The word from Chicago: Murders down, but mob attacks on the rise; also, juvie-mob flashback to the Straw Hat Riot of 1922.- What does the data say about where white supremacists fall on the political spectrum?
- Ponce de León rather ingloriously died of fever in Havana, “having discovered nothing, founded nothing and achieved nothing”.
- The Sun-Times obit for Roger Ebert; also, Scorsese working on an Ebert documentary.
- March was the deadliest month yet in the Syrian civil war.
- Beyond exploding manhole covers.
- When the Saudis crack down on foreign workers, it doesn’t leave that many people to … work.
- In China, not even the cemeteries are safe.
- Print and read: The lord of film geekdom tries to adjust to new realities.
- Bonus print and read: Esquire‘s excellent 2010 feature on Ebert, “The Essential Man.”
Chris Barsanti 