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• Box office top 20: Bad reviews extinguish 'Inferno'

  31-10-2016 23:38
  
  Terrible reviews and a seven-year gap since the previous installment helped extinguished "Inferno," the third film in the "Da Vinci Code" franchise," at the North American box office
  
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• In book, Zayn opens up about eating disorder, 1D, anxiety

  31-10-2016 23:17
  
  In his new book "Zayn," former 1D member Zayn says he had an eating disorder, details why he decided to leave the top-selling boy band, and opens up about his anxiety and how it has affected his live performances
  
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• Looking at CMA Awards by the

  31-10-2016 21:57
  
  From a teenage Taylor to King George, here's a look at some top winners, nominees and hosts over the past 50 years of the CMA Awards
  
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• Viacom names Robert Bakish acting president, CEO

  31-10-2016 21:55
  
  Viacom has named Robert Bakish as acting president and chief executive to succeed interim CEO Tom Dooley, who is leaving the media conglomerate
  
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• The 13 women who could testify to Cosby's 'signature' acts

  31-10-2016 21:48
  
  Prosecutors in Bill Cosby's sexual-assault case want 13 other accusers to testify
  
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• FANTASY PLAYS: Horror of Week 8 filled with big injuries

  31-10-2016 21:47
  
  It's a familiar horror movie trope: a character thinks everything is fine, takes a deep breath, and then - BAM! Something unspeakably terrifying takes place
  
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• Olympic broadcaster says impounded equipment in Rio released

  31-10-2016 20:44
  The official Olympic broadcaster says equipment held by Brazilian authorities for more than a month, as collateral for any worker salary claims, has been released
  
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• Romania: 2 Canadians to sleep in coffins at Dracula's Castle

  31-10-2016 20:14
  
  A Canadian brother and sister are passing Halloween night curled up in red velvet-lined coffins in the Transylvanian castle that inspired the Dracula legend, the first time in 70 years anyone has spent the night in the gothic fortress
  
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• He said, she said: AP writers predict top winners at CMAs

  31-10-2016 20:10
  
  Will Luke Bryan reign supreme again as entertainer of the year at the CMA Awards
  
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• Linwood Barclay writes finale to Promise Falls trilogy

  31-10-2016 19:42
  
  Book Review: Linwood Barclay writes finale to Promise Falls trilogy
  
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• CNN: Not happy with Brazile's talk about debate questions

  31-10-2016 19:39
  
  CNN says it is uncomfortable to learn that former commentator Donna Brazile appeared to communicate potential forum questions to Clinton campaign in advance
  
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• Bieber settles lawsuit that brought judge's arrest threat

  31-10-2016 19:25
  
  Pop star Justin Bieber has settled a lawsuit in which a judge threatened the singer with arrest if he didn't appear for a deposition
  
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• Things That Go Book in the Night: Electric Literature’s Genre Ball Is Halloween’s Hottest Literary Fête

  31-10-2016 18:57 via bkmag.com
  
  We love Electric Literature and we love Halloween, so what could be better than a spooky, literary costume party raising money for the magazine? The Ace Hotel hosted the second annual Genre Ball last Friday and writers, editors, and readers danced all night in garb inspired by their favorite literary characters and genres. (Check: author Tony Tulathimutte as The Legend of Zelda‘s Link, Book of the Month Club’s Maris Kreizman as The Handmaiden Tale‘s Offred.) Live vica
  
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• Adele opens up on postpartum depression battle, alcohol use

  31-10-2016 18:57
  
  Adele has opened up about parenting, her struggle with postpartum depression and alcohol use in a new interview
  
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• The Latest: Cosby seeks competency test on 13 other accusers

  31-10-2016 18:54
  
  Lawyers for Bill Cosby in his Pennsylvania sexual assault case are seeking competency hearings on 13 other accusers and say the women's memories have been tainted by time and media coverage
  
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• With election looming, Hollywood votes for escapism

  31-10-2016 17:56
  
  Hollywood, as ever, is mostly banking on escapism ahead of the election
  
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• With The Good Place, The Afterlife Looks a Lot Better

  31-10-2016 17:20 via bkmag.com
  
  Sometimes, when driving around Los Angeles, Michael Schur sees things that are just objectively bad. Of course, calling something objectively bad can be a slippery slope to head down, but on some of those things we can all agree: cutting someone off in traffic, for one. In instances like these, Schur, the creator of Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and longtime writer/producer of The Office, started docking people points.
  That’s the genesis of NBC’s new series, The Good Pl
  
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• Beyond the Chovies: Checking Out Bay Ridge’s Bon Chovie

  31-10-2016 16:55 via bkmag.com
  
  Head-to-tail anchovies have proved a perfectly easy sell to the crowds of gastronomic thrill-seekers at Smorgasburg, but how do you push assertively piquant small bait to patrons practically weaned on red sauce-swaddled calamah? Since single concept spots often have a tough enough time just treading water (outside of browsy, idiosyncratic food markets, that is), Bon Chovie has wisely fleshed out the menu for its first dedicated restaurant, located in the culinarily cautious neighborhood of Bay R
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Martial hearts! At sex-toy shop Babeland, workers to be trained to defend themselves

  31-10-2016 16:45
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperTalk about getting your kicks.Workers at upscale sex-toy store Babeland in Park Slope may soon be getting lessons in martial arts as part of their new union-negotiated benefits package because homophobes and other bigots sometimes get a bit to frisky at the shop.“We asked for a number of different safety trainings, which includes self defense, because customers do get physical,” said Stella Casnave, a non-binary-gendere
  
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• The scariest snacks in NYC

  31-10-2016 16:19
  
  Fall is the best eating season of the year–for much of it you still have tomatoes and fresh basil and greens, but you also have all the winter squash and cranberry beans for those soups and braises you’ve been craving since mid-August. Earlier each year the flavors of fall start showing up on grocery shelves and menus. Pumpkins? Yep. Pumpkin Spice Lattes? Of course. Candy corn? Duh! Winter squash-stuffed ravioli? Indeed.
  But forget all that stuff. We like to get scared in
  
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• Jennifer Holliday enjoys 'a new lease on life' on Broadway

  31-10-2016 16:14
  
  Jennifer Holiday has returned to Broadway for the first time in 15 years, and her appearance as the latest Shug Avery in the Tony-winning revival of "The Color Purple" is something to cheer even before she sings a single note
  
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• Edith Wharton’s Trump: On The Age of Innocence and the Larger-than-Life Julius Beaufort

  31-10-2016 15:36 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s been almost 80 years since Edith Wharton published her last book, but perhaps her most immortal character, Gilded-Age New York City, looks as new to us now as it must have to Wharton over 100 years ago. Wharton captured New York City just as it had begun to modernize. Horses were giving way to motorized cars, the elevated subway was connecting neighborhoods, and floods of immigrants were filling the city. Change is never easy, and, much like New Yorkers today, her characters often com
  
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• [►VIDEO, COBBLE HILL] Going up! Now’s your chance to buy a condo for your car!

  31-10-2016 14:16
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperI’m going to say two words to you. Just two words.“Parking spaces.”There is a big future in parking spaces and now’s your chance to get in on the ground floor according to one real estate agent who claims the value of a hard-to-find spot to store you S.U.V. is destined to go up, and if you’ve got $185,000 to spare, you can invest in condo your car can call its own in upscale Cobble Hill.“I sell a
  
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• Review: 'Blood at the Root' examines 1912 racial turmoil

  31-10-2016 13:26
  
  Book Review: "Blood at the Root" examines an episode of racial violence that forced more than 1,000 black residents of Forsyth County, Georgia, to flee their homes in 1912
  
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• In Honor of the World Series: Your Baseball Hat Sucks!

  31-10-2016 13:16 via bkmag.com
  
  In honor of the World Series, which will likely be won by the Cubbies in two more swinging victories, it’s important to address the rampant misunderstanding and mis-wearing of the classic american baseball hat.
  Case in point:Pictured here is Kylie Jenner, daughter of Kris and Caitlyn Jenner, wearing a baseball hat. Does Kylie like baseball? Unclear. She certainly likes kickball.
  Kendall gets a pass here because she played baseball on the Gap team as a child.#TB me as a Gap
  
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• Portugal, Romania to return to Eurovision contest in 2017

  31-10-2016 12:24
  
  Organizers of the Eurovision song contest say Portugal and Romania will return as the glitzy, popular show heads to Ukraine's capital of Kiev next year
  
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• Michael Phelps has beach wedding months after legal marriage

  31-10-2016 11:29
  
  Four months after getting legally married to Nicole Johnson, Michael Phelps has sealed the deal with a celebration in Mexico
  
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• Real Love: Loving

  31-10-2016 11:05 via bkmag.com
  
  LovingDirected by Jeff NicholsOpens November 4
  Loving presents a vital story through a largely conventional lens. This is one of those emotionally investing, based-on-a-true-story narratives that could easily be called awards bait, though to dismiss it on that account is to overlook some fine performances and moving moments. In Virginia in 1958, Richard Loving, a white man, married Mildred Jeter, a black woman. They were arrested and banished due to the state’s strict anti-miscegenation l
  
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• World's oldest active theater actor Zeldin dies at 101

  31-10-2016 09:52
  
  The wife of Russian actor Vladimir Zeldin, who has been described as the world's oldest working actor, says he has died in Moscow
  
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• Ansari, Bezos, Flint heroes to be honored for 'Ingenuity'

  31-10-2016 09:49
  
  Aziz Ansari, Jeff Bezos and two people who uncovered the Flint water crisis are being honored with American Ingenuity Awards
  
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• Accepting award, Murakami warns against excluding outsiders

  31-10-2016 09:04
  
  Haruki Murakami has warned against excluding outsiders and rewriting history as he accepted the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award
  
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• Iraq TV call-in show gives glimpse inside IS-held Mosul

  31-10-2016 07:19
  
  Iraqi call-in TV show offers glimpse into life inside Islamic State group-held city of Mosul, lets victims of war vent
  
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• The 13 women who could show Bill Cosby had a pattern

  31-10-2016 05:55
  Prosecutors in Bill Cosby's sexual-assault case want 13 other accusers to testify to try to show he engaged in a 'signature' crime spree that spanned four decades
  
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• [DANCE] Sister ‘Hood’: ‘Boyz N The Hood’ dance shows girl power

  31-10-2016 05:00
  
  Call it “Boyz oN The Stage!” Read more.
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Escalating anger: Locals lash out over infant’s elevator death

  31-10-2016 05:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThe city must crack down on the management company that runs the Coney Island apartment building where a 6-week-old baby plummeted to death in an elevator shaft earlier this month, say locals.The infant and her mother fell six-stories on Oct. 13 after the mom accidentally pushed the child’s stroller into an empty elevator shaft in the Bay Park 4 apartment building at Neptune Avenue and W. 33rd Street. The complex has a hi
  
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] Dildo on the field! Gersh and Vince talk sex toys with Babeland’s Claire Cavanah

  31-10-2016 05:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Gersh Kuntzmanfor Brooklyn PaperShopping for that special great aunt or uncle*? How about a sex toy?Fresh from winning an award for being “senior-friendly,” the owner of Babeland on Bergen St. in Park Slope appeared on Brooklyn Paper Radio to report that seniors are still going strong between the sheets.“It’s not our core audience, but we see plenty of seniors,” Claire Cavanah told radio ho
  
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• Police: Spectator who threw powder at Met is from Texas

  31-10-2016 02:11
  
  It wasn't quite Broadway's "Phantom of the Opera," but the surprise spectacle at the Metropolitan Opera was equally ghastly, with an opera fan scattering what authorities say may be cremated human remains into the orchestra pit
  
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• Review: NYC revival of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' crackles

  31-10-2016 02:03
  
  "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Christopher Hampton's dark comedy of sexual intrigue in pre-Revolutionary France, simply crackles in a new Broadway revival from the Donmar Warehouse
  
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• Police: Spectator who threw powder at Met may be from Texas

  31-10-2016 00:55
  
  It wasn't quite Broadway's "Phantom of the Opera," but at the Metropolitan Opera, the surprise spectacle was equally ghastly: An opera fan scattered what authorities say may be cremated human remains into the orchestra pit
  
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• Juli Inkster wins Walgreens Charity Championship

  31-10-2016 00:43
  
  Juli Inkster won The Legends Tour's season-ending Walgreens Charity Championship on Sunday, closing with a 4-under 64 for a four-stroke victory over Pat Hurst
  
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