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Her Christian-themed music made her a fan favorite on ‘Idol’ and won her a Grammy Award in 2013.

Faith Ringgold passed over the weekend. A crafter, an artist, a thinker, a mentor. I am maybe not the best person to eulogize her, but her life and work have touched so many and deeply influenced generations of Black artists. Her passing is a loss, her memory will be a blessing.Where have you seen her work? Here's one I can see regularly. Here's one...

The DJ born Calvin LeBrun was a Hot 97 mainstay and an early collaborator of Big Daddy Kane

The Tackhead and Little Axe member also drummed on songs for Nine Inch Nails, Tina Turner, and R.E.M.

Adrian Schiller, who played Aethelhelm in the Netflix historical series The Last Kingdom, died Wedneday at 60-years-old. No details on location or cause has been revealed. In a statement, agent Amanda Evans confirmed his death. “It is with the heaviest and saddest hearts that we announce the death of our beloved client, Adrian Schiller, on […]

John Barth, author of books like Sot-Weed Factor, Lost in the Funhouse, Letters and Tidewater Tales, has died in a Florida hospice facility. He was 93.Barth had a long career and indulged his imagination in various literary experiments. Though dated in their treatment of women and minorities, his first two novels (published in the late 1950s) were fairly straightforward parodies of existential novels: in...

American-born Canadian comedy legend Joe Flaherty has died after a short illness. He was 82 years old. American audiences might know him best as Happy Gilmore's heckler, or Big Bird's co-kidnapper, or as Mr. Weir from "Freaks and Geeks." Canadian viewers and comedy nerds will more likely recognize him from SCTV, or as Jennifer Tilly's long-suffering dad in the cult classic The Wrong Guy.It...

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After a brief illness Alexander Keewatin "Kee" Dewdney paased away surrounded by family at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. He was predeceased by his first wife, Patricia Dewdney in 2020, and by his son, Jonathan, in 2022. Kee was born in London to author Selwyn Dewdney and art therapist Irene Dewdney. Early in...

Jennifer Leak, the first wife of Tim Matheson who met when they played step-siblings in the 1968 film Yours, Mine and Ours, has died at 76. She died March 18 at her home in Jupiter, Florida, Leak was dealing with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurological disease, in her final years. Matheson posted a tribute […]

Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82 from complications from a fall.As with many of our more infamous political figures, labor historian and political pundit Erik Loomis has prepared a fitting scathing obituary for the man: Joe Lieberman, at his best, was a moralistic jerk who constantly concern trolled anyone to his left. He decided to make violence in...

Laurent de Brunhoff, 'Babar the Elephant' author, dies aged 98 [CNN]; Laurent de Brunhoff, l'un des pères de Babar, est mort [Le Monde]; Décès de Laurent de Brunhoff, père d'un Babar controversé [Le Soir]Representations of French Colonialism in The Story of Babar the Little Elephant [PDF] Freeing the Elephants; [The New Yorker; ungated] On Babar: Model of Integration or Crumbling Myth?

Mountaineer and Cinematographer David Breashears dies at 68 David Breashears, mountaineer and cinematographer who climbed Mt. Everest 5 times and documented the 29.028 foot climb and infamous 1996 tragedy on the mountain in the highest grossing ever IMAX film, died this week at his home in Marblehead MA. David worked as a cinematographer on over 40 films including Seven Years in Tibet with Brad...

Kain helped set the stage for rap with the Harlem collective’s beat-driven performance poetry about racism and oppression

David Breashears, whose mountaineering led him to climb Mt. Everest five times, died at his Massachusetts home on Thursday. He was 68 and no cause has been determined. Breashears co-directed and co-produced a 1998 IMAX documentary for Universal, Everest, about climbing the fabled mountain. Footage from that expedition to the peak made him a celebrity in […]

Shigeichi Negishi, the inventor of the world's first commercially-available karaoke machine, has died in Japan. He was 100 years old.Negishi was in his 40s when he came up with the idea of prototyping a mass-produced, coin-operated karaoke machine, branded "Sparko Box," after a colleague at the consumer electronics assembly business he ran in Tokyo criticized his singing.

Joe Camp, who wrote, produced and directed a series of films and TV shows that elevated a pooch stage-named Benji to Hollywood’s canine pantheon alongside Lassie and Rin Tin Tin, died today at his Tennessee home. He was 84. His death was announced by his son, the director Brandon Camp, who told Deadline that his […]

Though never patented, Negishi’s 1967 Sparko Box was the first device to facilitate what would become a wildly popular musical pastime

A Jamaican appeals court will now decide whether the dancehall star and his co-defendants will again stand trial