Apartment Choice

From Conway Police Department reports A note on the proceedings Sunday, Aug. 13 at 10 minutes after 2 p.m., police were called to a business on Main Street. Police arrived and found a sticky note on the business’s window upon which was written “[Redacted] Trump.” The note-writer, the officer noted, referred to himself or herself as the “Alt-right” on the same note. On another business, officers spotted another note, and with further investigation found about 10 to 15 notes attached to various local businesses. The notes were not limited to the statement of the first note, but instead included such statements as: “Justice for Muslims, Avenge Cuille,” “ Make Racists afraid again” and “ Protect LGBTQ rights .” Pictures were taken and the specifics on location were recorded. (Post-it notes, as they are labeled by the manufacturer, 3M, are based in the 1968 creation by a 3M researcher who was trying to come up with an especially strong adhesive. In one experiment it was a failure, and the...

Jim Pantaleo’s phone winked out sometime after 6:00 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2012. The last message he sent before it died was to his wife, Allison. “Love you forever,” it said. And then, nothing. Jim had spent the day before writing and drinking, slowly. From his perch at the corner of an L-shaped bar at a pub in Toronto’s east end, he tapped away at his laptop. He sipped beer and he did shots of “liquid cocaine,” a mix of Jagermeister and Goldschlager schnapps. Jim had arrived at the pub, Rails and Ales, at about 3 p.m. “He seemed very normal,” says Len Grammenopoulos, the bar’s owner. He ate some food. He joked around. Sometime after midnight, he sent his mother an email with seven letters inside. At about 2:30 a.m., he paid his tab — maybe $60, $70. He high-fived Len and he walked out. “I remember him saying ‘I’m gone,’” Len says. “And that was it.” Jim was gone. When Jim and Allison Pantaleo first met — as coworkers at a pub called Gabby ’s on the Danforth — it was something close to ...