Deceased

Larry Page and Sergey Brin began thinking about a new kind of internet search engine in early 1996 and their company was incorporated as Google Inc in 1998. Read More

Borgstrom-Durst drive-through light display, nine miles northwest of Byron, 24704 575th St., Mantorville. 5:30 p.m.-11 p.m. Donations collected for Faith in Action of Dodge County. Read More

Fein had read last week's column on Fred Danziger and was wondering if I would be willing to cover the Philadelphia rock station's upcoming Beatles Art Show. At first I was a bit skeptical, as "Art Thou" is an art column, not a music column. Read More

If you look at Cooper's life story, you can see the signposts that led him to make a movie about a self-destructive artist who, even though he's a honky-tonk-style country singer, would be right at home in the bountiful gallery of beautiful losers that have populated Southern literature for decades, dating back to the days of Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner (who taught Cooper's father English at the University of Virginia). Read More

The 81st edition of the Caldo do Poeira live entertainment programme and last of the 2009 season gathered on Sunday, here, over 600 people at the Petro do Huambo indoor sports pavilion, organised by the state-run National Radio of Angola (RNA), honoured posthumously the Angolan musician António Venâncio "Vini Vini". Read More

The death of Michael Jackson in June prompted a frenzy of publishing activity, and bookshops were buried under piles of at least half-a-dozen new titles long before his family actually got around to burying the erstwhile king of pop. Read More

Without any kind of guide or map, this would be quite a daunting journey, since there are currently 99 releases by The Fall to encounter when you include various compilations, studio and live CDs. The Fall are a rock band that were formed in Manchester, England, in 1976, and since their inception have consisted of songwriter/vocalist Mark E. Smith (who is from nearby Salford, an important distinction) and whoever else he lets play and drink with him. Read More

The death of Michael Jackson in June prompted a frenzy of publishing activity, and bookshops were buried under piles of at least half-a-dozen new titles long before his family actually got around to burying the erstwhile king of pop. Read More

Alright, this Decade shit is for the birds. Read More

Sometimes the wall between this world and the Other World is as thin as the walls of an East Side tenement; one can hear the dead carrying on in Yiddish, playing accordions, cracking jokes. Read More