Thursday, November 1, 2012

Ernie Hays

Sports organist -- via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.





Lebbeus Woods

Experimental architect -- via the New York Times.



Richard Current

Historian and Lincoln scholar -- via the Miami Herald and the  AP.

Pascual Perez aka I-285

Former MLB pitcher -- via ESPN.

Vera Little-Augustithis

Mezzo-soprano -- via artsjournal.com.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Les Mueller

Former MLB pitcher -- via NBC. On July 25, 1945, he pitched 19 and 2/3 innings against the A's. He got two weeks off after this unprecedented feat.


Barouh V. Berkovits

Bioengineer; worked on the pacemaker and the defibrillator -- via dignitymemorial.com.

Ahmad Ghabel

Islamic scholar and dissident -- via The Atlantic.

Gabrielle Roth

Dancer and musician -- via the Huffington Post.



Cesare Canevari

Film producer, director, screenwriter, editor, and actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. Responsible for the bizarre spaghetti Western "Matalo!" and many other exploitation films.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Jo Dunne

Lead guitarist for Fuzzbox -- via the Birmingham Mail.

Alan Kirschenbaum

Comedy writer and TV producer -- via the Hollywood Reporter

Hadley Castille

Cajun fiddler -- via theadvertiser.com.





Eddie Bertrand

Guitarist with the Belairs and Eddie & the Showmen, early surf guitar master -- via tdpri.com.






Louis D. Nunley

Bass -- via obits.dignitymemorial.com. A key member of both the Anita Kerr Quartet and the Jordanaires, he sang backup or was featured on thousands of Nashville recordings.

John McConnell

Peace activist; the creator and founder of Earth Day -- via the Denver Post.

Elizabeth Bell

Actress -- via the Guardian.

Bernie McClain

D.C. radio icon; talk show host and program director -- via the Washington Post.

Bidushi Dash Barde

Model and actress -- via daily.baskar.com.


Natina Reed

Singer and actress -- via Yahoo News.




Russell Means

Activist and actor -- via the Independent.





Hans Werner Henze

Composer -- via the Guardian. The innovative and prolific Henze was an oxymoron: a successful avant-garde figure. His absurd and horrifying youth (he was gay, and his father was a Nazi) was far more dramatic than any of his many creations in opera, symphonic and chamber music, ballets, and much more.








David S. Ware

Free-jazz saxophonist -- via the New York Times.





Borah Bergman

Free-jazz pianist -- via thewire.co.uk.



Luigi Vellucci

Tenor -- via northjersey.com.