When Navajo Ranger Stanley Milford Jr and partner Jon Dover were assigned to the department for investigating paranormal activity in Arizona and Utah’s Monument Valley, the pair couldn’t believe it. “Oh my goodness, we’re going to be like The X-Files,” said Dover. But as Milford reveals in ‘The Paranormal Ranger – A Navajo Investigator’s Search for … Read more
Seems like every town in America hosts some sort of food festival these days. There’s the quirky ones, like the Gilroy Garlic Festival, first launched in 1979, and the Waikiki Spam Jam, formerly held in Austin, Minn., home of Hormel Foods. Then there are the mac daddies, like Taste of Chicago, the country’s biggest, which … Read more
When John Madden began calling his local San Francisco radio station in 1997, it signaled the start of nearly 20 years of conversations between the football legend and morning-show host Stan Bunger, as the presenter writes in “Mornings With Madden: My Radio Life with an American Legend’ (Triumph Books, out Tuesday). John Madden’s iconic Morning Madness … Read more
Before pet cemeteries became a thing in the mid-19th century, few options existed for disposing of a beloved dog or cat (or parrot or monkey). In Paris, 5,000 dead animals a year were tossed in the Seine, while north of London 750 deceased dogs a week were taken for “rendering” and turned into manure. But when … Read more
The $700 million Taystee Lab Building sits in the Manhattanville Factory District, but the laboratory goes beyond West Harlem’s manufacturing history. Surrounded by brick buildings on West 126th Street, Taystee spans 11 floors, with glass windows that overlook Columbia University and the City College of New York. Inside any of the currently vacant labs, a … Read more
Ina Garten’s first foray into television was a disaster. Martha Stewart’s TV production company approached the beloved culinary personality to host a show following the success of “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook.” The book, published in 1999, was a surprise best-seller, selling more than 100,000 copies in its first year. Garten recalls in her memoir, “Be … Read more
Each week, The Post compiles the buzziest new books. Have a look at our favorite titles in recent weeks. This week’s best new books Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The latest from the celebrated French writer is set in a chaotic, troubled France in the year 2027. Paul Raison, an adviser to the country’s financial minister, … Read more
Gladwell’s new book explores how individuals can use power and influence to shape the collective narratives we tell ourselves as groups or as a society to steward policies and perspectives. Source link #Malcolm #Gladwells #vision #world #ahead #lives #tipped
Over the course of his 50 years in cinema, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has been offered countless deals from publishers to write his memoir – but he has always rejected them, as the two-time Oscar-winner explains in his new book “The Last Dream” (HarperVia). “I’ve been asked to write my autobiography more than once, and I’ve … Read more
Coming this fall, residents in Stockholm won’t have to endure the hour-long commute by car or train between Ekerö, a popular suburb, and central Stockholm, home to the historic City Hall. Instead, they can jump on a 30-passenger ferry and make the journey in half the time, all while helping to cut down on carbon … Read more
On Oct. 26, 1957, Reinhold Kulle and his family departed on the MS Italia from Cuxhaven, Germany, destined for a new life in America. But as Michael Soffer reveals in “Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil” (University of Chicago Press), Kulle carried a dark secret. Throughout World War II, Kulle had not only been a … Read more
In the Swinging Sixties, one of the most popular commodities on male-dominated Wall Street was Ms. Francine Gottfried’s torpedo-like breasts. Worn proudly under a tight sweater, Ms. Gottfried had her size 43s innocently on view every workday when the 20-year-old arrived from her home in Brooklyn, to her lowly data processing job on The Street. … Read more
In 2020, author and journalist Wright Thompson traveled to Drew, Miss., for a private tour of a barn with a bloody and tragic history that many in the Mississippi Delta would like to forget. The barn is where, on Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed by … Read more
After four years prosecuting sexual assault cases in Orange County CA, deputy district attorney Matt Murphy was called into the office of his supervisor, Lew Rosenblum. He had good news – a promotion. “Welcome to Homicide,” said Rosenblum. “If you think that was crazy, just you wait.” The book includes the murder of John Meehan, the … Read more
Faced with the dilemma of devoting their lives to their religion or firebombing the homes of rivals, Mormon gangbangers decided they could do both. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, youngsters in Salt Lake City engaged in vicious beatdowns, stabbings, and drive-by shootings over drug-trade turf and in solidarity with members of their crews. Some … Read more
A woman’s hair is more than something that merely covers her head. Little girls learn this early. At least I did. I watched my mother color her gray roots over the bathroom sink, pomade her short crop, hide her frizz under a hat. I suffered as she combed out my knotted tresses and sat still as she … Read more
In December of 2002, Sharyl Attkisson, an Emmy-winning investigative reporter for CBS News, had an unsettling interview with smallpox expert Jonathan Tucker. In a post-9/11 world, with fears of terrorists using a long-eradicated disease like smallpox as a bioweapon, the US was preparing to bring back the smallpox inoculation program. But to Tucker, the very idea was … Read more
“The stadium,” writes Frank Andre Guridy in ‘The Stadium – An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play’ (Basic Books), “has never been a merely a sports facility.” From the first wooden ballparks, through the huge concrete edifices of the 1950s and 1960s and on to today’s vast, state-of-the-art arenas, Guridy reveals just what the stadia means to American life — … Read more
When Vladimir Putin’s Russian army invaded neighboring Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Chad Robichaux knew he had to help. The former Force Recon Marine gathered a team of elite special operations veterans, as well as his 25-year-old Marine son, Hunter, and headed to Europe to help those about to be subjected to “untold brutality,” as … Read more
In September 2008, members of a Wayward, Fla., chapter of the Ku Klux Klan concocted an elaborate scheme to kill Barack Obama days before he was elected president. They planned every detail, identifying the day, time, and location of the hit; obsessing over the senator’s motorcade alignments; securing .50-caliber rifles for the deed; and arranging … Read more