For Jack Cawthon · 3d ago
Just got back from a work trip to Nashville and the first thing I did was look up Jack's Bar-B-Que history for a piece I'm writing, and now I see he's gone. 1991, First Avenue and Broadway, the start of something that's still packed every night I've ever walked past it. 80 years old. Damn.
For Jim Peters · 15 Sept 2026
A principal who built something real out of nothing, and then kept building. Northland College was lucky to have him.
For Andrea Eastman · 9 Sept 2026
The thing about Andrea Eastman that sticks with me is the horses. She spent her final years the way a lot of people should spend theirs, just trying to help creatures who couldn't help themselves. The casting wars are legendary, but those sanctuary horses, they knew her kindness. That's a good end.
For David Worth · 7 Sept 2026
Bloodsport changed everything for action cinema. David Worth saw the potential in that story and shot it with such clarity. A true craftsman.
For Barry Cleavin · 6 Sept 2026
My professor at Canterbury showed us a Cleavin etching in a seminar on satirical art. The bones, the doubt, the small human figures caught in impossible situations. That image stayed with me for thirty years. I became a historian because of prints like that one.
For Didier Decoin · 3 Sept 2026
I grew up watching his television adaptations of Hugo and Dumas. Didn't know his name then, but I knew the stories. That was his gift.
For Carlos Horacio Salinas · 2 Sept 2026
His quote about being born to play football stuck with me for years. He lived it, even when life got hard after the pitch. Respect to him and his family.
For O.J. Brigance · 18 Aug 2026
I first read about O.J. making that first tackle in Super Bowl XXXV and thought, that's a story worth knowing. Twenty years later I learned the real story was what came after. A man who chose to fight and to lift others up. That's a life.
For Bob Saget · 6 Jun 2026
He was America's dad for a reason. Not because he was perfect, but because he was kind, and he worked for it every day. Gone too soon at 65.