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• In sensation of 'Get Out,' hints of a Trump-effect

  13-03-2017 23:55
  
  There have been monster gorillas and sharp-clawed superheroes at the box office this month, but the biggest beast of them all has been Jordan Peele's $4.5 million, race-exploding thriller "Get Out."
  
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• Stradivarius will be heard for first time since 1980 theft

  13-03-2017 23:22
  
  Three daughters of renowned violinist Roman Totenberg will hear the sound of their late father's Stradivarius for the first time nearly four decades after it was stolen
  
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• Snoop Dogg aims gun at clown dressed as Trump in new video

  13-03-2017 23:13
  
  Snoop Dogg aims a toy gun at a clown dressed as Republican President Donald Trump in a new music video featuring a population of clowns
  
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• Totenberg Stradivarius heard for first time since 1980 theft

  13-03-2017 22:41
  
  The three daughters of renowned violinist Roman Totenberg are to hear the sound of their late father's Stradivarius for the first time nearly four decades after it was stolen
  
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• Latest: Unedited video of Brown in Ferguson store released

  13-03-2017 22:13
  
  Unedited early-hours store video footage of Michael Brown on the day he was fatally shot by a police officer has been released by a lawyer for the store
  
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• California college president says no to hate speech

  13-03-2017 22:03
  
  The president of a California college is condemning hate speech after some Latino students sent a spray-painted message to white students wearing hoop earrings, accusing them of appropriating their cultural style
  
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• Shhh! How to stream March Madness when the boss isn't around

  13-03-2017 21:55
  
  All 67 games in the March Madness basketball tournament will be available online, so you can follow along even when you're at work (just don't tell the boss)
  
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• Trump chides media for being 'rude' after Conway interviews

  13-03-2017 21:49
  
  President Donald Trump criticized the media for being 'rude' to his representatives in a tweet after his counselor, Kellyanne Conway, appeared on morning shows
  
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• 'Big Bang Theory' gets spinoff about Sheldon's early years

  13-03-2017 21:14
  
  "The Big Bang Theory" is getting a spinoff about genius Sheldon's early years
  
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• Pandora starts on-demand music subscription service

  13-03-2017 20:47
  
  Internet radio company Pandora is launching an on-demand music subscription service for $10 a month
  
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• POSTPONED: Stomp, Clap & Sing with Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats

  13-03-2017 20:44
  Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterDUE TO THE FORECASTED BLIZZARD, THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. RESCHEDULED DATE TO COME SOON.
  Multi-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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• POSTPONED: One Book, One New York

  13-03-2017 20:44
  Tuesday, March 14, 2017 6:30 pmCentral LibraryDUE TO THE FORECASTED BLIZZARD, THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. NEW DATE TO COME SOON. BPL and the Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment welcome you to Central Library to meet the winning author of  New York City’s first One Book, One New York program.
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• Prosecutor, store lawyer say Ferguson video edited for film

  13-03-2017 20:39
  
  A prosecutor says surveillance video showing Michael Brown in a Ferguson, Missouri, convenience store the day he was fatally shot by a police officer was heavily edited by a documentary film crew
  
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• The Golden Door: Open Arms Can Be a Form of Resistance

  13-03-2017 20:32 via bkmag.com
  
  “My hands are full when you give me your hand.”
  – Edmond Jabes, The Book of Questions: Vol II
  It’s 2001. A greasy slice of pizza falls onto the kitchen floor of my grandfather’s Chinese restaurant in Queens. Without pause, my grandfather, who I call A-yeh, picks it up and takes a bite. My wide, flat nose—identical to his own—scrunches up in disapproval. That’s gross, I think to myself. “When I was nine we were homeless and ate banana peels pi
  
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• 'Dragon Tattoo' follow-up coming in 2018 with new cast

  13-03-2017 20:28
  
  Lisbeth Salander is coming back to the big screen in 2018, but she won't be played by Rooney Mara or Noomi Rapace
  
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• MTV Movie Awards get a reboot with addition of TV nods

  13-03-2017 20:21
  
  The MTV Movie Awards are getting a reboot with the addition of TV nods
  
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• Review: 'T2 Trainspotting' a nostalgic trip toward adulthood

  13-03-2017 20:11
  
  Film Review: Twenty-one years after "Trainspotting" shocked moviegoers with depictions of drug use and directionless Gen-Xers, "T2" reunites the original writer, director and cast for another timely look at modern life
  
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• TV drama 'Greenleaf' helps get Oprah Winfrey's TV mojo back

  13-03-2017 19:49
  
  "Greenleaf," which co-stars Oprah Winfrey in a recurring role, premiered last year as the most-watched debut in the six-year history of her network OWN and has given the media mogul a boost of confidence
  
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• Nick Ut, AP photographer behind 'Napalm Girl,' to retire

  13-03-2017 19:17
  
  The Associated Press' Nick Ut retires later this month after 51 years of taking photographs from the front lines of the Vietnam War to the red carpets of Hollywood
  
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• Correction: SXSW-Politics story

  13-03-2017 18:46
  
  Correction: SXSW-Politics story
  
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• Amy Krouse Rosenthal, best-selling author, dead at age 51

  13-03-2017 18:27
  
  Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a popular author, filmmaker and speaker who brightened lives with her wide-eyed and generous spirit and broke hearts when she wrote of being terminally ill with cancer and leaving behind her husband Jason, has died at age 51
  
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• Michelle Obama writes college letter for 'Black-ish' star

  13-03-2017 18:02
  
  "Black-ish" star Yara Shahidi says her college applications got a boost with a recommendation letter from former first lady Michelle Obama
  
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• Four & Twenty Blackbirds Drops the Mic, with New Booze and Pie Pairings in Prospect Heights

  13-03-2017 17:44 via bkmag.com
  
  No strong-arming is needed to frequent Four & Twenty Blackbirds, whether for a chocolate/pecan pick-me-up at the original Gowanus location, a slice amongst the stacks at the Brooklyn Public Library branch, or a residency at the sleek and sunny counter—equipped with truly resplendent “pie wall”—newly opened in Prospect Heights. And yet, Emily and Melissa Elsen have outdone themselves in their latest space, going for broke by procuring a beer and wine license.
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• Funny, first novel about freshman love at Harvard

  13-03-2017 17:35
  
  Review: 'The Idiot' is Elif Batuman's comic first novel about freshman love at Harvard at the dawn of the email era
  
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• Review: Laura Marling takes a giant step on 'Semper Femina'

  13-03-2017 17:25
  
  Laura Marling takes a giant step on "Semper Femina," nine exceptional songs of vulnerability, bursting with femininity and passion
  
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• Review: 'Roanoke Girls' is storytelling at its finest

  13-03-2017 15:56
  
  Review: "The Roanoke Girls" gains its strength from author Amy Engel's skillful storytelling that never succumbs to the prurient but shows how easily the vulnerable can be manipulated
  
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• Milo Ventimiglia poured his dad into Jack on 'This is Us'

  13-03-2017 15:24
  
  Milo Ventimiglia, who plays super-dad Jack Pearson on the NBC hit 'This is Us,' says he poured much of his own dad into the role that female fans taking notes about what a good husband and father feel like
  
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• New novel imagines Lincoln amid ghosts after son's death

  13-03-2017 15:01
  
  Book Review: "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders imagines a night among ghosts
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Shelley Worrell, CaribBEING

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  Shelley is on a mission to make Caribbean culture in Flatbush, Brooklyn, an official affair—which, in everything but name, it has been for a long time. Starting in the 60s and 70s, immigrants from all 28 Caribbean countries began to move in large numbers to Flatbush and Crown Heights; to celebrate and showcase these diverse cultures into a single idea, Worrell coined the name and non-profit, CaribBEING. Through film series, arts and culture programming, and a new solar-powered CaribBE
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Shani O. Hilton, BuzzFeed

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  BuzzFeed’s head of U.S. News, Shani O. Hilton has deeply shaped the journalist juggernaut that the digital media company has become in recent years. As the head of one of the youngest and most diverse newsrooms in the nation, she’s as well known for the great work BuzzFeed has published as for the extraordinary talent she has helped incubate.
  How did you become the editor you are?
  I’ve been lucky enough to work with a number of brilliant, warm, thoughtful editors in my career;
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Sara Yerry, Teacher, Brooklyn Arbor School

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  After graduating Brown with degrees in children’s cognitive development and Hispanic literature and culture, Sara Yerry’s jump to dual language teacher and advocate was a natural one. At Brooklyn Arbor School in South Williamsburg, Yerry serves as both a fourth grade Spanish-English classroom teacher and as the dual language coordinator, where she oversees development, teacher training and screening for a program that has gone from one kindergarten class in 2012 to a dual language cl
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Phoebe Robinson, Sooo Many White Guys

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  If there is one thing the world doesn’t necessarily need to double down on, it is the promotion of even more white male voices. Pheobe Robinson, comedian and co-host of hit podcast 2 Dope Queens,  knows this better than anyone, and so she has created a platform for every other variety of voice with her own podcast, Sooo Many White Guys, now in its second season at WNYC. Through long-form honest conversations with her weekly guests—none of whom are w
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Missy Robbins, Lilia

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  A caliber chef with a penchant for fine dining Italian, Missy Robbins opened Williamsburg’s Lilia in 2016 and has attracted a great deal of accolades ever since. Though she cultivated her love of Italian food in her five years as executive chef at Spiaggia, she attributes the spawning of her culinary inclinations to less romantic circumstances. It was during her time as an art history student at Georgetown University that she found herself totally besotted with the energy of the kitchen. S
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: May Boeve, 350.org

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  350 stands for the concentration (in parts per million) of carbon dioxide that our atmosphere can hold before climate change begins. Cool, except that, currently, we’re at 400—which is to say, Earth began to heat up long ago. May Boeve started 350.org as an undergraduate with six college friends and author and activist Bill McKibben. Today, she helps to create, spur, and champion worldwide movements to pressure companies and organizations to move away from fossil fuels, and to m
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Jose Lopez, Make The Road New York

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  Around press time for this feature, Jose Lopez was pretty busy—as he told us, with his position as Organizing Director for Make The Road New York, he was totally swamped with #ResistTrump work.  Based in Bushwick, Lopez helps Make The Road New York—known as MRNY—toward the organization’s mission of building the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival ser
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Jimmy Duff, Duff’s

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  If you want to visit one of the most legit metal places in New York City, stop by Duff’s on North 3rd in Williamsburg. It’s got a metal on the jukebox, has hosted Slayer, and always has its famous hearse parked right outside. Jimmy Duff, the owner, is about as real as they come.
  How and why did you become involved in your line of work? What would you even call what you do?
  I had spent enough time working and hanging out in bars and nightclubs to know for sure what I liked, and what I
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Janna Levin, Pioneer Works

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  Science! Never did we think that statement alone would merit its own protest sign. In an age of confusion, Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, remains a bastion of truth, innovation, and levity (but sometimes black holes, and soon, black holes that light up). Her programming at Pioneer Works, where she’s Director of Science, usually involves two other scientists, unsolved mysteries, and throngs of people. “Science is part of culture,” she says. &
  
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• Brooklyn 100 Influencer: David Belt, New Lab

  13-03-2017 14:59 via bkmag.com
  
  David Belt is a cofounder of New Lab, a making space, workshop, and co-working space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A New York-based international real estate developer, he is also the Founder and Managing Principal of Macro Sea and DBI. Over the past twenty-five years, Belt has developed a diverse range of projects that vary widely in size, scope and location; he has executed over $1 billion in private and institutional development projects worldwide.
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• 3 charged with assaulting officer after disturbance call

  13-03-2017 14:54
  
  Police in Virginia say three people are facing charges for assaulting an officer who was responding to a disturbance call
  
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• Ed Sheeran to guest star on 'Game of Thrones'

  13-03-2017 14:42
  
  Ed Sheeran will guest star in the upcoming season of "Game of Thrones."
  
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• Laukkanen's brisk pacing gives urgency to 'Forgotten Girls'

  13-03-2017 14:34
  
  Book Review: Owen Laukkanen delivers poignant look at each victim in "The Forgotten Girls," and the author's brisk pacing gives urgency to the story
  
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• Where to find the best veggie burgers in Brooklyn

  13-03-2017 14:29
  
  The beet burger at 61 Local is the work of veggie mastermind, Lukas Volger. Photo: Local 61
  If you eat animal protein, there’s generally little reason (if any) to opt for a veggie burger instead of a luscious patty of ground beef. That said, veggie burgers can be delicious in their own right, if you know where to go, and from David Chang’s so-meaty-it-bleeds veggie burger, to Superiority Burger in the East Village which New York Times food critic Pete Wells referred to as &ldqu
  
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• Kim Kardashian West opens up about gunpoint Paris robbery

  13-03-2017 13:59
  
  Kim Kardashian West is opening up about being held at gunpoint during a jewelry heist in Paris last year
  
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• Obama books to be published worldwide, from Ireland to India

  13-03-2017 11:57
  The publishing of the upcoming books by Barack and Michelle Obama will be a global event
  
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• Russian announces its Eurovision entry

  13-03-2017 11:15
  
  Russia has announced its entry in the upcoming Eurovision song contest, seemingly putting an end to speculation that Russia might boycott the politically charged competition in Kiev
  
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• AP's legendary 'Napalm Girl' photographer Nick Ut to retire

  13-03-2017 08:45
  
  Nick Ut, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer most famous for his stunning black-and-white image from the Vietnam War known worldwide as "Napalm Girl," is retiring this month after 51 years at The Associated Press
  
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• Don't tell your boss: How to stream March Madness tournament

  13-03-2017 08:40
  
  The 67-game March Madness basketball tournament begins Tuesday, with many games taking place during the work day
  
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• ICYMI: First Ivy League tourney was a success

  13-03-2017 07:33
  
  In Case You Missed It: The inaugural Ivy League Tournament is in the books and the conference couldn't have asked for a better weekend
  
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• Fueled by Trump opponents, Maddow's popularity rises

  13-03-2017 05:18
  
  Rachel Maddow can trace the mood of her audience by looking at the ratings
  
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• [NIGHTLIFE] Going green: The best St. Patrick’s Day events in Brooklyn

  13-03-2017 05:00
  
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