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• Kardashian detailed flashy Paris trip to the world

  03-10-2016 23:52
  
  Kim Kardashian West freely shared her glamorous antics for Paris Fashion Week on social media, from her fur-laden clothes to flashing her massive diamond ring and telegraphing her whereabouts
  
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• AP: "Apprentice" cast & crew say a lewd Trump demeaned women

  03-10-2016 23:32
  
  AP: As a reality TV boss on "The Apprentice," Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he'd like to have sex with
  
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• Eagles player Bradham charged with having gun at airport

  03-10-2016 23:21
  
  Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Nigel Bradham was arrested at Miami International Airport after authorities say TSA workers found a loaded gun in his backpack
  
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• Bushwick Open Studios: Field Notes & Takeaways

  03-10-2016 23:19 via bkmag.com
  
  It was a somewhat grey and rainy, at times even almost chilly weekend in the city, but none of that would’ve registered as drab or a drag at all if you were one of the thousands upon thousands of visitors, artists, curators or incidental passers-through in Bushwick this past weekend.
  And that’s because it was the big weekend of Arts in Bushwick’s marquee annual event, Bushwick Open Studios. What’s more, it was the 10th-anniversary iteration of BOS, which meant that this
  
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• Box office top 20: Burton and 'Peculiar Children' are No. 1

  03-10-2016 23:19
  
  In a matchup of $100 million-plus films, Tim Burton's "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" topped Peter Berg's "Deepwater Horizon."
  
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• Officer who violated 'use of force' policy won't be charged

  03-10-2016 22:52
  
  A North Carolina prosecutor says criminal charges will not be filed against a white police officer whose own department determined that he had violated its "use of force" policy when he arrested and punched a black man
  
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• Ex-Raider, Vegas leaders drumming up support for NFL stadium

  03-10-2016 22:04
  
  Proponents of an NFL stadium in Las Vegas _ including former Oakland Raider and TV analyst Howie Long _ are trying to rally support for a plan to build it with $750 million in public money.
  
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] Serial muggers steal skater’s copy of ‘Lolita,’ bash him with his board

  03-10-2016 21:50
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperA crew of vicious crooks mugged a skater for his copy of “Lolita” and Patti Smith’s memoir then beat him with his board in Williamsburg on Sept. 25 as part of a spree of violent robberies they committed around the neighborhood that day, according to a police report.Four good-for-nothings approached the 26-year-old victim and his pals at a popular skating spot at Jackson Street and Meeker Avenue near the Brooklyn-Que
  
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] Muggers steal skater’s copy of ‘Lolita,’ bash him with his board

  03-10-2016 21:50
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperA crew of vicious crooks mugged a skater for his copy of “Lolita” and Patti Smith’s memoir then beat him with his board in Williamsburg on Sept. 25 as part of a spree of violent robberies they committed around the neighborhood that day, according to a police report.Four good-for-nothings approached the 26-year-old victim and his pals at a popular skating spot at Jackson Street and Meeker Avenue near the Brooklyn-Que
  
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• Official: Prince probe focuses on doctors, black market

  03-10-2016 21:50
  
  A law enforcement official says investigators looking into Prince's fatal drug overdose have narrowed their focus to two main questions
  
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• Ferrante book sales up after report on author's identity

  03-10-2016 20:43
  
  The alleged revelation of the real name of best-selling author Elena Ferrante has led to a wave of criticism and to a surge in sales for her acclaimed quartet of "Neopolitan" novels
  
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• Pittsburgh symphony strike cancels events through Oct. 27

  03-10-2016 20:35
  
  The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has canceled all concerts through most of October because of a strike
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Mimosas

  03-10-2016 20:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Mimosas plays October 5 and 6 as part of the Explorations sidebar within the 54th New York Film Festival. The film will be released theatrically by Grasshopper Film at a date to be determined. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  A western viewer might be forgiven for wondering if the opening scenes of Mimosas take place simultaneously or across separate timelines. We are introduced to a caravan transporting a dying sheikh across the Atlas Mountains to the city of Sijilmasa, while disparate s
  
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• Review: 'Birth of a Nation' bluntly tells tale of Nat Turner

  03-10-2016 20:21
  
  Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation," about Nat Turner and his 1831 slave rebellion, is a fine and promising debut that also feels very much like a first film
  
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• Chance The Rapper Steals The Show: Our Weekend At The Meadows In Words And Photos

  03-10-2016 20:20 via bkmag.com
  
  SATURDAY, October 1st
  Despite a thoroughly stacked lineup from top to bottom, The Meadows came into the first day of it’s inaugural edition with a bit of a limp. After working to right the wrong that came when The Weeknd initially canceled his headlining set to appear on SNL –finding a way to schedule him, instead, for an early-evening slot–the crooner again canceled his set on Friday night, less than 24 hours prior to his revised 5:30 stage time. With no time to find anot
  
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• Correction: Prince-Estate story

  03-10-2016 20:16
  
  Correction: Prince-Estate story
  
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• Review: 'Fractured' moves at satisfyingly addictive pace

  03-10-2016 19:55
  
  Book Review: Skilled writing, realistic and empathetic characters push "Fractured" by Catherine McKenzie beyond the ordinary
  
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• AP: "Apprentice" cast & crew say lewd Trump demeaned women

  03-10-2016 19:40
  AP: As a reality TV boss on "The Apprentice," Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he'd like to have sex with
  
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• Review: 'Strong Cold Dead' is fast-moving & action-packed

  03-10-2016 19:12
  
  Book Review: "Strong Cold Dead" by Jon Land is a fast-moving, action-packed yarn
  
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• All 8 Harry Potter films returning to theaters

  03-10-2016 19:11
  
  The entire Harry Potter series is set to return to the big screen later this month
  
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• Discuss Cops, Community and Innovative Policing at BRIC Town Hall October 5

  03-10-2016 19:00
  
  Sponsored By BRIC.BRIC is a nonprofit arts and media cultural organization that presents free and low-cost programming to the community.Created By BlankSlateCommunity leaders, activists, elected officials and scholars will gather for a #BHeard program called “Cops and Community: Innovations Around Policing.” The Town Hall, sponsored by BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, will be held on Wednesday, October 5th at 7:30 p.m.
  The event, at BRIC
  
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• Ryan Lochte leans on Vanilla Ice for support

  03-10-2016 18:41
  
  Ryan Lochte has found a friend to lean on in "Dancing with the Stars" cast mate Vanilla Ice
  
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• Trump tries to regain footing after week of trouble

  03-10-2016 18:35
  
  Donald Trump struggles to regain his political footing after potentially damaging revelations _ one challenging the Republican's claim of business acumen and another fueling continued allegations about his treatment of women
  
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• Supreme Court rejects NCAA appeal of O'Bannon case

  03-10-2016 18:07
  
  The Supreme Court is leaving in place court rulings that found the NCAA's amateurism rules for big-time college basketball and football players violated federal antitrust law
  
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• The Best of This Year’s Photoville Booths

  03-10-2016 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  DUMBO’s annual photo festival Photoville moved up river this past September, adding a beer garden and expanding in size alongside Brooklyn Bridge Park. Installed in shipping crates and blockish lightboxes along the East River, ambitious documentary photo projects about mass incarceration and ebola outbreaks and the refugee crisis come to life. The collection provides a sobering reminder of the immense global challenges we face in 2016, but also, an affirmation of the power of multimed
  
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• Booze With A Buzz: Bluestone Lane is Serving Coffee Cocktails in DUMBO

  03-10-2016 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Third wave coffee bars are no longer the ultimate symbol of status, signaling the inevitable trajectory of upwardly mobile neighborhoods. Nowadays, any district worth its soaring rent increases must house an ostensibly Australian café as well, offering wheat free muffins and cappuccinos alongside avocado smashes and flat whites.So it only stands to reason that DUMBO—perennially the poshest, and home to the most expensive real-estate of all Brooklyn precincts—should boast a bra
  
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• I Will Follow You: The William Vale’s Westlight

  03-10-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Westlight
  111 North 12 St.
  I am all for a disorienting time. Like, for example, when I went on a Royal Caribbean cruise: Did the ground just move? Ah, right, that’s because, despite appearances, I’m actually inside of a colossal buoyant container in the middle of the ocean. But maybe it doesn’t belong there? Maybe this terrifies me? I’m not sure. 
  This was similar to my experience at Westlight, the bar that occupies the 22nd floor of the stilt-supported William
  
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• Supreme Court rejects NCAA appeal of antitrust ruling

  03-10-2016 16:50
  
  The Supreme Court is leaving in place court rulings that found the NCAA's amateurism rules for big-time college basketball and football players violated federal antitrust law
  
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• 'The Dollhouse' is as much about a place as about people

  03-10-2016 16:39
  
  Book Review: Fiona Davis' 'The Dollhouse' offers a thrilling peek through a window into another world _ one that readers will savor for a long time
  
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• The new old school: Saltie at seven

  03-10-2016 16:35
  
  Caroline Fidanza stands in front of Saltie, her seven-year-old sandwich shop on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. Photo: Georgia Kral
  In a neighborhood like Williamsburg, which has arguably experienced more change than any other part of Brooklyn in the past 10 years, finding the familiar can feel like slipping into a snug sweater you thought would never fit again. On one corner, where there was once a modest building there is now an elaborate Whole Foods Market. Across the street,
  
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• “The World Needs to Know”: Newtown

  03-10-2016 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  NewtownDirected by Kim A. SnyderOpens October 7
  This December will mark the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, where twenty-seven people, including twenty children under the age of eight, were murdered by a deranged young man with pathetically easy access to firearms. Since 2012 America has moved on, toward more shootings, higher body counts, deadlier weapons, and few practical social, economic, or legal measures to prevent the devastation.
  
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• Dublin's murder squad hunts for a killer in 'The Trespasser'

  03-10-2016 16:23
  
  Book Review: Conway, the new detective on Dublin's murder squad, hunts for a killer in Tana French's "The Trespasser."
  
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• AP: "Apprentice" cast and crew say Trump was lewd and sexist

  03-10-2016 16:22
  
  AP: As a reality TV boss on "The Apprentice," Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he'd like to have sex with
  
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• Free As a Bird: Golden Suits’s Kubla Khan

  03-10-2016 16:15 via bkmag.com
  
  A few weeks ago, I met Fred Nicolaus in Greenpoint to talk about Kubla Khan, the second album under his solo project, Golden Suits. Nicolaus first started writing songs for Golden Suits in 2011, coming off the success of Department of Eagles, of which he was one half; Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen, his freshman year college roommate, was the other.That day, our plan was to go to The Palace Café. Well, Nicolaus’s plan was to go to The Palace Café. The bar, built strangely
  
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• Washington: “Indian Summer” — Beat Happening

  03-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  I moved to the Northwest to go to college in 1989. I was a musical rando–I loved Go-Go and R&B, Bob Marley and REM. I had tapes with Rites of Spring and The Replacements. but I didn’t really collect records yet other than The Cure and New Order. When I arrived in the dorms at the University of Oregon, I met the zeitgeist that would change my life: Allison Wolfe.
  Allison was from Olympia, Washington and was starting college after a year abroad in Thailand. Even though I went to an
  
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• Utah: “A Better Son/Daughter” — Rilo Kiley

  03-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  They used to think sleep paralysis was caused by a demon sitting on the sufferer’s chest, its haunches digging into the flesh around the ribs. Now, like everybody, they know better but they still don’t know much. Sleep paralysis is (probably) a panic response, in which a person lies trapped with their mind alert, unable to move their body. The need to free the limbs feels akin to the desperation of drowning, but it’s impossible to translate the thought into action. When I exper
  
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• Montana: “Big City” — Merle Haggard

  03-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  There’s a long list of famous Montanans extending from David Lynch to daredevil Evel Knievel to Pixar’s Brad Bird, artist Andrea Fraser, L.A. Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson, and actress Myrna Loy. It’s a surprisingly large number considering the state’s relatively small population. There’s just something about a Montana childhood that inspires people to either flee to the nearest big city to escape the claustrophobia of a small town.Or, to put it more romantically
  
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• Idaho: “Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked” — Minus The Bear

  03-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  My first car was an ’85 Mercedes SEL 500. It was 2003, and I was playing snare for the Crusaders drums corps out of Portland, Oregon. My dad flew over from Boise with me for a rehearsal. We bought the car for $1,000 and he drove it back to Boise in the night. So exhausted from the practice, I slept the whole way. Later, when I got my license, I’d sneak out of the house in the middle of the night to drive the battleship aimlessly. Once, my mom was awake reading at 1 a.m. when I was le
  
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• California: “California” — Joni Mitchell

  03-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  California used to be the place people would go to get lost. Or rather, it’s the place they would go to lose sight of who they once were and find their truest self. It was the ultimate frontier, a boundless country supposedly endowed to Easterners by Manifest Destiny. When my parents moved to San Francisco, the dream of wide-open space was still there; it was still a malleable place where they and so many others moved to help sculpt the landscape into something that reflected their ideals.
  
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• Alaska: “Whoomp! There It Is” — Tag Team

  03-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  If you were to ask me about my childhood, I would fit the bill of most children raised in the nineties: nerf gun wars, playing MASH, eating far too many Bagel Bites, freaking ourselves out with Furbies, all but one minor detail: Alaska. Yup, I was born and raised in the 49th state of America, The Last Frontier, Land of The Midnight Sun, Russian America, Sourdough State, or whatever you want to call it. The reactions I usually get are, “Whoa, I’ve never met anyone from Alaska” o
  
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• Alaska: “Sleep Forever” — Portugal. The Man

  03-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Alaska is a beautiful and special place to grow up. Our surroundings played an extremely important role in our decision to do what we do, why we do it and how we do it. There is overwhelming sense of isolation there. Freedom and space to do as you please and develop a natural connection with the environment. Not a lot of people telling you what to think or what to do. I think that space and isolation is what helped us find ourselves and soak in untouched and untainted influence.
  For me and many
  
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• 'Fun Home' kicks off US tour; 'something so true and deep'

  03-10-2016 15:37
  "Fun Home," the 2015 Tony-winning best musical, has begun its national tour as the first Broadway show with a lesbian protagonist, one who is dealing with a parent's suicide and her own sexuality
  
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• Indonesian police investigate porn on electronic billboard

  03-10-2016 15:19
  
  Police in Indonesia's capital are investigating the operator of a public video screen that briefly displayed a pornographic movie instead of advertising to passing traffic
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Son of Joseph

  03-10-2016 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Son of Joseph plays October 9 and 10 in the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. Kino Lorber will release the film theatrically in January. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  It is something of a small marvel that the films of Eugène Green exist in today’s film festival landscape, as both the subjects and sensibility of his cinema give the impression of belonging to a bygone era of arthouse modes. His new film, Son of Joseph, signposts these allegiances early on,
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Kékszakállú

  03-10-2016 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Kékszakállú plays October 4 and 5 as part of the Explorations sidebar within the 54th New York Film Festival. The film is currently without distribution. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  “New Argentine Cinema” is by now deficient as a descriptor of aesthetics and narratives, with the umbrella encompassing directors as diverse as Daniel Burman, Lisandro Alonso and Lucrecia Martel. The most common factor shared by the portraits of Burman’s hustling, wo
  
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• Rockwell museum gets $1.5M grant from 'Star Wars' creator

  03-10-2016 14:49
  
  The creator of the "Star Wars" has donated $1.5 million to the Norman Rockwell Museum
  
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• [RED HOOK] Open seasoning: Massive salt piles return to Red Hook

  03-10-2016 14:11
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperRed Hook is going back to the salt mines!A local dock owner is bringing giant piles of rock salt back to the neighborhood for the first time since the last Great Sodium Storm of ’11 — when another terminal left mounds of the mineral uncovered and the granules a-salted local homes and streets. But the businessman swears his operation is totally kosher — he is going to secure the stockpiles down under several layers
  
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• Indonesian police investigate porn on public video screen

  03-10-2016 11:59
  
  Indonesian police are investigating the operator of a giant public video screen after it displayed a porn movie instead of advertising to passing traffic in Jakarta, the capital
  
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• [DOWNTOWN] Staying Powers! Part of beloved Macy’s mural will be preserved

  03-10-2016 10:27
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperYou can’t topple this corridor of Powers!The developer demolishing the old Downtown Macy’s parking garage will spare part of the iconic, poetic mural artist Steve Powers scrawled across the structure by removing and preserving part of a skybridge, and the painter says he hopes to keep it on display somewhere in Brooklyn.“We are looking to install it on the landscape of Brooklyn
  
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• [RED HOOK] A salt on Red Hook: Massive mineral piles return

  03-10-2016 10:14
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperRed Hook is going back to the salt mines!A local dock owner is bringing giant piles of rock salt back to the neighborhood for the first time since the last Great Sodium Storm of ’11 — when another terminal left mounds of the mineral uncovered and the granules a-salted local homes and streets. But the businessman swears his operation is totally kosher.
  “No blow,” said John Quadrozzi Jr., the proud owner of the
  
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