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• The Latest: Prince sister hopes tribute concert helps fans

  13-10-2016 23:59
  
  Prince's sister says she hopes a tribute concert to the "Purple Rain" superstar will bring closure to his grieving fans
  
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• 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise grows to 5 films

  13-10-2016 23:56
  
  J.K. Rowling's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" isn't going to be a trilogy, it's going to be a pentalogy
  
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• [CROWN HEIGHTS] Lady in waiting: Crown Heights’ Black Lady Theatre re-opening after 18 years

  13-10-2016 23:56
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyShe’s ready for her close-up.The historic Black Lady Theatre in Crown Heights is preparing to open its doors for the first time since 1998, and it will offer visitors an advance look at the long-shuttered spot as part of Open House New York Weekend on Oct. 15–16. The venue, also known as the Slave Two, is a sister to the Slave One Theatre in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Both spots were ce
  
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• Fox's Lou Dobbs apologizes for tweeting accuser's info

  13-10-2016 23:55
  
  Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs apologizes for tweeting out personal information of woman who had accused Donald Trump of groping her
  
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• You’ll Leave Me Once You Figure This All Out: On Dating as a Means of Adaption

  13-10-2016 23:12 via bkmag.com
  
  I have never felt more alone than that first autumn in New York. This became clear when I realized that despite our weekly happy hours, me and my fellow interns, whom I was banking on becoming best friends with before I’d even met them, had nothing in common except youth and desperation. “We’re just using each other until we make real friends,” one of them, a pretty girl with a Valleyspeak accent, joked one late night over drinks in a SoHo wine bar. We hung out a lot back
  
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• Trump comments prompt congresswoman to share assault story

  13-10-2016 23:08
  
  U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster doesn't doubt Donald Trump used his fame to force himself on women because she says she experienced just that with a celebrity surgeon decades ago
  
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• Coolio charged with a felony after gun found in bag at LAX

  13-10-2016 23:04
  
  Coolio has been charged with a felony after a gun was found in a backpack at Los Angeles International Airport
  
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• The Accountant

  13-10-2016 22:59 via bkmag.com
  
  The AccountantDirected by Gavin O’ConnorOpens October 14
  It’s pretty clear that Ben Affleck wants to be Clint Eastwood. Not in the gunslinging, squinting, or growling ways, but as a go-to actor-director dabbling in both awards bait and popular fare for Warner Bros. Eastwood got to the point where Warner would make just about any movie he wanted for the right price, a long-term relationship that seems to have been updated with present-day superhero quid pro quos for poor Affleck, who
  
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• Kendall Jenner says she was terrified at stalking scene

  13-10-2016 22:59
  
  Kendall Jenner has testified at the trial of a man accused of stalking her that she was terrified when he followed her up the driveway of her Hollywood Hills home and repeatedly knocked on the window of her car
  
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• After Kaepernick's protest, singers question anthem

  13-10-2016 22:52
  
  Grammy-winning R&B singer Anthony Hamilton isn't interested in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner," and he thinks America needs a new national anthem
  
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• Ex-Oklahoma trooper to enter new pleas on assault charges

  13-10-2016 22:42
  
  A former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper charged with assaulting three women during traffic stops is set to enter new pleas on charges of sexual assault, indecent exposure and sexual battery
  
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• News Guide: Trump faces fresh accusations from women

  13-10-2016 22:37
  
  Potentially damaging new allegations have hit Donald Trump, pushing his treatment of women to the forefront of his presidential bid
  
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• Music Review: David Bromberg Band shine on new blues album

  13-10-2016 22:36
  
  Among his many attributes, David Bromberg is a generous bandleader, and so the first solo on his latest album is performed by second guitarist Mark Cosgrove
  
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• Cooper's debate question of Trump may prove pivotal

  13-10-2016 22:32
  
  Judging by what it triggered, Anderson Cooper's questioning of Donald Trump about unwanted advances on women may be remembered as one of the most pivotal queries in presidential debate annals
  
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• Review: Charlie Rich tribute explores legend's Sun years

  13-10-2016 22:31
  
  Charlie Rich's early repertoire gets a fond tribute on "Feels Like Going Home" from talents like Jim Lauderdale and Johnny Hoy, mixing rockabilly, country, pop and blues
  
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• Music Review: Matt Hires shines as he takes on demons

  13-10-2016 22:12
  
  On his new album, "American Wilderness," singer-songwriter Matt Hires wrestles with negativity. And if he doesn't always win, his battle to stay positive is passionate and evocative enough to leave you rooting for him in the end.
  
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• 30 Under 30: Lena Solow, Writer and Sex Educator

  13-10-2016 21:50 via bkmag.com
  
  If you’re like me, you learned about sex from pornography, stand-up comedy, and Jarvis Cocker. To say the least, I could have had better teachers—take Lena Solow, for example. She’s dedicated her professional life to giving young people positive, realistic views of sex. She’s a sex educator, the author of a Teen Vogue column about sex, and an employee of sex toy shop, Babeland, where she recently led a unionization effort. It’s basically impossible to
  
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• Trump aides savor chance to air Bill Clinton sexual misdeeds

  13-10-2016 21:36
  
  Donald Trump's efforts to drag Hillary Clinton down by focusing on her husband's misconduct may be a relatively new strategy for him, but it's not for the advisers whispering in his ear
  
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• The Latest: Kendall Jenner testifies in stalking case

  13-10-2016 21:32
  
  Kendall Jenner says she was terrified by a man who followed her into her driveway earlier this year and repeatedly knocked on her car window in the Hollywood Hills
  
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• [BOERUM HILL] Longtime Boerum Hill leader Leslie Lewis dies at 90

  13-10-2016 21:15
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperLongtime 84th Precinct Community Council president and Boerum Hill leader Leslie Lewis died on Thursday morning, according to local leaders. He was 90.
  Lewis — who has served as president of the police advisory council since 1993 — passed away at Methodist Hospital, according to friends, although none knew exactly how he died as of publishing.Born and raised in the Bronx, Lewis first moved to Boerum Hill in 1982 and boug
  
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• [BREAKING, CONEY ISLAND] Baby dies after six-story fall in Coney Island elevator

  13-10-2016 20:26
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyA 6-week-old girl plummeted to her death in Coney Island after her mother pushed her stroller down an elevator shaft on Oct. 13.The mom was waiting for the lift with daughter Areej Ali at 11:45 am on the 23 floor of a building at the corner of Neptune Avenue and W. 33rd Street, police said.The elevator doors opened, and the 21-year-old mother pushed the infant’s stroller over the threshold, apparently not realizing that t
  
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• Drone footage captures views of abandoned Tennessee prison

  13-10-2016 20:25
  
  The state Department of Correction has released a new video featuring drone footage of the old Tennessee State Prison that was forced to close 24 years ago because of inhumane conditions
  
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• Kendall Jenner arrives in court to testify in stalking case

  13-10-2016 20:24
  
  Kendall Jenner has arrived in a Los Angeles courtroom to testify against a man charged with stalking and trespassing at her Hollywood Hills home
  
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• Why Bob Dylan Is Both Totally Uncool and Totally OK

  13-10-2016 20:18 via bkmag.com
  
  Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature this year. He’s a musician mostly, which is confusing in light of this specific prize (it’s usually given to writers who do not add music to their words) but perhaps even more confusing is that at 75, he’s still making earnest, straightforward folk music. Folk music is confusing for the snarky Internet, and liking folk music is even more confusing. Moreover, liking Bob Dylan, now that he’s been awarded the Nobel Prize, and
  
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• Essay: The swans in Prospect Park, or how I found my spirit animal

  13-10-2016 19:49
  
  There’s a pair of swans in Prospect Park. And I love them.
  Every time I walk through the park–which is fairly often, once or twice a week in the summer – I make sure to find my swans. I love watching their long, graceful necks twist and turn, how they duck underwater to catch some sort of food, and then shake off, flat-footed, along the shore.
  One day a few summers back, my dog, Buckley, spotted one of these swans floating on the lake. I could see his tiny dog-brain working: &l
  
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• Michael B. Jordan stars in PSA highlighting racial bias

  13-10-2016 19:34
  
  A searing new public service announcement starring Michael B. Jordan, Danny Glover and Michael K. Williams takes on the issue of racial bias in police shootings with a simple message: "Black is not a weapon."
  
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• Periscope extends beyond phones as Twitter ups ante on video

  13-10-2016 19:33
  
  Twitter is taking the smartphone shackles off its live-video service Periscope as part of the struggling company's attempt to broaden its audience
  
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• Exiled Bangladeshi publisher Tutul wins free speech prize

  13-10-2016 19:33
  
  A Bangladeshi author and publisher injured in an attack by suspected militants has won a writing award celebrating free speech
  
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• Likely impact of Thai king's death on economy unclear

  13-10-2016 19:23
  
  Thailand's stock market and currency were shaken as long-ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej's health worsened this week. Now, after his death, the outlook remains murky
  
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• 30 Under 30: Frances Bodomo, Filmmaker

  13-10-2016 19:12 via bkmag.com
  
  This year’s short film ominibus collective:unconscious brought together five local filmmakers to adapt one another’s dreams, but Frances Bodomo’s Everybody Dies cut through the magic realism, all the way down to the bone. The premise is horrifyingly entertaining, full of existential dread and black humor (in multiple senses): a public-access children’s show hosted by a tearful Grim Reaper, who serenades the kiddies with lullabies to prepare them for a life of state violen
  
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• Thai prime minister: King was unifying, 'highly precious'

  13-10-2016 19:04
  
  Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha says on the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej that he was a beloved, respected, unifying figure
  
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• Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature

  13-10-2016 19:01
  
  There's no question about Bob Dylan's genius as a songwriter or his profound impact on popular culture in America _ but should he get a Nobel Prize in Literature?
  
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• Gil Faizon and George St. Geeland of Oh Hello on 70 Years in the Big Apple, and Hot Dog Water

  13-10-2016 18:50 via bkmag.com
  
  Gil Faizon and George St. Geeland are a couple of New York originals. Authors, academics, lovers, revolutionaries, mild racists, rivals, and best friends, they’re the kind of people you can only find in one place: New York, baby!
  Now, Faizon and Geeland (as portrayed by comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney) are coming to the Great White Way. The two will be sharing little memories of 70 years in the big apple, right here in the city that never sleeps! Their show, Oh Hello (as seen on Krol
  
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• What Are You Reading? Spoonbill & Sugartown Share their October Picks

  13-10-2016 18:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Spoonbill & Sugartown set up their roost on Bedford Avenue in 1999. Harbingers for and witness to the rapid, largescale change that Williamsburg has undergone over the past 17 years—this indie bookstore has thrived thanks in part to a friendly landlord (may we all be so blessed) and it’s eclectic, always interesting selection of new and used, rare and not-so, books that focus on art, literature, philosophy, and design. Basically: the kind of books you can lose yourself in for ho
  
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• Kids brought J.K. Simmons to film, and maybe back to theater

  13-10-2016 18:37
  
  Fans of J.K. Simmons' work in television and film may have the actor's two children to thank
  
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• Conan O'Brien to host Nobel concert, Halsey to perform

  13-10-2016 18:35
  
  Conan O'Brien has been selected to host the Nobel Peace Prize concert in December in Oslo; singer Halsey will perform
  
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• Luke Bryan's Farm Tour hits home for the farmer's son

  13-10-2016 18:28
  
  Country star Luke Bryan brings concerts to the countryside during his Farm Tour
  
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• Cider House Brews: Three Brooklyn Breweries Producing Your Favorite Fall Ciders

  13-10-2016 18:20 via bkmag.com
  
  Having begun to recover from the excessive heat and humidity of summer, many of us might still be struggling to say goodbye to ice-cold beers, enjoyed on the beach. But the transition is a little easier with the perfect drink to welcome fall—and it is definitely not a pumpkin spice latte. Non-pumpkin heads of the alcoholic beverage drinking variety also need a seasonal beverage. Enter hard apple cider, which, in recent years, has gained an enthusiastic following. 
  Although the fe
  
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• Think Olio: A haven for lifelong learners

  13-10-2016 17:09
  
  David Kurfist and Chris Zumtobel founded Think Olio to connect people who love to learn. Photo: Christiana Lopez
  Chris Zumtobel and David Kurfist are still always terrified that no one will show up.
  They’re the co-founders of Think Olio, an organization that puts on salon-style classes in venues all over Brooklyn and Manhattan. Though they’ve been proven wrong, time after time, as people pile into bars and co-working spaces and museums to experience these classes
  
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• Likely impact of Thai king's death economy unclear

  13-10-2016 16:48
  
  Thailand's stock market and currency were shaken as long-ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej's health worsened this week. Now, after his death, the outlook remains murky
  
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• Gary Busey to star in off-Broadway's 'Perfect Crime'

  13-10-2016 16:32
  
  Gary Busey will make his New York stage debut next month in the off-Broadway show "Perfect Crime," playing a serial killer in the cast of the longest-running play in New York history
  
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• [CHANGING BROOKLYN] Inn-coming: Controversial Brooklyn Bridge Park hotel opening in February

  13-10-2016 16:19
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe Brooklyn Bridge Park hotel is checking in.The controversial 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge — best known to locals for blocking views of the famous bridge from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade — will open to guests in February, owner 1 Hotels announced on Wednesday.
  The 194-key luxury lodging at Pier 1 — part of the equally controversial Pierhouse condominium complex — will include a rooftop pool and cocktail bar,
  
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• Is laughter the best medicine? Chris Gethard hopes so

  13-10-2016 16:03
  
  Comedian Chris Gethard has managed to find a rich vein of comedy in the unlikeliest place _ clinical depression _ in the moving, autobiographical show "Chris Gethard: Career Suicide" at the Lynn Redgrave Theater in the East Village
  
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• Thailand's next king lives in shadow of revered father

  13-10-2016 15:48
  
  Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, heir apparent to the throne, carries a son's burden of living up to a great father
  
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• Roger Waters announces 2017 North American 'Us + Them' tour

  13-10-2016 15:40
  
  Fresh off his politically charged performance at the Desert Trip music festival in California, Roger Waters will launch a 51-city North American tour next year
  
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• King Bhumibol was Thailand's lone constant amid rapid change

  13-10-2016 15:23
  
  King Bhumibol Adulyadej was Thailand's lone constant as the country hurtled from a traditional agrarian society to a modern, industrializing nation, and as myriad governments rose and fell
  
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• If It Bleeds, It Leads: Christine

  13-10-2016 15:10 via bkmag.com
  
  ChristineDirected by Antonio CamposOpens October 14
  In 1974, a 29-year-old Sarasota talk-show host named Christine Chubbuck shot herself on live television after reading a pointed statement about her station’s recent selling out to sensationalism. Notwithstanding the likely coincidental parallels in 1976’s Network—whose laid-off, “mad as hell” anchor Howard Beale vows to off himself on-air—it’s taken almost four decades for this woman’s sad legacy
  
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• [FEARLESS PARENTING] Trump didn’t learn what I taught my kids in the sandbox

  13-10-2016 15:08
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Stephanie Thompsonfor Brooklyn PaperI am not a prude. Anyone who knows me knows I say four-letter words as common parlance, including the one that starts with “f.”
  My kids speak in front of my husband and I in a way that would make a sailor blush, even if they excuse themselves by saying “it’s a quote” from a popular rap song or a show they watch.
  And, still, I am horrified and disgusted that this joke of a Presidential electio
  
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• [CLASS ACTION] Presidential pals! Beep befriends new NYU prez at Boro Hall welcome gala

  13-10-2016 15:06
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThese chiefs hailed to each other!
  Borough President Adams welcomed New York University’s new president Andrew Hamilton to Kings County with a reception at Borough Hall on Oct. 7 — signaling the start of what is sure to be a beautiful friendship, according to a rep for the Beep.
  “Borough President Adams and president Hamilton have built an early and strong rapport,” said spokesman Stefan Ringel.
  Hamilton move
  
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• Reese Witherspoon working on lifestyle book

  13-10-2016 15:02
  
  Already known for recommending books on her Instagram account, Reese Witherspoon is ready to write one herself
  
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