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• Street named after late country music star Marty Robbins

  27-09-2016 23:46
  
  City officials in Glendale have named a street after late country music star Marty Robbins, who was born in the Phoenix suburb in 1925
  
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• China's Wanda Group in talks to buy Dick Clark Productions

  27-09-2016 23:41
  
  China's Dalian Wanda Group is in talks to buy Dick Clark Productions, the TV company that produces the Golden Globes and the "Miss America" pageant
  
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• The Latest: Woods gets harsh reminder he's not playing

  27-09-2016 23:15
  
  Tiger Woods is new to this role as vice captain at the Ryder Cup
  
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• Kevin Kline to return to Broadway this spring in a comedy

  27-09-2016 22:59
  
  Kevin Kline is returning to Broadway in a delightfully frantic comedy about a narcissistic actor and the chaos that inevitably erupts in his posh London household
  
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• Friend texted worries about boating with Marlins' Fernandez

  27-09-2016 22:58
  
  Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was a patron at a Miami River bar and restaurant the same night he and two friends were killed in a boat crash, a spokeswoman for the establishment confirmed Tuesday.
  
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• The Latest: Texts raised worry before Fernandez boat crash

  27-09-2016 22:44
  
  A friend of one of the three men killed in the crash of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez's boat raised concerns about the late-night trip in a series of text messages
  
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• Tony Awards show sets key dates for '17, but still no home

  27-09-2016 22:42
  
  The Tony Awards will be held on June 11 next year, but where the ceremony will be held is still up in the air
  
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• Debate appears likely to topple 36-year ratings record

  27-09-2016 22:37
  
  Preliminary estimates show the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump should exceed 81 million viewers, beating a debate record that had stood since the Carter-Reagan debate in 1980
  
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• The Latest: Superfest moves to New Orleans; might stay there

  27-09-2016 22:22
  
  An official says New Orleans could become the permanent home of a country music festival bumped from LSU's Tiger Stadium for two years by offseason renovations
  
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• A Miss Universe insulted by Trump steps up for Clinton

  27-09-2016 22:16
  
  Donald Trump says it was a "real problem" when the 1996 Miss Universe gained significant weight after winning the pageant he then owned
  
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• The Latest: Trump, Clinton to trade jokes at Smith dinner

  27-09-2016 22:06
  
  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will share a stage next month _ but will trade jokes, not attack lines
  
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• Nielsen company: 81.4 million watched Clinton-Trump presidential debate on 11 networks, preliminary estimates show

  27-09-2016 22:06
  
  Nielsen company: 81.4 million watched Clinton-Trump presidential debate on 11 networks, preliminary estimates show
  
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• 2nd woman dies after being struck by car at Ohio concert

  27-09-2016 22:03
  
  A second woman has died after a car drove into a crowd of dancers last month at a community concert in suburban Cleveland
  
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• A Room With A View At 365 Bond

  27-09-2016 21:48 via bkmag.com
  
   365 Bond is a luxury residential building located at the epicenter of Brooklyn’s hottest neighborhood, Gowanus. Even Condé Nast just voted Gowanus as the hippest neighborhood in the world. With an unparalleled amenities package that spans 40,000 square feet, this is an incredible home that beautifully blends urban life with authentic craftsmanship. The building offers a number of different apartment types including premium units such as C610: a 2 Bath, 2 bedroom residence with
  
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• Father of Muslim boy arrested over clock sues for defamation

  27-09-2016 21:40
  
  The father of a Muslim boy arrested after taking a homemade clock to his Dallas-area school has sued conservative commentator Glenn Beck and a Texas mayor alleging they falsely portrayed the family as terrorists
  
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• The Latest: Flake says Trump debated poorly against Clinton

  27-09-2016 21:37
  
  One of Donald Trump's chief Republican detractors says the GOP presidential candidate performed poorly in Monday's debate and all but admitted it
  
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• Review: A Holocaust denier is brought to justice in 'Denial'

  27-09-2016 21:37
  
  Film Review: Mick Jackson's "Denial" brings all the decorous polish of a British courtroom drama to the pungent libel case of a Holocaust denier
  
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• 'Bull,' 'Designated Survivor' have promising ratings starts

  27-09-2016 21:24
  
  The first week of the new television season offered promising starts to some new series, including the dramas 'Bull' on CBS and 'This is Us' on NBC
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Sept. 19-25

  27-09-2016 21:19
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Sept. 19-25
  
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• Alabama lawmaker tweets Clinton's husband 'likely a rapist'

  27-09-2016 21:15
  
  An Alabama lawmaker unhappy with Hillary Clinton's allegations during the presidential debate that Republican Donald Trump is sexist expressed his disapproval by tweeting the Democratic nominee's husband is "likely a rapist"
  
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• The Art World Inches Farther Afield: Mrs. Gallery Opens in Maspeth

  27-09-2016 21:14 via bkmag.com
  
  Maspeth isn’t known for much, except being a double-ticket neighborhood—to arrive or escape, you have to take the train to the bus, or vice versa. If anything, Maspeth is just known for being Maspeth, and even Maspeth agrees: in an interview with the New York Times, life-long resident Robert Holden said, “When people ask where we’re from, we don’t say Queens, and we don’t say New York. We say Maspeth.”
  That humble, self-assured attitude—paired with
  
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• Prosecutors charge men after Ryan Lochte protest on TV show

  27-09-2016 20:50
  
  Prosecutors have charged two protesters who rushed the stage of "Dancing with the Stars" in a protest against Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte
  
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• Plea change canceled in UH Stevie Wonder concert blunder

  27-09-2016 20:43
  
  A man accused of scamming the University of Hawaii of $200,000 for a Stevie Wonder concert that never happened is no longer changing his plea
  
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• The Latest: Fernandez boat not cited before fatal crash

  27-09-2016 20:13
  
  Authorities say they have no record of any previous citations for the boat owned by Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, who died with two friends when his boat crashed into rocks
  
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• Phelps to Lochte before scrape: 'Keep your head on straight'

  27-09-2016 20:01
  
  Two days before Ryan Lochte's drunken antics in Rio, Michael Phelps, his teammate and the most-decorated Olympian of all time, warned him about "not doing anything bad."
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Talking to Barry Jenkins about Moonlight

  27-09-2016 20:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Moonlight plays October 2 and 3 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. A24 will release the movie in New York on October 21st. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  At a charged moment late in Barry Jenkins’s astonishing new movie Moonlight, childhood friend Kevin confronts Chiron, the film’s tight-lipped protagonist, and demands, “Who is you?” It’s a kind of spiritual confrontation. The two men, who shared a sexual encounter as teenagers, a
  
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• The Latest: Pelosi mocks Trump's debate performance

  27-09-2016 19:58
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is mocking Donald Trump as "Mr. Last Night"
  
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• ProPublica Live: How to Fight Back if Your Rent is Illegally High

  27-09-2016 19:50
  Thursday, October 20, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterProPublica and the Brooklyn Public Library are hosting a community forum on October 20 to empower New Yorkers who are potentially being charged too much for rent. Entitled “How to Fight Back if Your Rent is Illegally High,” the event will inform tenants about the ways in which many landlords are bypassing New York’s rent regulations. Through lifting up the stories of real New Yorkers who learned their legal rights a
  
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• The Latest: Senate resolution honors Marlins' Fernandez

  27-09-2016 19:49
  
  Florida's two U.S. senators have introduced a resolution on Capitol Hill honoring Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, who was killed along with two friends in a weekend boating accident
  
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• In 'Deepwater Horizon,' an ecological disaster's human toll

  27-09-2016 19:32
  
  The name Deepwater Horizon is synonymous to most with environmental catastrophe and corporate negligence, but Peter Berg's film puts the spotlight of a big-budget disaster movie on the human toll of a real-life tragedy
  
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• It's Dustin Johnson's time to lead the Americans

  27-09-2016 19:16
  
  Dustin Johnson made an exception to his rule of never watching golf on television, only because it was the Ryder Cup
  
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• Superfest moves to New Orleans during LSU renovation

  27-09-2016 19:07
  
  Officials say a country music festival bumped from LSU's Tiger Stadium for two years by offseason renovations will be held next Memorial Day weekend in New Orleans, at the Superdome
  
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• NYC house blast kills fire battalion chief, a rising star

  27-09-2016 19:06
  
  Authorities and witnesses say a star battalion chief at the Fire Department of New York was killed when a house explosion rocked a Bronx neighborhood, jolting residents out of their beds
  
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• Naya Rivera shares why timing is everything in her new book

  27-09-2016 18:30
  
  From dating "Glee" co-star Mark Salling to rapper Big Sean, Naya Rivera opens up about relationship drama, personal struggles and more in her new book, "Sorry Not Sorry."
  
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• 30 Under 30: Silvia Barban and Giulia Pelliccioni, Restaurateurs

  27-09-2016 18:30 via bkmag.com
  
  There’s a mini Italian food empire growing in Fort Greene, and the two women leading it brought back from Italy a passion for food and a savvy for business. Beginning with Aita, the rustic Italian eatery on the corner of Greene and Waverly that soon expanded to an adjoining bar called The Mayflower, co-owners Giulia Pelliccioni and Silvia Barban brought authentic Italian dining to the neighborhood and managed to avoid the obvious dishes you’d find in places across the city.
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• 'Deepwater Horizon' film stirs emotion in victims' families

  27-09-2016 18:24
  
  Seeing Hollywood's take on the rig explosion that killed their loved ones is stirring mixed emotions for family members of the 11 men who died in the 2010 blast
  
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• My Hometown: Springsteen launches book tour in New Jersey

  27-09-2016 18:01
  
  Bruce Springsteen is meeting thousands of fans at a book store in his hometown in New Jersey as he launches a book tour
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Fire at Sea

  27-09-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Fire at Sea plays October 7 and October 8 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. Kino Lorber will release the movie in New York on October 21. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  In Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea, the European refugee crisis intersects painfully and obliquely with the sleepy Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where coastal rescue teams haul dead and near-dead bodies from inadequately supplied boats while on land native grammar school kids hunt birds wit
  
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• 4AD Wants to Show You The Future at This Free Show

  27-09-2016 17:51 via bkmag.com
  
  Chances are, if you’re a music fan, you’re probably also a fan of 4AD, whether you know it or not. With its past output, it’s no stretch to say that the venerable UK-based record label has helped shape modern music. But forget all that for a moment: The label would like to introduce you to its future tomorrow at Irving Plaza.
  Founded in 1980, 4AD has been responsible for some of the seminal records by acts like Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Pixies, and Throwing M
  
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• 'Will & Grace' stars reunite for pro-Clinton video

  27-09-2016 17:47
  
  The stars of "Will & Grace" are back together in a video that delivers punchlines and a political message: Vote for Hillary Clinton
  
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• Bar: Marlins' Fernandez was there before fatal boat accident

  27-09-2016 17:38
  
  A Miami bar and restaurant is confirming that Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was a patron at the establishment before he and two friends were killed in a boat crash
  
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• The Latest: Ryan praises Trump debate performance

  27-09-2016 17:32
  House Speaker Paul Ryan is praising Donald Trump's debate performance, saying he showed he can "go toe-to-toe with Hillary Clinton." Ryan said Trump "gave a unique Donald Trump response to the status quo
  
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• 'Madam Secretary' star Carradine: 1 of many TV presidents

  27-09-2016 17:32
  On TV, Oval Offices, and the presidents who occupy them, abound
  
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• 30 Under 30: Ashley Connor, Cinematographer

  27-09-2016 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Plainly, Ashley Connor is trusted as a collaborator, especially by artists trying to envision themselves in the world. Watch the music videos she’s shot: the NYC hyperrealism of Chairlift’s “Crying in Public”; the cutting photo-shoot satires of Mitski’s “Your Best American Girl” and Jenny’ Lewis’s “Just One of the Guys”; the richly lit, cinematic look of Julianna Barwick’s “Same” and Jenny Hval’s “Tha
  
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• Transgender child actor to guest star on 'Modern Family'

  27-09-2016 17:29
  
  A transgender child actor will guest star on Wednesday night's "Modern Family."
  
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• 'Tristan' makes Rattle want to 'curl up in a fetal position'

  27-09-2016 17:19
  
  Simon Rattle says conducting Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' makes him want to 'curl up in a fetal position and sob'
  
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• Allison Janney clowns around in Rachael Yamagata's new video

  27-09-2016 17:18
  
  Indie singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata enlists Emmy-winning actress Allison Janney for her new music video, "Let Me Be Your Girl."
  
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• James Dean’s Performance Anxiety

  27-09-2016 17:11 via bkmag.com
  
  James DeanSeptember 30-October 6 at Film Forum
  Perhaps it’s because he starred in a film entitled Rebel Without a Cause (1955), perhaps because he was an inveterate auto racer who perished when he crashed his Porsche just a month before the film’s release, but for some reason, society remembers James Dean as the embodiment of “cool,” a rebel, even a delinquent teenager. By the mid-1950s, the concept of “masculinity” was undergoing a change even among Hollywood
  
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• Adele is still winning: '25' album reaches diamond status

  27-09-2016 17:08
  
  Adele's comeback album "25" has reached diamond status in less than a year
  
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• Review: Riveting 'Deepwater Horizon' captivates throughout

  27-09-2016 16:54
  
  "Deepwater Horizon achieves that impossible balance of being a tribute to the workers who both perished and survived that day and a searing indictment of the greed that put them there
  
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