Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, one of the most glamorous and fiercely private women of the twentieth century, spent more than thirty years as a regular visitor to the small village of Middleburg, Virginia because she loved foxhunting and horseback riding—but mostly because no one fussed over her or made a big deal when she was there.…
As the old proverb goes, “A bird in the hand is worth 34 in hair curlers.” Wait, isn’t that how it goes? If you ask Francis Gurahoo, he’d probably say so—even if his feathers are a bit ruffled at the moment. According to KRON4, Gurahoo was arrested after arriving at JFK International Airport from a…
Set against the backdrop of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, November Road by Lou Berney introduces mafia tough guy Frank Guidry who, fearing an oncoming betrayal, hits the road to Vegas. Lou Berney set the literary world ablaze with his 2015 novel, The Long and Faraway Gone, which garnered effusive praise and earned accolades including the…
An excerpt of The Mole: A Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates by Peter Warner, a fictitious memoir featuring a spy in Cold War era America (available October 22, 2013). Recruited by a foreign power in postwar Paris and sent to Washington, Winston Bates is without training or talent. He might be a walking definition…
Well, it definitely looks good, in part because this movie is a star-studded affair with Marcia Gay Harden, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, Paul Giamatti, James Badge Dale, Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, David Harbour, Ron Livingston, Jeremy Strong, Tom Welling, and Zac Efron (showing a wee bit too much stubble for the era?). Here's…
The Annals of Unsolved Crime by Edward Jay Epstein “re-investigates” notorious, mysterious, and unsolved crimes from the past 200 years (available March 12, 2013). You might be forgiven for wondering how investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein sleeps at night. The man has made a career of reporting on murky, unsettling, often unsolved murders and other…
The world is in love with methods of forensic crime detection. We have been entranced by CSI (the original) and every spin-off it has produced. Abby Sciuto and her mass spectrometer add immeasurably to the strength of the Navy-based NCIS series, not to mention the ubiquitous Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard and his scalpel and keen…
Seriously. Scientists at Cornell University have created a real hole in time, a temporal cloak of sorts, just like the invisibility cloak in Harry Potter. It’s a place where objects are invisible and events are un-recorded. Sure, no humans went in the hole and it only lasted 50 trillionths of a second, which isn’t long…
I do not believe every conspiracy theory that comes down the pipe. I really don’t. I am not a 9/11 “truther.” I am not a “birther.” But, as Sixth Floor Museum head Gary Mack famously told Jesse Ventura, “when I go home at night, I think there has to be something more than Lee Harvey…
Was John F. Kennedy a hero or an incompetent in the PT 109 story? Did patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy use the Chicago mob to steal the Illinois presidential vote in 1960? What was the truth about Jack Kennedy’s womanizing? Did the Bay of Pigs disaster play a role in President Kennedy’s assassination? How involved were…
