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• Box Office Top 20: 'Girl on the Train' races to top spot

  10-10-2016 23:50
  
  The film adaptation of Paula Hawkins' best-selling psychological thriller "The Girl on the Train" easily topped the box office this weekend, outpacing the embattled slavery drama "The Birth of a Nation" by a long stretch
  
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• Nancy O'Dell: Even the locker room no excuse for Trump

  10-10-2016 23:40
  
  "Entertainment Tonight" host Nancy O'Dell says women shouldn't be objectified, even in the locker room
  
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• Army Corps holds off on resuming Dakota Access pipeline work

  10-10-2016 22:57
  
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't yet authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota
  
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• Ex-Comedy Central star Wilmore to host National Book Awards

  10-10-2016 21:49
  
  Comedian and former television show host Larry Wilmore's next gig will have a literary theme: hosting the National Book Awards
  
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• The Latest: Actress Woodley arrested during pipeline protest

  10-10-2016 21:30
  The Latest: Hollywood actress Shailene Woodley has been arrested during a protest of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline in southern North Dakota
  
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• Unlike first, second debate won't set viewership record

  10-10-2016 20:52
  
  The Nielsen company says that the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won't match the record-setting levels of their first match
  
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• Leaked emails show tension inside Clinton inner circle

  10-10-2016 20:46
  
  Newly leaked emails show consternation among those closest to Hillary Clinton about how Bill Clinton's business dealings might damage his reputation and potentially affect her presidential hopes
  
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• With 3 NYFF films, Kristen Stewart admits she's a workaholic

  10-10-2016 20:20
  
  Three films in this year's New York Film Festival certainly qualify Kristen Stewart as a workaholic, but the actress doesn't think that's a bad thing
  
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• [SHOPPING] Century 21 opening at City Point on Tuesday — giving away free gift cards

  10-10-2016 20:20
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By The Brooklyn Paper Mall Rat BureauBrooklyn PaperIt it the opening of the Century!Downtown’s City Point shopping center will finally open its doors — or at least some of them — on Tuesday when tourist mecca Century 21 launches its new store there.The discount-designer department store will open its to the public at noon, and will give the first 250 people in line a “mystery gift card” valued up to $500.Century 21 will be the onl
  
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• Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell pregnant with 2nd child

  10-10-2016 20:15
  
  Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has announced she is expecting her second child
  
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• Springsteen and others focus on election at New Yorker fest

  10-10-2016 20:04
  
  Bruce Springsteen, Sarah Silverman and a host of panelists focused on the presidential election at the annual New Yorker festival
  
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• [BRIDGE ‘PARK’] Fork it over: Vandals flip Parks Dept. car with Bobcat in Bridge Park

  10-10-2016 19:48
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperCall it parks and wreck-reaction.Vandals used a Bobcat forklift to flip a Parks Enforcement Patrol car in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday morning, police and park management said.Several scofflaws broke into a maintenance yard near Pier 2 at around 3:30 am and fired up several park utility vehicles, including the forklift, which they used to hoist and dump the electric vehicle on its roof, accor
  
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• Vice debuts its nightly newscast on HBO

  10-10-2016 19:46
  
  Vice Media begins its attempt to attract a new audience to a nightly news telecast with the debut of 'Vice News Tonight.'
  
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• #NYFF 2016: Sierranevada and Graduation

  10-10-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Sierranevada played October 9 and plays again October 14 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival; the film is currently without US distribution. Graduation plays October 11 and 12; the film has been acquired for US distribution by Sundance Selects. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  As it cruises through its second decade, the Romanian New Wave’s characteristic blend is by now a familiar one to festivalgoers—grim resignation and gallows humor, pregnant silenc
  
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• Underwood, Paisley, Bentley, Urban to perform at CMA Awards

  10-10-2016 18:36
  
  Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Maren Morris and Keith Urban, as well as hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, will perform at the 50th annual Country Music Association Awards show, the CMA announced Monday
  
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• [MARINE PARK] Man found stabbed to death in Marine Park home

  10-10-2016 18:36
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailySome lout killed a 44-year-old Marine Parker in his Haring Street home on Oct. 8.Police arrived at victim Michael Ricotta’s home between Avenues S and R in Marine Park at about 7:45 am and found him unconscious with multiple stab wounds in his torso. Officials pronounced him dead at the scene, according to authorities.Police currently have no suspects or motive, and the investigation is ongoing, officials said.Reach reporter
  
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• Neutral Milk Hotel’s Julian Koster Brings Us Aboard a Fantastical New Podcast

  10-10-2016 18:09 via bkmag.com
  
  Through the years, almost like clockwork, Julian Koster’s creations have provided warmth for crisp seasons. I first became familiar in December 2011, when Koster and his band The Music Tapes—featuring Ian Ludders, Robbee Cucchiaro, a fleet of oddball instruments (musical saws, superbone, xylophone, bowed banjo), a singing snowman, and a tape deck—squeezed into my bedroom as part of their semi-annual Caroling/Lullaby Tour. With his youthful charm and signature blue knit hat, the
  
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• [BRIDGE ‘PARK’] Fork it over: Vandal flips Parks Dept. car with Bobcat in Bridge Park

  10-10-2016 17:34
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperCall it parks and wreck-reaction.A vandal used a Bobcat forklift to flip a Parks Enforcement Patrol car in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday morning, police said.The scofflaw fired up the construction vehicle near Pier 2 at around 2 am and used it to lift and dump the electric vehicle on its roof, cops said.The vehicle was charging at the time, according to photos of the aftermath, which show the
  
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• Insider Q&A: What's hard about streaming TV online

  10-10-2016 17:24
  
  The proliferation of services that offer packages of cable channels over the internet may help TV channels gain viewers as fewer households get traditional pay TV services like cable and satellite
  
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• [CINEMA] Psycho cinema! Bushwick slasher flick plays Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

  10-10-2016 17:19
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperThe rent is high — but the body count is higher!
  A psychedelic slasher set in Bushwick will scare the skinny jeans off of audiences at the inaugural Brooklyn Horror Film Festival next weekend. The creators of “Psychotic! A Brooklyn Slasher,” screening on Oct. 15, say that the hipster nabe is the ideal locale for murder and mayhem.“Bushwick is just filled with so many
  
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• Views From New York Comic Con

  10-10-2016 17:15 via bkmag.com
  
  Before this past Thursday, I’d never been to any kind of a convention before, letalone a comic convention. Of course, being a pop culture-obsessive living in the age of the internet, it’s impossible to avoid coverage, so I had some idea of what to expect. But, really, once I stepped inside the mammoth being that is the Jacob Javits Center for this year’s New York Comic Con, there was no amount of preparation that could’ve given me any sense of readiness for what I was abo
  
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• Hail Mary is home to Brooklyn’s best new fried chicken, claw on, spicy AF

  10-10-2016 17:13
  
  Nope, this is not a Halloween special, the fried chicken at Hail Mary is served claw on. Photo: Georgia Kral
  On a recent muggy afternoon in Greenpoint, my “expert” understanding of fried chicken was thrown a crunchy, spicy curveball. I thought I had already found my favorite fried chicken in Brooklyn at The Commodore. I thought I knew what to expect when chicken was deemed “hot.” I was wrong on both counts.
  On Greenpoint Avenue, near the waterfront, is a nondescript ware
  
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• Review: Nicholas Sparks debuts 20th novel, 'Two By Two'

  10-10-2016 17:11
  
  Book Review: Nicholas Sparks debuts his 20th novel, "Two By Two"
  
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• Market Hotel "relocating all shows for now" while it awaits liquor license

  10-10-2016 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The venue is moving all its shows while it awaits its full liquor license, including Cloud Nothings, SALES, and more
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• The Wave Pictures ready 'Bamboo Diner in the Rain' (watch the "Pool Hall" video)

  10-10-2016 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The prolific UK band fight "robot music" on new LP.
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• Bosnian theatergoers politely break in to provocative play

  10-10-2016 16:06
  
  Sarajevans forced organizers of a theater festival to allow them to watch a controversial play criticized by both Catholics and Muslims and threatened by violent groups
  
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• FADER Editor Naomi Zeichner Talks ‘The America Issue’

  10-10-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Covers of The FADER are iconic. How iconic, you may ask? Well, so quintessential, that the magazine makes nearly every cover available for sale online in the form of a poster. Known primarily as a music magazine, gracing the cover could be seen as something of a rite of passage: it’s seen nearly everyone, from Kanye West, to his buddy Bon Iver, to Drake and Future, Indie stalwarts Beach House, and even Hannibal Buress. Covering the intersection of culture and life, The FADER, with its doub
  
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• Celebrated ballerinas _ and a giant ladder _ at dance fest

  10-10-2016 16:00
  
  This year's Fall for Dance festival was highlighted by the return of 3 much-loved ballerinas _ Alessandra Ferri, Wendy Whelan and Alina Cojocaru _ and a giant spinning ladder
  
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• Drake shatters American Music Awards nominations record

  10-10-2016 15:35
  
  Drake earned a record-breaking 13 American Music Awards nominations on Monday, shattering Michael's Jackson's mark of 11 nominations in a single year from 1984
  
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• Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien planning solo LP

  10-10-2016 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We’ve attempted to do something like a full solo album — you know, stand there on the mountaintop with the hair going and the Les Paul and create a whole Ed O’Brien. I haven’t up until two years ago but I am going to now," Ed tells BBC 6 Music.
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• Red Bull Arena to begin hosting concerts

  10-10-2016 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New York City area is getting yet another stadium venue. Harrison, NJ's Red Bull Arena, which opened in 2010 and is home of the Major League Soccer team New York Red Bulls, plans to start regularly hosting concerts...
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• Mayor chides Jimmy Fallon for lame Philadelphia 'SNL' accent

  10-10-2016 15:22
  
  Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is taking Jimmy Fallon to task for his lame Philly accent on "Saturday Night Live." Fallon and Tina Fey were portraying undecided suburban Philadelphia women while discussing the presidential campaign
  
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• Tyler Hoechlin suits up as Superman for The CW's 'Supergirl'

  10-10-2016 14:49
  
  Tyler Hoechlin, best-known for his role on MTV's "Teen Wolf," will debut as Superman on the first 2 episodes of the second season of "Supergirl."
  
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• Green Day & Against Me! announce tour, including Barclays Center

  10-10-2016 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Green Day just wrapped up some tiny club shows in NYC, and now announced a tour of much larger venues with killer support from Against Me!...
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• #NYFF 2016: The Unknown Girl

  10-10-2016 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The Unknown Girl plays October 12 and 13 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. Sundance Selects will open the film theatrically in 2017. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
  An excellent doctor, Jenny Davin (Adèle Haenel) pays close attention to her patients, treating them with a respectful warmth that puts them at ease. What’s more, she’s unafraid of standing up to disreputable patients who try to bully her into falsifying medical records so they ca
  
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• With all but 1 prize out, here are Nobel winners so far

  10-10-2016 13:15
  
  Here is a list of the winners of this year's Nobel Prizes so far
  
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• Twitter: 17M-plus tweets sent about the debate, most ever

  10-10-2016 12:55
  
  Twitter: Sunday's presidential debate was the most tweeted ever, with more than 17 million tweets related to the forum sent
  
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• Ryan Lochte engaged to former Playboy model Kayla Rae Reid

  10-10-2016 12:25
  
  Ryan Lochte has gotten engaged to former Playboy model Kayla Rae Reid
  
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• Roger Waters puts his politics center stage at Desert Trip

  10-10-2016 11:10
  
  Roger Waters made his feelings about Donald Trump abundantly clear during a politically-charged performance at the Desert Trip music festival Sunday night
  
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• Second presidential debate featured tough moderators

  10-10-2016 09:49
  
  Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz take a tough approach during second presidential debate with sharp questions, attempts to corral candidates
  
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• [IT’S ONLY MY OPINION] Stan takes another swipe at Hillary

  10-10-2016 07:14
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyHillary continues to tell us that Trump doesn’t have the temperament to be president.And she does? She knows how to pick fights with the wrong people.She has absolutely no respect for the secret service agents who are there to protect her. There are loads of true stories told and written by these agents who are America’s finest. There are times when she angrily treated them like bell hops and servants. She order
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Info dump! Locals demand answers from silent DEP on Coney creek sewage spill

  10-10-2016 07:12
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThey’ve had enough of this s---.People who fish, swim in, and care for Coney Island Creek are demanding that the city explain why it did not alert them after discovering that an apartment complex was dumping 200,000 gallons of sewage per day into the water.“Why were we kept in the dark?” said Councilman Mark Treyger (D–Coney Island). “They need to explain to th
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Casting no doubts: Fishermen fine with poop-filled creek

  10-10-2016 07:03
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThey don’t give a fluke.Fishermen who drop their lines in Coney Island Creek are unfazed by news that a nearby apartment complex was recently caught dumping 200,000 gallons of raw sewage per day into the stream — and they aren’t going to stop eating their catches just because there’s a little extra seasoning in the water, one angler said.“We’ve been comin
  
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• [BRIGHTON BEACH] Big tent will house Trump Village toxic clean-up — but it will still smell

  10-10-2016 06:28
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThis toxic clean-up is gonna be in-tents!Workers will erect a temporary, tent-like structure equipped with high-powered ventilation to keep clouds of polluted dust from covering Birghton Beach when they clean the land beneath the Trump Village Shopping Center early next year. The short-term edifice is so serious, it will require permits from the Department of Buildings, a rep from the state Department of Environmental of Conservat
  
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• [BRIDGE ‘PARK’] The spies next door: ‘Americans’ stars dazzle at Bridge Park twilight ball

  10-10-2016 06:25
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt was an all-American good time!
  Actors Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys of television spy drama “The Americans” turned out to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s annual black-tie ball on Thursday night, and organizers say the famous Brooklyn Heights residents added some real star power to the park advocacy group’s soiree under the stars.“It was fun seeing Keri Rus
  
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• Cooper, Raddatz tough during second presidential debate

  10-10-2016 06:08
  
  Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz take a tough approach during second presidential debate with sharp questions, attempts to corral candidates
  
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• District Attorney Ken Thompson dead at 50

  10-10-2016 06:06
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperBrooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson died on Oct. 9 after losing a battle with cancer, according to his office. He was 50 years old.The borough’s top prosecutor passed away at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital surrounded by his loved ones, who announced the death on Sunday evening.“With a heavy heart, the family of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced that the district attorney passed away today after a ha
  
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] Psycho cinema! Bushwick slasher flick plays Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

  10-10-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe rent is high — but the body count is higher!
  A psychedelic slasher set in Bushwick will scare the skinny jeans off of audiences at the inaugural Brooklyn Horror Film Festival next weekend. The creators of “Psychotic! A Brooklyn Slasher,” screening on Oct. 15, say that the hipster nabe is the ideal locale for murder and mayhem.“Bushwick is just filled with so many
  
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] Pscho cinema! Bushwick slasher flick plays Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

  10-10-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe rent is high — but the body count is higher!
  A psychedelic slasher set in Bushwick will scare the skinny jeans off of audiences at the inaugural Brooklyn Horror Film Festival next weekend. The creators of “Psychotic! A Brooklyn Slasher,” screening on Oct. 15, say that the hipster nabe is the ideal locale for murder and mayhem.“Bushwick is just filled with so many
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Bill of sale: Mayor addresses by Chamber of Commerce dinner

  10-10-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyMayor DeBlasio came to Coney Island for the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s annual membership meeting and trade show on Oct. 5.More than 500 business leaders and local pols packed into Gargiulo’s Restaurant to celebrate the borough and to hear the mayor’s keynote address. Hizzoner applauded the chamber’s accomplishments and touted Brooklyn’s booming popularity as a boon for the city’s economy
  
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