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• NBC shutting down its Breaking News service

  08-12-2016 23:25
  
  NBC says it is shutting down its Breaking News digital service, which provided bulletins on stories through Twitter, a website and its own app
  
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• Defendant's pal: Will Smith attacked my friend after crash

  08-12-2016 23:00
  
  Anger and anguish were evident in a New Orleans courtroom Thursday as a friend of the man on trial for killing retired Saints star Will Smith repeatedly insisted that Smith and his friends were the aggressors following an April 9 traffic crash
  
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• Viewership dips for NBC's live showing of 'Hairspray'

  08-12-2016 22:38
  
  The Nielsen company says 9 million viewers tuned in to NBC's 'Hairspray Live.'
  
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• The Latest: Tipster says abuse claim preceded murder plot

  08-12-2016 22:35
  
  Lawyers for a Florida woman accused of trying to have her husband killed in a case made famous on the "Cops" TV show have called her former lover as a defense witness
  
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• 2 men plead guilty to $2M armored car robbery in St. Louis

  08-12-2016 22:22
  
  Two men have pleaded guilty to the $2 million robbery of an armored car, an inside job believed to be one of the biggest cash heists ever in St. Louis
  
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• Oakland artists fear crackdown after Ghost Ship fire

  08-12-2016 22:19
  
  The tragic fire at an artist collective in Oakland has sparked fear in the city's artist community
  
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• Retroactive: Ring Magazine names Ali 1966 fighter of year

  08-12-2016 21:57
  
  The Ring Magazine is making Muhammad Ali its 1966 Fighter of the Year, a half century after refusing to give him the award because of his disapproval of the draft for the Vietnam War and his connection with the Nation of Islam
  
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• Amazon Reviews: The Musical Turns Online Product Reviews into Art

  08-12-2016 21:56 via bkmag.com
  
  You know who’s funny? Internet commenters. And amongst the funniest, perhaps, are those who write product reviews. In those typed lines—residing next to copious ads and digital junk at the bottom of a webpage—there is so much feeling, so much thought, so much effort. If only we tried this hard at everything in life! We’d all be rich and have less to complain about.
  You know who else is funny? Brooklyn-based comedian Lauren Maul. She is so funny! Few li
  
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• Anger, anguish evident as pal of Smith's killer testifies

  08-12-2016 21:38
  
  Anger and anguish were evident in a New Orleans courtroom Thursday as a friend of the man on trial for killing retired Saints star Will Smith repeatedly insisted that Smith and his friends were the aggressors following an April 9 traffic crash
  
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• [TRANSIT] Backtrack: MTA says its policy is to report all hateful graffiti to police

  08-12-2016 21:13
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn DailyA Metropolitan Transportation Authority honcho emphatically denies that the agency only reports hateful graffiti on its property to the police if it is difficult to remove — saying the agency’s policy is to report anything that could be considered offensive to police and immediately scrub it off — contradicting what an agency spokesman told this paper on Monday after someone scrawled “F--- Allah” on the
  
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• Italian populists renew anti-euro stance while eyeing power

  08-12-2016 21:10
  
  A leader of Italy's 5-Star Movement is pressing for a vote on whether the country should keep the euro as its official currency, a pitch for support as the populist party eyes national power for the first time
  
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• The Latest: Witness, prosecutor clash over who was aggressor

  08-12-2016 20:46
  
  Anger and anguish are evident in a New Orleans courtroom as a friend of the man who killed former Saints star Will Smith continues his testimony
  
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• Los Sures, The Restored 1984 Williamsburg Documentary, To Screen Again For One Night Only

  08-12-2016 19:57 via bkmag.com
  
  For one night only, the documentary that reveals the way South Williamsburg was before artists started to arrive in the 90s—Diego Echeverria’s Los Sures—will be returning to its home borough of Brooklyn, screening at Dobbin St. this Friday (December 9) at 7:30 pm (doors open at 7).
  The film, which originally released in 1984, highlights Williamsburg’s drug- and violence-addled South side during the late 70s and early 80s (Los Sures means “The Southsid
  
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• 'Rogue One' moves 'Star Wars' forward by going back

  08-12-2016 19:56
  
  Next week, "Rogue One: A Star Wars" story hits theaters, kicking off Disney and Lucasfilm's ambitious experiment to release Star Wars spinoff films with the cinematic fanfare and budgets of the main saga
  
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• The Latest: Defense angrily demands mistrial, judge says no

  08-12-2016 19:52
  
  A defense lawyer angrily demanded a mistrial in reaction to a prosecutor's remarks in the trial of the man who fatally shot former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith
  
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• Sandberg: False stories on Facebook didn't sway election

  08-12-2016 19:39
  Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg says she doesn't think misinformation spread on the social media platform swayed the election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump
  
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• Extreme Wyoming cold frosts even Moscow Ballet

  08-12-2016 19:34
  
  It got so cold in Wyoming, even the Moscow Ballet couldn't move
  
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• Excerpts of secret audio between Dippolito, pretend hit man

  08-12-2016 19:29
  
  A secretly recorded conversation between newlywed Dalia Dippolito and Widy Jean, an undercover Boynton Beach officer posing as a hit-man was played for jurors at her attempted murder-for-trial Thursday
  
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• Defendant's pal: Will Smith's wife and I tried to calm him

  08-12-2016 19:27
  
  A friend of the driver on trial for killing former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith told a jury he tried to restrain Smith in the heated exchange of words following an April 9 crash
  
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• Vice Media offering apprenticeships to former inmates

  08-12-2016 19:11
  
  Vice Media, which has reported extensively on criminal justice issues, says it is getting involved
  
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• Matt Czuchry: The 'Gilmore Girls' ending seems perfect to me

  08-12-2016 19:10
  
  'Gilmore Girls' fans finally got what they've been waiting for when 4 new episodes of the series were released on Netflix 2 weeks ago, but will there be more
  
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• Katie Holmes probes mom-daughter bond in directorial debut

  08-12-2016 19:08
  
  Katie Holmes makes her feature film directorial debut and stars alongside 18-year-old Stefania Owen in "All We Had," a film about a mother who finds herself living in a car with her daughter and looking for a new start
  
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• Wife on video: '5,000 percent sure' she wanted husband dead

  08-12-2016 19:02
  
  Millions have seen the video of Dalia Dippolito telling an undercover police officer she was "5,000 percent sure" about hiring him to kill her husband
  
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• Lawsuit: NBA players teamed up for Chelsea nightclub assault

  08-12-2016 18:59
  
  Matt Barnes and DeMarcus Cousins of the NBA's Sacramento Kings are being sued by a couple in New York City after a nightclub altercation
  
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• Candace Cameron Bure exiting TV's 'The View'

  08-12-2016 18:59
  
  There's another departure for 'The View.' Actress Candace Cameron Bure says she's leaving, no longer able to live a bicoastal life to keep up with her acting jobs
  
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• Penny Arcade reminds New York that thinking is sexy

  08-12-2016 18:35
  
   
  “New York used to be the city that never sleeps,” Penny Arcade, downtown performance legend, begins Longing Lasts Longer, her latest one-woman show now at St. Ann’s Warehouse, “now it’s the city that can’t wake up.”
  This is not another nostalgic ode to a lost New York, cobblestones and cast iron paved over by concrete, glass and steel. Longing Lasts Longer is a mix of memoir, stand-up comedy, and cultural critique that hooks you in with stories ab
  
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• Mandolin whiz Thile brings younger crowd to 'Prairie Home'

  08-12-2016 17:53
  
  Halfway through his first season hosting "A Prairie Home Companion," mandolin maestro Chris Thile still feels "like a kid in a candy store" taking over the long-running public radio show created by Garrison Keillor
  
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• Hvorostovsky withdraws from staged opera because of tumor

  08-12-2016 17:43
  
  Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has withdrawn from a staged opera performance because of treatment for a brain tumor that was diagnosed in June 2015
  
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• 'Jeopardy!' contestant dies of cancer before show airs

  08-12-2016 17:38
  
  A woman who competed on "Jeopardy!" while battling terminal colon cancer in August has died the week before her episode was set to air
  
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• Rolling Stone's Mick Jagger celebrates birth of 8th child

  08-12-2016 17:37
  
  Mick Jagger, the 73-year-old frontman of the Rolling Stones, was on hand Thursday at a New York hospital when girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, gave birth to the couple's son
  
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• Adolf Burger, inmate forced by Nazis to forge money, dies

  08-12-2016 17:05
  
  Adolf Burger, a Jewish typographer who was forced by the Nazis to make fake British pounds in a major counterfeit operation during World War II, has died at age 99
  
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• The New School Introduces Open Campus — With a Free Day of Learning

  08-12-2016 17:00
  
  Sponsored By The New School.The New School Open Campus. More Than a Continuing Education Course. A New Kind of NetworkCreated By BlankSlateImagine continuing education that that not only offers cutting-edge courses to transform your education and career, but connects you to a growing network of over 10,000 convention defiers. Now reimagine your future.Introducing Open Campus, a new approach to continuing education from The New School, a comprehensive university and hub for progressive minds.
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• Guitarist/singer Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies

  08-12-2016 16:56
  
  Greg Lake, a musical pioneer who brought progressive rock and songs of epic length and scope to millions by co-founding King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died at 69 of cancer
  
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• Paula Broadwell: Petraeus cabinet talk 'a bit of a shocker'

  08-12-2016 16:48
  
  David Petraeus' former mistress says "it was a bit of a shocker" to learn that the retired four-star general was being considered by President-elect Donald Trump for a cabinet position
  
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• Music As Therapy: Bon Iver at Pioneer Works

  08-12-2016 15:39 via bkmag.com
  
  If 2016 taught me anything at all, it’s the fact that sometimes the world, and everything happening in it, can be a bit too much. Speaking on both a wide-spanning macro level, and a personal micro level, sure, there can be quite a lot of happiness and fun, but with that comes moments of overwhelming despair, times of madness—and times when you just need to shut down.
  One of the most effective ways to do this, for those fortunate enough to have the means and setting for it, 
  
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• Emerson, Lake and Palmer founder Greg Lake dies at 69

  08-12-2016 15:36
  
  Greg Lake, the prog-rock pioneer who co-founded King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died
  
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• Justin Bieber's 'Sorry' tops Vevo's most-watched of 2016

  08-12-2016 15:27
  Justin Bieber dominates Vevo's list of its most-watched music videos of 2016
  
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• Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra strike ends with $700K donated

  08-12-2016 15:22
  
  Musicians with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra have ended their three-month strike by approving a new contract bolstered by a $700,000 donation
  
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• Brooklyn’s Christmas Magic Maker: Lou Nasti and His Wonderful World

  08-12-2016 15:15 via bkmag.com
  
  Through a door that reads “Welcome to my world,” Lou Nasti flips a switch or several. The lights go up, and everything starts to move.
  At left, a giant robot. At right, a talking parrot. In between, singing gnomes spin around a winter wonderland, elves are busy in their workshop, dogs frolic in a cabin (one roasts a hot dog over an artificial fire), two skeletons, each holding a can of Colt 45, ride a tandem bike.“I can make anything move,” says Nasti, owner and proprieto
  
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• Death in the Time of Castro (and Gentrification): Cubana Social Closes in Williamsburg

  08-12-2016 14:50 via bkmag.com
  
  The same week that Fidel Castro died, Cubana Social—Williamsburg’s only Cuban restaurant—announced it will close its doors. Although the two events are unrelated, interest in Cuba, especially tourism, is on the rise. But you know what else is on the rise? The cost of running a business in Williamsburg.
  While businesses open and close in Brooklyn at a dizzying rate, not every closing is like the other. Rather than a mere building in which to purchase an item or a
  
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• “Peter and the Wolf” at the Guggenheim: A New York holiday tradition for actual New Yorkers

  08-12-2016 14:48
  
  Peter & the Wolf at the Guggenheim is highbrow children’s theater at its best. Photo: Works & Process at the Guggenheim
  Part of living in NYC means navigating the holidays precariously toeing the line between time honored traditions and tourist traps. You won’t find many true New Yorkers braving the cold and the crowds at the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center. March up Fifth Avenue on a weekend looking for New Yorkers, and you will never find one. (They know to wait for th
  
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• Office Christmas Party and the HR Disaster Movie

  08-12-2016 14:15 via bkmag.com
  
    Office Christmas PartyDirected by Josh Gordon and Will SpeckOpens December 9
  It is a dilemma I’m not sure has occurred to the team behind Office Christmas Party: To stock an office’s worth of funny characters, the movie must hire a litany of comic ringers, even for minor roles, yet to convey white-collar doldrums they’ve also turned to a ton of people who have spent most of their professional lives being hilarious, not stewing near a copy machine. Of course, that’s
  
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• Brooklyn’s Startup Sprawl: 10 Companies You Should Know About (But Probably Don’t)

  08-12-2016 14:10 via bkmag.com
  
  A wave of entrepreneurs are reversing the traditional morning commute, building their businesses in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan.
  Beyond its emerging status as New York’s creative epicenter, the borough is also flowing with venture capital money. Per CB Insights research, Brooklyn-based companies have attracted some $1 billion in funding since 2010.
  Charlie O’Donnell, CEO of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, says launching a business in Brooklyn is a no-brainer. Naturally, he is a bit biase
  
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• How Gael Garcia Bernal conducts himself as 'Mozart' maestro

  08-12-2016 14:07
  
  How Gael Garcia Bernal conducts himself as "Mozart in the Jungle" maestro: Freely
  
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• All you need: A chat with Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn

  08-12-2016 13:55
  
  No matter how much you think you know about the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn probably knows more
  
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• Suspended novels return to school shelves in Virginia county

  08-12-2016 10:48
  
  Two classic American novels, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," will immediately return to public school library shelves in a Virginia county
  
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• Alabama scheduled to execute man for clerk's 1994 killing

  08-12-2016 09:43
  
  Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate convicted in the 1994 killing of a convenience store clerk
  
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• College roommates among Oakland warehouse fire victims

  08-12-2016 09:27
  
  A fun-loving computer science graduate and 21-year-old college roommates were among the 36 people killed when fire engulfed a dance party inside an Oakland warehouse
  
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• Review: 'Hairspray Live!' pushes the boundaries and wins big

  08-12-2016 06:05
  
  Fittingly for a musical about pushing the boundaries, Wednesday's ambitious live version of the musical "Hairspray" on NBC was not a safe telecast in any way
  
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• [WILLIAMSBURG] Caffeine free: Artist opens cash-optional coffee shop in Williamsburg

  08-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyHe’s brewing up a statement!
  An anti-capitalist artist plans to open a cash-optional coffee shop in Williamsburg this weekend. At the Aridoamerica Winter Plan java joint, opening Dec. 9 in the Museo de Los Sures gallery, caffeine fiends will be able to acquire the black brew via the barter system, or by winning a unique alternative currency in a game of chance. The creator of the four mont
  
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