Interviews With Bad Men

J.T. Ready (screengrab)

Homicidal Militia Leader J.T. Ready’s VICE Profile (Video)

On Wednesday May 2, J.T. Ready ended a violent argument in his Arizona home with a rampage. Ready killed his girlfriend, three other adults and a toddler before committing suicide. His actions marked an explosive and tragic end to a colorful career as a cause-hopping rebel who bounced between various extreme social movements using xenophobic and racist rhetoric to grab the spotlight along the way. The Christian Science Monitor goes more in-depth: Read More

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Charles Snelling (from Mr. Snelling's Facebook page)

Charles Snelling, PA Republican Pol and Author of NYT ‘Life Report’ Commits Murder-Suicide

Charles Darwin Snelling, a noted Pennsylvania Republican who wrote a “Life Report” published by columnist David Brooks in the Times last December, killed his wife and committed suicide in Pennsylvania on Thursday. Mr. Snelling was 81. He had been married to wife Adrienne for 6 decades. Mr. Snelling had been caring for his Alzheimer’s-afflicted wife for six years and  in his long essay published by the Times on December 7, 2011, expressed what seemed a fundamentally positive view of the situation: Read More

Obits

Don Cornelius hosting 'Soul Train' in style

R.I.P. Don Cornelius: Soul Train Creator Dead at 75

Legendary creator and host of the R&B dance/variety show Soul Train Don Cornelius was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier this morning in his Muholland Drive home, reports The New York Times.

Mr. Cornelius was widely credited with bringing African-American performers like Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Michael Jackson to the public’s consciousness during Soul Train’s almost 35 year syndicated run: one of the longest in history. Read More

Spring Arts

After His Suicide, the Met Scrambled to Salute Alexander McQueen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala is perhaps the institution’s most famous and most glamorous event, New York’s version of the Oscars. The event, a million-dollar fund-raiser for the Met, is planned out months, sometimes more than a year, in advance.

But when 40-year-old British designer Alexander McQueen committed suicide last February, the Read More