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• Read our 'Guide to entering Film Festivals' on Stareable

  05-01-2017 21:07
  
  We wrote a blog post for our friends at Stareable to give emerging filmmakers some helpful strategies in navigating the world of film festival submissions. Check it out! Stareable democratizes how viewers find and watch digital series, so great indie shows can be found and enjoyed by a large audience that has never heard of them before. It's the same reason we created Brooklyn On Demand, which has its own category on Stareable. We love it when indies get the love they deserve!
  
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• Trump, amid legal battles, gives deposition against chef

  05-01-2017 20:59
  
  President-elect Donald Trump gave a videotaped deposition on Thursday for a lawsuit stemming from a clash with a celebrity restaurateur at his new Washington hotel
  
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• Terrence Malick's 'Song to Song' to open SXSW Film Festival

  05-01-2017 20:28
  
  Terrence Malick, whose films have regularly made gala premieres at the top European film festivals, will debut his latest in his hometown of Austin, Texas
  
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• 'Obama Out': President ending reign as pop culture king

  05-01-2017 19:17
  
  Barack Obama's presidency has played out like a chronicle of the trends of our times
  
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• Still Kicking: New Year’s Eve with Guided By Voices

  05-01-2017 18:59 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo from the Brooklyn Vegan Instagram.
  As our nation heads into 2017 on a crest of uncertainty there is still at least one sure thing: Guided By Voices remain the greatest American rock ‘n’ roll band in existence.
  When discussing this legendary indie rock outfit the question inevitably becomes: which GbV are we talking about? The “classic line-up” of Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos, and Kevin Fennell that recorded the Holy Trinity of mid-90s lo
  
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• Your January kids calendar: 10 resolutions you won’t want to break

  05-01-2017 18:11
  
  New Year’s resolutions are full of rules and regulations that no one wants to do. It might be nice to lose 15 pounds, but who really wants to run with the jogging stroller every morning? These sorts of resolutions don’t even last until February. What if our resolutions skewed towards what we (and our children) really want to do? Here are 10 easy-to-stick-to resolutions for January that your kids will love you for.
  Photo: Invisible Dog Art Center
  Resolution 1: Let your kids smash som
  
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• Good is the New Cool : Done Good

  05-01-2017 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Ever wondered how you could support ethical, sustainable businesses? Welcome to a regular series highlighting products, services and organizations that are ‘doing well by doing good.
  DoneGood is a cool web browser extension that makes it easy to discover businesses that are making great stuff and making the world better at the same time. We caught up with co-founder and ‘Chief of Good Thoughts’ Cullen Schwarz to find out more.Please give us an overview of your organization?
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• Nicki Minaj confirms split with Meek Mill

  05-01-2017 17:48
  
  Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill have apparently broken up
  
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• The Shins Announce New Album, Heartworms, Release Single

  05-01-2017 17:15 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s been way too long since 2012, for a variety of reasons, a prominent one being that’s when the last record from The Shins, their great Port of Morrow, dropped. A lot has happened in that time: frontman James Mercer put out another album with his side project, Broken Bells, which he works on with Danger Mouse, and the entire second term of Barack Obama has come and gone. But this morning some of that joy will be subsided, as the indie/alternative mainstays announced thei
  
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• Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill Have Broken Up; Somewhere, Drake Pumps His Fist

  05-01-2017 16:43 via bkmag.com
  
  Only a handful of days into 2017, and we’ve got major, major, hard breaking news. MAJOR news: Hip-hop couple Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill, who had stuck together through the latter’s house arrest, and his cold war beatdown at the hands of a Canadian guy named Aubrey Graham.
  This morning, though, Nicki confirmed TMZ’s report that the couple had split sometime around New Year’s Eve, as the two were seen partying separately as the new year was rung in. Confirming that
  
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• Drift Away At All Hands, A Seafaring South Williamsburg Restaurant

  05-01-2017 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Occupying a standalone building, practically within touching distance of the trusses of the Williamsburg Bridge, the wind-pummeled All Hands feels rather like its own, tiny island, borne more of the river than the neighborhood stretched out behind it. It’s an illusion furthered by Craig Shillito’s interiors—a sweep of whitewashed brick, nautical blue banquettes, knotty wood, and a wall of crashing waves—and moreover, Peter Lipson’s food program, owing to its laser-l
  
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• The Science Fiction of Motherhood

  05-01-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  It changes you, being a mother. When my son was just days old, I remember looking at him and thinking, “Oh, I would kill anyone who put you in danger. That’s a new feeling.” You think you could never harm another person, until one day you wake up and you’re The Punisher, except your family is alive and you think a lot about snack options. People like to think of mothers as caring and we are, but it is a mistake to think we are safe. These are not easy thoughts to have at
  
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• Throat drop maker says its banned ad is fun, no menace

  05-01-2017 15:48
  
  Throat drop maker says the commercial it wants to run during NBC's Golden Globes broadcast Sunday is a goof on subliminal ads, but the network isn't buying it
  
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• Heist in Park Slope: 18k Taken from the Coop in 2016

  05-01-2017 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Truth be told, I have never stepped foot inside of the Park Slope Food Coop, but its reputation precedes itself—both as a neighborhood institution, and as an object of ridicule (like with this hilarious segment from Samantha Bee on The Daily Show; Broad City took a whack at it, too, when Abby impersonates Ilana so that she can cover her mandatory monthly Coop shift).
  But regardless of one’s feelings about the coop, it does a hell of a business—$54 million annuall
  
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• Friendly ghosts haunt Swedish royal palace, queen says

  05-01-2017 15:08
  
  Queen Silvia says one of the Swedish royal family's palaces is haunted but there is nothing to be afraid of
  
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• On My Way to Finding Out You Stole My Girl: The Ardennes

  05-01-2017 12:01 via bkmag.com
  
  The ArdennesDirected by Robin ProntOpens January 6 at the Village East
  A crime drama about trouble brewing between two petty-criminal brothers, the Belgian film The Ardennes has scuzzy style to spare but a setup that couldn’t feel creakier. The movie, the feature debut by director Robin Pront, gets underway with a striking shot of a robbery gone wrong: a fully clothed, stocking-masked man emerges, in balletic slo-mo, from a swimming pool, clearly scrambling to get off the posh premises as
  
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• Swedish royal palace haunted but ghosts friendly, queen says

  05-01-2017 10:57
  
  Queen Silvia says one of the Swedish royal family's palaces is haunted but there is nothing to be afraid of
  
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• Georges Pretre, conductor in NY, Vienna, Milan, dies at 92

  05-01-2017 09:57
  
  Georges Pretre, who conducted renowned symphonies from Vienna to Milan's La Scala and New York's Metropolitan Opera and was instrumental in Maria Callas' opera career, has died
  
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• [►VIDEO, BOERUM HILL] Parceling it out! Boerum Hill post office moving package pick-up to different zip code

  05-01-2017 09:46
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperCall it postage and mis-handling!Boerum Hill residents will soon have to trek to an entirely different zip code to retrieve missed packages when the Times Plaza post office relocates on Jan. 17, and locals are already stamp-ing their feet about the long walk.
  “You’re kind of screwed if you don’t get your package the first time,” said resident Bill Harris. “It’
  
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• Tonight: Weigh in at CB7’s ‘Homeless Issues’ committee

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyLocals will get a chance to weigh in on how to handle Sunset Park’s ballooning homeless population at Community Board 7’s first meeting of its ad hoc Committee on Homeless Issues on Jan. 5.Sunset Park only has one official homeless shelter — a controversial home for men on 49th Street between Second and Third avenues — but the city’s Department of Homeless Services is renting hundreds of rooms ther
  
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• [THEATER] Singing bloody murder! ‘Anatomy Theater’ opera looks at the heart of a killer

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
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• [SUNSET PARK] Beep suggests changes to Sunset Park Library redevelopment

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperHe’s wants to edit this library plan.Borough President Adams is recommending some changes to the Sunset Park Library’s proposed redevelopment. The Beep has backed the idea to sell the book-lender to developers — who aim to construct 49 below-market-rate apartments with a new library on the ground floor — but he is urging developers the Fifth Avenue Committee to re-jigger the floor plan for more open spac
  
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• Say fir-well to your old Christmas tree at Mulchfest this weekend

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt is a beloved post-holiday tradition.Brooklynites can unburden themselves of their decaying Christmas trees and return them to the earth from whence they came during the Parks Department’s annual ritual sacrifice of festive furs to the city’s wood-chipping machines — better known as Mulchfest.The pine-pulverizing-palooza is one of the highlights of the year for the agency because it gives everyone a chance give b
  
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• [NIGHTLIFE] It’s a panty rave! Strip down for pantsless dance party!

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
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• [FORT GREENE] Singing bloody murder! ‘Anatomy Theater’ opera looks at the heart of a killer

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura MeltzerBrooklyn DailyThey’ll be singing over her dead body!A gruesome opera inspired by 17th and 18th-century medical textbooks will make its bloody Brooklyn debut this weekend. The show “Anatomy Theater,” opening at Bric Arts Media on Jan. 7 as part of the city-wide Prototype Festival, follows Victorian murderess Sarah Osborn, who killed her husband and two children, from her trial to her public
  
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• [DEVELOPMENT] Beep suggests changes to Sunset Park Library redevelopment

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyHe’s wants to edit this library plan.Borough President Adams is recommending some changes to the Sunset Park Library’s proposed redevelopment. The Beep has backed the idea to sell the book-lender to developers — who aim to construct 49 below-market-rate apartments with a new library on the ground floor — but he is urging developers the Fifth Avenue Committee to re-jigger the floor plan for more open spac
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Billionaire files plans for long-delayed ‘Ocean Dreams’ development in Coney

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyOcean Dreams do come true!Billionaire developer John Catsimatidis will soon break ground on his massive — and long-deferred — Coney Island mixed-use development dubbed “Ocean Dreams.” Cats’s Red Apple Group recently filed plans to build a 21-story tower on a Boardwalk-adjacent parcel that he bought last summer. The billionaire’s money men want him to make the building condos — the self-
  
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• [BUSHWICK] It’s a panty rave! Strip down for pantsless dance party!

  05-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyDance your pants off!Don’t let those skinny jeans restrict your booty-shaking! Rip them off and dance the night away free all of inhibitions — and pants — at the “Bottomless! Pants Off Dance Off” party at the House of Yes on Jan. 7. Whatever garments you are underwearing will do for the party, but everyone must have something covering their nether regions, said one of the co-owners of the Bushwick ven
  
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