The Press-Telegram’s Tom Hennessy comes through in marvelous style today–with eloquence, sentiment and insight–with the obituary that just-departed Tedd Thomey requested a few months before he died. Thomey may be best remembered as  the Independent, Press-Telegram’s longtime restaurant critic, but Hennessy’s tribute reveals a life composed of so much more. It may be difficult for a generation that has grown up on modern media [...]

Here’s a couple interesting remembrance pieces you might have missed recently.
Firstly, singer-songwriter Dave Alvin remembers the night in 1983 that he and a group of musicians from X and The Blasters backed up the late Bo Diddley at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles.
“Whatever you do, do not play ‘the Beat!’ ” Alvin distinctly [...]

Two-time Pulitzer winner, author of The Executioner’s Song dead at 84
Vonnegut died earlier this year, and now we say goodbye to Norman Mailer.
It was a shock to see him hobbling on two canes during interviews related to his last novel, The Castle in the Forest. But he was still a crank with a [...]