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• Martin Scorsese: 'Cinema is gone'

  20-12-2016 23:45
  Martin Scorsese's "Silence" is a solemn, religious epic about two Jesuit priests in a violently anti-Catholic 17th century Japan
  
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• Tupac Shakur, Pearl Jam, Yes to be inducted into Rock Hall

  20-12-2016 23:22
  
  Tupac Shakur, Pearl Jam, Joan Baez and three veteran 1970s rockers lead the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class
  
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• 'Hairspray' Tony Award-winner Dick Latessa dies at 87

  20-12-2016 22:03
  
  Dick Latessa, veteran Broadway actor who was in "Follies," "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "The Will Rogers Follies" and who won a Tony playing Harvey Fierstein's husband in the original cast of "Hairspray," died Monday
  
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• Salves & Salvos: 2016 Art Highlights

  20-12-2016 21:51 via bkmag.com
  
  (All photos by Paul D’Agostino.)
  As many other recent year-end roundups of all sorts have similarly stated, the year 2016 will be recollected for quite some time for a great many reasons, and perhaps primarily thanks to its all-too-well-played role as temporal host to so many things that profoundly sucked.
  A number of beloved celebrities passed away well before what would’ve seemed ‘their time,’ which made many people sad, because for some reason so many of us find it awk
  
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• Marquette University adds to Tolkien collection

  20-12-2016 21:47
  
  Marquette University is adding to its J.R.R. Tolkien collection
  
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• TV viewers are feeling spirit of the season _ and football

  20-12-2016 21:06
  TV viewers feeling the spirit of the season: two of the top four cable networks last week were devoted to holiday programming
  
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• A Definitive Ranking Of Love Actually Characters

  20-12-2016 20:47 via bkmag.com
  
  This time of year is reserved for a few things in particular: drinking egg nog (spiked or otherwise), listening to seasonal music of the modern age and yesteryear, and, sure, spending time with family. So while surrounded by a lot of people eager to get into the Christmas spirit, one activity is essential (and has been since 2003): watching Love Actually—the holiday film that has spawned so many pale and incompetent imitators since.
  And with a parody of o
  
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• Owners of 1967 hit song 'Happy Together' lose copyright case

  20-12-2016 20:43
  
  The owners of The Turtles' 1967 hit song "Happy Together" have lost a copyright dispute in New York's highest court
  
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• Review: 'A Monster Calls' is a universal picture of grief

  20-12-2016 20:42
  
  Film Review: 'A Monster Calls' is a beautiful and heartbreaking exploration of a child's emotions when confronted with the death of a parent
  
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• Sager remembered for love of family, sports and flashy coats

  20-12-2016 20:23
  
  Longtime TNT broadcaster Craig Sager was remembered for his love of family, sports and colorful attire on Tuesday at a memorial service that produced laughs and tears
  
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• Feds want 'Dance Moms' star to lose $120K in currency case

  20-12-2016 19:42
  
  Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh want "Dance Moms" star Abby Lee Miller to forfeit $120,000 worth of Australian currency she brought into the country without reporting it
  
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• Ex-nanny for Penguins player gets 5-year federal sentence

  20-12-2016 19:10
  
  The former nanny of Pittsburgh Penguins player Chris Kunitz has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for setting fire to her rental residence and then filing fraudulent insurance claims for the contents
  
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• Who’s That Girl? Almodóvar’s Julieta

  20-12-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  JulietaDirected by Pedro AlmodóvarOpens December 21
  Pedro Almodóvar is a cinephile par excellence, and as such has always paid homage to the directors whose work informed his sensibilities, from early John Waters camp (Pepi, Luci, Bom) to crushing Sirkian melodrama (All About My Mother). And yet, however referential his films can be, they have always felt distinctly Almodóvarian, as he’s one of very few filmmakers who has carved out their own space within the film lan
  
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• Woodstock festival site nominated for historic registers

  20-12-2016 18:55
  
  The site of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival is one of the properties in New York nominated to the State and National Registers of Historic Places
  
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• After Tragedy in Orlando, A Comic Book Writer Declares Love is Love

  20-12-2016 18:29 via bkmag.com
  
  While the recorder’s off, Marc Andreyko tells me he’s not a good person. I find this difficult to believe. Beyond the fact that he took time out to meet me during New York Comic Con weekend for fried chicken and coffee, the decades-long veteran of marquee comic book writing—Doctor Strange, Batwoman, and Wonder Woman ’77—took it upon himself to give something back to the world.
  Like countless others, the openly gay Andreyko was directly affected by June’s horri
  
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• SiriusXM to give Baldwin, 2 Dope Queens podcasts radio home

  20-12-2016 17:39
  The satellite radio network SiriusXM will give a wider platform to several popular podcasts, including one hosted by actor Alec Baldwin
  
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• Volunteer, Give, Talk: 19 Actions and Ideas for a Better 2017

  20-12-2016 16:55 via bkmag.com
  
  Does everything seem normal again? Has your pure terror following November 8, 2016 given way to Westworld or La La Land or “which lotion should I give my mom this year”? If so, stop reading this and go read this, a reminder from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She writes, among many smart things, “Now is the time to refuse the blurring of memory…”
  Nothing is normal again! And we need to work harder than Beyoncé in Lemonade to&nb
  
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• Inside Latke Festival 2016: Brooklyn’s Biggest Potato Pancake Party

  20-12-2016 16:53 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s often bemoaned how arduous it is to be a Jew on Christmas—in a world thoroughly perfumed by pine trees, soundtracked by carols and bedazzled with twinkly lights. And it’s equally difficult not to get covetous over the wide range of associated edibles, such as gingerbread, egg nog and goose.
  But being granted an eight-day pass to gorge on deep-fried potato pancakes (not to mention donuts) has always been the Chosen People’s ace in the hole, a holiday highlight that NY
  
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• Michelle Obama tells Oprah that 2016 election 'was painful'

  20-12-2016 16:25
  
  First lady Michelle Obama tells Oprah Winfrey that this past election was "painful."
  
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• Gov't probes rollaway issue like one blamed in Yelchin death

  20-12-2016 16:14
  
  US regulators opened new investigation into 1 million Fiat Chrysler vehicles that may roll away after shifted into park
  
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• Man in jail for killing Jordan's dad makes misconduct claim

  20-12-2016 15:40
  
  Lawyers for a man in prison for killing basketball star Michael Jordan's father 23 years ago say they found more evidence of police misconduct that clears him in the shooting
  
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• This Is Just to Say: Paterson‘s Not Great

  20-12-2016 15:32 via bkmag.com
  
  PatersonDirected by Jim JarmuschOpens December 28
  Jim Jarmusch’s latest—and second of the year, following his Stooges doc Gimme Danger—finds the director’s distinctive silver-white shock in danger of becoming age-appropriate: seldom have the end credits rolled on one of his pictures with so little of its mystery left intact. To recap: the title Paterson is also the film’s setting, the city in New Jersey; the name of its principal character, a poet/bus-driver played
  
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• Black musicians reflecting turmoil of the times in music

  20-12-2016 15:09
  
  There's been a wave of politically-charged, socially conscious records by black artist in recent months; from Solange to T.I., acts are reflecting the power, and sometimes disillusionment, some blacks are feeling through the music
  
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• Suffering from museum fatigue? Museum Hack has the cure

  20-12-2016 14:40
  
  “The Vine” by Harrier Whitney Frishmuth is one of the works Museum Hack explored on a recent tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Regina Mogilevskaya
  Museum fatigue is most definitely a thing, according to Museum Hack founder Nick Gray. “If you’ve ever been to a museum, you’ve probably experienced walking through a gallery feeling tired and lethargic,” he says. An enormous institution like The Metropolitan Museum of Art contains hundreds of thousand
  
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• Rust Belt's not just a political force _ it's a destination

  20-12-2016 14:37
  
  Here's why tourists should take the Rust Belt as seriously as politicians: Because food, art and sightseeing in "flyover country" is worth a trip
  
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• Bollywood couple Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan have baby

  20-12-2016 13:04
  
  Popular Bollywood couple Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan say they have been blessed with a baby boy
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Greasing the wheels of justice: Olive oil tycoons suing Slope mom and pop

  20-12-2016 06:50
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperBig Olive Oil is giving a Park Slope grocer the squeeze!Trade group the North American Olive Oil Association sued Fifth Avenue’s O Live Brooklyn in federal court on Monday, alleging the small-time gourmet grocer and its distributor are smearing the good name of supermarket-shelf olive oil brands by claiming their fancy products offer health benefits the mass-market ones don’t.But the local purveyor of lipid gold says he
  
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• [DITMAS PARK] Caribbean Christmas market brings island flavor to holiday season

  20-12-2016 06:26
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyIt is a very Caribbean Christmas!A new Ditmas Park holiday market is selling gifts made by artisans of West Indian heritage, including candles, rubs, foot spas, and lotions. Many people in the community are exhausted after a year of fighting racism and gentrification, said the organizer, and she felt a joyous bazaar full of pampering products was just what Santa ordered.“It’s goi
  
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• [SHOPPING] Caribbean Christmas market brings island flavor to holiday season

  20-12-2016 06:19
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperIt is a very Caribbean Christmas!A new Ditmas Park holiday market is selling gifts made by artisans of West Indian heritage, including candles, rubs, foot spas, and lotions. Many people in the community are exhausted after a year of fighting racism and gentrification, said the organizer, and she felt a joyous bazaar full of pampering products was just what Santa ordered.“It’s goi
  
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• [BOERUM HILL] Merry whatever! Carolers spread multi-faith holiday cheer in Boerum Hill

  20-12-2016 06:19
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperHappy non-denominational holiday season!
  A crew of carolers paraded through the Boerum Hill streets on Sunday night, serenading residents of different faiths with a spin on “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” that also encompassed other seasonal celebrations, according to the organizer.
  “We sang, ‘We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a happy Hanukkah, a happy Kwanza, and a happy new year,’” said
  
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• [PHOTO GALLERIES] Reporter’s notebook: Oh shoot! I got killed in an NYPD simulation

  20-12-2016 06:04
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperGame over.I lived my own version of the Tom Cruise movie “Edge of Tomorrow” last week when the NYPD let me take part in an officer training program that has recruits walk into a restaurant where a bad guy is shooting up the place.Thankfully, it was just a video game-like simulation, because I couldn’t help but get killed.So let’s just say I’m glad I’m a reporter and not a cop.I suited up with a
  
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• [PROSPECT HEIGHTS] Mummies are daddies: Ancient Egyptian women became men, says exhibit

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyFor this afterlife, it’s no girls allowed!The ancient Egyptians believed that only dudes could live on after death, but according to a new exhibit now open at the Brooklyn Museum, some women managed to slip into the afterlife — by becoming men! “A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt,” details the post-mortem ritual that temporarily transfor
  
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• On the mark: 2016 All-Brooklyn girls’ soccer honors

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyIt was a season of high-scoring matches in Brooklyn this fall as some of the city’s top players took to the field across the borough.
  Fontbonne Hall Academy finished strong in the Catholic High School Athletic Association, picking up the Tier-2 Brooklyn-Queens title. Grand Street Campus and Brooklyn Tech once again led the charge in the Public Schools Athletic League with strong finishes at the top of the division. Midwood als
  
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• [FLATLANDS] Master of his Dominion: Former Sheepshead Bay star set for bowl bought

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyIt was all about making his mother proud.
  Rashaad Coward didn’t start playing football until he was in eighth grade, preferring, instead, to play video games and pick fights in school. But when the Flatlands native finally stepped onto the gridiron, all of that changed.
  Now, the former Sheepshead Bay football star is set to suit up for his final college game as Old Dominion squares off against Eastern Michigan University in th
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Former Lincoln star back on court after being sidelined by health scare

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyHe’s grateful for every moment on the court.
  Former Lincoln basketball star Travis Charles was nine games into his first season at the University at Albany last year when he was diagnosed with acute pericarditis, an inflammation of sac surrounding his heart. The Flatbush native didn’t know what to think when he heard the news, terrified of the words “heart condition,” but after deciding to redshirt his junior
  
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• [CLINTON HILL] Pride of the Pack: Loughlin senior lifts Lions to final-second victory

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyShe was, simply, doing her job.
  Bishop Loughlin senior guard Lynette Taitt knew she had to make the shot and when, at first, it didn’t work, she grabbed the ball and tried again. Taitt scored the game-winning basket — just moments after her first attempt was blocked — with 5.6 seconds on the clock to lift the Lady Lions to a 68–66 victory over Archbishop Molloy on Dec. 15
  
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• Bulldog’s best: Five-star Poly football standout commits to Georgia

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyIt was a tight race for a little while, but, eventually the Bulldogs pulled away.Poly Prep senior lineman Isaiah Wilson — the No. 2 football prospect in the country according to ESPN — announced his commitment to the University of Georgia on Dec. 16, in front of a crowd of his classmates and a “Facebook Live” stream audience of more than 8,000.The Canarsie native also con
  
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• [BOROBEAT] PS 238’s got talent! Midwood students shine at annual show

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyTalk about star students!The talented kids from PS 238 in Midwood wowed a packed crowd with their dance and music skills at the school’s 16th Annual Talent Show on Dec. 13. The students worked hard throughout the year to perfect their acts — even skipping lunch to practice — and organizers said it was thrilling to see the results on the big night.
  “They performed beyond
  
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• [BOROBEAT] Elf-less: Kids learn spirit of giving at 41st Assembly District toy drive

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyLittle kids got a big lesson in the spirit of giving at the 41st Assembly District Democrats Club’s annual Toys for Tots Drive in Sheepshead Bay on Dec. 15, and organizers hope the experience has set them up for a lifetime of selfless generosity.“The kids get to see what charity is and get to participate and especially when they are young enough, it really has a lasting effect,&rdq
  
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• [ART] Mummies are daddies: Ancient Egyptian women became men, says exhibit

  20-12-2016 06:00
  
  For this afterlife, it’s no girls allowed! Read more.
  
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