Before taking the stage on what would end up being his first day at a new job, the crowd started chanting Elijah Tucker’s first name. Clad in a pair of bright-yellow patterned spandex pants, an […]
Anne Rice, ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Author, Dead at 80
Anne Rice, the author of gothic fiction whose novel Interview With the Vampire reinvented and revived the vampire genre, has died at the age of 80. Rice died Saturday following complications from a stroke, her […]
Would You Pay To Be ‘Buried’ in a Metaverse Cemetery?
Death’s door may just lead to the Internet. As the world continues to run out of burial space, a new option for memorializing loved ones presents itself: NFT designers are developing metaverse cemeteries. On Thursday, […]
The Lost Diary of Anthony Bourdain
On June 29, 2014, at 8:02 p.m. ET, a user named NooYawkCity made the first of what would come to be many posts to a popular martial-arts forum on reddit.com. It was titled “58 year […]
Prosecution Saved Strongest Testimony for Last in Ghislaine Maxwell Trial
Annie Farmer, a therapist who holds a PhD in educational psychology, took the stand shortly before 10 a.m. on Friday to testify about uncomfortable experiences she said she had with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell […]
Murder Victim’s Sister Goes After New Hulu True-Crime Doc on TikTok
About a year before her sister, Brooke Preston, was brutally killed by their roommate Randy Herman, Jr. in 2017, Jordan Preston remembers driving with her from Sarasota, Florida, to West Palm Beach, where she had […]
Final Accuser’s Testimony in Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Delayed By Lawyer Illness
On Thursday, the state’s final alleged victim of Ghislaine Maxwell’s and Jeffrey Epsteins, Annie Farmer, was expected to testify. Farmer is the only accuser appearing under her true first and last name during the trial, […]
Epstein Pilot’s Private Flight Log Confirms Accusers, Famous Friends Flew With Ghislaine Maxwell
As the state prepares to wrap up the presentation of its sex-trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, prosecutors on Wednesday used documentation to place the accuser known as Jane on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane four times […]
Hoax or Hate Crime: Lawyers Make Closing Arguments in Jussie Smollett Trial
Jussie Smollett’s lead defense attorney and a special prosecutor made their final appeals to a jury over whether the former Empire actor was the victim of a hate crime or the perpetrator of an elaborate […]
OK, But Actually, What the F–k Is ‘Bing-Bong’
In specific circles (i.e., theater kids), there is perhaps no celebrity couple more vaunted than Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones. The two met when they were cast in the original Broadway production of Hamilton, with […]
‘Terror and Confusion’: On the Ground in Wuhan, China in the Early Days of Covid-19
With the threat of the Omicron variant bringing coronavirus uncertainty back into our daily lives, freelance journalist Brendan Borrell takes us back to the hazy, early days of the pandemic in this excerpt from his […]
Georgia Sheriff Deputy Fired, Jailed for Selling Pot Edibles Online
What happens when side-hustle culture, relaxing cultural norms around cannabis, and the draconian overhang of the Drug War collide in the Deep South? For Georgia sheriff’s deputy Caleb Cavin — accused of baking marijuana edibles […]