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remembrance
Dec. 13, 2023
Listening to Andre Braugher “When he acted, the words were notes; the sentences, lyrics; every monologue, an aria.”
By Matt Zoller Seitz
The Unwavering Sinéad O’Connor Friends, collaborators, and admirers on the life and legacy of a “machete-cutting truth teller.”
By Drew Fortune
Norman Lear’s Truth He depicted the American experiment, one family at a time.
By Kathryn VanArendonk
Henry Kissinger, the Devil at the Dinner Party Henry Kissinger’s long final act — after Harvard and D.C. and Cambodia — was spent at New York’s more rarefied tables.
By Choire Sicha
Robbie Robertson, the Band Co-founder and Film Composer, Dead at 80 Known for investigating the sounds of Americana with Bob Dylan and collaborating with Martin Scorsese.
By Zoe Guy
A Hollywood Director Possessed William Friedkin made movies like The Exorcist and Sorcerer his way, no matter what changes transformed his industry.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
Blakeney Schick Listened So You Could Too Remembering our colleague from On With Kara Swisher.
By Nayeema Raza
It Was Easy to Get Pee-wee Herman He was one of many characters Paul Reubens inhabited. Any of them could have been stars.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
Kenneth Anger Never Cooled Off But the filmmaker’s renegade aesthetic is all over the mainstream, from Martin Scorsese to David Lynch.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
urban wildlife
May 17, 2023
Pale Male, Fifth Avenue’s Beloved Hawk, Has Died He grew famous for nesting on — and then being evicted from and welcomed back to — a window lintel on Fifth Avenue opposite Central Park.
By Christopher Bonanos
remembrance
Apr. 11, 2023
Al Jaffee’s Snappy, Not So Stupid MAD Legacy MAD ’s longest-serving cartoonist invented a way to do something unusual: turn a pulp-magazine page into an animated, interactive feature.
By Christopher Bonanos
Mimi Sheraton Ate Everything for Us In 1972, she nibbled her way into magazine history.
By Christopher Bonanos
Barbara Walters’s Superpower Was Fairness She made subjects believe they were getting an open-minded hearing — and that made them talk.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
remembrance
Nov. 22, 2022
George Lois, the Impossible Ad Man The madman (but not a Mad Man, he was quick to tell you) behind Maypo, MTV, and Muhammad Ali’s Esquire cover has died at 91.
By Christopher Bonanos
remembrance
Oct. 28, 2022
Jerry Lee Lewis Was an SOB Right to the End The talented hell-raiser of early rock and roll died at 87.
By Bill Wyman
remembrance
Oct. 26, 2022
Mike Davis Was Right About the fires in Malibu, the hostile approach to urban planning, the inequality crushing Los Angeles.
By Alissa Walker
remembrance
Oct. 11, 2022
Angela Lansbury Could Play Cozy or Criminal, Grand or Grand Guignol From Gaslight to Mame to Sweeney Todd to Beauty and the Beast, with a long, comfortable stop in Cabot Cove.
By Helen Shaw
David A. Arnold, Comedian and Fuller House Writer, Dead at 54 He released two Netflix specials and was one of only a few Black showrunners in television.
By Hershal Pandya
Technoblade, Late Minecraft YouTuber, Honored by Gaming World “He will be missed dearly,” the official Minecraft account tweeted.
By Jason P. Frank
Liz Sheridan, Seinfeld Mom and Broadway Dancer, Dead at 93 The late actress documented her affair with James Dean in her memoir.
By Alejandra Gularte
R.I.P. Mr. GIF Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, was 74.
By Wolfgang Ruth
Traci Braxton, Singer and Toni Braxton’s Sister, Dead at 50 Her sister Toni Braxton announced the news Saturday morning.
By Alejandra Gularte
Emilio Delgado, Luis on Sesame Street for 45 Years, Dead at 81 He held the record for Mexican American actor with the longest-running role in TV history.
By Ashley Shannon Wu
Drakeo the Ruler, Influential West Coast Rapper, Dead at 28 The family intends to file a lawsuit against concert promoters next week.
By Wolfgang Ruth
vulture lists
Jan. 21, 2022
12 Meat Loaf Stories That Proved He Lived One Hell of a Life Warning: The late Meat Loaf was known to embellish a story or two.
By Dan Reilly
Charlie Watts Held the Rolling Stones Together for Half a Century Remembering the legendary drummer, without whom the greatest rock and roll band in history might’ve crumbled.
By Bill Wyman
On the Talented, Monstrous James Levine The Met’s longtime artistic director, fired for sexual abuse, has died at 77.
By Justin Davidson
remembrance
Feb. 26, 2021
The Outlaw History of Arturo Di Modica’s Crosby Street Studio It’s the Charging Bull sculptor’s largest yet least obvious New York work.
By Christopher Bonanos
The Woman Who Taught Us Pleasure Remembering Betty Dodson, the pioneering sex educator.
By Madeleine Aggeler
American Idol Finalist Nikki McKibbin Dies at 42The singer-songwriter suffered complications from an aneurysm.
By Hannah Gold
George C. Wolfe on the ‘Audacity’ of His Late Mentor Stanley Crouch “Even if you didn’t agree with him, there was an incredible thoughtfulness that was going on,“ the playwright said of the combative jazz critic.
By Matt Stieb
Kool & the Gang Co-Founder Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell Dead at 68 He started the legendary funk group with his brother Robert “Kool” Bell in 1964.
By Chris Murphy
Gail Sheehy Never Stopped Reporting A memorial tribute to one of New York’ s most daring writers.
By Christopher Bonanos
Pete Hamill Was One of Us, Only Better at It The peerless observer of New York life died yesterday at 85.
By Christopher Bonanos
herman cain
July 30, 2020
Herman Cain Has Died After Contracting the Coronavirus He was hospitalized within two weeks of attending Trump’s rally in Tulsa.
By Hannah Gold
remembrance
July 30, 2020
A Rolling Tribute to New York’ s John Homans We’ll be republishing this page frequently, as his colleagues join in remembering him.
By Christopher Bonanos
On Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart, and Playwriting As Screed “I had internalized that meat-ax political drama was a synonym for ‘clumsy.’ But it dismantled all my craft preconceptions.”
By Helen Shaw
mental health
Apr. 28, 2020
A Top NYC Emergency Room Doctor Has Died by Suicide Dr. Lorna Breen spent weeks on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis.
By Hannah Gold
Elizabeth Warren’s Brother Has Died of Coronavirus Don Reed Herring was 86. In a tribute, Warren called him “charming and funny, a natural leader.”
By Hannah Gold
There Was One Great Role Brian Dennehy Never Got to Play Robert Falls talked about the great American actor, who died on Wednesday at 81.
By Helen Shaw
Linda Tripp, Whistleblower in Bill Clinton Impeachment, Has Died Tripp’s recordings of her phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky became key evidence against Clinton.
By Claire Lampen
appreciation
Mar. 25, 2020
By Helen Shaw
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