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• Lawyers cite golfer Phil Mickelson in insider trading case

  15-03-2017 23:59
  
  A prosecutor and a defense attorney have told jurors at a New York insider trading trial a stock trade by golfer Phil Mickelson aids their case
  
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• LPGA Tour set for high heat, low scores in Phoenix

  15-03-2017 23:55
  The heat is soaring in the Valley of the Sun and the scores figure to be low again at the LPGA Tour's Bank of Hope Founders Cup
  
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• Prosecutors want to tell jury ex-NFL star spoke about anger

  15-03-2017 23:09
  
  Prosecutors in the double-murder trial of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez have asked a judge to allow them to tell the jury he told a witness he was "angry all the time."
  
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• Colombian rocker Juanes writes 1st English song

  15-03-2017 21:36
  
  With the help of hitmaking songwriter-producer PooBear, Colombian rock star Juanes wrote "Goodbye For Now," his first song in English
  
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• Jury convicts sports agent, trainer in Cuban smuggling case

  15-03-2017 21:22
  
  A Miami jury has convicted a Florida sports agent and a baseball trainer accused of smuggling Cuban ballplayers into the U.S.
  
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• 'Matrix' reboot? Some say studio should choose another pill

  15-03-2017 21:17
  
  A reboot of "The Matrix" is said to be the works, but many fans would rather see Warner Bros. choose a different pill
  
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• Ivana Trump writing memoir about her children with Donald

  15-03-2017 20:49
  
  Ivana Trump, the first wife of President Donald Trump, is writing a memoir that will focus on the couple's 3 children
  
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• 'La La Land,' 'Beauty' herald more Days of Sun for musicals

  15-03-2017 20:42
  
  The remarkable box office success of 'La La Land' and expected big business for 'Beauty and the Beast' herald more Days of Sun for screen musicals, a number of which are in the works
  
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• Music Review: Adult. make dance music for nervous breakdowns

  15-03-2017 20:38
  
  'Detroit House Guests' is a vigorously unsettling collaborative effort by Adult that plays to the electronic duo's strengths while meeting new challenges presented by the guests _ a who's who of experimental artists
  
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• Maddow: People disappointed by Trump story expected too much

  15-03-2017 20:28
  
  MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said that if people were let down by her story on President Trump's taxes, it's because of their expectations, not what she said
  
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• Activist aims to combat sexual assault by engaging athletes

  15-03-2017 20:18
  
  To combat sexual assault and violence against women, Alexis Jones wants to harness what she calls "the power of the jersey."
  
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• All charges dismissed against ex-New York Jet Darrelle Revis

  15-03-2017 20:10
  
  A judge has dismissed all charges against former New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis stemming from a fight last month in Pittsburgh
  
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• Your Ideal Week: March 16-22, how to avoid St. Patrick’s Day

  15-03-2017 19:13
  
  We were all expecting more snow yesterday, even Hurley. Photo: Kate Hooker via @BrooklynBased on Instagram
  Back to the grind, everybody! One of the awesome conveniences of modern life is that for the majority of us who aren’t ER doctors or something, there’s no longer any need to brave angry sheets of falling ice to physically be in the office on a day like yesterday. The bummer side of this, though, is that the notion of a true snow day has gone completely out the window.I personal
  
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• 'T2' director Danny Boyle talks about going back

  15-03-2017 18:29
  
  Director Danny Boyle talked to The Associated Press about getting the "Trainspotting" gang back together after 20 years, how "T2" is even more personal than the first and why they called it "T2."
  
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• Reverse commute: Borda returns to NY Phil from LA Phil

  15-03-2017 18:29
  
  Deborah Borda is leaving the Los Angeles Philharmonic to return to the New York Philharmonic, reversing the switch she made nearly two decades ago
  
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• Vision & Justice: Picturing Citizenship

  15-03-2017 18:22
  Friday, April 21, 2017 6:30 pmCentral LibraryA public discussion in the Grand Lobby of Central Library opens the conversation to a wider audience concerned with topics of great urgency today, such as the role of images for the creation of national policy. 
   
  
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• [FLATBUSH] Students and Shoah survivors share stories

  15-03-2017 18:17
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThis wasn’t your typical Spring Break dance party.Holocaust survivors and university students held hands and danced the hora during a special Selfhelp Community Service program at the Flatbush Jewish Center on March 2.
  The intergenerational day — filled with food, music, and dancing — was valuable for both the students and the survivors, with each generation learning something from the other. But the most valuabl
  
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• [CONEY ISLAND] Murky waters: State goes after Beach Haven for Coney creek sewage spill but won’t commit funds to clean it

  15-03-2017 18:17
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyIt’s more than poop that’s clouding the waters in Coney Island Creek.The state is moving to collect the penalties imposed on Beach Haven Apartments for dumping 200,000 gallons of raw sewage a day into the waterway — possibly for years — after the fecal flow was revealed last October. But the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is keeping mum on det
  
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• Picture Thinking: Ricky D’Ambrose’s Spiral Jetty at New Directors/New Films

  15-03-2017 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  When this publication put Ricky D’Ambrose on last fall’s 30 Under 30 list of up-and-coming Brooklynites, he said in response to the boilerplate “tell us about your next film” question: “I’ve finished a new short, called Spiral Jetty, about a young archivist hired by a celebrated New York intellectual to whitewash her late psychologist father’s reputation.”
  Indeed, Spiral Jetty, which plays as part of one of the shorts programs at this year’s
  
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• Artists on Edge: How Sure is a Visa in Trump’s Brooklyn?

  15-03-2017 17:41 via bkmag.com
  
  I’m sitting in offices of Frenkel, Hershkowitz & Shafran on 37th Street in Manhattan, which comfortingly look and smell of manila, trying to make the most of my lucky audience with what seems like one of the city’s busiest law offices. While immigration law hasn’t changed much in recent years, David Frenkel tells me, Texas-based U.S. bureaucrats responsible for approving (and increasingly, denying) visas have imposed increasingly restrictive interpretations on existing laws
  
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• The Latest: Party official suspended over Holocaust remarks

  15-03-2017 17:12
  
  France's far-right National Front party, whose leader Marine Le Pen is a top presidential candidate, has announced the suspension of a regional official for doubting the Holocaust in a new documentary
  
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• The Light Years at Playwrights Horizons Offers Little Illumination

  15-03-2017 16:47 via bkmag.com
  
  Brooklyn-based theater company the Debate Society creates their shows in an unusual way. The three core members of the group, Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, and Oliver Butler, often spend years researching elements that might make a play. In the case of The Light Years, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons, Bos took her love of the Chicago World’s Fairs of 1893 and 1933 and this was merged with Butler’s interest in Steele MacKaye, an old-fashioned impresario who created a structure c
  
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• Working as TV analyst, Derek Fisher eyes next coaching shot

  15-03-2017 16:05
  
  Derek Fisher is back in NBA arenas at the TV table but really wants to be back in the coaching box
  
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• A Guide to Dine in Brooklyn 2017

  15-03-2017 15:55 via bkmag.com
  
  Dine in Brooklyn—the borough’s own take on Restaurant Week—finally returned last summer after an extended, post-Marty Markowitz absence. And with the announcement of yet another round of reduced-price promotions ($12 for brunch, $15 for a two-course lunch and $28 for a three-course dinner) extended from March 20th-30th, it appears we’re officially back on track. So whether you’re itching to experience someplace new, or merely angling for an excuse to visit an old fa
  
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• Trump tweets dig at Snoop Dogg over mock shooting in video

  15-03-2017 14:16
  
  President Donald Trump is firing back at Snoop Dogg days after the release of a music video in which the rapper points a toy gun at clown dressed like Trump and pulls the trigger
  
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• Report: WorldStarHipHop.com founder died of natural causes

  15-03-2017 13:57
  
  Authorities say Lee O'Denat, who founded the popular website WorldStarHipHop.com, died of natural causes
  
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• Ex-New York Jet Darrelle Revis faces Pittsburgh court date

  15-03-2017 13:57
  
  Former New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis has a court date in Pittsburgh on Wednesday on charges alleging he was in a fight with two men in Pittsburgh last month
  
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• Find the perfect camp at the Brooklyn Camp Expo March 26

  15-03-2017 13:12
  
  Join the A Child Grows in Brooklyn community for the 2nd Annual Brooklyn Camp Expo, March 26, 2017, from 12pm to 3pm at Williamsburg Northside Lower School (299 N. 7th Street),  presented by A Child Grows in Brooklyn.
  This is a FREE family-friendly event for parents looking for summer camps, holiday camps and after-school programs for their children. Over 30 camp and after school program directors will be onsite to talk to parents about all the wonderful things their pro
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, March 15-21

  15-03-2017 10:35 via bkmag.com
  
  Meek’s Cutoff (2011)Directed by Kelly ReichardtIn the past decade, Reichardt has established herself as one of the most vital working American filmmakers, consistently making intensely incisive, psychologically fraught works usually centering on women. But her most masterful film to date (and one of the best films of the decade) is her most atypical. Meek’s Cutoff, Reichardt’s only period film thus far, is an unsparingly sparse depiction of the real-life story about a wagon tra
  
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• Professor's talk on South Korea a hit in home-office comedy

  15-03-2017 10:34
  
  You can see the exact moment professor Robert Kelly knows his live interview has imploded
  
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• Warriors hold off Sixers 106-104 to snap three-game skid

  15-03-2017 07:00
  
  Stephen Curry scored 29 points on his 29th birthday, Klay Thompson added 28 and the Golden State Warriors used a frenetic fourth-quarter rally to snap a three-game skid and beat the Philadelphia 76ers 106-104
  
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• Grammy-winning jazz producer Tommy LiPuma dies at 80

  15-03-2017 06:57
  
  Tommy LiPuma, a jazz and pop producer who won Grammys for collaborations with Natalie Cole and George Benson, has died
  
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• The perfect storm photos!

  15-03-2017 06:42
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By The Blizzard People BureauBrooklyn DailyLook, Winter Storm Stella wasn’t quite the borough-burying blizzard we were promised, but unlike the so-called meteorologists at the National Weather Service, our photographers are pros and they always deliver. So soothe your disappointment over Tuesday’s tempest in a teapot by checking out their epic snow snaps. Comment on this story.
  
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• Trump earned $153m and paid $36.5m in taxes in 2005

  15-03-2017 05:37
  
  Newly disclosed tax documents show President Donald Trump earned $153 million and paid $36.5 million in income taxes in 2005, paying a roughly 25 percent effective tax rate thanks to a tax he has since sought to eliminate
  
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• Alfonso Cuaron wraps filming on 'Roma' in his native Mexico

  15-03-2017 05:05
  
  For Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron, returning to film in his native Mexico was an itch that took 16 years to finally scratch
  
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• [NOT FOR NUTHIN’] A ‘Crazy Russian Hacker’ helps me sleep at night

  15-03-2017 05:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyLong ago, in my distant past, there was no such thing as continuous, 24/7 television.
  We had the basic, local channels, and If you were really fortunate you had a UHF/VHF antenna that could pick up distant channels. In fact, the dial on our television, if I remember correctly, Channel 13 had UHF/VHF stamped on it. Of course, now with remote controls and touch-screen technology, dials went the way of the T-Rex — just bones
  
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• [MIDWOOD] On their feet: Jamaican dance group honors its founder

  15-03-2017 05:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyThey are playing tribute.The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica will celebrate its 55th birthday with a pair of shows this weekend at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. The performances on March 18 and 19 will showcase the group’s history as one of the leading cultural institutions in the Caribbean, and its role in fusing traditional folklore with current events, said one of the show’s choreographers
  
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• [DANCE] On their feet: Jamaican dance group honors its founder

  15-03-2017 05:00
  
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• [BENSONHURST] Bensonhurst shows off for Brooklyn’s Bravest and Finest

  15-03-2017 05:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Kids put on Bensonhurst talent show for Brooklyn’s bravest and finestBrooklyn DailyBensonhurst’s got talent!
  Nearly a hundred budding ballerinas, musicians, and singers busted out their best beats for a Bensonhurst talent show on March 12 that honored the brave men and women who serve Brooklyn as firefighters and police. The show, “To Heroes from Children” at The Allure Group’s King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation inte
  
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• Tax story puts spotlight on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow

  15-03-2017 04:49
  
  Rachel Maddow was at the center of the political media Tuesday, with a story on President Trump's tax returns propelled by social media
  
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• At a Glance: The legal dispute over release of Trump's taxes

  15-03-2017 04:12
  The release of two pages of President Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns has sparked a legal dispute, with the White House and a major television network squaring off over whether a law was broken
  
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• White House releases Trump tax info ahead of TV report

  15-03-2017 02:00
  
  The White House says President Donald Trump made more than $150 million in income in 2005 and paid $38 million in income taxes that year
  
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• The Latest: Trump releases tax info ahead of TV report

  15-03-2017 01:41
  
  The White House says President Donald Trump made more than $150 million in income in 2005 and paid $38 million in income taxes that year
  
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• MSNBC's Rachel Maddow says the network has obtained Donald Trump tax documents from 2005

  15-03-2017 01:29
  
  MSNBC's Rachel Maddow says the network has obtained Donald Trump tax documents from 2005
  
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• Ben Affleck says he's finished alcohol addiction treatment

  15-03-2017 00:25
  
  Ben Affleck says he has recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction
  
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• Netflix to finish and release Orson Welles' final film

  15-03-2017 00:12
  
  Netflix has acquired the global rights to Orson Welles' last film and will finance its completion and restoration
  
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