EVENTS: Both Open House NY and The New Yorker Festival are upon us. You can check out more of OHNY's event here, and The New Yorker Festival here. Some picks: The New Yorker Festival hosts a conversation with Errol Morris tonight. He'll be talking with staff writer Philip Gourevitch about Abu Ghraib, with clips shown from Standard Operating Procedure -- his new film is a study of the prison-abuse scandal. Friday // 8pm // Directors......

It's hard to believe that tomorrow marks twenty years since the Chernobyl disaster, but the folks down at Housing Works Used Books Cafe (126 Crosby St.) have joined forces with the National Book Critics Circle to commemorate the anniversary. Head over there at 6PM to hear a whole host of talented writers reading aloud from Voices From Chernobyl - Gary Shteyngart, Philip Gourevitch, and Tom Bissell to name a few. On Thursday night (4/27), the......

Holy police storage: The cold case file of a Chelsea woman's 1973 rape turned out to have DNA evidence that conclusiely linked the alleged rapist to that crime, and linked him to many more in NYC, NJ, and Maryland. Fletcher Anderson Worrell was accused of two rapes, one in Chelsea and the other in Queens in the 1970s, but after a few trials that were inconclusive or whose verdicts were overturned (DNA testing didn't exist......

After almost a week of excavation, the FBI has found some bones in a vacant Queens lot. An FBI informant alleges that the bones are those of Gambino crime family victims from the 1970s and 1980s. The victims are expected to include John Favara, who accidentally killed John Gotti's young son in a car accident, two captains of the Bonanno crime family, and "aspiring" mobster Thomas Desimone (the basis of the Joe Pesci character......

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As my jet lag is very bad, I have turned to the library at the American Club for additional reading material. I picked up A Cold Case by New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch, who also wrote We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, a book about the Rwandan massacres. A Cold Case is about a 1970 double murder that went unsolved until the late 1990s. A pretty swift......