When I first heard King Magazine was closing up shop, my first thought was of course as a writer – man, there’s one less game in town. But then the more I thought about it, the more I realized, in some ways, this really was the end of an era.
From its 2001 inception, King somehow [...]
Christopher George Latore Wallace
(May 12, 1972 – March 9, 1997)
I don’t remember where I was when I heard NOTORIOUS BIG was dead. And truth be told, at the time I was sixteen with a smart mouth and thought that Pac was the best thing since indoor plumbing.
It wasn’t until years later – when I was [...]
Eartha Kitt, the self-proclaimed “sex kitten” whose sultry voice and catlike purr attracted fans even as she neared 80, has died. The singer, dancer and actress was 81.
Family spokesman Andrew Freedman said Kitt, who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, died Thursday in Connecticut of colon cancer.
Dubbed the “most exciting woman in the world” [...]
MIRIAM MAKEBA, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for more than 30 years under apartheid, died after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76.
In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world — jazz maestros Nina Simone [...]
