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• Deal set to stage 'Mockingbird' play in author's hometown

  22-12-2016 22:40
  
  A deal has been reached to stage the annual production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Alabama hometown of author Harper Lee
  
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• Newton: Panthers should sit Kuechly, not jeopardize future

  22-12-2016 22:37
  
  Cam Newton says it makes no sense for the Panthers to play middle linebacker Luke Kuechly the remainder of the season because of a concussion
  
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• Mormon Tabernacle Choir to perform at Trump inauguration

  22-12-2016 20:29
  
  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has agreed to perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony
  
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• What's the story with Ben Affleck? 'Live by Night,' he hopes

  22-12-2016 20:03
  
  Ben Affleck is hoping to flip the script again; Oscar winner discusses his 'Argo' directorial follow-up and how his life sometimes feels like a soap opera he doesn't control
  
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• Young mother from MTV's '16 and Pregnant' found dead

  22-12-2016 18:16
  
  A Pennsylvania coroner has confirmed the death of a young mother who starred in the MTV show "16 and Pregnant."
  
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• Held on obscenity charges, Egyptian author freed from prison

  22-12-2016 18:15
  
  An Egyptian author has walked out of a Cairo police station after a court suspended his two-year prison sentence pending review of his appeal on obscenity charges
  
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• Katie Couric, Meredith Vieira return to 'Today' as fill-ins

  22-12-2016 18:14
  
  NBC's 'Today' show is bringing back Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira for a week each in January as maternity replacements for Savannah Guthrie
  
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• Argentina court indicts Bieber over attack on photographer

  22-12-2016 18:06
  
  A court in Argentina has indicted Justin Bieber for allegedly sending his bodyguards to beat up a photographer in Buenos Aires three years ago
  
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• Oprah Winfrey's loss is Weight Watchers' gain

  22-12-2016 17:35
  
  Oprah Winfrey's loss is Weight Watchers' gain
  
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• Lawyer says Wahlberg movie unfair to Boston bomber's widow

  22-12-2016 17:32
  
  A lawyer for the widow of one of the Boston Marathon bombers says she is portrayed unfairly in the new film "Patriots Day."
  
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• Secrets behind the dazzling dances of 'La La Land'

  22-12-2016 17:05
  Creating show-stopping numbers and Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's celestial moves in "La La Land" wasn't choreographer Mandy Moore's only role in the dreamy musical
  
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• The 8 Best Album Covers of 2016

  22-12-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The advent of digital music may have caused album cover art—you know, the little thumbnail next to the song you’re listening to on iTunes or on Spotify—to become somewhat de-emphasized these days, but that doesn’t mean it’s a lost art altogether.Believe it or not, most bands still spend quite a bit of time crafting a look and feel for their records as an extension of the musical and lyrical themes of their latest opus. The result is some album covers that are every
  
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• My Best NYE in NYC: Anna Viertel of Pizza Moto

  22-12-2016 16:51
  
  We asked our contributors, friends and notable Brooklynites to share their favorite New Year’s in NYC. Here, Pizza Moto co-owner Anna Viertel shares hers. In case you’d like one of their phenomenal pizzas or addictive smoked trout caesar over the holidays, note the staff is taking a much-needed break between Dec. 24 and Jan. 2. New Year’s Eve has never been my favorite holiday—New Yorkers especially seem to go bananas in an arbitrary way that clogs up the town
  
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• The Lobster Shift: Why settle for a beer when the Nutcracker is here?

  22-12-2016 15:26
  
  Illustration: Laura Davies
  The Lobster Shift is a monthly column by Kenneth R. Rosen that explores the city at night.
  There are roughly three different modes for subway cars, in my experience. There is, first and most familiar, the crowded commuter car in morning and early evening, where mere inches of personal space segregate straphangers into parcels of remorse or happiness or anger, based primarily on the day ahead, and its promise, or the day behind, and how those promises were either met o
  
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• The 7 Coziest Bars to Hear Live Music this Winter

  22-12-2016 14:42 via bkmag.com
  
  As the bone chilling cold of December sets in, parched throats thirst for hot toddies and weary souls long for cozy bars to find refuge in. We talked to local musicians and put together a list of the best places in Brooklyn to sip something hot while taking in the finest live jazz, soul, hip-hop, bluesy folk rock, electro-pop, and R&B music the borough has to offer. From an old timey general store turned music hub in Williamsburg to a secret live jazz spot in Prospect Heights, these spots wi
  
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• Role Models: 20th Century Women

  22-12-2016 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  20th Century WomenDirected by Mike MillsOpens December 25
  All of the main characters in 20th Century Women, a fond time capsule of a film set in sun-kissed Santa Barbara at the tail end of the 70s, sleep under the same roof, though as domestic arrangements go, this one’s far from typical. Single mother Dorothea (Annette Bening) and her 15-year-old son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), call the manse home more permanently, but the rest of the occupants just happen to be passing through: punk ten
  
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• Cancer-stricken 'Jeopardy!' player wins $103K before death

  22-12-2016 13:44
  
  A Texas woman who died of cancer just days before her appearance on "Jeopardy!" aired won six contests in a row and more than $103,000
  
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• White nationalists raise millions with tax-exempt charities

  22-12-2016 09:43
  Four groups at the forefront of the white nationalist movement are registered as charities with the IRS and have raised more than $7.8 million in tax-deductible donations over the past decade
  
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• [WEIRD ART] ‘Miss Brooklyn’ statue back in front of Manhattan Bridge — and now it lights up and spins!

  22-12-2016 07:06
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe girls are back in town!
  The city has finally replaced the “Miss Brooklyn” and “Miss Manhattan” statues that graced the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge for the first half of the 20th century — unveiling rotating, light-up replicas at Flatbush Avenue and Tillary Street on Wednesday morning, as first reported by the New York Times.New York’s master builder R
  
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• [►VIDEO, DUMBO] Ugly barricades in creepy space under Manhattan Bridge have to go, say locals

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperBeyond the barricades there is a world they long to see!Dumbo residents want the city to install a light and remove a pile of old concrete barricades from a particularly dank space under the Manhattan Bridge, which they say could be hiding all sorts of horrors from unsuspecting pedestrians.
  “It feels very dangerous,” said Doreen Gallo, president of local civic group the Dumbo Neighbo
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Sunset Park shouldering city’s hotel-shelter burden

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperSunset Park’s many hotels are a hot destination — for the city’s homeless.Officials are housing more than 2,000 people in “temporary” shelters in former hotels citywide, but nowhere more than in Sunset Park, where more than 200 — 10 percent of the city’s entire hotel-sheltered homeless — are shacking up, according to a recent report by Comptro
  
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• Sunset Park shouldering city’s hotel-shelter burden

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailySunset Park’s many hotels are a hot destination — for the city’s homeless.Officials are housing more than 2,000 people in “temporary” shelters in former hotels citywide, but nowhere more than in Sunset Park, where more than 200 — 10 percent of the city’s entire hotel-sheltered homeless — are shacking up, according to a recent report by Comptro
  
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• [STANDING O] Handing out a string of pearls

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn HeightsStanding O is sending out happy anniversary wishes to Eriksen Translations Inc. — one of North America’s top-40 language services providers — on celebrating 30 years of service.
  Ingrid Lewis-Martin, senior advisor to Borough President Adams, was on hand along with a host of staff and well wishers on Dec. 9 to present Eriksen Translations’ founder and chief executive officer Vigdis Eriksen
  
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• [SPIN CYCLE] Let’s end the economic war on college students

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Tom AllonBrooklyn DailySeveral years ago I ran for mayor of New York with Martin Hassner’s help. We were committed to making significant changes in public education, already aware that the system was only preparing 25 percent of its students for a college education.Neither effort was successful, but during the past 18 months we became aware of what has been happening to those students who do get to college. For the past three decades they have been gr
  
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• [SHEEPSHEAD BAY] Festival of bites: Families build giant Lego menorah at Chinese feast

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyLet my people Lego!Families in Brighton Beach will construct a 12-foot-high menorah out of Lego bricks on Dec. 25, while also chowing down on a kosher feast of Chinese food. The “Lego My Egg Roll” event at the Shorefront Y will celebrate two Jewish traditions: eating Chinese cuisine on Christmas Day, and the second day of Hanukkah. The architect behind the construction project s
  
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• [PARTY LINE] Labor leader says Abbate’s ‘union-made’ Christmas cards are a sham

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyA member of the Assembly’s Labor Committee sent out campaign mailers that may falsely imply he used unionized printing, and now labor groups are investigating.Assemblyman Peter Abbate (D–Bensonhurst) mailed Christmas cards last week bearing a so-called “union bug” — a label indicating they were produced by a union shop — in a bid to court voters in the Bay R
  
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• [GREENPOINT] Get sum info: Feed your head with history of Chinese food

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyGet the low-down on lo mein!Those planning to chow down on Chinese food on Christmas Day can first fill their noodle with the history of that cuisine, at an exhibit now on display at the Museum of Food and Drink in Greenpoint. The curator of “Chow: Making the Chinese American Restaurant,” says that the tradition of Jewish people heading to Chinatown for the holiday shows how the
  
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• Festival of bites: Families to build giant Lego menorah at Chinese feast

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperLet my people Lego!Families in Brighton Beach will construct a 12-foot-high menorah out of Lego bricks on Dec. 25, while also chowing down on a kosher feast of Chinese food. The “Lego My Egg Roll” event at the Shorefront Y will celebrate two Jewish traditions: eating Chinese cuisine on Christmas Day, and the second day of Hanukkah. The architect behind the construction project s
  
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• [DINING] Get sum info: Feed your head with history of Chinese food

  22-12-2016 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperGet the low-down on lo mein!Those planning to chow down on Chinese food on Christmas Day can first fill their noodle with the history of that cuisine, at an exhibit now on display at the Museum of Food and Drink in Greenpoint. The curator of “Chow: Making the Chinese American Restaurant,” says that the tradition of Jewish people heading to Chinatown for the holiday shows how the
  
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• Puss N Boots threw a Christmas Extravaganza @ The Bell House w/ Tommy Stinson, Mick Foley & more

  22-12-2016 03:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Puss N Boots were in fine spirits as they celebrated their Christmas Extravaganza with a sold out audience at The Bell House on Tuesday night (12/20)...
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• [BENSONHURST] Thief takes off with bodega cash register and cigarettes

  22-12-2016 02:35
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Daily62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachBig scoreA goon busted into a Stillwell Avenue bodega on Dec. 14 and stole a cash register containing more than $4,000, said officials.The store’s owner told police that when he arrived to open the bodega near 81st Street at 2 am he noticed one of the shop’s windows was pushed in. Upon entering the store the man discovered that a thief had made off with a cash register stuffe
  
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• Your Ideal Week: New Year’s Eve in Brooklyn edition

  22-12-2016 01:29
  
  There will be fireworks at Prospect Park on New Year’s Eve. Photo: Andrew Gardner
  It’s officially winter, which means we’ve only got a handful of days left until we can finally put 2016 in the rear view. Can I speak for all of us and say don’t let the door smack you in the ass on your way out, year of ruinous hellfire? It’s all symbolic and somewhat arbitrary, but I can’t help but feel that it will be the ultimate catharsis to start with a fresh page on the c
  
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• Very Bad Things: Peter Berg and Marky Mark’s Patriots Day

  22-12-2016 00:22 via bkmag.com
  
  Patriots DayDirected by Peter BergOpens December 21
  In 1991, filmmaker and theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha wrote that “The function of any ideology in power is to represent the world positively unified.” In 2012, Mark Wahlberg told Men’s Journal, about 9/11, that “If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did… There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to land some
  
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• Wyclef Jean shares "I Swear" video, celebrating 20th Anniversary of 'The Carnival' in NYC

  22-12-2016 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The NYC show happens at Terminal 5.
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