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• New York drug charges against rapper Desiigner are dropped

  29-11-2016 23:56
  
  Misdemeanor drug and menacing charges against rapper Desiigner have effectively been dropped less than three months after his arrest in New York
  
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• NYC firefighter accused of selling prescription drugs

  29-11-2016 23:29
  
  An off-duty New York City firefighter is being accused of selling prescription drugs outside a Brooklyn firehouse
  
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• Police: Fiat scion arrested after false report in New York

  29-11-2016 23:21
  
  A law enforcement official says a grandson of the Italian founder of Fiat falsely claimed he was held against his will by an escort with whom he had spent two days consuming drugs and alcohol in New York
  
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• Ex-Marine gets prison in murder of fellow Marine's wife

  29-11-2016 22:47
  
  A former Marine who killed another serviceman's wife in the Mojave Desert while they were having an affair has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole
  
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• Truck driver who struck Tracy Morgan's van pleads guilty

  29-11-2016 22:39
  
  The truck driver who slammed into the back of a van carrying actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and several other people, killing one of them, has pleaded guilty and could avoid jail time
  
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• Ex-NFL star Sharper sentenced to 20 years in drugging rapes

  29-11-2016 22:28
  
  Former NFL star Darren Sharper's tour of shame and punishment has reached its conclusion in the Los Angeles courtroom where he first admitted drugging and raping women in several states
  
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• Buffalo Bills tackle Henderson suspended 10 games by NFL

  29-11-2016 22:09
  
  The NFL has suspended Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson for 10 games for what the player's agent tells The Associated Press stems from his client using marijuana to relieve the effects of Crohn's disease
  
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• Dredge Report: EPA Contractors Make Show of Canal’s Black Mayonnaise and Big Tires

  29-11-2016 21:29 via bkmag.com
  
  As you likely have heard, the Gowanus Canal is filthy. Made by man’s own hands in the 1860s, it was designated a Superfund site in 2010, and granted $506 million to fund its cleanup. But before the polluted stew that inhabits the foundation of the canal (called “Black Mayonnaise” and composed of, in part, chips of asbestos, plus some arsenic, copper, lead, and mercury) can be dredged and removed next year, the industrial garbage that’s been dumped into the
  
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• “There isn’t a reality or a virtual reality anymore, bro”: Videofilia

  29-11-2016 21:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Videofilia (And Other Viral Syndromes)Directed by Juan Daniel F. MoleroDecember 2-8 at the Spectacle
  Whatever you think or feel about it, you probably haven’t seen anything like Videofilia (and Other Viral Syndromes), a feature-length and extremely low-budget experimental narrative from Peru that combines elements from science fiction, psychedelia, and glitch art. In only his second film, writer-director Juan Daniel F. Molero takes on some of the Big Issues of the Internet Age: the blurri
  
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• Honeybrains, a New Cafe, Makes Normal Food Smart Again

  29-11-2016 21:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Soylent’s website explains that it’s time we moved on to “Food 2.0” because Food 1.0 takes too much time and is too complicated (I’m paraphrasing). But if you’re still eating Food 1.0 for nourishment, you’ll find the concept behind Honeybrains, a new restaurant at 372 Lafayette Street in Noho, vaguely interesting and definitely trendy. It’s like Food 1.5, give or take. (Because what’s math? Maybe after eating at
  
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• The Latest: North Dakota will not block supplies into camp

  29-11-2016 20:58
  
  A spokesman for North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the governor has no intention of blocking food and supplies from coming into camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access pipeline
  
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• Sister runners have medals, magazine cover but still no home

  29-11-2016 20:32
  
  Three sisters whose track and field prowess brought them medals, TV appearances and even a magazine cover are still struggling for something that's eluded them: a home of their own
  
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• Ohio State attack echoes Islamic State group's brutal calls

  29-11-2016 20:26
  
  The car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University employed methods Islamic State extremists have suggested in a slick new online magazine
  
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• 'Manchester by the Sea' tops National Board of Review awards

  29-11-2016 20:22
  
  "Manchester by the Sea" has been named best film by the National Board of Review, which lavished four awards on Kenneth Lonergan's New England portrait of grief
  
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• The Latest: Darren Sharper gets final sentence in drug rapes

  29-11-2016 20:21
  A judge in Los Angeles has sentenced former NFL star Darren Sharper to 20 years in prison for raping two women and drugging two others, but under terms that would total about half that time in custody
  
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• 'Hamilton' creator to tackle 'The Kingkiller Chronicles'

  29-11-2016 20:13
  Lionsgate has put together author Pat Rothfuss with composer and writer Lin-Manuel Miranda for an ambitious TV and film adaptation of the fantasy trilogy "The Kingkiller Chronicles."
  
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• Dolly Parton heartbroken by wildfires torching her hometown

  29-11-2016 19:34
  
  Country music icon Dolly Parton says she's heartbroken about wildfires that tore through the Tennessee county where she grew up
  
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• Music Review: 'Blue & Lonesome' by the Rolling Stones

  29-11-2016 19:13
  
  Music Review: The Rolling Stones show they can play the blues on their new album, "Blue & Lonesome"
  
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• Review: The Weeknd Expands his universe on 'Starboy'

  29-11-2016 19:11
  
  Music Review: Daft Punk and Lana Del Rey Join The Weeknd for interesting trip on "Starboy"
  
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• The Latest: Pipeline protesters sue after clash with police

  29-11-2016 18:35
  
  Several Dakota Access pipeline protesters are suing North Dakota law enforcement officials, arguing their civil rights were violated during a clash with authorities earlier this month
  
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• The Eyes of My Mother, the Caboose on the Torture-Porn Train

  29-11-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The Eyes of My MotherDirected by Nicolas PesceOpens December 2
  First, the good news: debut writer-director Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother is a damn purty horror movie, lensed by DP Zach Kuperstein in rich, dynamically contrasted black-and-white that lends the film a surfeit of dread-inducing American gothic “atmosphere.” Granted, with its arty compositions and ponderous pace Eyes also recalls Richard Marx’s unintentionally hilarious “Hazard” music vide
  
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• From Grateful Dead groupie to tie dye guru

  29-11-2016 17:46
  
  Starhawk (on the left) and his brother Tony Arcuri keep Greenpoint colorful. Photos: Regina Mogilevskaya
  Jerry Garcia once nicknamed Starhawk “The Kid.” The co-owner of Greenpoint’s Starhawk Design Studio doesn’t really keep track of time in a conventional sense, but he reckons this was sometime back in the 70’s, when he was touring the country with the Grateful Dead. Though born in Brooklyn, he left home when he was a teenager.
  “I always had faith that trave
  
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• 'It's impossible to believe': Neymar mourns fatal crash

  29-11-2016 17:41
  
  From Lionel Messi to Neymar, sports mourns the fatal flight of Brazilian team
  
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• Level up! Famed Sunset Park arcade upgrades to bigger digs

  29-11-2016 17:31
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyThey hit the “reset” button.After a brush with death, Sunset Park arcade Next Level is back at full power in a new Fourth Avenue storefront. The gaming hub — an internationally known proving ground for fight-game aficionados — used to be on Eighth Avenue, but it was game over earlier this year after store owners met a match that no measure of joystick jiggling and bu
  
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• Say Cheese (and Wine) at denizen in Williamsburg

  29-11-2016 17:15 via bkmag.com
  
  John Poiarkoff pulled up roots at both The Pines and Willow this past year, but thankfully, it was merely to transplant himself elsewhere in Brooklyn. Newly situated in Williamsburg, the chef has branched out with a 53-seater called denizen—which, contrasting with the abstract concepts of his previous restaurants, possesses a single, highly specific through line: cheese.
  Working in concert with fromager Emily Lindh (who procures both local and imported product such as spruce-wrapped, soft-
  
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• Scorsese scores papal audience after screening of "Silence"

  29-11-2016 17:08
  
  Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is getting Vatican-style red carpet treatment, meeting Wednesday with Pope Francis after screening his new film "Silence" in Rome
  
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• Thanksgiving on Broadway was festive but not all data good

  29-11-2016 16:36
  
  The 34 shows at Broadway theaters earned $35.3 million for the week ending Sunday, a Thanksgiving week record
  
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• Goat, bed among works in major Robert Rauschenberg show

  29-11-2016 16:36
  
  Paintings, prints, sculptures and a taxidermy goat are on display in the first posthumous retrospective devoted to pop-art pioneer Robert Rauschenberg
  
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• Rapper Kodak Black extradited after finishing drug sentence

  29-11-2016 16:17
  
  Rapper Kodak Black has been extradited to South Carolina to answer to a charge of criminal sexual conduct after serving a drug case sentence in Florida
  
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• Working on Something Great Online? Enter the 21st Annual Webby Awards

  29-11-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  From Snapchat to House of Cards to Black Lives Matter, and well beyond, The Webby Awards has been honoring the best of the Internet since 1996. If you have a digital project you’re proud of, now’s your chance: Enter your work in the 21st Annual Webby Awards before the Final Entry Deadline on Friday, December 16th, at www.webbyawards.com.
  The Webbys accepts work across a wide range of categories: Websites, Film & Video, Advertising, Media & PR, Mobile Sites & Apps, Social
  
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• Anti-Doping Norway proposes 14-month doping ban for Johaug

  29-11-2016 15:56
  
  Norway's anti-doping agency has called for a 14-month ban for cross-country star Therese Johaug after she tested positive for a steroid she said she took unknowingly
  
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• Thai queen's health improves, leaves hospital for palace

  29-11-2016 15:48
  
  Thailand's Queen Sirikit, widow of recently deceased King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has recovered from a fever and lung infection and has left a hospital and returned to Chitralada Palace in the Thai capital
  
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• The Nightmare of History: Jackie

  29-11-2016 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  JackieDirected by Pablo LarraínOpens December 2
  It’s amusing to imagine people seeing Jackie—one of two new films directed by Pablo Larraín that open in December—and then, diving into his back catalogue. Theirs would be a dive into the darkest depths of human nature and historical horror, inhabited by the damaged and the twisted, the latter of whose psychologies can challenge the bounds of viewer empathy. I’m thinking of the murderous Saturday Night Fever ob
  
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• Former darts champion dropped from TV over abuse comments

  29-11-2016 14:52
  
  British broadcaster Sky Sports has dropped a former darts world champion as one of its commentators after he suggested that soccer abuse victims are "wimps."
  
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• Next stop: New novel coming from 'Girl on the Train' author

  29-11-2016 14:10
  
  The British author of "The Girl on the Train" will next tell a tale of murder in a riverside town
  
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• Neil Young wants Obama to end 'violence' at pipeline protest

  29-11-2016 13:48
  
  Neil Young is calling on President Barack Obama "to step in and end" what he calls the "violence" against protesters demonstrating against an oil pipeline being built on part of an Indian reservation in North Dakota
  
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• Mahler manuscript sells for record $5.6 million in London

  29-11-2016 13:05
  
  An auction house says the manuscript of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony has sold for 4.5 million pounds ($5.6 million), setting a new auction record for a musical manuscript
  
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• Ex-NFL star Sharper faces final sentence in drugging rapes

  29-11-2016 09:14
  
  Former NFL star Darren Sharper's tour of shame and punishment reaches its conclusion in the Los Angeles courtroom where he first admitted drugging and raping women in several states
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Level up! Sunset Park arcade upgrades to bigger digs

  29-11-2016 06:58
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperThey hit the “reset” button.After a brush with death, Sunset Park arcade Next Level is back at full power in a new Fourth Avenue storefront. The gaming hub — an internationally known proving ground for fight-game aficionados — used to be on Eighth Avenue, but it was game over earlier this year after store owners met a match that no measure of joystick jiggling and bu
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Level up! Famed Sunset Park arcade upgrades to bigger digs

  29-11-2016 06:58
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperThey hit the “reset” button.After a brush with death, Sunset Park arcade Next Level is back at full power in a new Fourth Avenue storefront. The gaming hub — an internationally known proving ground for fight-game aficionados — used to be on Eighth Avenue, but it was game over earlier this year after store owners met a match that no measure of joystick jiggling and bu
  
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• [PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS] Spine-tingling news! Greenlight Bookstore’s PLG outpost now open

  29-11-2016 06:25
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt got the Greenlight!Fort Greene literary emporium Greenlight Bookstore celebrated the opening of its new Prospect-Lefferts Gardens outpost on Saturday, thrilling local book worms in the formerly bookstore-deficient neighborhood.“I’m super excited about it,” said neighborhood resident Bryn Keating. “It’s definitely great to have an independent bookstore nearby.”The Flatbush Avenue store was up a
  
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• Warrior spirit: Former Banneker hoops star back on hometown hardwood

  29-11-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyHe took the long way home.
  Former Benjamin Banneker basketball star Gary Forbes played all around the world, living out his dream until, three years ago, that dream got derailed with injuries and surgeries. The 31-year-old never lost his focus, however, and, finally, he’s managed to get back where he’s most comfortable — on the hardwood in Brooklyn, playing for the Long Island Nets in the National Basketball Associ
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] At first light: Slope’s Fifth Ave. kicks off Christmas-tree-lighting season

  29-11-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt was just in the nick of pine!Park Slope pulled the rug out from Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center by holding the city’s first Christmas-tree lighting event this year on Fifth Avenue Saturday, according to a local business leader.“I’m fairly confident that we’re the first one,” said Mark Caserta, executive director of the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement Dist
  
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• [MIDWOOD] Midwood ‘non-profit’ spent taxpayer money on fast cars and inflated salaries, audit finds

  29-11-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyA Midwood special-education school bilked taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and used the money for inflated staff salaries and a lavish car for its executive, and now comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the school should return the money. The state gave the Hebrew Institute for Deaf and Exceptional Children $11 million to reimburse operating costs for three years, but a recent audit found that the group spent more tha
  
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• [LETTERS] MTA scheds. makes good bus-stop fiction

  29-11-2016 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyTo the editor,There is a great new work of fiction to be found at every bus stop. Is it found on Kindle? Available at Amazon? No, it’s the newly posted NYC Transit schedules. As is said on food packages, these are only suggestions bearing almost no resemblance to real life.Take for example the Marine Park Avenue R bus, B2. All too many times my fellow travelers and I find ourselves waiting in the blowing cold for a bus, only to find that th
  
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• [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS] Lady Vikings ready to conquer city again

  29-11-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyThey’re trying to build a dynasty in Canarsie.
  South Shore’s girls basketball team has won back-to-back Public Schools Athletic League championships — but the Lady Vikings are looking to take the next step this season, and they have their sights set on another city title and a run at a state Federation crown.
  “We’ve got high expectations,” South Shore coach Anwar Gladden said. “We’re g
  
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• [DINING] Six Brooklyn restaurants from celebrity chefs

  29-11-2016 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyTry some small screen cuisine!The newest season of reality show “Top Chef” will feature Fort Greene’s Silvia Barban, who cooks at LaRina Pastificio and Vino and Aita. Many other television chefs have opened up spots in Kings County — here are six spots in Brooklyn where you can find their food:KiwianaSeason Four “Top Chef” contestant Mark Simmon offers tastes New Zealand’s best and weirdest
  
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• [DINING] Kitchen star: Fort Greene cook competes on ‘Top Chef’

  29-11-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperShe’s at the “Top” of her game!A Fort Greene chef with a just-launched restaurant will vie for the $125,000 top prize on the new season of Bravo’s cooking competition show “Top Chef,” premiering on Dec. 1. The culinary contestant could not reveal any secrets from the upcoming season, which pits 16 chefs against one another in Charleston, South Carolina, but sa
  
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• [CLINTON HILL] Kitchen star: Fort Greene cook competes on ‘Top Chef’

  29-11-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyShe’s at the “Top” of her game!A Fort Greene chef with a just-launched restaurant will vie for the $125,000 top prize on the new season of Bravo’s cooking competition show “Top Chef,” premiering on Dec. 1. The culinary contestant could not reveal any secrets from the upcoming season, which pits 16 chefs against one another in Charleston, South Carolina, but sa
  
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• [BROOKLYN HEIGHTS] These go to elven: B’Heights shoppers snap ‘elfies’ after donating warm clothes

  29-11-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey’re elf portraits!A pair of Santa’s elves took a break from their busy Christmas preparations to snap selfies with any kind-hearted shopper who visited Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights bearing warm clothes for the less fortunate on Saturday, and participants say the “elf promotion” was an appropriate great way to ring in the holiday season.
  “It was very cute,
  
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