Reg Murphy, a renowned journalist whose newsgathering career included stints as an editor and top executive at newspapers in Atlanta, San Francisco and Baltimore — and who found himself the subject of national headlines when he survived a politically motivated kidnapping — has died at age 90. Murphy, who lived on St. Simons Island, Georgia, […]
On Oct. 28, Erik and Lyle Menendez’s defense team submitted a request for clemency for the brothers, who in 1996 were convicted of first-degree murder in the 1989 killings of their parents José and Kitty Menendez. Public sympathy for the brothers and general reinterest in the case was sparked by Ryan Murphy’s scripted series Monsters: […]
A Sonoma County Superior Court judge was issued a public admonishment Wednesday after he engaged in improper political activity and social media conduct connected to a proposed high school name change, a judicial conduct commission said. A lawyer for the judge said the judge was simply exercising his 1st Amendment rights on a matter of […]
New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray fractured his left hand during Wednesday’s season-opening win over the Chicago Bulls, the team announced Thursday. Murray will be out indefinitely. Murray’s injury appeared to occur with a little more than two minutes left in the fourth quarter against Chicago, which was Murray’s first game with the Pelicans. The former […]
Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green has agreed to a three-year, $106 million contract extension, CBS Sports NBA insider Bill Reiter confirmed Monday. There is a player option on Year 3. Green, 22, is the third player eligible for a rookie-scale extension to accept a non-max deal this offseason. New Orleans Pelicans forward Trey Murphy III […]
All hail Fontaines D.C., leading contenders for the title of “greatest rock band of our generally great-rock-band-deprived historical moment.” In this month’s print edition of GQOlivia Ovenden meets up with the Dublin-bred quintet in France and finds them celebrating the then-impending release of their fourth album Romance—a collection of turbulent, hot-blooded, and achingly cool songs […]
Niecy Nash’s alcoholic detective is in for one rude awakening on the latest episode of Grotesquerie. The seventh episode of Ryan Murphy’s latest FX horror series takes a major turn when Nash’s Detective Lois Tryon finally cracks the serial-killer case she’s been working on all season. It turns out that her right-hand woman, the seemingly […]
Netflix continues to draw strong viewership with content surrounding Lyle and Erik Menendez. True crime documentary “The Menendez Brothers” was the the most-watched title on the streamer during the week of Oct. 6-12. Premiering on Oct. 7, it hit 22.7 million views in its first six days of availability. The film benefitted from recently increased […]
With one “9-1-1” show on its way out, another is on the horizon from Ryan Murphy. “Tim Minear and I are working on a new spinoff that we’re actually writing, and that we hope to get on the air next fall,” Murphy tells Variety. “Sadly, we all love ‘Lone Star,’ but the financials just didn’t […]
