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• Purple reign! Spike Lee celebrates Prince’s birthday with massive Bklyn bash

  07-06-2017 16:37
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt was a party fit for a prince.
  Brooklyn-born filmmaker Spike Lee hosted a massive celebration in Bedford-Stuyvesant last weekend in honor of His Royal Badness, the artist eternally known as Prince — and it was very purple, according to a friend of Lee who attended.
  “Spike wanted everybody wearing purple,” said Maija Garcia, the filmmaker’s Director of Movement, who worked with him on the 2015 film “C
  
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• The Only Thing Better Than Ordering Delivery Is… Delivery That Truly Understands You.

  07-06-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Want a $5 coupon to use on a food delivery app that totally gets you? We thought you might. Spoiler alert: That food delivery app is us! Hi, we’re Eat24, and we understand your most urgent, demanding, and salacious cravings.Whether you start your day with chicken and waffles from Pies-n-Thighs or you’re more of a late-night Thai food fiend, we promise to deliver delicious food right to your door. We recommend scrolling through some food porn on Yelp to get some order inspiration befo
  
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• BEST PRICE OF THE YEAR: Register TODAY for the Synchrony Financial Rock ‘n’ Roll Brooklyn Half Marathon in October!

  07-06-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series team will be in your neck of the woods this week in celebration of Global Running Day!
  Join us TODAY, June 7, at lululemon’s HUB Seventeen in Flatiron from 12-2:30pm. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Brooklyn team will be on site to answer questions about the 2017 Synchrony Financial Rock ‘n’ Roll Brooklyn Half Marathon, taking place on Saturday, October 14. Learn about the course, network with other runners, and win raffle prizes! We&
  
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• 15 NYC Bands You Need To Hear

  07-06-2017 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Northside Festival has arrived, and—God-willing—it should coincide with the most live music-friendly weather possible. Hundreds of musicians  will descend upon Brooklyn, but we have to keep reminding ourselves that for most, it’s a very short commute. Over half of the artists are NYC residents on a daily grind (like us!), and don’t get talked about nearly enough. In an effort to change that, we highlight several artists each year, and suggest
  
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• “Unlearning And Relearning”: Talking to Writer Balli Kaur Jaswal About Her American Debut, Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows

  07-06-2017 13:16 via bkmag.com
  
  Balli Kaur Jaswal—author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, her dark and funny U.S. debut—and my paths crossed in Singapore, as part of the country’s small, tight-knit literary community. I was enchanted by Inheritance, her impressive debut novel that traverses the island-state’s history from 1970 to 1990, the first English-language novel about Singapore’s Punjabi-Sikh diaspora. The novel was published in Australia, where Jaswal lived and worked as a secondary-sc
  
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• This Year’s Northside Innovation Has Something for Everyone

  07-06-2017 13:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Festival season is upon us, and although New York’s highly publicized Governor’s Ball wrapped this past weekend, Northside Festival, crowned Brooklyn’s answer to SXSW by The New York Times, is just beginning. Now in its ninth year running, Northside spans over 30 venues across Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick, spotlighting hundreds of rising creatives—not only in the music scene, but also the latest innovations.
  Northside Innovation is a carefully curated three-day
  
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• Queens meet Kings: The fab ladies of ‘Priscilla’ get a Brooklyn makeover

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyAll aboard Priscilla!The famous Australian film about drag queens trekking across the Outback will get a Brooklyn-style makeover this summer. The live musical “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” opening at the Old Stone House in Park Slope on July 6, changes the setting from 1990s Australia to modern-day America, but the difficult journey the characters take, confronting homophobic locals in small desert towns, remains th
  
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• Purple reign! Spike Lee celebrates Prince’s birthday with massive Bklyn party

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt was a party fit for a prince.
  Brooklyn-born filmmaker Spike Lee hosted a massive celebration in Bedford-Stuyvesant last weekend in honor of His Royal Badness, the artist eternally known as Prince — and it was very purple, according to a friend of Lee who attended.
  “Spike wanted everybody wearing purple,” said Maija Garcia, the filmmaker’s Director of Movement, who worked with him on the 2015 film “C
  
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• Party with a purpose! Local group celebrates 150 years of community service

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt was an affair to remember!
  Actress Debi Mazar emceed a gala on Monday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of a local social services provider — and it was a night for the organization’s history book, said a spokeswoman for the group that got its start helping Civil War-era street kids.“It was a wonderful, inspiring night,” said Sonya Shields, an external relations rep for Brooklyn Community Services. &ldquo
  
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• Irate driver bashes traffic cop issuing him a ticket

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn Paper88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillIrate driverPolice are hunting a bruiser who bashed a traffic cop trying to give him a ticket for blocking the bike lane on DeKalb Avenue on May 29.
  The traffic agent was issuing a ticket to a double-parked car blocking the bike lane near Rockwell Place at 1:56 pm when the driver confronted him, asking “What are you doing?” police said. The cop told the scofflaw he had to move h
  
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• Golden opportunity: Locals demand state Sen. Golden back universal health care

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailySouthern Brooklynites rallied in front of state Sen. Martin Golden’s Bay Ridge office on May 31 demanding the legislator support a single-payer, universal health care bill that’s stalled in the state Senate.
  The New York Health Act aims to replace New York’s multi-payer system with a program that would universally cover state residents. But the legislation is tied up in the Senate’s health committee, and
  
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• Drag queens rule! Where the girls are during Brooklyn Pride

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyQueens are taking over the county of Kings!
  Brooklyn Pride is this weekend, and gender-bending performers will take center stage — sometimes literally — at a bevy of events around the borough. Here’s a brief guide for those who want to have a weekend out with the girls.Drag-ulous TVFriday nights belong to legendary queen RuPaul, and her reality television show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” The ninth s
  
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• Comeback in Coney: FDNY tops NYPD in gridiron matchup

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Kyle GormanBrooklyn DailyThe clock stood at 00:00. The game was over. The crowd was shuffling out. The grass was shredded, some blades sprinkled with the blood and sweat of the players. New York’s Bravest and New York’s Finest had battled it out, hit and tackled and fought.The FDNY gridders clinched a 24–21 comeback victory over their NYPD counterparts in the 45th Annual Fun City Bowl at MCU Park on June 3, but even as the chants of &ldquo
  
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• Clippers can’t connect, fall in shutout loss

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyOnce again, their bats went silent.
  The Xaverian baseball team dropped its second-straight shutout loss on June 5, falling 2–0 to Monsignor McClancy in an elimination game of the Catholic High School Athletic Association “AA” playoffs.
  “All year that’s really been our issue,” said Clippers coach Frank Del George. “We just really didn’t hit this year. This team, for some reason, couldn&
  
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• Bay Ridgite saves man in London terror attack

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyTalk about a local hero!
  A brave Bay Ridgite on vacation in London sprung into action during Saturday’s terror attack when a wounded man stumbled to the pub where he was eating and collapsed on the sidewalk. Mark Kindschuh, the quick thinking 19-year-old, darted out from safety and wrapped his belt around the man’s gushing head wound to quell the bleeding. It was selfless instinct, said his father.
  “He thought
  
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• An ‘Evil Loser’ is as an ‘Evil Loser’ does

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyLong ago, when I first started to write a column, my fellow columnist, pagemate, and friend Shavana Abruzzo gave me one bit of advice.
  She said, “No matter what a reader comments on your column, let them — do not engage — everyone has a right to their opinion.”
  Through the many years, and many columns, and many comments, both negative and positive, I have heeded that advice. All have a right to their opin
  
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• A new Cyclones season is coming, but Tebowmania isn’t

  07-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matt JohnBrooklyn DailyTim Tebow in a Brooklyn Cyclones uniform, smacking home runs over the right field wall and patrolling the outfield at MCU Park? Fugheddaboudit!Fans who were hoping to see the sometimes popular, sometimes polarizing former college football star turned professional baseball player join Brooklyn’s beloved Class A, short-season New York-Penn League team this summer should prepare to be disappointed: The Mets organization has announc
  
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