Littlefeather, "the Apache activist and actress who refused to accept the best actor award on behalf of Marlon Brando at the 1973 Oscars," has died at 75. - The New York Times
Though Bussard collected 15,000 albums, he was selective: "He loved jazz but detested any jazz recorded after the early 1930s. He loved country music but decreed that nothing good came after 1955. Nashville? He called it 'Trashville.' Rock ’n’ roll? A cancer." - The New York Times
"If it shocks people a little, well, I grew up with Madonna. I like to be a little shocking, a little provocative. I really never cared about being for everyone." - The New York Times
Sue Mingus "helped secure legacy as one of the 20th century’s greatest musical minds" after his death of ALS at age 56. Incredibly, she "organized three bands, each with different strengths, to wrestle with the more than 300 compositions he left behind." - The New York Times
He taught himself to play the lute while imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, collected antique instruments, and recorded, as a singer, an LP that featured English lute songs alongside African-American spirituals. He even composed a lute song that he passed off as "Elizabethan." - Early Music America
Many people close to the late chef/author/TV star refused to speak with Charles Leerhsen for his Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain. But his ex-wife, who controls the estate, did, and Leerhsen got access to texts and emails from Bourdain's final days. - The New York Times
"(She's) managed a one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-sort, decades-long career with dreadlocks on her head, no eyebrows on her face and her foot in her mouth ... Goldberg has never held anything back. She knows that this is part of her legacy, but also what it can cost her." - The New York Times Magazine
There’s a chance that a blunt story about Ginsburg’s decline might have changed the trajectory that led to the end of Americans’ right to abortion. - Politico
Thompson, co-founder of the North Adams, Mass. museum, who stepped down as director in 2020 after 32 years, was charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation for a 2018 collision with a motorcyclist who died at the scene and was found to have been drunk. - New England Public Media
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk and creator of the recent TV miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven didn't reveal the nature of the injury, which happened a month ago, but wrote that "this has been a challenging, frightening time ... and now I understand the road back will be long." - Variety
Is that why people called his music “spiritual jazz?” Because it made us feel like we were being released from the physical world? Sanders — who died in Los Angeles on Saturday at 81 — often described his work as a search for something that couldn’t be found. - Washington Post
"The Ratched character had been softened in the script compared to Kesey’s original, and Fletcher gave a rather subtle performance, often conveying the character’s emotions simply through facial expressions, which is why she deserved her Oscar." - Variety
Hiller opened her own studio in 1995, becoming as force as a woodworker - and as a writer of both popular and scholarly articles about the history of the art. - The New York Times
"She embodies both the magician and the spell, and part of the particular wonder of reading her is the knowledge that no one else has ever written like that before nor will again. She seemed to see so clearly." - The New York Times
