Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Anyone who has seen a production of West Side Story knows two things about real gangs.

One, they don't dance, and two, they certainly don't sing.

And even though the sharks and the jets were known to leap in pirouette through city streets,

they were still violent in nature, starting rumbles with knives and guns, and ending each

act with a death or two.

But the theater is not real life.

Or is it?

While no real gangs have ever been reported dancing, one Parisian gang was considered the

best dressed in Europe, maybe in the world.

They were known as the Apaches, a brutal gang that prowled the streets of Paris during

the turn of the 20th century.

They were known for two things, their violent nature and their fashion sense.

It was the press that gave them their name, one journalist reported on a particular heinous

crime in which a victim had been stabbed in the face with a hat pin and sliced with a

knife.

The reporter was something of a Wild West fanatic, and believed that the brutality of this

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