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• Whatever happened to Interracial Love? A Conversation about Kathleen Collins

  17-01-2017 23:52
  Thursday, February 16, 2017 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterArtists discuss never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker, Kathleen Collins. Collins’s work seamlessly integrates the African-American experience in her characters’ lives, creating rich, devastatingly familiar, full-bodied men, women, and children who transcend the symbolic, penetrating both the reader’s head and heart.  Kathleen Collin
  
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• Stomp, Clap & Sing with Sweetbeatz

  17-01-2017 23:52
  Tuesday, February 14, 2017 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterMeredith Wright leads sweet and soulful, edgy and energetic musical adventures inspired by the hustle bustle of city life. Her original compositions “charm the kids to their bones”.
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• Stomp, Clap & Sing with Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats

  17-01-2017 23:52
  Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterMulti-award winning children's artist, Lucy Kalantari, brings delightful jazz age inspired music everyone can enjoy! Kids and families will love the interactive jazz-scat-along play, while singing about the simple joys and delights of life.
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• Stomp, Clap & Sing with Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band

  17-01-2017 23:52
  Tuesday, March 28, 2017 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterA hip-shaking, head-bopping morning of music for the cool crowd from Latin Grammy Winners!  Emmy Winning Performers!!   Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band is on the pulse of all things kids music and brings smart, crafty lyrics with irresistibly fresh pop beats.
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• Events for Youth & Families: Kotchegna: Dance Traditions from Ivory Coast

  17-01-2017 23:52
  Saturday, February 11, 2017 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterPerforming in elaborate masks to the explosive percussion of a corps of brilliant drummers, Kotchegna Dance Company's irresistible excitement and pulsating rhythms are an experience to behold. Join master dancer and percussionist Vado Diomande with Kotchegna as they bring to life the ancient stories and legends of Africa’s Ivory Coast through music and dance.
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• Events for Youth & Families: Four Score and Seven Years Ago

  17-01-2017 23:52
  Saturday, February 25, 2017 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterTo young Lemuel, who has escaped slavery in Georgia, life in Gettysburg is everything he had dreamed it would be. His ideas about the North and the South, as well as what it means to be a free man, are challenged, however, when he unexpectedly befriends Jacob, a young Confederate soldier.
  The two men may be of different races and on different sides of the Civil War, but they have much to teach each other about bravery and loyalty in
  
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• The Latest: Court curbs protests on parts of parade route

  17-01-2017 21:49
  
  A federal appeals court says protesters planning to demonstrate against President-elect Donald Trump can't gather on key portions of the inaugural parade route
  
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• Sam Moore to sing at Trump inaugural event

  17-01-2017 20:52
  
  Sam Moore of the soul duo Sam and Dave will sing at an inaugural event for President-elect Donald Trump
  
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• Never Ask “Where Should We Go Tonight?” Again, Thanks to This New App

  17-01-2017 19:09 via bkmag.com
  
  Picture this: you’re standing at the corner of Lorimer & something in 20-degree January weather. It’s Friday night and you’re trying to get to a bar before all the happy hours end. Your friends are getting cranky, so you give in and head to the nearest generic, overpriced Williamsburg gastropub.Another night out, another wasted opportunity to try the best Brooklyn has to offer.
  Enter Postcard. The new app, launching at the end of January, is set to bring a localized so
  
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• Survive the inauguration with these sanity savers

  17-01-2017 18:47
  
  We The People is a Kickstarter campaign that aims to cover Washington D.C. in powerful images, like this one, for the inauguration. Image: Shepard Fairey
  I’m going to give it to you straight–this Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 Donald Trump will be inaugurated as our 45th President. It’s going to happen. There doesn’t seem to be an ethical conflict too deep or a tweet too far–even insulting a Civil Rights hero on MLK weekend–to stop this juggernaut.
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• Cowboys' Jerry Jones says he alone will decide Romo's future

  17-01-2017 18:26
  
  Cowboys' Jerry Jones says he alone will decide Romo's future, with 'several cards to be played'
  
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• You Have To Watch Young Thug’s META AF Video For “Wyclef Jean”

  17-01-2017 18:13 via bkmag.com
  
  Well, there’s an extremely early frontrunner for 2017’s best music video, and it only features the performing artist in brief glimpses. The video for Young Thug’s “Wyclef Jean,” one of the best songs on his fantastic project Jeffery that came out last fall, had a budget of $100,000, and is unlike any music video you’ve ever seen before.
  Ryan Staake, who works for Pomp&Clout and ‘co-directed’ the video with Thugger himself, provides th
  
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• Look like yourself, only better, with MG Hair and Makeup

  17-01-2017 17:31
  
  Bridal party styled by MG Hair and Makeup. Photo by Lauren Fair.
  MG Hair and Makeup is one of the nation’s leading, award-winning on-site hair and makeup services for weddings and special events, in-home and at-work blowouts and everyday hair and makeup. As the oldest and largest national agency specializing in weddings, they were inducted into The Knot’s Hall of Fame for Best of Weddings in 2003 and have won awards for WeddingWire and The Knot over the past decade-plus of maki
  
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• 6 New Noodles to Add to Brooklyn’s Pasta Pantheon

  17-01-2017 17:31 via bkmag.com
  
  From al di la’s beet casunziei to Frankie’s cavatelli with sausage and sage, certain pasta courses seem as iconically Brooklyn as pizza and hot dogs. And thanks to a welcome pro-carb renaissance these past couple of years, the following noodles are on their way to becoming equally notorious.
  LaRina Pastificio & Vino
  A strong showing on Top Chef isn’t the only reason to pay Silvia Barban a visit at her Fort Greene newcomer. A veritable pasta palace, you can order noodle-focu
  
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• [RED HOOK] Sale boat! Ikea Water Taxi will continue after tour company buys business

  17-01-2017 17:27
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperTalk about a bailing out a boat!
  The ferry that shuttles shoppers and their flat-pack furniture from the Red Hook Ikea to Manhattan is staying afloat despite its owners’ threats to raise the gangway for good, after another boat company bought the business last week.New York Water Taxi’s honchos claimed they’d have to scuttle their enterprise if the city didn’t award them the contract to run its new five-borou
  
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• [FORT GREENE] Black Lives Matter leader at MLK tribute: ‘Klansmen dressed in suits are being sworn into office’

  17-01-2017 17:02
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn DailyThe co-founder of activist group Black Lives Matter railed against President-elect Trump during her keynote address at this year’s Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, telling the hundreds-strong crowd that the fight for equality is just beginning.“When men no better than Klansmen dressed in suits are being sworn into office, we cannot be silent,” activist
  
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• CNN's documentary 'The End' tracks end of Obama presidency

  17-01-2017 16:40
  
  Less than 48 hours before President Barack Obama leaves office, CNN will air an intimate tribute told through the workdays and accounts of key White House staff members
  
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• Patchett, Chabon among nominees for book critics prizes

  17-01-2017 16:10
  
  Ann Patchett, Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith were among the nominees announced Tuesday for the National Book Critics Circle Awards
  
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• 'Momentous changes' push back release for Ivanka Trump book

  17-01-2017 14:13
  Citing "momentous changes" in her life, like her father being elected president, Ivanka Trump and her publisher are pushing back the release of her book "Women Who Work" from early March to early May
  
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• The Founder: CEO Porn for the Trump Age

  17-01-2017 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The FounderDirected by John Lee HancockOpens January 20
  Morally bankrupt biopic The Founder tells the story of Ray Kroc, who stole someone else’s hamburger stand and turned it into a poisonous megacorporation that embodies the worst of America—except, in the film’s estimation, that somehow makes him a national hero. Because… business? Kroc makes savvy, self-serving deals, leeches off others and rises to the top of his profession despite (or, because of!) his being terri
  
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• Federer's 17 majors stack up nicely against everyone else

  17-01-2017 09:54
  
  The 64 players contesting second-round matches at the Australian Open on Wednesday have won a total of 36 Grand Slam singles titles
  
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• [►VIDEO, MUSIC] Ten years later, ‘What Happened to Smith?’ singer says street has gotten far worse

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperWhat happened to “What Happened to Smith?”Local band Life in a Blender released its seminal song bemoaning Smith Street’s evolution from a grimy neighborhood hangout to hipster hotspot 10 years ago this month, and the tune has only gotten better with age — but the street sure hasn’t!A decade later, the indie record stores and hip bars are turning into chain stores as rents soar, and the musicians now ad
  
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• [►VIDEO, CANARSIE] Squabbling city agencies finally agree to move traffic-blocking street-repair equipment

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyCan’t we all just grit along?A cadre of city agencies finally put their squabbling aside and is allowing the contractors rebuilding Canarsie’s streets to store their equipment and materials in an empty city-owned lot — instead of the middle the street where they were before.The Department of Environmental Protection broke ground on the first leg of its three-phase $56.5 million project this fall to replace miles
  
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• [►VIDEO] Bus driver hits Midwood pedestrian

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyGrisly video shows the very moment that a school-bus driver hit a woman crossing Avenue M on Jan. 13, police said.The driver of the Y and M Transit Corp. short bus plowed into the pedestrian near Nostrand Avenue at about 1:30 pm. She goes down and then rolls under the bus’s front wheel for several feet before the driver hits the brakes, security video shows.The driver stayed at the scene when police arrived, and emergency re
  
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• [THEATER] Dancing queen: ‘La Medea’ turns tragedy into disco TV

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperIt’s a multimedia “Medea!”A Greek tragedy re-imagined as a Latin-disco variety show will soon cha-cha into a Fort Greene television studio for a production to be filmed, edited, and broadcast live for audiences across the globe. “La Medea,” running from Jan. 20–22 at Bric Arts Media, mashes up the violent Euripides play about a scorned barbarian princess
  
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• St. Francis frosh doing hometown proud

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyHe’s always known what he was capable of — now he’s just proving it.Rasheem Dunn has played in just a handful of college basketball games, but the St. Francis freshman and former Thomas Jefferson star isn’t letting his age hold him back. He’s always been confident in his game, certain of his jumpshot and his on-court ability, and despite minimal experience at the Division-I level, Dunn is showing just w
  
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• [RED HOOK] Sale boat! Ikea Water Taxi will continue after all thanks to buyout

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperTalk about a bailing out a boat!
  The ferry that shuttles shoppers and their flat-pack furniture from the Red Hook Ikea to Manhattan is staying afloat despite its owners’ threats to raise the gangway for good, after another boat company bought the business last week.New York Water Taxi’s honchos claimed they’d have to scuttle their enterprise if the city didn’t award them the contract to run its new five-borou
  
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• Lions’ pride: Loughlin duo leads squad to overtime victory

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyBig players make big plays.Bishop Loughlin stars Keith Williams and Markquis Nowell didn’t blink when the moment got big on Jan. 15 — they simply embraced it. The pair led the Lions to a 66–62 overtime victory over Christ the King, hitting big shots and making shutdown defensive plays when the team needed it most.
  “Right now, I think Markquis and I are the best backcourt in the whole league, the country, ever
  
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• [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS] Grounded: Jets come up short against Holy Cross

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyIt felt like a wake-up call — a very loud one.
  Brooklyn Law and Tech’s boys basketball team dropped a disappointing 55–52 showing to Holy Cross on Jan. 15, part of the Martin Luther King Showcase showcase at Lincoln High School. The loss snapped a six-game winning streak for the Jets and left the team searching for answers after failing to produce on either side of the ball.
  “It’
  
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• [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS] Getting defensive: Lincoln’s ‘D’ lifts Railsplitters over Iona Prep

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Kyle GormanBrooklyn DailyIt wasn’t the offensive explosion either team was hoping for.
  Lincoln and Iona Prep both struggled to hit their scoring stride in a non-league tilt on Jan. 15, but the Railsplitters managed to grab just enough momentum to pull off the victory, downing the Gaels 53–44 at the Martin Luther King Showcase in Coney Island. Mike Reid led the charge late, with a game-high 21 points and a shutdown defensive performance.“I
  
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• [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS] Bonnies grind out win over McClancy, still undefeated

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyShe planted her feet and waited for the whistle.Jill Howard stood as still as she could — an immovable defensive force — as she took a charge with just minutes left on the clock, wrapping up Fontbonne Hall’s 43–34 victory over Monsignor McClancy on Jan. 12.
  Howard’s play stalled a late McClancy rally as the Bonnies scored the final four points of the Catholic High School Athletic Association tilt.&ldquo
  
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• [FORT GREENE] Veteran leadership sparks Blackbirds in Battle of Brooklyn

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Gregory AlcalaBrooklyn DailyThese Blackbirds’ experience lifted them to another win.The Long Island University men’s basketball team grabbed a 63–58 victory over St. Francis on Jan. 14, sparked by the strong late-game performance of its upperclassman. It was the fifth-straight win for the squad as Nura Zanna and Iverson Fleming stole the spotlight in the waning minutes of the Northeast Conference matchup.
  “These games are always fun,
  
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• [FORT GREENE] Dancing queen: ‘La Medea’ turns tragedy into disco TV

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyIt’s a multimedia “Medea!”A Greek tragedy re-imagined as a Latin-disco variety show will soon cha-cha into a Fort Greene television studio for a production to be filmed, edited, and broadcast live for audiences across the globe. “La Medea,” running from Jan. 20–22 at Bric Arts Media, mashes up the violent Euripides play about a scorned barbarian princess
  
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• [BAY RIDGE] Fare play: Brooklynites demand Gov. Cuomo give them same Verrazano toll discount as Staten Islanders

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperIs it a bridge too far?Gov. Cuomo announced that the state will make permanent the reduced Verrazano-Narrows Bridge tolls that EZ-Pass-using Staten Island residents have been enjoying for the last two years. And now drivers on the Brooklyn side of the span are demanding similar treatment.“That’s not fair. I have clients in Staten Island, and to keep my business going, I have to
  
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• [BAY RIDGE] A whole new world! St. Ephtram’s first-ever musical is ‘Aladdin’

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyStudents at St. Ephrem School transported audiences to the fictional village of Agrabah in their version of the Disney musical “Aladdin Jr.” on Jan. 13-15 — the school’s first full-scale theatrical production. The pint-sized performers dazzled audiences with 21 musical numbers in a colorful production that took the entire community to produce, said one parent.
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• [BAY RIDGE] A whole new world! St. Ephram’s first-ever musical is ‘Aladdin’

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyStudents at St. Ephrem School transported audiences to the fictional village of Agrabah in their version of the Disney musical “Aladdin Jr.” on Jan. 13-15 — the school’s first full-scale theatrical production. The pint-sized performers dazzled audiences with 21 musical numbers in a colorful production that took the entire community to produce, said one parent.
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• [►AUDIO, PODCAST] John O’Hara on his vindication thanks to The Brooklyn Paper

  17-01-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperFree at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, he is free at last!And he’s soon to be a hit song, too!Days after John O’Hara, the only man prosecuted in New York State for voter fraud, was finally cleared on appeal of the politically motivated felony charges that sullied his name, cost him his law license and forced him to do more than 1,000 of community service, he took a victo
  
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• Mexican resort shooting kills 5, panics festival-goers

  17-01-2017 03:39
  
  Gunfire breaks out in a crowded beachfront nightclub throbbing with electronic music, causing five deaths and setting off a bloody stampede by screaming concertgoers at an international festival in the Mexican resort of Playa de Carmen
  
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• Parents of girl charged in 'Slender Man' stabbing speak out

  17-01-2017 00:50
  The parents of one of two Wisconsin girls who were 12 when they allegedly stabbed another girl 19 times to impress the fictional internet character "Slender Man" say they were as shocked by the attack as anyone
  
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