Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Frank Martinez

Artist -- via the L.A. Times.

Valerie Benguigui

Actress -- via RFI.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi

Vocalist and music director -- via the Hindustan Times.








Mike Winters aka Michael Weinstein

Comedian, musician, businessman, and writer -- via the Guardian. Straight man to brother Bernie in their double act!





Harry Elliott

Former MLB player -- via the Wacoma Patriot.

Florin Cioaba

"King of the gypsies" -- via the Independent.

Seamus Heaney

Nobel Prize-winning poet, playwright, translator and lecturer -- via the New York Times. Known for not only his own work, but his translation of "Beowulf," which revived interest in this up-to-then painful experience of a poem.