Where was he headed, that naked guy clambering his way through the crowd? The date was Dec. 6, 1969, and the place was the Altamont Speedway in Northern California.. Though there are many reasons to recall a moment when, as Rolling Stone described it, “everything went perfectly wrong’’ — a day when famous bands didn’t play; when bad acid felled dozens and scores more were injured; and when one of the Hell’s Angels hired to police the event knifed and killed a man during a Rolling Stones set — the…

Aamer Madhani USA TODAY Published 7:00 AM EDT Aug 16, 2019 White House hopeful Beto O’Rourke on Friday unveiled a sweeping proposal to combat white nationalism that calls for tightening gun laws and making stamping out white supremacy a top priority for federal law enforcement agencies. O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman who is among more than 20 candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, also said if he’s elected he’ll move to force social media and tech companies to do more to prevent their platforms from being used to amplify violent invective or potentially…

The first, startling epigraph in Nicci Gerrard’s new book, “The Last Ocean,” comes from Emily Dickinson: “Abyss has no Biographer.” Gerrard sets out to tell the story of dementia, a disease that can appear to consume those it afflicts. After her father, John, died in 2014, the author — who writes best-selling thrillers with her husband under the name Nicci French — embarked on learning more about the disease as both a journalist and an activist. The result is a tender, inquisitive tour of a subject that can be raw…

Jeanine Santucci USA TODAY Published 3:56 PM EDT Aug 16, 2019 President Donald Trump is calling for more mental health facilities to combat gun violence in the wake of deadly shootings in Texas and Ohio. Trump decried the closing of “institutions” at least twice on Thursday, when he held a rally in Manchester, N.H. “Years ago, many cities and states I remember so well closed mental institutions for budgetary reasons. They let those people out onto the street,” he said during the rally. “We’re going to have to give major consideration to building new…

What’s Streaming THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN DOCUMENTARY Stream on Hulu. At its finest, magic is a mixture of truth and illusion. John Szeles, better known by his stage name The Amazing Johnathan, walked the fine line between the two during his long performance residency in Las Vegas that began in the 1980s. Then, in 2014, he learned he had a terminal heart condition and only a year to live. It seemed his career was about to be abruptly cut short — or was it? Ben Berman, directing his first documentary, follows…

Rebecca Morin USA TODAY Published 10:00 PM EDT Aug 16, 2019 WASHINGTON – Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced on Friday a number of new policy proposals aimed at uplifting Native American tribes. The plan comes ahead of next week’s Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, hosted by Four Directions, an organization that fights for Native voting rights.  “The story of America’s mistreatment of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians is a long and painful one, rooted in centuries of discrimination, neglect, greed, and violence,” the Massachusetts senator wrote in a Medium post….

Film: The Chills Aren’t Just the A.C. at Scary Movies Aug. 16-21; filmlinc.org Now in its 12th year, the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center still oozes blood and guts. The lineup presents some of the most gruesome cinema from the past months, including the director’s cut of Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” with nearly 30 bonus minutes of Aster’s Swedish hellscape. There’s also a “Terrible Bears” double bill with a 40th-anniversary screening of John Frankenheimer’s “Prophecy,” about waste mismanagement in the Maine woods, and William Girdler’s “Grizzly” and its…

Rebecca Morin USA TODAY Published 10:32 PM EDT Aug 16, 2019 WASHINGTON – Beto O’Rourke has once again said he will not drop out of the 2020 presidential race to run for the Senate instead. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell asked the former Texas congressman Thursday evening if he had December 9 marked on his calendar, as it’s “the last day you can file in the Senate Democratic primary in Texas.” “Let me make your show the place where I tell you and I tell the country I will not in any scenario…

Ernie Colón, a comic book artist who was known to his fans for drawing Richie Rich and a warrior princess but who found an unlikely and even wider readership with a best-selling adaptation of “The 9/11 Commission Report,” died on Aug. 8 at his home in Huntington, N.Y. He was 88. His daughter Luisa Colón said the cause was colorectal cancer, which was diagnosed last year. Mr. Colón teamed up with the writer Sid Jacobson, his longtime collaborator and friend, to create a graphic novel version of the 9/11 report,…

Jeanine Santucci USA TODAY Published 6:47 PM EDT Aug 16, 2019 WASHINGTON — Anthony Scaramucci, who was the White House communications director for 11 days back in 2017, threw the latest punch in his internet feud with President Donald Trump, predicting that he will drop out of the 2020 presidential race by March in a no-holds-barred interview with Vanity Fair published Friday. “It’s gonna become very clear that it’s impossible for him to win,” Scaramucci said. “And is this the kind of guy that’s gonna want to be that humiliated and lose as…