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• Trump: 'Apprentice' contestant can't sue while I'm president

  28-03-2017 23:28
  
  Republican President Donald Trump's lawyers say he's immune while president from defamation claims brought by a former contestant on his reality TV show "The Apprentice."
  
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• Star gymnasts testify at Congress about sex-abuse scandal

  28-03-2017 22:57
  
  Retired star gymnasts have told a Senate committee of being sexually abused by a USA Gymnastics doctor
  
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• Ivanka Trump, Education Secretary DeVos promote STEM careers

  28-03-2017 22:29
  
  Ivanka Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos say it's vital that girls and young women pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math
  
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• 30 days and counting before 2017 Jazz Fest launch

  28-03-2017 22:10
  
  It's 30 days and counting until nearly 600 performers converge on the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course for the annual celebration of music known as Jazz Fest
  
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• Library patron returns book he took in 1982, plus $200

  28-03-2017 22:08
  
  A patron who confessed to stealing a book from a Montana library in 1982 has returned the book after reading it at least 25 times, having it restored and having the author sign it
  
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• Movie studios look to young, diverse audiences for growth

  28-03-2017 22:07
  
  The future of Hollywood movies is in the hands of young and diverse audiences
  
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• '60 Minutes' tops ratings for first time since 2008

  28-03-2017 21:50
  
  Once a familiar leader, '60 Minutes' was tops in the television ratings last week for the first time since 2008
  
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• New Jersey university is looking to sell its music college

  28-03-2017 21:41
  
  A New Jersey university wants to sell its music college to another institution
  
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• Florida coach sorry after shoving Auburn player after game

  28-03-2017 21:16
  
  Florida softball coach Tim Walton has apologized after a postgame shoving match with Auburn shortstop Haley Fagan
  
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• O'Reilly apologizes for jest about Maxine Waters' hair

  28-03-2017 20:59
  
  Fox's Bill O'Reilly has apologized for saying he had a hard time concentrating on California Rep. Maxine Waters during a speech because he was distracted by her "James Brown wig."
  
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• Review: Guy Clark tribute, more on Rodney Crowell's latest

  28-03-2017 20:22
  
  "Close Ties" is Rodney Crowell's his first album in more than three years, and the set ranks among his best
  
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• Hether Fortune on the Dark Prophetic Sounds of Wax Idols

  28-03-2017 19:54 via bkmag.com
  
  “In my ten plus years as a working musician, I’ve been told time and time again that I would be more successful if I were quieter, more mysterious, less aggressive, less assertive,” Hether Fortune tells me.
  It’s counterintuitive to think that the quieter a musician is, the more they are exalted by the music industry, but it’s something Wax Idols’ front woman, Hether Fortune, has been battling for a decade. Since 2011, she has released three full length albums
  
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• Wondering where to volunteer? There’s an app for that and it’s called DEED

  28-03-2017 19:40
  
  Savvy non-profits make it easy to donate to support their work, but an online transaction doesn’t always satisfy the urge to support a cause. The desire to show up in person and volunteer your time and energy is a powerful motivator, but it can be a challenge to find the right place to volunteer, and long application processes and background checks may frustrate would-be do gooders, ready and raring to get involved.A newish app called DEED offers an immediate way to volunteer, and ai
  
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• Public television chief says Trump budget would hit options

  28-03-2017 19:34
  
  President Donald Trump's proposal to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have the most dramatic effect on rural and minority communities with some local television and radio stations eventually having to close
  
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• Documentarian Ken Burns making film on Muhammad Ali

  28-03-2017 19:27
  
  PBS documentarian Ken Burns and 2 partners say they're making a film on the late boxer Muhammad Ali
  
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• Family files lawsuit in Canadian filmmaker's Keys dive death

  28-03-2017 19:19
  
  The family of a Canadian filmmaker and conservationist who died during a shark filming excursion in the Florida Keys has filed a wrongful death lawsuit
  
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• Review: 'Lola' is tough, gritty, graphic crime thriller

  28-03-2017 19:11
  
  Book Review: "Lola" by Melissa Scrivner Love is a tough, gritty and graphic crime novel
  
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• To Wesley Snipes, Thanks for Everything, America

  28-03-2017 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Major League: Wesley Snipes in FocusMarch 31-April 9 at BAM
  The 25th anniversary of the release of Ron Shelton’s beloved and irresistible interracial sports bromance White Men Can’t Jump is the token occasion of BAM’s 11-film tribute to its co-lead, Wesley Snipes, but of course no tie-in is necessary to celebrate the work of one of the finest and most versatile actors the American star system has yet produced. Snipes’s greatness touched the 80s and aughts, but it was at a
  
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• Darlene Cates, the mother in 'Gilbert Grape,' dies at 69

  28-03-2017 18:59
  
  Darlene Cates, who played the morbidly obese, housebound mother in the 1993 film "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," has died
  
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• A wedding menu to match your style and vision: Red Table Catering

  28-03-2017 18:43
  
   
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  With over 20 years of cooking experience in London, Santiago, Chile, Austin, TX, and New York City, Red Table Catering owner and head chef Brooke Costello can create any wedding menu to match your unique style and vision.
  The Brooklyn-based catering company, founded in 2002, works with a team of experienced event and wedding professionals to help bring your vision to life. While every event is different, they understand that each occasion calls for the fines
  
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• Not so fast: Phelps participating in Shark Week this summer

  28-03-2017 18:41
  
  Discovery says swimming champ Michael Phelps will be featured in the network's annual Shark Week this summer
  
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• Former Brooklyn prosecutor charged with wiretapping coworker, cop

  28-03-2017 18:20
  
  Crime: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThe Feds charged a former prosecutor in the District Attorney’s office with forging judges’ signatures in order to illegally wiretap the phone conversations and text messages of two people for more than a year, said a spokesman for the Department of Justice on Monday.
  Former assistant district attorney Tara Lenich — who supervised other assistant district attorneys in the office — allegedly cut out t
  
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• Florida coach apologizes to Auburn player after shove

  28-03-2017 18:17
  
  Florida softball coach Tim Walton has apologized after a postgame shoving match with Auburn shortstop Haley Fagan
  
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• Reputed mobster gets prison for plotting to kill crime rival

  28-03-2017 18:13
  
  A Nevada man who authorities say is a member of the New Jersey crime family believed to be the model for HBO's "The Sopranos" is headed to prison for plotting the death of an organized crime rival
  
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• 'The Outsider' by Anthony Franze is a satisfying mystery

  28-03-2017 18:07
  
  Review: "The Outsider" by Anthony Franze is a satisfying mystery
  
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• 'Vicious Cycle' by C.J. Box rings with emotional resonance

  28-03-2017 17:44
  
  Book Review: "Vicious Cycle" by C.J. Box is a compelling tale that rings with emotional resonance
  
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• Selling water: Coke, Pepsi look to make water rain money

  28-03-2017 17:41
  
  Bottled water is starting to seem more like soda, and sometimes taste like it, too
  
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• Syrian poet Adonis wins $50,000 lifetime achievement prize

  28-03-2017 17:30
  
  Syrian poet and translator Adonis has won a $50,000 prize from PEN America for lifetime achievement
  
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• Romania: ex-minister sentenced to 6 years for bribes

  28-03-2017 17:07
  
  A court has handed a former Romanian tourism minister a six-year sentence for bribery and abuse of office connected to a boxing gala that she organized
  
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• On Brooklyn Paper Radio: Why New York needs to rip up its constitution!

  28-03-2017 17:01
  
  Podcast: Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperNew York’s state capital is a den of corruption controlled by just three men that must be cleaned up, and the only way to do it is to rip up its constitution and rewrite it from scratch, claims a man who worked in the belly of the beast for almost 10 years.Appearing on this week’s edition of Brooklyn Paper Radio, former state Sen. Seymour Lachman, a democrat who represen
  
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• Alec Baldwin 'stunned' at popularity of Trump impression

  28-03-2017 16:31
  
  Alec Baldwin is 'stunned' at popularity of his impersonation of President Donald Trump on 'Saturday Night Live'
  
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• Meet Egg Shop’s Mouthwatering, Reimagined Breakfast Sandwich

  28-03-2017 16:11 via bkmag.com
  
  No one—least of all first-time restaurant owners Sara Schneider and her husband Demetri Makoulis—could have predicted what a fly-away success Egg Shop would become. When they opened the 32-seat spot in Nolita in 2014 with Nick Korbee (formerly the executive chef at Smith & Mills in Tribeca), they just wanted to open an eatery dedicated to the ingredient they were most obsessed with: eggs. Two-and-a-half years later, Egg Shop is an Instagram sensation with a celebrity following (
  
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• Abby Lee Miller quits 'Dance Moms' before fraud sentencing

  28-03-2017 15:08
  
  "Dance Moms" star Abby Lee Miller says she has quit the Lifetime reality series ahead of her scheduled May sentencing on federal bankruptcy fraud charges
  
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• Messi faces FIFA action for insults in World Cup qualifier

  28-03-2017 15:04
  
  FIFA says it has opened a disciplinary case against Lionel Messi after TV pictures showed the Argentina forward verbally abusing a match official in a World Cup qualifying game against Chile
  
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• The Golden Door: Welcome Home

  28-03-2017 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  My mother still remembers two questions from her 1966 U.S. immigration paperwork (and there was a lot of paperwork):
  1) Are you planning to overthrow the American government?
  2) Are you planning to work as a prostitute?
  In case you’re wondering, she answered—honestly—no to both questions. So did my dad.
  My father first came to the United States in the 1950s to get his master’s degree at Harvard University. He was an Egyptian citizen back then, and went back to Cairo after
  
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• Review: 'The Zookeeper's Wife' tells a riveting true story

  28-03-2017 14:54
  
  In German-occupied Poland during World War II, a zookeeper and his wife save hundreds of Jews by giving them refuge on the zoo grounds in an extraordinary true story dramatized rather effectively in "The Zookeeper's Wife."
  
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• Review: Heston bio returns star of 'Ben-Hur' to epic stature

  28-03-2017 14:52
  
  Review: Charlton Heston biography returns star of "Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur" to epic stature he deserves
  
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• Smurfette is shunned in Israeli ultra-Orthodox city

  28-03-2017 14:44
  
  PR company promoting Smurfs latest movie says it's removed Smurfette from promo posters in ultra-Orthodox Israeli city
  
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• Expanded audiobook of 'The Handmaid's Tale' coming next week

  28-03-2017 14:15
  Margaret Atwood hasn't quite finished telling "The Handmaid's Tale."
  
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• Costume Party: Georgy Girl in Swinging London

  28-03-2017 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Costume Party is a monthly column exploring fashion, personal style, and historical aesthetics in film.
  Film Forum’s Brit New Wave series, which began last week and runs through April 6th, offers a variety of looks, from scruffy working class, to tailored suits, to mod. Silvio Narizzano’s Georgy Girl (1966), playing on the final day of the series, is a tale of female rivalry that uses costume to clearly demarcate between two London roommates, one frumpy and one glamorous. Georgy (Lyn
  
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• Will Smith, 'Fresh Prince' cast enjoy brief reunion

  28-03-2017 12:19
  
  Will Smith has reunited with his "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" cast mates
  
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• 'Spider-Man,' 'Blade Runner' footage kicks off CinemaCon

  28-03-2017 11:14
  
  Sony Pictures on Monday unveiled the second trailer for "Spider-Man: Homecoming" at CinemaCon, featuring Tom Holland, the newly anointed web-slinger, being put in his place by Robert Downey Jr.'s more seasoned Tony Stark
  
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• Worst humanitarian crisis hits as Trump slashes foreign aid

  28-03-2017 10:56
  
  The world's largest humanitarian crisis in 70 years has been declared in 3 African countries on the brink of famine, just as President Donald Trump's proposed budget threatens to pull the U.S. from its historic role as the world's top emergency donor
  
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• Golden Globe winner Christine Kaufmann dies in Germany

  28-03-2017 10:00
  
  Christine Kaufmann, an Austrian-born actor who became the country's first Golden Globe winner and was married to Tony Curtis in the 1960s, has died
  
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• Sour note: Brexit forces orchestra move from UK to Belgium

  28-03-2017 09:11
  
  It's a resonant moment of European cultural harmony: a Swedish soprano and a pan-European orchestra rehearsing a Bach cantata in a medieval English church
  
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• Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 2-8

  28-03-2017 08:01
  
  Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 2-8
  
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• Club shooting victim: 'All I was thinking about was my kids'

  28-03-2017 06:58
  A mother of five who was wounded in the Cincinnati nightclub shooting is describing a chaotic scene in which she and other club patrons were crawling over one another to reach the exits
  
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• Flower power! City uses planters to stop illegal parking on Jay Street

  28-03-2017 06:23
  
  Mean Streets: See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperTrees a crowd!Illegal parking along Jay Street has become so rampant that the city is now using big tree-filled planters to block drivers from stashing their rides in illicit locations — the only natural way to stop the Downtown street from going to pot, according to one regular commuter.“I think the planters, the physical barriers, are the only things that are going to keep cars from parking,” said P
  
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• Madison can’t mount upset, fall in Federation semis

  28-03-2017 06:00
  
  High School Sports: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyThe shot went in, but too late.
  The James Madison girls basketball team came up just short of a monumental upset, falling 57–55 to two-time defending champs Staten Island Academy in the New York Federation “A” semifinals at the Glens Falls Civic Center on March 25.
  The Lady Golden Knights connected on what would have been the game-tying bucket, but the buzzer had already gone off and the shot di
  
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• Hashem-approved cookies!

  28-03-2017 06:00
  
  Georgetown: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyNosh on this!
  The new Fairway Market in bustling Georgetown now offers fresh kosher pastries, muffins, and scones in its bakery.
  Locals have long griped about the lack of kosher grub in the neighborhood, so everyone is salivating for some Rabbi-approved treats, said the founder of the Jewish Community Council of Marine Park.“I think it will be an enhancement. They will definitely have people patronize the establi
  
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