coverage is personal

  26-09-2016 23:57
  
  Arnold Palmer still had a parking spot outside his old office at Golf Channel, the network he co-founded more than two decades ago
  
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• Driving rain and wind diverts plans for Canadian royal tour

  26-09-2016 23:56
  
  Plans to show off one of British Columbia's most beautiful areas to Prince William and his wife, Kate, have been scuttled by bad weather
  
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• Florida authorities seek causes of Jose Fernandez boat crash

  26-09-2016 23:06
  
  Authorities are continuing to investigate the weekend boat crash the killed Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and two other men
  
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• John Carpenter shares video for "Utopian Facade," touring Europe, disses Rob Zombie

  26-09-2016 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Androids, zombies and more in this very cool video for a track from Carpenter's new LP.
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• The Latest: McCarthy says as Trump improves, so does GOP

  26-09-2016 22:30
  
  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Donald Trump's improved performance is helping GOP down-ballot candidates around the country
  
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• Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival 2016 lineup/tickets (Roisin Murphy, Black Madonna, Silent Servant & more)

  26-09-2016 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BEMF returns this year to a variety of venues around Brooklyn from November 4-12.Continue reading…
  
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• Palmer's impact: Grand Slam, endorsements, TV, private jets

  26-09-2016 22:10
  
  From the Grand Slam and the senior tour to the Golf Channel and big endorsement deals, Arnold Palmer had a wide influence on modern golf
  
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• White House South by South Lawn lineup announced (Sharon Jones, Stranger Things cast, Leonardo DiCaprio, more)

  26-09-2016 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Barack Obama announced earlier this month that he'd be hosting his very own SXSW-style festival at the White House this year. Now, with the festival imminent (it happens on October 3), the lineup has been announced.
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• Gallery Rounds: Heavily BK

  26-09-2016 21:42 via bkmag.com
  
  There was a point earlier this month when I realized I’d seen 82 new gallery shows in ten days. I know, what a slacker!
  Anyway, seeing all of those and a handful more since then has prompted me to do another Gallery Rounds post. My previous one, which includes photos of shows and works in a couple dozen galleries in various parts of town, is here.This one features another dozen or so shows, and it’s significantly more specific to Brooklyn—from season-openers to pop-ups in Bush
  
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• Review: Wee, weird heroes star in 'Miss Peregrine's Home'

  26-09-2016 21:35
  
  Film Review: Unlikely young heroes and heroines star in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," the Tim Burton-directed 3-D film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs
  
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• The Latest: Boat in crash was registered to Marlins pitcher

  26-09-2016 21:33
  
  Florida authorities say Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was the registered owner of the vessel that crashed into a jetty off South Beach, killing him and two others
  
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• #NYFF2016: Aquarius

  26-09-2016 21:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Aquarius plays on October 9 and October 11 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. Vitagraph Films will release the movie in New York on October 14th. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  Brazilian drama Aquarius arrives in New York a flashpoint of political controversy. Back in May director Kleber Mendonça Filho and his production team used the film’s Cannes screening to protest the impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff as a “coup d’
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Aquarius

  26-09-2016 21:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Aquarius plays on October 9 and October 11 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. Vitagraph Films will release the movie in New York on October 14th. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  Brazilian drama Aquarius arrives in New York a flashpoint of political controversy. Back in May director Kleber Mendonça Filho and his production team used the film’s Cannes screening to protest the impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff as a “coup d’
  
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• Active Bird Community channels 90s indie rock through a millennial filter

  26-09-2016 20:59
  
  Active Bird Community, just paling around like they have been since 6th grade. Photo: Grandstand HQ
  The video for the single “Pick Me Apart,” by Brooklyn indie rock band Active Bird Community employs a simple concept–it’s just four guys happily rocking out with their instruments inside a fort made out of blankets. That charming, DIY aesthetic is in step with the group’s music, which is direct, energetic, spontaneous guitar-focused rock. It seems to be gen
  
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• Clock DVA played Rough Trade NYC with Uniform (pics)

  26-09-2016 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was the kickoff show for the industrial icons' first North American tour in ages.
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• How to stream the high-stakes presidential debates

  26-09-2016 20:49
  
  Television viewership for Monday's presidential debate is expected to be high, but you don't need a television to watch
  
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• Tasseomancy releasing 'Do Easy' in November (listen to two tracks)

  26-09-2016 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tasseomancy, aka sisters Romy and Sari Lightman (formerly of Austra), will release their new album, Do Easy on November 11 via Bella Union/Hand Drawn Dracula. The title comes from an essay by William S. Burroughs advocating the DE philosophy...
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• Brand New will not release a new album in 2016, playing Devil & God in full on tour

  26-09-2016 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While there exists a collection of songs that, right now, some would call fit to be an album, to us it is not complete enough, refined enough, or edited thoroughly enough to be something we would call finished or essential."
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• Moderator Lester Holt under scrutiny during debate

  26-09-2016 20:25
  
  Besides Clinton and Trump, many will be watching how NBC's Lester Holt performs as moderator of the first presidential debate
  
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• Oathbreaker streaming new LP 'Rheia'

  26-09-2016 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It feels like it's been a particularly good year for music that is both genuinely heavy but also gorgeous and melodic. Oathbreaker's new album is the latest reason why.
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• The Latest: Bill Clinton to travel with wife to debate

  26-09-2016 20:14
  
  Hillary Clinton will have some presidential support as she heads to Hempstead, New York, for her debate: husband Bill Clinton
  
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• Scorsese's 'Silence' to get Oscar-qualifying release Dec. 23

  26-09-2016 19:56
  
  Martin Scorsese's "Silence," a historical drama about faith in feudal Japan, will open in time to qualify for the Academy Awards
  
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• Youth has final word as Milan Fashion Week wraps up

  26-09-2016 19:54
  
  Milan Fashion Week made way for young talent on the last day of preview shows for next spring and summer Monday
  
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• The Latest: Comedian LeJuan James praises Jose Fernandez

  26-09-2016 19:52
  
  Comedian LeJuan James says Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, who died Sunday in a boating accident, wasn't like many other professional athletes
  
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• Molly Ringwald eyes return to stage in a classic title

  26-09-2016 19:20
  
  "The Breakfast Club" star Molly Ringwald will return to a New York stage in an adaptation of another classic 1980s film _ "Terms of Endearment."
  
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• Martin Bashir returning to BBC as religion correspondent

  26-09-2016 19:15
  
  The BBC says journalist Martin Bashir is returning to the broadcaster as religion correspondent after many years in the United States
  
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• Rose on rape case: 'I feel like I didn't do anything wrong'

  26-09-2016 19:09
  Rose not worried about upcoming rape trial because he 'didn't do anything wrong'
  
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• Carroll: Russell Wilson has MCL sprain, but "feeling great"

  26-09-2016 19:02
  
  Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson has a sprained MCL in his left knee, but is moving around without issue
  
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• #NYFF2016: Three Short Films By Brooklyn Filmmakers

  26-09-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The 54th New York Film Festival runs September 30-October 16. Follow our exhaustive coverage of the festival here.
  Dramatic RelationshipsDirected by Dustin Guy DefaThe Greenpoint-based Defa, reigning cinema laureate of retro film grain and bad NYC weather (see Person to Person, however you can), brings together a cast of microindie luminaries for a compendium of snippets depicting the casual degradations endured by female actresses on film sets, in a six-minute short also distinguished by a stro
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Three Short Films By Brooklyn Filmmakers

  26-09-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The 54th New York Film Festival runs September 30-October 16. Follow our exhaustive coverage of the festival here.
  Dramatic RelationshipsDirected by Dustin Guy DefaThe Greenpoint-based Defa, reigning cinema laureate of retro film grain and bad NYC weather (see Person to Person, however you can), brings together a cast of microindie luminaries for a compendium of snippets depicting the casual degradations endured by female actresses on film sets, in a six-minute short also distinguished by a stro
  
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• The Starliner is Brooklyn’s most beautiful dive bar

  26-09-2016 18:50
  
  Photo: Seth Piracci
  Typically when you read about a new bar, the review lingers over the carefully crafted cocktail list, the house-made bitters, the collection of rare mezcals the owner traveled to Oaxaca to get. There’s no shortage of exotic concoctions lit by Edison bulbs in Brooklyn. But the neighborhood bar, the place you go to run into people you know, with solid drinks, a good happy hour, and a comfortable vibe, those we could use a few more of around these parts. Welcome
  
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• Springsteen's 'Born to Run' takes readers on riveting ride

  26-09-2016 18:10
  
  Book Review: "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen takes readers on riveting ride through the everyman rock star's deeply lived existence
  
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• Variety to host diversity conference, Pharrell to speak

  26-09-2016 17:45
  
  Variety will host a conference of film executives and stars to discuss solutions to Hollywood's lagging record in diversity
  
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• Reaction to Arnold Palmer's death on Sunday

  26-09-2016 17:27
  
  Reaction to Arnold Palmer's death on Sunday at the age of 87
  
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• Deepwater Horizon Is a Human-Sized Disaster Movie

  26-09-2016 17:11 via bkmag.com
  
  Deepwater HorizonDirected by Peter BergOpens September 30
  In Deepwater Horizon, the central principle of offshore oil drilling is as simple as an upside-down Coke can. As his daughter rehearses a school presentation, the titular rig’s chief electronics technician, Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), opens a gash in the aluminum and inserts the scale model’s “pipeline,” explaining that extracting petroleum from beneath the ocean floor is not a process of pumping, but an imposi
  
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• Dustin Hoffman & Judi Dench receive Int'l Emmy nominations

  26-09-2016 17:08
  
  Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench are nominated for International Emmys for their roles in the BBC One TV movie "Roald Dahl's Esio Trot." Brazil has a leading 7 nominations, followed by Britain with 6, including best actor and actress for Hoffman and Dench
  
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• 'Birth of a Nation' launches voter registration initiative

  26-09-2016 16:56
  
  Fox Searchlight will hold voter registration enrollment in theater lobbies ahead of screenings of the Nat Turner slave rebellion drama "The Birth of a Nation."
  
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• The Latest: Names released in Jose Fernandez boat crash

  26-09-2016 16:37
  
  The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office is releasing the names of the two men who died in a boat crash that also killed Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez
  
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• German state broadcaster files lawsuit against Turkey

  26-09-2016 16:34
  
  German broadcaster Deutsche Welle says it has filed a civil lawsuit in Turkey's capital demanding the return of a videotaped interview with the country's minister for youth and sports
  
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• Dine and Dash: The Most Commuter-Friendly Breakfast Spots in Brooklyn

  26-09-2016 16:02 via bkmag.com
  
  Most of us have our weekday morning routines down to a science. And the slightest deviation from those carefully structured schedules can spark a chain of events that not only make you late for work, but set everything off-kilter for the rest of the afternoon. Unfortunately, scant wiggle room often leaves breakfast at the wayside; but if you live by one of these subway-adjacent eateries, you can add a truly excellent meal to your daily itinerary, and never miss a beat.
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• Arnold Palmer, a golfing king with common touch, dies at 87

  26-09-2016 15:21
  
  Arnold Palmer, who brought a country-club sport to the masses with a hard-charging style, dies at 87
  
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• Reel Brooklyn: The Hot Rock, Prospect Heights and the Brooklyn Museum

  26-09-2016 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Reel Brooklyn is a biweekly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time.
  Why exactly filmmakers came to shoot so much in New York in the 60s-70s golden age, when in decades prior a Hollywood backlot would suffice (as it did in years of Seinfeld), we may never figure for sure. Coolness, tax incentives, imperative cultural eminence, all of the above, who can say. Peter Yates’s The Hot Rock—an all-but-forgotten heist
  
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• The Latest: European Tour pays tribute to Arnold Palmer

  26-09-2016 11:46
  The head of the European Tour has credited Arnold Palmer for making golf a truly international sport by his participation in the British Open in the early 1960s
  
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• Matt LeBlanc signs 2-series deal to host BBC's 'Top Gear'

  26-09-2016 11:40
  
  The BBC says former "Friends" star Matt LeBlanc has signed a two-series deal to host its popular car show "Top Gear."
  
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• VIEWER'S GUIDE: Trust and temperament key themes in debate

  26-09-2016 09:41
  
  The most telling moments in presidential debates often come out of the blue
  
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• [COBBLE HILL] Fences make bad neighbors: Residents butt heads over Cobble Hill Park enclosures

  26-09-2016 07:48
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperMr. DeBlasio, tear down that fence!Wire fences in Cobble Hill Park are dividing more than just plants and parkgoers’ feet — they’re driving a wedge between local volunteer gardeners who insist they’re vital for protecting baby shrubs from dog poop and people’s boots, and residents who are demanding the city rip out the unsightly railings so they can enjoy more of the verdant green space.“It’
  
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] A bad sign: City posts ‘Meserole Avenue’ on Meserole Street

  26-09-2016 07:44
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Sarah Douganfor Brooklyn PaperWhat a mess-erole!The Department of Transportation installed a street sign bearing the name of Greenpoint’s Meserole Avenue on Williamsburg’s Meserole Street this month, confounding locals who say commuters are already confused enough by the two thoroughfare’s similar names and close proximity.
  “It’s always been such a mess,” said Daniel Perez, who has be
  
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• History of slavery in NY examined through runaways notices

  26-09-2016 07:29
  
  Two historians have published a book that examines slavery in New York's Hudson Valley through a century of newspaper notices seeking the return of runaway slaves
  
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• Pam Grier, Jessye Norman win Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois medals

  26-09-2016 07:01
  
  Actress Pam Grier and opera soprano Jessye Norman are among the recipients of Harvard University's 2016 W.E. B. Du Bois medals honoring those who have made significant contributions to African and African American history and culture
  
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