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A man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping writer Alice Sebold when she was a Syracuse University student has settled a lawsuit against New York state for $5.5 million, his lawyers said Monday. The settlement comes after Anthony Broadwater’s conviction for raping Sebold in 1981 was overturned in 2021 . It was signed last week by lawyers for Broadwater and New York Attorney General Letitia James, David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys, said. Broadwater, 62, said in a statement relayed by Hammond, “I appreciate what Attorney General James has done, and I hope and pray that others in my situation can achieve the same measure of justice. We all suffer from destroyed lives.” “Obviously no amount of money can erase the injustices Mr. Broadwater suffered, but the settlement now officially acknowledges them,” Sebold said in a statement released through a spokesperson. Sebold was an 18-year-old first-year student at Syracuse when she was … [Read more...] about New York to pay $5.5M to man exonerated in Sebold rape case

The old saw about sharks in the water — they keep swimming or die — bears at least a flicker of truth for the producer and composer known as Flying Lotus. The linchpin of an electronic-music vanguard in Los Angeles and a flagship artist for the progressive British indie label Warp, he has helped define a heady but soulful new strain of Afrofuturism, moving at a ceaseless pace. Flying Lotus, a.k.a. Steven Ellison, 31, has long sought inspiration from myriad sources, including the searchingly cosmic music made by his great-aunt, the pianist and composer Alice Coltrane, who died in 2007. “You’re Dead!” is his fifth album, a 40-minute fantasia of head-spinning digression but immersive unity. As on “Cosmogramma,” from 2010, and “ Until the Quiet Comes ,” from 2012, he blended his programming with live musicians, notably the bassist-vocalist Thundercat, a regular collaborator. Among his guests are the eminent jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and the ace young rapper Kendrick Lamar . … [Read more...] about Psychedelic Funk and Fusion Barreling Into the Future

The British tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings pawed the stage with his bare feet on Saturday night at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn as he led his trio through a soaring set of crackling originals. Neither leg stayed on the ground for long; it was as if he were constantly making sure the floor was still there, that his saxophone hadn’t lifted him up and away. With an effervescent, Antillean rhythm rising behind him, he emitted a powerful energy from his horn, but vested each note with its own shape and sensitivity. Mr. Hutchings’s trio — with Moses Boyd on drums and Theon Cross on tuba — was playing the final set in a three-act bill that repeated Monday night at Nublu 151 in Lower Manhattan. It was an after-party for the Afropunk Festival that afternoon, and a showcase of young British jazz acts. Both concerts were presented by Jazz Re:freshed, a small British organization that for the last 14 years has fostered young and diverse talents in London. For the American listener who’s … [Read more...] about Ambassadors of London’s Rebooted, Revitalized Jazz Scene Come to New York

See the article in its original context from March 7, 1971 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Robert Wilson is an original—the first and last Robert Wilson. He has created a new nonverbal, post‐Wagnerian epic theater composed partly of time and boredom, and partly of pastiche‐collage. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday night he gave us “Deafman Glance,” and it ended, very, very early yesterday morning. It had lasted rather more than three hours without an intermission. And indeed without … [Read more...] about Stage: ‘Deaf man Glance’