Results tagged “obituary”

If you heard only the NPR news blip on jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's death, you heard that he was "well known for having won many prizes." Not sure what skeleton holiday crew came up with that dismal description. Prizes were hardly the source of Peterson's fame.

One of Seattlest’s best friends of the past 8 years, Jared Washines, died suddenly last Sunday from some kind of inexplicable seizure in his sleep. He was 32.

This is Tom Landry, the greatest coach the Dallas Cowboys ever had.

This was not a very happy week for the -ist network as one of our own,

Exactly one week after Randy Johnson threw the first no-hitter in Mariner history against Detroit, a 26-year-old rookie made an auspicious Mariners debut at Tiger Stadium.

Some things are gone, or going.

Seattlest sang the praises of the landmark Capitol Hill eatery Glo's in previous posts not worth linking to now, but when we heard the rumor this morning that Glo's namesake passed away, we suddenly felt like we hadn't written nearly enough.

One of our favorite artists, R.L. Burnside, passed away on September 1st. We were late-comers to the wonders of this Mississippi hill country blues musician, who never would have even recorded or released his own music were it not for Fat Possum records.