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A timeline of events: the murder case against DJ Creato comes to a close

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One of the most watched recent murder cases in the Philadelphia area in years wound to a close on Wednesday with David "DJ" Creato, 23, admitting to killing his three-year-old son, Brendan, in October 2015. He pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the case after a 10-day trial on a first- degree murder charge ended in a hung jury and mistrial in May. THE LATEST:   DJ Creato admits he killed son Brendan , takes manslaughter plea deal Here's a day-by-day timeline of the significant events surrounding the case. TUESDAY, OCT. 13, 2015:   David “DJ” Creato reports his son,  Brendan, missing  around 6 a.m. He suggests the three-year-old may have opened the door and left the second-floor apartment they shared. A large community-wide search in Haddon Township ends three hours later when a K-9 located the boy’s lifeless body in Cooper River Park . A death scene investigator from the office of medical examiner   Dr. Gerald “Buck” Feigin  goes to the  scene and subseque...

Walmart’s “Many Chairs. One Table.” Ad Is the Feel-Good Reminder We All Need Right Now

If you’ve been paying attention to what’s being posted on social media lately (and really, how can you not?), then you know we’re all pretty focused right now on the things that divide us. But a new video shared by Walmart this week might just change your mind about the divisiveness that seems to be sweeping our country — or at least sweeping our newsfeeds. And if it doesn’t change your mind? Well, it may just give you hope. [embedded content] The 60-second ad is titled Many Chairs. One Table , and it starts with a clip of a middle- aged white man scooting his office chair down a busy city street . The visual immediately grabs your attention and pulls you in — after all, you don’t usually see someone pushing their desk chair through traffic. Next, we see a young man leaving his apartment building, while carrying a dining room chair . Shortly after, the video pans to a couple walking along a rocky beach carrying folding chairs ; then to two women attempting to build chairs and then c...

The Safdie Brothers Are Classic New York Hustlers. Their Movies Might Make Them Legends.

The Safdie Brothers Are Classic New York Hustlers And their movies might make them legends. Before deciding he wanted to make a Safdie Brothers movie , the erstwhile heartthrob Robert Pattinson hadn ’t actually seen a Safdie Brothers movie . It was one still image — of the lead actress from their 2014 addiction drama Heaven Knows What — that led him to pick up the phone. “He said, ‘I wanna be on a movie set that had the energy that I imagine this had,’” Benny, 31, says. “Little did he know, there was no movie set,” Josh, 33, laughs. Adapted from the street life of its star, Arielle Holmes, Heaven Knows What is a breathless, booming piece of work — somehow both a plotless character study built on mumbly dialogue and stolen shots, and a punch to the face. “We were just this weird little crew making this movie in a very serious fashion.” For over a decade, that’s been the mission statement. The Safdies split a schizophrenic childhood on either side of the East River, with a dutifu...