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• Primavera Sound: 2017 webcast / livestream schedule (watch here)

  31-05-2017 23:42
  
  The Barcelona festival will be live-streaming over 50 performances by Run the Jewels, Afghan Whigs, Angel Olsen, Broken Social Scene, Mac DeMarco & more.
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• Your Ideal Week: June 1-7, remember that one episode of The Sopranos?

  31-05-2017 22:39
  
  Revisit Sleepless in Seattle for a good cause.
  Hey everybody, and welcome to the first June edition of Your Ideal Week, coming at you from the middle of a sudden burst of gorgeous sunny weather in the best borough in the greatest city in the world. Man, that gray, drizzly rain was getting old, huh? Sorry if any of you took our advice from last week and planned your evening last night around Manhattanhenge–looks like it was a bust! Pat Kieran et al were reporting this am that tomorrow will
  
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• Trump Tweeted ‘Covfefe’ In The Middle Of The Night And ???????

  31-05-2017 17:20 via bkmag.com
  
  So, it’s about 1:10 in the morning, and I’m sitting there minding my own business. Like most people up at that hour, I had no reason for it—just wasting time that I could be sleeping ahead of my usual 6:00 wake-up. And then I noticed something funny.
  The word ‘Covfete’ was trending, and popping up in a few tweets coming across my feed. What was this? A little bit of homework (like, 20 seconds, tbh), and I was given a swift conclusion to my inquiry:
  Now, th
  
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• How a Script Becomes a Pilot: Everything You Need to Know from Two New York Shorts Film Festival Participants

  31-05-2017 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Often, having the urge to create something, and the confidence and know-how to pull it off, is a tough bridge to gap. Instead, most of our ideas remain stuck in our heads, because confronting the enormity of producing them, not to mention our own self doubt, is scary and hard.
  But let’s jump ahead a couple of steps: Say you not only have a great idea—say for a TV pilot—say you’ve already written it. How on earth, if you’v
  
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• Bernie Sanders attacks Trump, celebrates diversity at Brooklyn College commencement

  31-05-2017 15:56
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperHe’s Bernin’ up!Brooklyn-born Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders denounced racism, sexism, and xenophobia during his address to graduates of Brooklyn College at the Barclays Center on May 30, and used the podium to unleash a thinly veiled attack on President Trump.“If we are prepared to stand together, if we take on greed and selfishness, if we refuse to allow demagogues to divide us up, there is no end to what the g
  
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• From exoneration to elevation: His name cleared, John O’Hara is running for judgeship

  31-05-2017 15:15
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperA Brooklyn legal iconoclast is looking to go from the dock to the bench.The recently exonerated Sunset Park attorney John O’Hara is running for a judgeship in Brooklyn’s Civil Court. O’Hara — whose controversial conviction for voter fraud was overturned this past January after 20 years — believes he brings a fresh face to the bench that’s necessary for fairness and justice inside the courtroom,
  
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• Whiskey, rocks: X-pansive whiskey fest comes to Red Hook

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt’s a high-proof of concept show!A new whiskey tasting event coming to Red Hook will feature more than 60 spirits, a rock show, and a half-dozen other activities. The founder of the Whisky X, coming to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on June 8, hopes that some high-tech planning and an expansive venue will keep visitors from feeling too addled during the intoxicating event.“Some of these experiences can be kind of overwhel
  
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• Thief wheels away with two scooters from Union Street home

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne Cubafor Brooklyn Paper76th PrecinctCarroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red HookScooted out of there
  A nogoodnik grabbed two scooters from outside a home on Union Street sometime overnight on May 21, police said.
  The baddie ran off with the two Razor scooters from outside the home between Van Brunt and Columbia streets sometime between 8 pm and 6:15 am the next day, according to authorities.
  Whacked with woodA cur hit a woman with a wooden plank insid
  
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• State Senate’s rogue Dems trade barbs

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperThe state Senate Democrats who refuse to sit with their party are now fighting among themselves.State Sen. Simcha Felder (D–Midwood) — who took home an award for being one of New York’s top conservative pols and who has drawn ire from his colleagues for sitting across the aisle with the Republicans — penned a letter to the head of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference on May 24 urging the group of
  
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• Police: Store employee takes thousands worth of iPhones

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Paper78th PrecinctPark Slope
  iThiefCops arrested a worker at a Flatbush Avenue chain store for allegedly stealing more than $6,000 worth of iPhones from his employer in a spree beginning on May 2.A manager told police the suspect, who worked at the retailer near Atlantic Avenue, nabbed six top-of-the-line smartphones over the course of several weeks, ending on May 19, after which he was arrested the following day.Have a beerCops have gi
  
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• Police: Man whips guy with belt on W. 20th Street

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Daily60th PrecinctConey Island—Brighton Beach—SeagateWhip itPolice arrested a man for beating a guy with a belt on W. 20th Street on May 22.The victim told police that he was between Neptune and Mermaid avenues at 2 am when the man jumped out at him and began whipping him in the chest and back with the belt. Emergency responders took the victim to Coney Island Hospital and police on the scene cuffed the suspect, accordin
  
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• Oh Captain, my Captain! Coney street co-named after local war hero

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matt JohnBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn war hero Capt. Michael Berdy was honored in his native Coney Island with a street co-naming on West Aveneue on May 22.Thanks to a push by Community Board 13 and Councilman Mark Treyger (D–Coney Island), West Avenue between Ocean Parkway and West 5th Street is now Captain Michael E. Berdy Way.Local leaders gathered a week before Memorial Day for a ceremony to unveil the new street sign and pay tribute to a hero who dies
  
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• Jo’s mad about evil losers and loose lips!

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyMy anger level has reached critical mass.In a world that is full of tragedy, little girls being shredded and maimed by a homemade shrapnel bomb, in a loser’s feeble attempt to gain admittance to 72 virgins and paradise, the only thing the media morons have to complain about is that our president Donald Trump called them “Evil Losers.”
  Damn, he is absolutely, 100-percent correct. What type of winner blows up chi
  
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• Families flock to Brooklyn’s backyard for Marine Day festivities

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperDon’t call them army brats!
  Families occupied Prospect Park on Saturday for a day of activities hosted by the U.S. Marine Corps that attracted adults and children interested in military service, and those who attended said it was a spectacle to behold, particularly for the tots.“Children can learn about how military people work, what they actually do,” said Eva Dabrowski, a Coney Island resident who attended with
  
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• Dead man found in Prospect Park

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperPolice found a man dead on Sunday in a homeless encampment in Prospect Park.Officers discovered the unidentified 57-year-old face up inside a tent pitched on Quaker Hill — a woody section of the park between the Long Meadow baseball fields and the Nethermead — after a person alerted them at 2:19 pm, according to a police source.
  A makeshift tent camouflaged with leaves and a lean-to filled with discarded odds and ends w
  
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• Clod tries to melt store’s lock open with blowtorch

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Paper62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachBlowtorch baddieA goon tried to melt a lock open with a blowtorch on Highlawn Avenue on May 25.The owner of the store told police that she entered her business between W. Seventh and W. Eighth streets at 9:30 pm to discover a blowtorch beside the entrance to the cellar. The lock was damaged, but intact, according to a police report.
  Security camera footage showed a man armed with a blowt
  
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• Brutes beat up teen over $20 fidget spinner toy

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn Daily61st PrecinctSheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
  Manhattan Beach—GravesendWhat a spin!A brute and his accomplice swiped a fidget spinner from a Nostrand Avenue store on May 28 and beat up a teen who tried to stop them, police said.The baddie grabbed the $20 stress-relieving toy from the store near Avenue T at about 3 pm, and when a 17-year-old boy confronted him, he hit the teen in the face, causing a cut on the right side
  
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• Bernie Sanders delivers commencement address to Brooklyn College class of 2017

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperSen. Bernie Sanders finally got his Brooklyn College degree!
  The Flatbush-native and James Madison High School alum rallied the more than 4,100 Brooklyn College graduates during his keynote address at the university’s 92nd commencement ceremony at Barclays Center on May 30.
  The former presidential hopeful — who enrolled at the Flatbush campus in 1959 but ended up graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964 &mdash
  
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• Bandits smash into nightclub to steal $15,000

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn Paper88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillHitting the clubBandits broke into a Clinton Avenue nightclub and stole more than $15,000 from a cash dispenser on May 26.
  Someone broke through the wall of the club between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street around 2 am and damaged two automated teller machines, according to cops.
  Cash was only taken from one machine, but the thieves got away with $15,700, according to the report.Lean a
  
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• A pour choice! Café owner removes sign depicting peeping Tom from bathroom door after internet outrage

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperCall it an unrest-room.
  Web users from across the country intimidated a Park Slope café owner into removing a bathroom sign depicting a peeping tom on May 26, with cyber critics claiming it was out of touch and promoted rape culture.“‘F--- you,’ ‘Go f--- yourself,’ ‘Go back to your country’ — they tried to destroy the business,” said Luca Tesconi, the owner of Clever Blen
  
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• A comprehensive guide to this summer’s outdoor films

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By the Cinematic Scouting Bureaufor Brooklyn PaperWho needs air-conditioning? There is no better place to watch a classic film than under the stars in Brooklyn. This summer’s outdoor films screenings are already in full swing, so grab your picnic blanket and mosquito repellent, and head to one of these (mostly) free screenings:Rooftop FilmsThis outdoor summer series, now in its 11th year, screens feature films, documentaries, and short film anthologies a
  
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