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• Sessions story takes different shape on different outlets

  02-03-2017 23:33
  
  Fast-moving story on Attorney General Jeff Sessions is textbook example of how stories take different shapes on different outlets in today's media world
  
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• World Baseball Classic growing slowly, but far from mature

  02-03-2017 23:11
  
  The World Baseball Classic returns Monday for its fourth edition, growing slowly yet still far from rising to the prominence of soccer's World Cup or the Olympics
  
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• Nats-Orioles TV dispute has appellate court hearing March 14

  02-03-2017 22:29
  
  The long-running television dispute between the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals is headed for an appeals court
  
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• Brooklyn’s Told Slant Cancels SXSW Show After Contract Threatens Deportation

  02-03-2017 22:28 via bkmag.com
  
  This year’s SXSW is quickly approaching (It’ll be held this year from March 10-19 in Austin, Texas) and is one of the most polarizing and unique festivals in the whole country. It typically gives acts a platform that they aren’t usually afforded. Today, one of those acts has expressed concern with some actions that SXSW seems to be taking—or, at least, is threatening to be taking.
  Felix Walworth of Brooklyn’s Told Slant tweeted that, among other thing
  
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• Docs about Whitney Houston, Frank Serpico headed to Tribeca

  02-03-2017 21:43
  
  Documentaries about Whitney Houston, Gilbert Gottfried, Elian Gonzalez and Frank Serpico will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival
  
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• NY Public Library acquires complete archives of Lou Reed

  02-03-2017 21:40
  
  The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired the complete archives of Lou Reed
  
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• Abreu: I was close to trainer accused of smuggling

  02-03-2017 21:23
  
  Chicago White Sox star Jose Abreu has testified that he had an extremely close relationship with a Florida baseball trainer on trial along with a sports agent for allegedly smuggling Cuban ballplayers off the island
  
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• Larry McMurtry selling typewriters used for 'Lonesome Dove'

  02-03-2017 21:12
  
  Larry McMurtry is selling at auction the two typewriters he used to write his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Lonesome Dove." Heritage Auctions is offering up the typewriters in New York City next week
  
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• Zoo's pregnant giraffe, April, is a live-streaming sensation

  02-03-2017 20:46
  
  A New York zoo's pregnant giraffe has its own website, a GoFundMe page, an apparel line and millions of people worldwide watching live-streaming video waiting for it to give birth
  
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• Oscar flub accountants get security protection guards

  02-03-2017 20:43
  
  A spokeswoman for the PwC auditing firm says the company has hired security guards to protect the two accountants responsible for the best-picture flub at the Oscars
  
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• Dave Chappelle debuts 2 comedy specials March 21 on Netflix

  02-03-2017 20:41
  
  Comedian Dave Chappelle is headed back to TV with his first concert specials in a dozen years _ two of them
  
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• Zoey Deutch carves her own path in Hollywood

  02-03-2017 20:38
  
  "Before I Fall" actress Zoey Deutch might come from Hollywood genes, but she has taken it upon herself to carve her own path in the industry, and she's in it for the long haul
  
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• Ellen DeGeneres is coming back to prime time for fun, games

  02-03-2017 20:26
  Ellen DeGeneres is coming back to prime time, this time for fun and games
  
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• Syrian army retakes town of Palmyra as IS defenses crumble

  02-03-2017 20:17
  
  Syrian state media say military forces have retaken the town of Palmyra from the Islamic State group
  
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• Film about 1995 kidnapping revisits old grudges in Slovakia

  02-03-2017 19:41
  
  A new movie in Slovakia is based on a real event that shocked the country: the kidnapping of late President Michal Kovac's son during the rule of authoritarian Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar
  
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• Culture essentials for March

  02-03-2017 19:23
  
  I need to be the adult here and break it to you, someone does. Just because it was 70 last week does not mean that summer starts at the end of the month. We still have a ways to go before the glorious outdoor movies and free concerts of summer are here. Until then, you’ll have to make do with some excellent art, scary theater, absorbing new books and the return of the best show on television.10. The Terrifying
  Everything about The Terrifying, a new play written and directed by Obie-winner
  
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• Charlton Heston rant rattled judge; court tosses murder case

  02-03-2017 18:28
  
  A Philadelphia judge's clash with the late actor Charlton Heston has indirectly led to a U.S. appeals court decision to overturn a 1998 murder conviction
  
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• Film on real-life "Kidnapping" looks at Slovakia's ex-PM

  02-03-2017 18:17
  
  A new movie in Slovakia is based on a real event that shocked the country: the kidnapping of late President Michal Kovac's son during the rule of authoritarian Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar
  
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• The ‘Bad Dad’ Crux: On New Jonathan Baumbach

  02-03-2017 18:05 via bkmag.com
  
  When I first saw The Squid and the Whale, I—a child of the 1980s, a child of divorce, a city child—saw a lot I recognized. Noah Baumbach’s 2005 semi-autobiographical film chronicles the breakup of a marriage in Brooklyn in 1986, and how its two children grapple with a way of new understanding their parents. It wasn’t an identical map—what ever is?—but it hit a few notes I hadn’t really ever heard outside my own life. (My brothers and I spent so many coll
  
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• On ‘Bad Dads’ and the New Jonathan Baumbach

  02-03-2017 18:05 via bkmag.com
  
  When I first saw The Squid and the Whale, I—a child of the 1980s, a child of divorce, a city child—saw a lot I recognized. Noah Baumbach’s 2005 semi-autobiographical film chronicles the breakup of a marriage in Brooklyn in 1986, and how its two children grapple with a way of new understanding their parents. It wasn’t an identical map—what ever is?—but it hit a few notes I hadn’t really ever heard outside my own life. (My brothers and I spent so many coll
  
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• Dear Diaries: Tina Brown publishing book of private journals

  02-03-2017 17:50
  
  Tina Brown has some secrets to spill: The British-born author and magazine editor has a deal with Henry Holt and Co. to publish the diaries she kept during her years running Vanity Fair, the publisher told The Associated Press
  
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• 'Auto-destructive art' pioneer Gustav Metzger dies at 90

  02-03-2017 17:27
  
  Gustav Metzger, whose concept of "auto-destructive art" inspired The Who's Pete Townshend to smash his guitars, has died
  
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• Ex-NFL player headed to prison for 6 years in Ponzi scheme

  02-03-2017 17:17
  
  Ex-NFL cornerback Will Allen and his business partner sentenced to prison for running a Ponzi scheme that took in more than $35 million
  
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• Vagabon: Traveling the World through Time Signatures

  02-03-2017 17:15 via bkmag.com
  
  There’s a good chance that whenever you’re reading this, Lætitia Tamko will be on tour, somewhere in middle America, bleary-eyed, eating soggy vegan food, surrounded by people who look nothing like her, weathering sneers from condescending sound engineers and booking agents.
  And yet she prefers it that way. “It’s an insane thing I can’t believe people enjoy, including myself,” she says of touring. “I feel very restless all the time. The structure i
  
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• In the car with Alison Krauss, anything goes music-wise

  02-03-2017 17:08
  
  Alison Krauss remerges this month with "Windy City," her first solo album since 1999, and her sparkling covers of 10 classic country tunes was shaped in part by road trips with her son at night through Nashville, Tennessee
  
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• White Sox's Abreu free to return to training after testimony

  02-03-2017 17:03
  
  Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu is free to return to spring training in Arizona now that he's concluded his testimony in the trial of two men accused of illegally smuggling Cuban ballplayers to the United States
  
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• Syrian army re-enters town of Palmyra as IS defenses crumble

  02-03-2017 16:38
  
  Syrian government forces re-enter Palmyra in quest to again take the town from Islamic State group
  
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• Assuming is Dangerous: Talking with Gowanus-Based Artist Adrienne Elise Tarver

  02-03-2017 16:35 via bkmag.com
  
  In almost every context, white men are the only makers afforded a blank canvas; everyone else gets qualified. When these qualifications (black, female, gay, on and on) bubble up without context, assumptions can take over the reading of the work—assumptions that the artist intended to employ the politics of race, of being female, of being anything other than an artist making work informed by, but not restrained by, their identity. It’s the ancient blunder of making an ass out of u an
  
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• The Latest: New entertainment complex opening at Graceland

  02-03-2017 16:14
  
  A $45 million entertainment complex featuring exhibits and restaurants focused on the life and career of Elvis Presley is scheduled to open at Graceland in Memphis
  
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• 'Watch Me' rapper Silento stuck in UAE over business dispute

  02-03-2017 16:07
  
  The American rapper known for his hit song "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" has been stopped from leaving the United Arab Emirates over a business dispute
  
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• A&E Supply Company Feeds and Provisions Gowanus All the Livelong Day

  02-03-2017 16:03 via bkmag.com
  
  Considering that the struggle to make ends meet via a single restaurant is a recurring industry theme nowadays, A&E Supply Company has proved wise to hedge their bets by debuting a quadrant of concepts within the past year. Cannier still is that they share just one lease, occupying one sectors of a 1,600-square foot space.Becoming truly all things to Gowanus, the compound relieves neighbors of the need to trek to Park Slope for provisions, or unburden their bank accounts at the local Whole F
  
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• Retired foreign service officer wins $50,000 literary prize

  02-03-2017 16:00
  
  A retired foreign service officer is now a prize-winning author
  
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• Syrian forces battle IS, re-enter historic town of Palmyra

  02-03-2017 15:17
  
  Syrian government forces re-enter Palmyra in quest to again take the town from Islamic State group
  
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• 'Feud: Bette and Joan': movie legends clawing for a comeback

  02-03-2017 15:16
  
  "Feud" tells of the epic rivalry between screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as they fractiously joined forces to co-star in the 1962 thriller "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange star in this 8-part FX miniseries
  
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• Elvis Presley's Graceland opening new entertainment complex

  02-03-2017 13:32
  
  A $45 million entertainment complex featuring exhibits and restaurants focused on the life and career of Elvis Presley is scheduled to open at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee
  
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• Developers plan for new movie theater in Troy

  02-03-2017 13:12
  
  Officials in an upstate New York city have announced plans for a new downtown project
  
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• Bromance Is Dead: Donald Cried

  02-03-2017 12:48 via bkmag.com
  
  Donald CriedDirected by Kris AvedisianOpens March 3 at the Angelika
  One of the unexpected pleasures of the recent mainstream comedy Why Him?—yes, the James Franco/Bryan Cranston movie from December—lie in how much the filmmakers were willing to stretch its comedy-of-discomfort scenarios to the breaking point, piling on embarrassment after embarrassment with a “can you top this” zeal that, depending on your tolerance for that kind of humor, could be seen as perversely adm
  
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• White Sox's Abreu back as ballplayer smuggling trial witness

  02-03-2017 12:11
  
  It's a second day of testimony for Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu in the Miami trial of two men accused of illegally smuggling Cuban ballplayers to the United States
  
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• US rapper Silento stuck in UAE over business dispute

  02-03-2017 11:40
  
  Silento, the U.S. rapper known for his hit song "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," has been stopped from leaving the United Arab Emirates over a business dispute
  
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• US rapper Silento has passport seized over UAE dispute

  02-03-2017 10:15
  
  A U.S. rapper known for his hit song "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" has had his passport seized by authorities in the United Arab Emirates over a business dispute
  
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• Emperor expresses sympathy to Vietnamese left by soldiers

  02-03-2017 08:41
  
  Japan's emperor expressed sympathy to Vietnamese families abandoned by Japanese soldiers after World War II
  
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• Iranian film hails demise of US Navy in imagined Gulf battle

  02-03-2017 08:10
  
  A new animated Iranian film portrays a showdown at sea with the U.S. Navy, in which a commander modeled on a real-life Iranian general destroys the American fleet
  
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• Prosecutor: Aaron Hernandez killed 2 over spilled drink

  02-03-2017 06:51
  
  Testimony resumes Thursday in the double murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez
  
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• [►VIDEO, WILLIAMSBURG] On the Mike: Rocker Doughty returns to W’burg with ninth solo album

  02-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Bill RoundyBrooklyn DailyFor this rocker, Brooklyn comes first.
  Indie musician and former Brooklynite Mike Doughty will return to Kings County this Friday, stopping first at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on March 3 before playing a show the next night in the distant isle of Manhattan. The former frontman of the band Soul Coughing, now touring with his solo album “The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns,” may have moved to Memphis in 2015, but s
  
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• [►VIDEO, MUSIC] On the Mike: Rocker Doughty returns to W’burg with ninth solo album

  02-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Bill RoundyBrooklyn PaperFor this rocker, Brooklyn comes first.
  Indie musician and former Brooklynite Mike Doughty will return to Kings County this Friday, stopping first at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on March 3 before playing a show the next night in the distant isle of Manhattan. The former frontman of the band Soul Coughing, now touring with his solo album “The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns,” may have moved to Memphis in 2015, but s
  
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• [SPONSORED CONTENT] How home care benefits seniors living with Alzheimer’s

  02-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.Edison Home Health CareAlzheimer’s disease affects many people and can be distressing to family life. The needs of the affected person depend on how far along they are in the disease, who is available to provide care, and the financial costs involved. Rather than considering an assisted living or continuing care facility for early and mid-stage Alzheimer’s, more families recognize the various benefits and are exploring the option of Home Care servi
  
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• [COBBLE HILL] Paper trail: French artist creates a flat forest

  02-03-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyHe’s a paper back painter!The French illustrator of the famous interactive kids’ book “Press Here” has created a multi-sided forest of cut, torn, and painted paper in a Cobble Hill gallery for his first New York City exhibition. Artist Herve Tullet says that “This Isn’t Trash,” opening at the Invisible Dog on March 4, extends the themes of his book by
  
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• [BROOKLYN HEIGHTS] A streetcar named our ire! Friends of BQX trolley say Heights Association derailed them!

  02-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey got railroaded!Supporters of Mayor DeBlasio’s controversial $2.5-billion streetcar say the powerful Brooklyn Heights Association is so opposed to the plan that it silences anyone anxious to get on board with the trolley.The group, Friends of the Brooklyn-Queens Connector, made the accusation against the “elite” Association Wednesday, one day after an the Heights group hosted a panel discussion that declared th
  
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• [BAY RIDGE] Ridgites dish on their meetings with Donovan

  02-03-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyRep. Dan Donovan has come under fire recently for his refusal to host a town hall to meet with some of the 721,000 constituents in his district, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t open to getting together with his constituents. Instead, he is encouraging those who want a face-to-face sit down to make an appointment to meet at either his Dyker Heights or Staten Island office. We tracked down four of the more than a dozen
  
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• [ART] Paper trail: French artist creates a flat forest

  02-03-2017 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperHe’s a paper back painter!The French illustrator of the famous interactive kids’ book “Press Here” has created a multi-sided forest of cut, torn, and painted paper in a Cobble Hill gallery for his first New York City exhibition. Artist Herve Tullet says that “This Isn’t Trash,” opening at the Invisible Dog on March 4, extends the themes of his book by
  
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