For six weeks in the scorching Los Angeles summer of 1963, the members of The Ronettes, The Crystals, Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans and Darlene Love were holed up around the clock at Gold Star Studios on Santa Monica Boulevard working on a Christmas album. Their 23-year-old producer and Philles record label owner […]
Atlanta author Mary Kay Andrews was a fifth grader in St. Petersburg, Florida when Atlanta C&S bank secretary Mary Shotwell Little vanished without a trace from the parking lot of Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead. Andrews and her sisters knew the South’s largest covered mall well. Each summer on the way to family vacation in […]
It’s a fiendishly clever murder plot any writer would kill to dream up — death by eyelashes. The problem for Atlanta novelist Mary Kay Andrews was that it was happening to her in real life last week when she found herself in the Emory University Hospital ER at 3 a.m. As part of the preparations […]