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Jan. 16, 2007Sfxarchive is selling a 4- by 5-inch negative ostensibly from the Black Dahlia case. I don’t recognize any of these individuals, nor have I ever seen the image. It doesn’t show any of the...
View ArticleLost Weekend Last Evening in Pictures
And so after nearly a week of extraordinary events, last night's cocktail party, screening, gallery tour and crime scene tour spelled the end of the Lost Weekend. We were very fortunate to have...
View ArticleIn-Cred-I-Ble
A large (20x30) reproduction of Elizabeth Short’s mug shot has appeared on EBay at a starting price of $250, or $400 under “buy it now” in an auction by mermaidfx. The word “rare” is ridiculously...
View ArticleAP feature: Crime tours take passengers through LA's criminal past
by Jacob Adelman for the Associated Press (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Above: Kelly Kuvo, the Blonde Dahlia LOS ANGELES -- A dismembered wannabe starlet. A girl buried under her family's home. A...
View ArticleYou Are There: The Esotouric Press Preview
Last month, we previewed four of Esotouric's bus adventures for members of the press. Photographer Summer Scotland was aboard, and snapped some striking shots of the city and our hosts as we oozed...
View ArticleThe Real Black Dahlia on the BBC's Pods and Blogs show
Tim Coyne of The Hollywood Podcast rode along on The Real Black Dahlia crime bus tour and prepared a cool little piece for BBC 5's Pods and Blogs program (or programme, if you will) explaining Beth...
View ArticleOf scarves and buds
September 14, 1927The ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel is being readied for the annual Southern California Dahlia Society exhibition, which is last year drew 7000 people. There's just something about the...
View ArticleTo Do: Prune Your Roses in Memory of Beth Short
Gentle reader,Today is a terrible day in Los Angeles history, the 61st anniversary of the morning when Elizabeth Short, soon to be infamous as the Black Dahlia, was discovered dead and cut in two in a...
View ArticleThe Black Dahlia and the News of the World
After 168 years of publication, today’s edition of the News of the World is that scandal-plagued English tabloid’s last.The collapse of a major newspaper is fascinating to watch unfold, but any...
View ArticleA moment in time: Beth Short in the 1940 census
On April 10, 1940--seventy-two years ago today--a man named Edmund M. Hart walked the streets of Medford, Massachusetts in the county of Middlesex, knocking on doors and making inquiries about the...
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