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• Tramaine Brock arrested in domestic violence case, released

  07-04-2017 23:59
  
  Tramaine Brock has been released by the San Francisco 49ers following his arrest after being accused of hitting a woman he was dating
  
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• Paper alum: Collapse of local journalism in heartland led to rise of Trump

  07-04-2017 23:44
  
  Downtown: See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperAnd that’s why readers of The Brooklyn Paper didn’t vote for Trump!
  The decline of community news is the big reason President Trump rose from realty television star to leader of the free world, claims an award-winning Brooklyn Paper alum who explained his theory at a seminar about covering the Donald on Thursday night.
  “I really believe the collapse of local journalism is a huge part of the Donald Trump p
  
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• Popular Chinese comedian faces weapon, drug charges in NY

  07-04-2017 23:43
  
  A popular Chinese comedian and former judge on the "China's Got Talent" television program is facing drug and weapon charges on Long Island
  
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• Former Coney Island pol indicted in drug scam

  07-04-2017 23:34
  
  Coney Island: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyProsecutors just charged former Coney Island Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny for his alleged role in an illegal scheme to pump millions of narcotic painkillers onto the black market and rip off the health care system, the city’s office for the Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced on April 7.
  The ex-pol is among 13 charged — including doctors and other medical professionals — with running an operatio
  
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• Hold your horses! City steps in to bid for troubled Prospect Park stables

  07-04-2017 23:21
  
  Park Slope: See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperAnother potential buyer wants a seat at the stable.The city has now entered negotiations with the owner of the bankrupt Kensington Stables to purchase its aging Caton Place barn, with an eye toward keeping Brooklyn’s last remaining stables in the horse business.“[The Parks Department] is interested in keeping the property to operate stables serving Prospect Park,” said Marc Yaverbaum, the agent represe
  
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• The Latest: 'The Situation' will fight new tax charges

  07-04-2017 22:34
  
  A lawyer for "The Situation" says the former "Jersey Shore" star will plead not guilty to additional tax fraud charges
  
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• No jury verdict yet in Aaron Hernandez's double-murder trial

  07-04-2017 22:31
  
  The jury in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has finished its first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict
  
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• Glenn O'Brien, writer and 'TV Party' host, RIP

  07-04-2017 22:13
  
  Glenn O'Brien, writer, editor and host of storied late '70s / early '80s cable access show TV Party, has died at age 70 after a prolonged illness. He was a member of Warhol's factory and an editor at Interview in 1970, became Rolling Stone's NYC bureau chief in '1972, worked at High Times, and helped found Spin magazine in 1985...
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• Gym, taxes, laundry: 'The Situation' hit with more charges

  07-04-2017 21:31
  
  "Jersey Shore" star Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino and his brother have been hit with additional tax fraud charges
  
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• Serbia, Australia France & Belgium nearing Davis Cup semis

  07-04-2017 21:28
  
  Serbia, Australia, France and Belgium are one win away from reaching the Davis Cup semifinals after winning their two singles matches on Friday
  
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• Prosecutors: Reject NFL player's appeal in drug, rape case

  07-04-2017 21:20
  
  U.S. prosecutors are urging an appeals court to dismiss an effort by former NFL star Darren Sharper to shorten a nearly two-decade prison sentence for drugging and raping women
  
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• Cake Shop space is now fancy cocktail bar Kind Regards

  07-04-2017 21:14
  
  The new space is co-owned by Cake Shop co-founder Nick Bodor.
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• Celebrity chef, Trump Organization settle lawsuit

  07-04-2017 21:06
  
  Celebrity chef Jose Andres has settled his dispute with The Trump Organization after backing out of a plan to open a restaurant in Washington's Trump hotel
  
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• Steve Earle, Today is the Day & more playing free Rough Trade #RSD17 in-store

  07-04-2017 20:50
  
  Record Store Day 2017 is April 22. Also: watch a trailer for a new Today is the Day documentary.
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• Borough son heads the ‘Fighting 69th’ brigade

  07-04-2017 20:36
  
  Harbor Watch: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyBorough sonNew York Army National Guard Capt. Dennis Tierney, an Afghan War vet, took command of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion 69th Infantry — known as the “Fighting 69th” — on March 17 in Manhattan. This was the battalion’s 166th time leading the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
  The 69th Infantry, originally organized in the 19th century as a militia unit for Irish immigrants in New York, has led the cit
  
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• Film academy rules ineligible documentary series like 'O.J.'

  07-04-2017 20:34
  
  The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has ruled documentary series like the recent Oscar winner "O.J.: Made in America" will no longer be eligible for the Academy Awards
  
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• The New Pornographers put nerves about Trump into song

  07-04-2017 20:33
  
  Rock band The New Pornographers put their nerves about President Trump into a song
  
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• Dancer-actresss, 'Laugh-In' regular Chelsea Brown dies at 69

  07-04-2017 20:23
  
  Chelsea Brown, a dancer and actress who brightened "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" in the 1960s and later found success performing in Australia, has died
  
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• Coney is back!: People’s Playground opens for the season

  07-04-2017 20:13
  
  Event: See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperThe Cyclone is now a 90s kid!Brooklyn’s beloved wooden roller coaster will celebrate 90 years in operation this weekend, and its birthday party on April 9 at 10 am will also kick off the Coney Island season. One of the iconic coaster’s biggest fans is thrilled with the landmark anniversary — but said he is looking forward to a bigger party down the road.“A 90th anniversary is great! It’s har
  
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• 'Jewel in the Crown' actor Tim Pigott-Smith dies at 70

  07-04-2017 20:06
  
  Tim Pigott-Smith, a veteran British actor who recently played Prince Charles on stage and screen, has died at the age of 70
  
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• FANTASY PLAYS: Are Owings, other early performances for real

  07-04-2017 20:03
  
  The first week of the fantasy baseball season is almost in the books
  
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• Pearl Jam, Tupac, Yes, Journey to be inducted into Rock Hall

  07-04-2017 19:58
  
  Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur, Electric Light Orchestra, Journey, Yes and Joan Baez will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday
  
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• Don’t tell my mother if they kill me #2

  07-04-2017 19:58 via bkmag.com
  
  Don’t tell my mother if they kill me #2
  Tell my mom I hit the avalanche with both hands, 
  swept up the saw dust of old white men up to my abdomen
  made them listen to those who are actually losing their livesdidn’t let them insert some woebegone bs into a conversationthat extends beyond a nation or a tongue or continent
  Tell my mom I ran for the safety song of the forever-nomadswept up in the rubble of our oppressor, I never stayed stillenough to be found out or taken down, hell
  
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• Day 78/100: Mitski – "Fireproof" (One Direction cover)

  07-04-2017 19:31
  
  It's part of the 'Our First 100 Days' series.
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• Cold Beat release new LP & "In Motion" video, playing Ceremony residency in L.A.

  07-04-2017 19:06
  
  Cold Beat's third album, Chaos by Invitation, is out today via main member Hannah Lew's Crime on the Moon label. Lew, who made this record almost entirely on her own, warms up Cold Beat's sound a little this time...
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• Laura Ingraham writing book on Trump and populism

  07-04-2017 17:26
  
  Laura Ingraham's next book is a tribute to President Donald Trump, and a warning
  
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• Chloë Sevigny, Fearless and Finding Her Directorial Voice, is at Nitehawk all Month

  07-04-2017 17:05 via bkmag.com
  
  For a very long time, if someone asked about my favorite celebrity, I wouldn’t have an answer. To me, a celebrity was an empty vessel whose personality I knew nothing about. How could I form an attachment to a vessel?
  At least, that’s how I felt about celebrities until I became aware of Chloë Sevigny. Her personality on a screen felt notably authentic; not like she was Chloë Sevigny acting, but like she was actually Chloë Sevigny, the person—someone at
  
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• Spain tackles piracy to try to get closer to Premier League

  07-04-2017 16:43
  
  Spain tackles piracy to try to get closer to Premier League
  
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• Rhea Seehorn answers call on 'Better Call Saul'

  07-04-2017 16:08
  
  There's a no more quietly complex character on TV than Kim Wexler, the levelheaded, nose-to-the-grindstone lawyer who, 2 seasons into "Better Call Saul," remains full of mystery
  
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• Brian Williams calls images of US missile launch 'beautiful'

  07-04-2017 16:06
  
  Brian Williams is facing online criticism for waxing poetic about what he called "beautiful pictures" of U.S. missiles launching during an attack on a Syrian air base
  
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• Deliberations begin in ex-NFL star's double-murder trial

  07-04-2017 15:59
  
  A jury has begun deliberations in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez
  
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• MTV dumps gender-specific categories for Movie & TV Awards

  07-04-2017 14:39
  
  MTV has scrapped gender specific categories for the its upcoming Movie & TV Awards
  
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• Rickles: The man was sweet, but oh that on-stage bite

  07-04-2017 14:19
  
  Don Rickles was a sensitive man, his friends say, but onstage the comedian who died at age 90 gleefully chewed out fans and famous pals alike
  
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• Brooklyn’s San Fermin On New Album Belong, SXSW, And Using Beyoncé’s Mic

  07-04-2017 14:00 via bkmag.com
  
  There are a lot of bands based out of Brooklyn. There are a lot of bands releasing a third full-length album, a lot of bands who have been featured in The New York Times, and a lot of bands who made the trek down to this year’s SXSW in Austin,Texas.But there aren’t a lot of bands who fit all of those qualifications, with great finesse, composed of an eight-piece core and led by a Brooklyn-based Yale graduate with a degree in music composition. That Yale grad, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, is t
  
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• Scarlett Johansson: Ivanka Trump 'baffles me'

  07-04-2017 12:40
  
  Scarlett Johansson says Ivanka Trump could have a "big impact" by being vocal and she's baffled by the first daughter's reluctance to take a public stance on controversial issues related to her father's administration
  
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• Three’s company: South Shore trio lace up for last time in Mayor’s Cup

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  High School Sports: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyThe score didn’t really matter — the togetherness did.The South Shore High School girls’ hoops trio of Selena Philoxy, Tsahai Corbie and Valena Hickerson wasn’t upset with the Public School Athletic League’s 61–57 loss to the Catholic League in the Mayor’s Cup game April 2. The group wasn’t really playing to win, it was just playing together — one last time.Th
  
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• Police: We found alligator-like animal while searching for crack

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperAt least it wasn’t one of those chuds.Investigators with the 78th Precinct found a caiman — a smaller, close cousin of the alligator — lurking in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens home of an alleged crack dealer during a raid on Wednesday.
  When investigators invaded the 41-year-old suspect’s E. 21st Street home between Woodruff and Caton avenues at 6:20 am, officers say they discovered
  
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• Overture and out! ‘Orchestra’ wants to play ‘1812’ as Kosciuszko comes down

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Greenpoint: Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt’s music to their ears!Locals calling themselves the Kosciuszko Philharmonic Orchestra are petitioning the city to let them play Tchaikovsky’s famed “1812 Overture” during the planned implosion of the old Kosciuszko Bridge.The Russian composer’s symphonic masterpiece and its traditional accompaniment of cannons have long been associated with acts of w
  
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• Into the Sunset! Southern Brooklyn residents to get new ferry to Manhattan on May 1

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Sunset Park: Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By James HarneyBrooklyn PaperIt won’t be ferry long now.Southern Brooklynites will be able to get to Manhattan in less than half an hour — and for $2.75 — beginningMay 1 when the city launches the first boat in its promised borough-to-borough ferry service.Mayor DeBlasio on Thursday unveiled a new name — NYC Ferry — and a new logo for city-subsidized boats, the first of which will
  
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• Hitting his stride: St. Francis sprinter dominates in multiple events

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  High School Sports: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyIt’s been an experiment, and so far, a successful one.St. Francis senior and Marine Park native Wagner Elancieux wasn’t always a track and field standout. If he’s being honest, he’s still not certain he is.The only thing Elancieux is certain of is his willingness to try — to sign up for any event and give it everything he’s got. It’s a determination that has shaped his ca
  
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• Furniture chain store to slash parking at new location

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Marine Park: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailySometimes less is more.Furniture retailer Raymour and Flanigan is moving to a new location and plans to cut the number of parking spaces there by half — but don’t worry, the store’s lawyer told Community Board 18, the new place will still have more spots than the current location.“There is a dramatic increase in the parking, and that’s with the reduction,” said attorney Ariel Holzer
  
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• Floating restaurant sailing to Bridge Park’s Pier 6

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Awesome: See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperAll stomachs on deck!An upscale floating restaurant on an historic schooner is coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6, revealed its owner at Community Board 2’s liquor license committee meeting on Wednesday night.
  Restaurateur Alex Pincus said the eatery’s menu will be seafood-focused, but offered few details beyond that before the advisory panel voted to unanimously approve the license.
  He promised the c
  
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• Exclusive Soho House opening in Brooklyn Bridge Park

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Bridge ‘Park’: See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperSwanky members-only club Soho House is opening an outpost in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Empire Stores this fall, according to an e-mail sent to the exclusive association’s members on Tuesday.The new incarnation, called Dumbo House, will occupy the top two floors of the re-purposed 19th century warehouse retail, restaurant, and office complex, the blog Brooklyn Bridge Parents briefly reported earlie
  
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• Civil rights marcher inspires Syrian refugee students in Bay Ridge

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Bay Ridge: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyIt’s been a long walk from Selma to Bay Ridge.The youngest person to march with Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.,in 1965 visited students at Mary White Ovington elementary and middle school in Bay Ridge on March 27.
  Civil rights activist Lynda Blackmon Lowery marched when she was just 15-years-old and helped profoundly change America, proving to students today that they can make a differe
  
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• Bay Ridge is getting fancy

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Bay Ridge Nights: See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyEmbrace high-brow culture in Bay Ridge this weekend!
  Southern Brooklyn’s entertainment Mecca will take a reprieve from the typical barroom rock this weekend and step it up with opera, cabaret, and a local artisan’s market in a jazzy pizza joint.
  On Saturday, swing by Brooklyn Firefly (7003 Third Ave. at Ovington Avenue) for “Bay Ridge Bloom” — a market that lets you peruse the war
  
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• A look at Brooklyn Steel, Williamsburg’s newest music venue

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  Music: Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperIt’s Steeling the spotlight!
  Brooklyn’s newest music venue — the 1,800-person spot Brooklyn Steel in Williamsburg — opened last night with some of the best sounds and sightlines in the borough. The former steel fabrication plant on Frost Street has already sold out some of its shows through October, which makes it clear that Brooklyn needed another large venue, s
  
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• stream Joey Bada$$'s 'All-Amerikkkan Bada$$'

  07-04-2017 05:32
  
  The album features Schoolboy Q, J Cole, Styles P, and more.
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• Kendrick Lamar releasing his new album next week

  07-04-2017 05:13
  
  U2 and James Blake appear to have writing credits on the album.
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• Verne Troyer says he's being treated for alcohol addiction

  07-04-2017 04:20
  
  Actor Verne Troyer says he is receiving treatment for alcohol addiction and is thanking fans for their support
  
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• Ex-federal prosecutor laughs off firing at Trump's expense

  07-04-2017 03:58
  
  The fired U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York may have lost his job but not his sense of humor
  
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