It’s been a whirlwind few years for Kristen Roupenian. In 2014, as she was finishing a Ph.D. in English at Harvard, she abandoned her plan to work at the State Department and decided to go for an MFA in fiction instead. For many people, such a choice is the first …
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Last September, an image surfaced on Instagram of Emma Coronel Aispuro, the 29-year-old former beauty queen and wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, hosting her seven-year-old daughters’ Barbie-themed birthday party at a sprawling mansion in Culiacan, in the Mexican region of Sinoloa. In one photo, Coronel Aispuro, in a bedazzled …
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Nicholas Godejohn, 29, has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for his role in the 2015 murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, 48, the mother of his then-girlfriend Gypsy Rose, who is also serving time for her role in the murder. As documented by the 2017 HBO documentary Mommie …
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Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning creators of the hit Broadway show Spring Awakening, have reunited, along with director and co-book writer Jessie Nelson (Waitress), for a new take on perennial classicAlice in Wonderland. Titled Alice by Heart, this adaptation of the Lewis Carroll tale is set …
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The Harris County Sheriff’s Department outside Houston, Texas, has arrested two suspects in the murder of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes, who was fatally shot on December 30thin what was initially believed to be a random “racially motivated” attack. Eric Black Jr., 20, was taken into custody on Saturday, January 5th, and …
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After being denied 18 times, a California parole board recommended that former Charles Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil be released from prison, The Associated Press reports. He has been serving a life sentence — previously commuted from the death penalty — for the 1969 murder of Gary Hinman, a music teacher …
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