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• Groove patrol: City admits cabaret law is discriminatory, but defends it anyway as pols push repeal

  20-06-2017 21:46
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey’re officially dancing around the issue.
  The DeBlasio administration is defending an antiquated law that forbids dancing in venues unless they have a difficult-to-obtain license, but at the same time admits that legislation has discriminatory roots, according to a spokeswoman who claimed the law is not being enforced to marginalize people at a Monday City Hall hearing.
  “We are aware of the historical issues of the la
  
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• Whatever Happened to Kathleen Collins?

  20-06-2017 20:01 via bkmag.com
  
  On February 6, 2015, Losing Ground opened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Centering on a summer during the unraveling marriage of a professor and an artist, this was its first theatrical run. Intended to play at the theater for one week, it was extended to last for twenty days due to its popularity. At the Film Society, it was part of a series called “Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986,” co-presented by Creatively Speaking, a film series by Michelle
  
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• There’s no dancing around it: Councilman Rafael Espinal talks cabaret laws with Gersh and Vince

  20-06-2017 18:17
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn PaperGet your groove on — on Brooklyn Paper Radio!Bushwick Councilman Rafael Espinal Jr. wants to put the kibosh on the city’s controversial cabaret laws — which prohibit bars and restaurants from allowing dancing without a license — and he’s coming on Brooklyn Paper Radio today to tell you why.And host Gersh Kuntzman couldn’t agree more that the law limits the right to dance to just a few chosen r
  
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• Chatting with Jake Dell, Owner of Katz’s Deli, on Crossing the Bridge Into Brooklyn

  20-06-2017 17:49 via bkmag.com
  
  The 60,000-square foot DeKalb Market Hall purposely devoted a majority of its headquarters to up-and-coming, Brooklyn-born purveyors. Yet there’s no denying their marquee vendors’ entrenched, Lower East Side cred: that would be the 129-year-old Katz’s, which has peddled pastrami on the corner of E. Houston since 1888.
  But to hear owner Jake Dell tell it, the deli’s once-in-a-century expansion could only have happened in Brooklyn. And certainly, even the staunchest bo
  
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• Natural deodorants that actually work

  20-06-2017 15:33
  
  Summer in New York is all about smells. Linden trees and burgers on the grill, yes, but also urine, the boiling ketchup scent of hot garbage, and all those sweaty armpits in your face on the train. Lately, in the interest of eliminating potentially toxic chemicals from our grooming routines, we’ve been obsessively testing natural deodorants, but as anyone who has ever purchased a stick of Tom’s of Maine knows, a lot of them really don’t work. At all.
  So, at great olfactory ris
  
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• After rainout, Cyclones to open season tonight in Coney Island

  20-06-2017 15:11
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperOnly a cyclone can stop the Cyclones!High winds and heavy downpours washed away the Cyclones’ season opener with the hated Staten Island Yankees on the Rock last night, putting the Brooklyn debut of a catcher named Sanchez and a would-be pipefitter named Johnson on hold for at least a day.Last night’s opener at Richmond County Bank Ballpark on bucolic Staten Island was called early in the afternoon and will be played J
  
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• What the truck! Garbage hauler flips fellow four-wheeler

  20-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyA garbage hauler plowed into a truck stuffed with seafood in Sunset Park on June 17.
  The trucks were cruising along First Avenue and 52nd Street toward Bay Ridge at 4 pm, when the fishy four-wheeler floored it hoping to pass the sanitation truck. But the vehicles collided and the waste hauler swerved into the box truck, flipping it on its side, according to an eyewitness.
  Both drivers were removed to Lutheran Medical Center wit
  
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• TONIGHT Marine Park Civic hosts narcotic-overdose prevention training

  20-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThe Marine Park Civic Association is hosting an overdose-prevention training session to combat the rising heroin epidemic during its next meeting at the Carmine Carro Center on June 20.The devastating problem prompted the local civic group to address the wide-spread issue, and bring in professionals who can provide neighbors with the life-saving drug known as Naloxone — that can quickly reverse the effects of a potentially f
  
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• Sweet success! Clinton Hill Girl Scout is borough’s top cookie seller

  20-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperShe is one smart cookie!A 7-year-old Clinton Hill Girl Scout sold a sweet 1,514 boxes of the organization’s beloved baked goods this year, making her the borough’s top saleswoman, reps from Girl Scouts of Greater New York said.
  “It taught me how to get better at advertising, and counting money,” said Almira Williams of Troop 2537. “And it makes people happy because sometimes they can’t find the
  
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• Slopers in ‘Seventh Heaven’! Annual street fair hits Seventh Avenue

  20-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt was heaven on earth.Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue pulsed with vendors, artisans, and carnival rides on Sunday for the neighborhood’s 43rd annual “Seventh Heaven” street fair, a day of festivities that locals said was a little slice of paradise.
  “We had an amazing time,” said Park Slope resident Karen Roberto, who brought her 8-year-old daughter to the event. “We are so happy we went.&rdquo
  
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• Ready to rumble: Brooklyn boxer anxious for mixed martial arts debut

  20-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.File photo by William ThomasBrooklyn DailyShe’s not leaving boxing — she’s just getting a second job.Gerritsen Beach native Heather Hardy built a career in the ring, but now she’s ready to try her hand, and her fists, in the octagon. Hardy is set to make her mixed martial arts debut on June 24, taking on Alice Yauger at Madison Square Garden on the Bellator 180 card.It’s not a career change, she insists, simply a brand new challen
  
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• Good Eats: Food fest will showcase the borough’s best

  20-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Jownfor Brooklyn PaperBrooklyn feeds the world!At the Brooklyn Eats food and beverage trade show on June 23, Brooklynites can sample an entire world of food in one afternoon. Many Brooklyn-made food products are distributed so widely that some people might not even realized that they originate right here in the borough, said a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the annual food extravaganza.“Many of these products tha
  
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• Flash offense: Cosmos notch comeback over Puerto Rico FC

  20-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.The New York CosmosBrooklyn DailyIf you blinked, you missed it.A few moments of spectacular offense were all the New York Cosmos needed to score a 4–2 win over Puerto Rico FC on June 16 at MCU Park.New York trailed 2–1 early and struggled to find offense for much of the game, but a pair of second-half goals, in just five minutes, from midfielders Emmanuel Ledesma and Walter Restrepo gave the squad a spectacular come-from-behind victory.Cosmos coach
  
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• AirbnBusted: City cracks down on two makeshift hotels in Southern Brooklyn

  20-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyTalk about inn-undated!
  Officials cleared out a pair of Southern Brooklyn buildings on June 14 and 15 that had been illegally diced into dozens of illicit hotel rooms — including a two-family home that crammed nearly 30 renters into conditions that imperiled lodgers and neighbors, said a city spokesman.“Not only did these owners illegally take these units off the market, but they created life-threatening housing con
  
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• Comedienne = Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls with Jherek Bischoff and Greg Saunier

  20-06-2017 00:43
  
  You can check out the new project's first song "Hideout" which features Zac's vocals over lush, dreamy strings -- a good first taste of this new project
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• Deerhoof played 2 shows at Bell House (pics, setlist)

  20-06-2017 00:17
  
  Experimental indie-rockers Deerhoof played a double-header at The Bell House on Friday night (6/16), as a warm-up for their tour opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers...
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