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May 8, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Good Monday morning, Brooklyn! Launch into the week with news of a bill that prevents employers from asking one big, potentially nerve-wracking question, and read how New Yorkers are taking things into their own hands following the presidential election…plus, a Williamsburg cafe wages a David and Goliath-esque fight over unicorns, and, to brighten yourMonday, the city releases an official map of the most popular dog namesacross NYC. 
 
IMPRINT: A very timely cover of Stylist mag depicts a French future that could have been.

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The Rundown
 

~“NICKELED AND DIMED” NO MORE: Latina women make 54 cents to every white male dollar, and black men pull 73 percent of white men’s hourly earnings…but future employers will no longer be able to ask about it. In a move designed to benefit historically disadvantaged people, Mayor de Blasiosigned Public Advocate Letitia James’ bill banning employers in NYC from asking about a prospective employee’s salary history, starting in 180 days. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~NEW YORKERS TAKE ISSUES INTO THEIR OWN HANDS: Following a grueling election season often marked by racially charged rhetoric and a subsequent spike in hate crimes across the city, New Yorkers are enrolling in self-defense classes in droves. The Center for Anti-Violence Educationhas seen a 400 percent increase in enrollment, mostly from Muslim and LGBTQ groups, immigrants and women. (via the WSJ) 
 
~NO BASEBALL, NO GRUB: If it seems like there are fewer food vendors lingering outside the soccer fields in Brooklyn, it’s because that’s the case. While the Red Hook Food Vendors have launched their 43rd season selling Latin American morsels near the fields, only five trucks remain after sales plunged 30 to 40 percent last year after the fields closed for contamination cleanup. (via DNAinfo)          
 
~LOCKING HORNS OVER UNICORNS: After a month of Instagram shots ofStarbucks’ limited-run pink and blue Unicorn Frappuccino, a Williamsburgcafe called The End claims that it has been selling a Unicorn Latte since December…and has a pending trademark on the name. While neither drink contains coffee, the similarities end there: The End’s unicorn concoction contains ingredients like dates and algae, in sharp contrast to the Starbucks sugarshot. (via the AP and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 

~BYE BYE, BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo will step down from his post in December 2018, after 34 years on the job. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
 
~SIT, SASSAFRAS! COME, CINNAMON! BAD BOY, BASIL!: The Health Department drops a map of the most popular names for pooches across the city. While Bella and Max remain NYC’s most popular names for pups, data shows that New Yorkers are increasingly naming their dogs after savory fruits, veggies and herbs…meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio considers a crackdown on doggie doo-doo violations. (via WNYC and DNAinfo)  

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Staff Picks  
 

LONG READ: Running into people from work assumes a whole new meaning when you’re a federal judge who has sent thousands of offenders to prison, and you live in a small town. (via The Marshall Project)      
 
QUICK READ: Elon Musk solicits names for his new tunneling machine, and Twitter responds with no shortage of puns. (via The Verge) 
 
CULTURE: Dianne Wiest carries the world on her shoulders – and rules the stage – in ‘Happy Days’ at Brooklyn’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
EAT + DRINK: Head to Roebling Tea Room in Williamsburg before it shutters for good over Memorial Day.

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: Unemployment is lower than it’s been in nearly ten years, but Janet Yellen stresses that we still need more women in the workforce…Trump’s travel ban heads to an an appeals court…as New Orleans prepares to remove its Confederate monuments, tempers flare and crane companies receive threats…and Trump’s border wall faces a major obstacle: Texas landowners who have vowed to fight in court any effort by the government to seize their property. (via the WSJ, Bloomberg, the AP and the NYT)
 
FOREIGN FLASH: Here’s a very blue map showing the breakdown ofEmmanuel Macron’s 66.1 percent victory in the French election…Remember the nearly 300 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram three years ago? Dozens of the girls have just been released…Following the nationalization of private farms coupled with the world’s highest rate of inflation, Venezuelans are starving…and with militants expelled from the eastern side of Mosul, people “seek joy” in the return of smokey pool halls.(via the NYT, the WSJ and WaPo) 
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 ROYAL WATCH: A very cheeky young Prince William once donned a very tiny sailor suit. (via People)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT
 

6:00pm – 27 Years in the Alps at Tabla Rasa Gallery. Details.
 
6:30pm – 100 Clark Street: A Case Study in Navigating Building Codes, Gravity, and Landmark Preservation at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Details.
 
6:30pm – Buying Your First Home (Prospect Heights) at Brooklyn Brainery.Details.
 
6:30pm – We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie at NYPL Mid-Manhattan Branch. Details.
 
7:00pm – LIVE from the NYPL: Alec Baldwin with Wesley Morris: The Personal Made Political at NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Details.   
 
7:00pm – TimesTalks Downtown: Six Degrees of Separation at Cadillac House.Details. 
 
7:00pm – Modern Mondays: An Evening with Molly Lowe at MoMA. Details.
 
7:30pm – John Luther Adams in Conversation with Lucian Read at Symphony Space. Details.
 
8:00pm – Franklin Park Reading Series: Nonfiction Night at Franklin Park.Details.  
 
8:00pm – Side Ponytail Comedy at Friends and Lovers. Details.
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ON THE PITCH: Forget Real Madrid or Bayern Munich, meet the soccer team from Portugal that absolutely no one wants to compete against. And it’s not because of the squad’s phenomenal skill… (via the NYT)


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