Most of the people at the Halloween party at the Valley View Apartments didn’t remember Emanuel Fair’s name. In witness statements in his police file, a couple of people knew him by his first initial; a few people described him by his costume – a borrowed “construction worker” outfit. But …
Read More »'I Can Sound Like Whatever I Want and Look Like Whatever I Want': How Miranda Lambert Made Her Own Kind of Country
Miranda Lambert is not used to sitting still, so a few months into pandemic quarantine she and her husband, former NYPD officer Brendan McLoughlin, bought a shiny silver Airstream and headed up the East Coast from Nashville. They made “campfire casserole,” a specialty of Lambert’s dad, drank wine on the …
Read More »Dozens of L.A. Sheriff Deputies Alleged to Be 'Tattooed Members' of 'Law Enforcement Gangs'
The gang scandalwithin the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has flared up again, with the county’s top watchdog accusing LASD brass of stonewalling its investigation into tattooed gang members within the department, and the department accusing the inspector general of an “unhealthy obsession to attack” the LASD. The controversy has already …
Read More »Woman Arrested on Manslaughter Charge After Shoving and Killing Kathleen Hanna's Singing Coach
UPDATE (3/22): A Long Island woman turned herself in and was arrested on a manslaughter charge in the death of Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern, NBC New York reports. Lauren Pazienza, 26, turned herself into the NYPD one day after Gustern’s death was classified as a homicide. Authorities had …
Read More »Wish Hard on This Stripped-Down Version of Phoebe Bridgers' 'Chinese Satellite'
“Chinese Satellite,” the interstellar centerpiece of Phoebe Bridgers‘ Punisher, has received an acoustic rendition. Recorded at Sound City in Los Angeles, the new version of the track is stripped of Ethan Gruska and Tony Berg’s production, leaving Bridgers solely on acoustic — resulting in a dazzling, even lonelier feel. The …
Read More »Old Hit, New Flip: How 2rare's 'Cupid' Channels Bad Boy Records' Sure-Fire '90s Formula
“Cupid,” a 1996 ballad from the R&B group 112, is as gorgeous as it is jarring. It comes on like a lullaby, with feathery guitar and handsome multi-part harmonies. But step into the song and you’re entering a place where sweet nothings are not to be trusted. Suspicion rules, so …
Read More »Kim Wall's Life Was Overshadowed by Her Killer. A New Doc Hopes to Set Things Straight
In another reality, it could have been Erin Lee Carr in the submarine with Peter Madsen, the man convicted of the 2017 killing of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Of course, in a sense, it could have been any female journalist in that submarine. But Carr, whose documentary Undercurrent: The Disappearance …
Read More »'Time Is Very Crucial': Chicago's Ukrainians Organize Aid for Family Back Home
Elena Lypnytska was so distraught when Russia invaded Ukraine that she immediately threw up. That night, she had trouble sleeping as she scanned the news, checking in with loved ones and contemplating ways to help. By Saturday, she sorted out a way to collect necessities to send to Ukrainians at …
Read More »Metallica Plot Two Summer Stadium Shows for 2022
Metallica announced a pair of summer stadium shows — their only for 2022 — set to take place this August. The first of the two gigs will be held Aug. 11 at, Highmark Stadium in Buffalo, New York, while three days later, Aug. 14, Metallica will headline PNC Park in …
Read More »'Darkness Enveloped My Soul': The Final Confessions of the Torso Killer
Jennifer Weiss says her life came full-circle in a massive, dreary building in Trenton, New Jersey. In May of 1978, her mother, Deedeh Goodarzi, put her up for adoption at an agency in the shadow of the New Jersey State Prison and its barbed-wire crowned fences. Decades later, she found …
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