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• Yoko Ono responds to Trump win as only she can

  11-11-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Dear Friends, I would like to share this message with you as my response to @realDonaldTrump...love, yoko"
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• 13 red, purple state Dems face re-election in age of Trump

  11-11-2016 23:18
  
  A long list of Senate Democrats who face re-election in 2018 are from states Donald Trump won or nearly won on Election Day
  
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• A song a decade from the 50 years of Leonard Cohen's music

  11-11-2016 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Leonard Cohen sadly passed away this week, after continuing to make excellent music from the 1960s to present day. In honor of Leonard's rich career, here's one great song from all five of the past decades.
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• Lambchop released new LP (listen), presenting free 'Films of FLOTUS' screening at Rough Trade on Sunday

  11-11-2016 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 'Films of FLOTUS' event includes a Q&A moderated by Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan.
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• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' home in San Francisco fetches $4.15 million

  11-11-2016 22:45
  
  A San Francisco home that served as the setting for the popular 1993 movie "Mrs. Doubtfire," starring Robin Williams, has sold for $4.15 million
  
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• [SHEEPSHEAD BAY] Murder charge in Sheepshead Bay stabbing

  11-11-2016 22:34
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyPolice are charging a 27-year-old Bronx woman for the gruesome murder of 44-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident Michael Ricotta, who was found stabbed to death times in his Haring Street home last month.The woman allegedly knifed Ricotta in his head and torso then called her 28-year-old roommate to come get her and bring her clean clothes at about 8:30 pm, police said.The man allegedly arrived at the home between Avenues S and R in a
  
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• [SHEEPSHEAD BAY] Guilty! Creep who tried to kidnap 9-year-old girl faces jail time

  11-11-2016 22:34
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyA Sheepshead Bay man was convicted of exposing himself to a 9-year-old girl and trying to drag her from her front yard, prosecutors announced on Thursday.The victim was playing in front of her Ford Street home at 7 am in June of last year when Robert Drach, also of Sheepshead Bay, tried to take her, but her father heard her screaming for help and held the creep until cops came, according to the borough’s top prosecutor.“I
  
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• [DEVELOPMENT] City gives California company $2.8M to move to Brooklyn Army Terminal, hoping it will make jobs

  11-11-2016 22:34
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThe city is giving a California company nearly $3 million to move to Brooklyn on the hopes it creates jobs.TechShop — a membership-based workshop that lets people use industrial power tools, similar to how a gym lets members use exercise equipment — is opening a facility in the Brooklyn Army Terminal. The company, which operates in a dozen cities worldwide and has had recent financial
  
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• [DEVELOPMENT] Bush Terminal Park finally getting a second entrance

  11-11-2016 22:34
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThey’re all in!The city is finally building a long-awaited second entrance to Bush Terminal Piers Park in Sunset Park, and locals are giving the notion two green thumps up, because it will be easier to get to the notoriously hard-to-find green space.“The park is pretty isolated, and more entrances will help people get to it and enjoy it,” said park-goer Estefana Ramos, who
  
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• AP EXPLAINS: How Paris was attacked a year ago, what changed

  11-11-2016 22:33
  
  AP EXPLAINS: How and why Paris was attacked a year ago, and what changed
  
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• NFL HALFWAY: An array of suggestions to make football better

  11-11-2016 22:07
  
  With the NFL's TV ratings down this season, it's become a popular parlor game to try to come up with explanations for the decline
  
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• “Central to the Story of America”: Jade Chang on Immigration and Her Debut Novel Wangs vs the World

  11-11-2016 21:35 via bkmag.com
  
  I meet Jade Chang in the crowded, Flatiron location of Maison Kayser, and she lands in the chair across from me with a smile. She laughs—she has a great laugh—when she hears I’ve ordered the chia seed pudding without quite knowing what it is. (I find it equal parts strange and good.) But really we’re there to talks about her debut novel, the raucous, funny, sweet, smart Wangs vs. the World, which came out to great acclaim in early October. Part family saga, part road-trip
  
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• Living in an Italian Film: A Chat with Tredici Bacci

  11-11-2016 21:32 via bkmag.com
  
  Tredici Bacci band-leader Simon Hanes doesn’t make things easy for himself. His earliest musical effort, a fourth-grade cello class, ended in pain and sadness. “One time a kid stuck his bow up my nose, and it bled profusely,” he says. “Fun fact.”  He grew up aspiring to be “a composer with a Capital C writing obtuse, difficult music for musicians to play,” but aimed to get there via teenage garage bands that didn’t much impress the admissions
  
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• Redford says he's retiring from acting to focus on directing

  11-11-2016 20:49
  
  Actor Robert Redford says in an online interview with his grandson that he will stop acting after his next two projects are released and focus on directing
  
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• Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman says reading key to his success

  11-11-2016 20:31
  
  Frederick Wiseman is not a Hollywood guy; rather, he's been quietly making documentaries from his home base in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1967, exploring such subjects as meat production, welfare, a ski town and a hospital for the criminally insane
  
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• Robert Vaughn, suave 'Man from U.NCL.E.' star, dies at 83

  11-11-2016 19:46
  
  Actor Robert Vaughn, TV's debonair 'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' in 1960s, dies at 83
  
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• The Imperfect Victim: Elle

  11-11-2016 19:09 via bkmag.com
  
  ElleDirected by Paul VerhoevenOpens November 11
  Michele Leblanc doesn’t cry after she’s raped by a masked intruder in the opening scene of Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. She doesn’t scream either, nor does she call the police, or phone a friend. She simply picks herself up, dusts herself off, and calmly sweeps up the glass that’s been shattered in the wake of this particularly heinous act of violence, as a trickle of blood runs down the inside of her thigh. It’s the
  
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• Police seek stolen image of Bruce Springsteen

  11-11-2016 18:15
  
  Someone has stolen a work of art that is an image of Bruce Springsteen
  
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• Broadway's 'The King and I' hits the road with veterans

  11-11-2016 17:50
  
  The Tony Award-winning revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic 'The King and I' has gone on a national tour starring Jose Llana as the king, Laura Michelle Kelly as Anna and Manna Nichols as Tuptim
  
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• Texas man accused of stalking Taylor Swift at Texas airport

  11-11-2016 17:44
  
  A Texas man accused of stalking singer Taylor Swift at an airport in Austin, Texas, has been charged with violating a lifetime restraining order
  
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• What Spoke that Strange Silence?: On Grief and Memoir

  11-11-2016 17:36 via bkmag.com
  
  And what spoke that strange silence
  After his clamour of caws faded? (Ted Hughes, “Crow’s Theology”)
  If love is ineffable because it is “too much,” what then of grief, which acts as a vacuum? Where does language go with the intake of breath that accompanies the notification of “this person is no more?” And when the writer begins to recover their voice, why write down the blank?Grief blunts the senses, changes human perceptions of the world. “Night
  
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• Brooklyn Calls on Electoral College to Vote for Nation’s Popular Candidate

  11-11-2016 17:29 via bkmag.com
  
  The people of Brooklyn are calling on the Electoral College to honor, and elect, the popular winner of the presidential election.
  It is held that the founders of our country created the Electoral College as a check on the popular presidential vote—on the premise, in part, that the majority of American voters would be uninformed, misinformed, or more plainly, make a bad choice. The Electoral College could, in theory, prevent a demagogue, a bigot, or a candidate dangerous to o
  
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• How and why Paris was attacked a year ago, and what changed

  11-11-2016 17:14
  
  How and why Paris was attacked a year ago, and what changed
  
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• 'Downton's Dockery is great being bad in 'Good Behavior'

  11-11-2016 17:12
  
  "Good Behavior" is filled with bad behavior
  
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• Escape NYC: Win a weekend in the Hudson Valley

  11-11-2016 16:50
  
  Where else can you taste the effects of a 200-year-old smokehouse?
  A lot of you have been looking into Canadian and Costa Rican property. We get it. But we have a much easier escape for you.
  We’re giving away a gift-filled weekend for two at the new boutique Hudson Valley hotel, Hasbrouck House.
  That’s two nights upstate at a gorgeously appointed inn where nightly bonfires are a thing, and there are miles of walking and biking trails to get out into the woods and
  
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• What Kind of Sequel Do You Make for a Movie Nobody Saw?

  11-11-2016 14:33 via bkmag.com
  
  Uncle Kent 2Directed by Todd RohalOpens November 11 at the Alamo Drafthouse
  Usually the most salient praise that can be afforded a sequel or remake is that its existence owes more to inspiration than to accounting, but in the case of Uncle Kent 2, that’s something of a backhanded compliment. Reprising a modestly successful 2011 micro-indie, there are no focus groups or fan-sites willing this movie into existence. In fact, the whole endeavor is unavoidably perverse: the backstory that&rsqu
  
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• The always amazing Pop-Up Magazine returns to Brooklyn Nov. 17

  11-11-2016 12:20
  
   
  “Always amazing” – Ira Glass, This American Life“A sensation” – New York Times“Beautiful” – Los Angeles Times“Go!” – Jad Abumrad, RadiolabOur friends at Pop-Up Magazine are bringing their “live magazine,” which combines storytelling with photos, film, illustration, and an original soundtrack, to Brooklyn’s beautiful Kings Theatre on Thursday, November 17.
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• 'Hallelujah' Singer-Songwriter Leonard Cohen dead at age 82

  11-11-2016 12:05
  
  Leonard Cohen, the gravelly-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter of hits like "Hallelujah," "Suzanne" and "Bird on a Wire," has died at age 82
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] City gives California company $2.8M to move to Brooklyn Army Terminal, hoping it will make jobs

  11-11-2016 07:20
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn PaperThe city is giving a California company nearly $3 million to move to Brooklyn on the hopes it creates jobs.TechShop — a membership-based workshop that lets people use industrial power tools, similar to how a gym lets members use exercise equipment — is opening a facility in the Brooklyn Army Terminal. The company, which operates in a dozen cities worldwide and has had recent financial
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Bush Terminal Park finally getting a second entrance

  11-11-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperThey’re all in!The city is finally building a long-awaited second entrance to Bush Terminal Piers Park in Sunset Park, and locals are giving the notion two green thumps up, because it will be easier to get to the notoriously hard-to-find green space.“The park is pretty isolated, and more entrances will help people get to it and enjoy it,” said park-goer Estefana Ramos, who
  
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• [DANCE] Tree ring circus: Puppets play in a fairy tale of forests

  11-11-2016 06:00
  
  Call it “Dances With Woods!” Read more.
  
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• [BROOKLYN HEIGHTS] Heading for the Hil: Huma, Podesta clean out their desks at Clinton’s Brooklyn Heights HQ

  11-11-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn PaperBrooklyn Heights is out of Huma.
  Hillary Clinton’s embattled top aide Huma Abedin and campaign chairman John Podesta dropped by the losing presidential candidate’s headquarters at 1 Pierrepont Plaza on Wednesday afternoon to clean out their desks, shortly after Clinton gave her concession speech.Hours earlier, somber staffers began emptying out the office, hugging and crying as they b
  
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] Pot roast! Weed evangelist Joe Dolce laughs it up with Gersh and Vince on BPR!

  11-11-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Gersh KuntzmanBrooklyn PaperThis is your Brooklyn Paper Radio. And this is your Brooklyn Paper Radio on drugs!Or, we should say, plants.Author Joe Dolce stopped by the show this week to discuss his new book, “Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis,” and school show hosts and well-known squares Gersh Kuntzman and Vince DiMiceli on all things marijuana.
  And he says that first of all, i
  
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• Singer-Songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen dead at age 82

  11-11-2016 03:42
  
  Leonard Cohen, the gravelly-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter of hits like "Hallelujah," "Suzanne" and "Bird on a Wire," has died at age 82
  
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• Family: Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dies at age 82.

  11-11-2016 03:07
  
  Family: Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dies at age 82.
  
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• Georgia man gets 5 years in prison for debt collection fraud

  11-11-2016 00:41
  
  A Georgia man has been sentenced to five years in prison for a debt collection fraud that cheated 6,000 victims nationwide
  
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• Disney embraces streaming as ratings sag

  11-11-2016 00:38
  
  As more and more people get their favorite TV shows and movies online, Disney is also learning to embrace the stream
  
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• get discounted tickets to 'Hendrix in Harlem' late show at The Apollo

  11-11-2016 00:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Discounted tickets to this 11/26 event also come with a drink voucher.
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