WAYNE KRAMER TALKS DRUGS, PRISON, MUSIC, SURVIVAL
Wayne Kramer of the MC5 was sent to ‘The Narcotic Farm’ in 1975, the same federal facility—part hospital/part...
Crime
THE KRAY TWINS: A COUPLE OF LIKELY LADS IN SWINGING LONDON
Reg and Ron Kray were the OTHER Glimmer Twins of the Swinging Sixties in London. Notorious gangsters, murderers...
‘LUSTFUL AND PERVERTED DESIRES’: THE OZ TRIAL, LONDON, 1971
Jim Anderson was one of three editors on trial for publishing OZ magazine, the now legendary psychedelic underground...
BLOOD & GUTS: LIFE & DEATH AS A FORENSIC INVESTIGATOR
The plots of Forensic Files, the CSI franchise, Endeavour, The Fall—and all these other popular TV shows and...
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: THE HOTTEST OF COLD CASES
On January 15 1947, the body of a murder victim was found in a weedy, vacant lot in...
A JAUNT THROUGH HAUNTED NEW ENGLAND
Take a stroll with us through some of the spookiest, most haunted locations in New England; including a...
WEEGEE: NEW YORK’S FIRST PUNK PHOTOGRAPHER
Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), aka Weegee, was a hustler, carny barker and photojournalist all rolled into one rotund, cigar-chomping...
SCANDAL! THE 1927 CASE THAT JUMP-STARTED THE TABS!
It had everything. Sex. Murder. Greed. Double Crossings. Sing Sing Prison. Electric Chairs. And at its center was...
YOU CAN’T WIN: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE REAL JACK BLACK
Jack Black was a burglar, rambler, jailbird and writer whose lone published memoir, You Can’t Win (1926), was...
HIS LIPS ARE SEALED: THE DEATH OF SONNY FRANZESE, NEW YORK’S LAST OLD SCHOOL MOBSTER
When Sonny Franzese died last month at age 103, he was the last living remnant of the New...
CAN’T FIND MY WAY HOME: OUR DRUG APOCALYPSE
Punk’s holy trinity, if it has one, would be sex, drugs and rock & roll. For the past...
THE QUEEN OF THE AIR MEETS THE HOMICIDAL YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE
Circus performers were, in some ways, the punk rockers of their day, and nobody was more punk than...
GEORGE HODEL’S EXQUISITE CORPSE(S): BEYOND THE BLACK DAHLIA
Former LAPD detective and prolific true-crime author Steve Hodel has pursued the Black Dahlia murder for years. The...
THE MURDER OF ALFALFA
Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer was the most popular star of the classic Our Gang comedies. But the facts of...