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The story of Tupac Shakur has been told many times since his tragic death at just 25 following a drive-by shooting in 1996. Yet a life so big and complicated is always ripe for further exploration. Jeff Pearlman’s new biography, Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac …

Martin Suarez is the only deep-undercover FBI agent in history to have infiltrated a Colombian drug cartel. In 1988, he transformed into “Manny” and became a high-level smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. Over the next four years, he smuggled $1 billion worth of cocaine into the United States — …

Academy Award-winning director James Cameron is adapting Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino for what will likely be his first non-Avatar film in decades. Based on years of forensic archaeology combined with interviews of more than 200 survivors and their families, Ghosts of Hiroshima published on Aug. 5 — the …

The police are the good guys, or so I thought as a kid growing up in the suburbs in the 1980s and 1990s when just about everything I knew about policing came from what I watched on television. Long before I had ever heard the word “copaganda,” I had little …

When Jennifer Farber Dulos, a Brooklyn-raised daughter of great wealth and privilege, a member of the Brown Class of 1990 and once a member of the New York’s downtown literary elite, vanished after dropping her five kids off at the New Canaan Country School on the morning of May 24, …

Lollapalooza today is a sleek, reliably well-oiled pop music festival. But it was born of chaos. On the festival’s first date — July 18, 1991, at Chandler, Arizona’s Compton Terrace — nearly everything that could go wrong did. The sweltering weather fried Nine Inch Nails‘ gear, Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell …

For those who came of age during the early days of MTV, Peter Wolf will forever be known as the frontman of the J. Geils Band, whose “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame” videos were as much a channel staple as Nina Blackwood’s mane. But Wolf’s career and adventures in music didn’t …

I n his new book Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne details the rich and often complex history of New York City’s creative hotbed. Even as it coped with hassles from the city, the neighborhood, landlords, …

As a teen in the mid-1990s, I spent countless hours with my friends, rooting through our parents’ LPs from the Sixties, while also swooning over Jakob Dylan and styling ourselves after the rockers of Lilith Fair. Those memories were so strong that when I was writing The Singer Sisters, my …

For 30 years now, guitarist Mark Morton has been best known as the riff architect and lead guitarist for Lamb of God, the groove metal band that rose to mainstream prominence with the New Wave of American Heavy Metal in the mid-aughts. He has put out solo releases — 2019’s …