Matthew Davis

For Jorge Kahwagi · 24d ago

Just read about this an hour ago. I'd been down a YouTube hole last night, that old clip of him getting booed after the Coelho fight in 2005, and this morning he's gone. 58. Damn.

For Rose Friedman · 18 Sept 2026

My daughter called me in Lisbon to tell me. I use that Books We Love list every December, it's how I found half the novels on my shelf out here. Someone who could sort through hundreds of books a year and still care about getting it right, that's rare.

For Duda Alves · 17 Sept 2026

My granddaughter showed me one of her clips a while back, the one where she goes off about people who chew with their mouth open. Didn't understand a word of Portuguese but I was laughing anyway. Told my wife just now that she died and she just sat there. 22 years old.

For Iván Carvajal · 7 Sept 2026

His essays in El Comercio over the years were like having a brilliant friend who saw the country clearly and wasn't afraid to say it. Quito feels smaller without that voice.

For Fabrizio Plessi · 29 Aug 2026

Visited Venice three years ago and walked past the Museo Correr thinking about Waterfire, how he'd turned that whole plaza into something alive with light and memory. An artist who understood that a city isn't just stone.

For Guo Lanying · 12 Aug 2026

I heard her sing at a festival film screening in '98. She was already in her late sixties but that voice still filled the whole room. The kind of artist you never forget meeting, even just once in a crowd.

For James Earl Jones · 9 Aug 2025

Watched Field of Dreams when I was a kid and then Star Wars and then The Lion King. Didn't even realize it was the same man for years. What a career.

To Yael Wasserman’s tribute on Raymond Massie Jr.’s page · 5d ago

He never gave up on finding Lasheky. That's what I'll remember.

To Yesenia Espinoza’s tribute on Blas Jaime’s page · 17 Sept 2026

same, my abuela reacted the exact same way