RIP Nate Dogg: it wasn’t a hit til he spit
Posted by Anupa in Music, Obit, Rappers on 16. Mar, 2011 | 1 Comment
Nate Dogg, G-funk devotee, the definitive hip-hop hook singer, passed away late yesterday. He was only 41 years old — “health issues” are cited as the cause of death — but had come to be a sub-icon of West Coast rap, getting his start working with Snoop Dogg in the early 90s and debuting on [...]
If resting in peace is possible, Harvey Pekar deserves it
Posted by Jef in Art, comics, Obit on 12. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
At around 1 a.m. this morning Joyce Brabner found her husband Harvey Pekar dead in their Cleveland Heights home. Pekar, a stalwart of the indie-comics scene whose American Splendor series of slice-of-life graphic novels helped create a sub-genre and were loved by comics fans and outsiders alike, was 70. A Cleveland news report puts it [...]
Post Mortem: Dennis Hopper’s Nike commercials
Posted by Jef in Obit on 01. Jun, 2010 | 4 Comments
In the third edition of his “A Biographical Dictionary of Film” (1994), film critic David Thomson ended his entry on Dennis Hopper, now dead, with this: Late in 1993, [Hopper] did a series of commercials for Nike, playing a football freak, so precise, so funny, and so daring (and perverse–sniffing Bruce Smith’s shoe), they may [...]
RIP to Guru, a cool cat
Posted by Jef in Music, Obit, Rappers on 20. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
By the end of the day you’ll be able to read a lot of dope tributes to Guru, formerly of Gang Starr, formerly, well, period. The beloved and influential MC died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. I know most are going to reminisce over the joints he did with DJ Premier, as they [...]
Spectacle: McQueen’s Blazing Exit
Posted by Avril in fashion, Obit, spectacle, Uncategorized on 11. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
News of Alexander McQueen’s sudden death was perhaps the only thing that could shock an industry that has come to expect nothing shy of astonishment from a furiously innovative designer. And maybe he knew that. Or maybe his is a cautionary tale of the pressure to sell facing young talent from a ravenous, unforgiving beast.
