Most likely you know the outline of the case: Charles Manson, the failed musician and wild-eyed hippie, ordered his “family” — drug-addled runaways, mostly, who had been living with him at a ranch full of old movie sets — to carry out a series of gruesome murders on the evenings of Aug. 8 and 9, … Read more
Betty Bonney was already a veteran big-band vocalist at 17 when she joined Les Brown and His Orchestra in 1941 — in time to sing the praises of the New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio as he was racking up his major-league-record 56-game hitting streak. While performing that summer at a club in Armonk, N.Y., … Read more
Jordan Tkacsik was perusing his friend Paul Bartlett’s sports memorabilia and trading card shop last year when he noticed something unusual in a section full of Pokémon collectibles. It was a Cheetos cheese puff, but not just any Cheeto. Rather, it was a Flamin’ Hot Cheeto that bore an uncanny resemblance to Charizard, an orange … Read more
Over the years, Duane Keith Davis, who goes by Keffe D, has claimed in interviews and a memoir that he was in the white Cadillac when one of the other passengers shot and killed the rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996. When Mr. Davis was arrested and charged with Mr. Shakur’s murder in … Read more
Son of a Jazz Man Ricardo Merrill Scofidio was born on April 16, 1935, in New York City to Earle and June Scofidio. His father, a jazz musician who played the alto saxophone and the clarinet, was Black, “but he insisted to his dying day that he was Italian,” Mr. Scofidio told Arthur Lubow for … Read more
We bring you a true grab bag of recommended books this week, united by little besides excellence and interest. There’s a wildlife memoir and a family history and the collected diaries of a celebrated Australian writer; there’s a supremely topical book about companies doing business in modern Russia. And in fiction, there’s a new novel … Read more
Over the years, Duane Keith Davis, who goes by Keffe D, has claimed in interviews and a memoir that he was in the white Cadillac when one of the other passengers shot and killed the rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996. When Mr. Davis was arrested and charged with Mr. Shakur’s murder in … Read more
The Spanish series “When No One Sees Us,” beginning Friday on Max, is one of the better foreign-crime dramas in ages — focused, beautiful, sturdy but artful. The show is set in a small town in Spain where there is a U.S. Air Force base, and the story unfolds during Holy Week, which adds to … Read more
This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Léon Spilliaert’s brooding pieces, Betty Parsons’s restless forms, Adriana Ramic’s beetles and Ho Tam’s barbers. Chelsea Léon Spilliaert Through April 12. David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street, Manhattan; 212-517-8677, davidzwirner.com. In the most unforgettable picture in this thrilling show, the Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert stands in a … Read more
Roundabout Theater Company, the largest nonprofit on Broadway, will present three very different classics next season: a Greek tragedy, a drawing-room comedy and a monster musical. The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about a king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, will … Read more