Feb. 19, 1878: Murderer hanged outside courthouse in Reno's first and only public execution
Convicted murderer JW Rover went to the gallows proclaiming his innocence. Then came the séances, ghost sightings and an ...
People Who Work With Dead Bodies Are Sharing Secrets And Horror Stories About Their Jobs, And I'm Officially Spooked
"I was removing a female decedent from a home, and the front porch stairs were steep. She wasn’t strapped onto the stretcher ...
Most wealthy people would swap their castle for a bungalow
As a 700-year-old family pile goes on sale for £21m, how stately homes take over owners’ lives – and ruin their finances ...
Visionary Artworks Plumb the Mysteries of Creativity
The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.
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Building a career and then destroying it
Actor Robert Shaw took his craft seriously, when he thought it was worthy, starting on stage in Shakespearean plays and ...
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Alexis Rockman Paints Humanity’s Final Season
Alexis Rockman’s Naples: Course of Empire continues at Magenta Plains (149 Canal Street, Chinatown, Manhattan) through March ...
Dancing, With Alvin Ailey’s Spirit Lurking in the Shadows
The performance portion of “Edges of Ailey” at the Whitney Museum of American Art was best when it stepped away from ...