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  1. Gloria Steinem used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change — neither a cook nor an enthusiastic eater
    nytimes.com/2026/09/04/dining/
    Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change.
    #food #feminism #obituary

  2. Gloria Steinem used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change — neither a cook nor an enthusiastic eater
    nytimes.com/2026/09/04/dining/
    Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change.
    #food #feminism #obituary

  3. Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change. #food #feminism #obituary

    nytimes.com/2026/09/04/dining/

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  4. Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change. #food #feminism #obituary

    nytimes.com/2026/09/04/dining/

    Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass

  5. Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change. #food #feminism #obituary

    nytimes.com/2026/09/04/dining/

    Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass

  6. “Being a feminist means that you see the world as whole instead of half,” she once said. “It shouldn’t need a name, and one day it won’t.”
    apnews.com/article/gloria-stei

    #GloriaSteinem #obituary #feminism

  7. A Sense of Doubt blog post 4211 - TWO YEARS AGO - Obituary of Bob Tower - Born June 26, 1935, Died August 28, 2024 at 13:40 Michigan time. sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2026/0 #Dad #Obituary #Family #Loss #TwoYears

  8. Alan Greenspan, hailed as the greatest Federal Reserve chairman when he retired in 2006 but derided for a severe financial crisis that followed barely two years later, died on Monday age 100, NBC News reported. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/ #worldnews #alangreenspan #obituary

  9. Un des plus grands n’est plus

    David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026

    English version : click here

    Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
    Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).

    «La joie de la nature», au musée Van Gogh 2019 (photo JW)

    On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.

    https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7

    J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.

    Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.

    Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.

    Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

    David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans

    David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture

    Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019

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    Death of a giant

    David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.

    There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).

    David Hockney, Spring in Woldgate, charcoal on paper, 2012; shown in Van Gogh Museum, The Joy of Nature, 2019

    Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.

    A room in the Hockney exhibition in Paris (Louis Vuitton Foundation, 2025)

    Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.

    https://youtu.be/g0-yI_Ph0aE

    It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

    Hockney’s year-round paintings made in Normandy, 2022 ; here shown in Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 2025

    Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.

    Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.

    See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

    David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian

    ‘The vibrant proof of a presence slipped away’: Why David Hockney’s 1967 masterpiece is newly poignant after his death

    Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019

    More images in French section

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    #20eSiècle #20thCentury #21eSiècle #21stCentury #art #artist #DavidHockney #Dessin #drawing #nécrologie #obituary #painter #painting #peinture
  10. Radio Free Skaro #1070 – Do They Know It’s Christmas?

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs1070.mp3

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    Jingle bells are probably silent this Christmas as, if RTD’s hinting in the UK media has led the Three Who Rule to conclude, after Mr. Davies stating he won’t be filming anything this year, so…whither Doctor Who Christmas Special? We get after it! We also look into the spectacular looking 4K release of the 1996 TV Movie, our thoughts on the Mandolorian and Grogu, the usual Big Finish Zaprudering, and an interview with Sophie Aldred, Paul Cornell and author Adrian Tchaikovsky and their involvement in the Salvation’s Child graphic novel! Space Comics!

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    Interview:

    #AdrianTchiakovsky #AndrewSkilleter #BigFinish #BritBox #CutawayComics #DoctorWhoAdventures #DoctorWhoAmI #doctorWhoMagazine #DoctorWhoTVMovie #JonathanHelm #MarciaLucas #Merchandise #Obituary #ParadiseTowers #PaulCornell #PaulMcGann #RussellTDavies #Series16 #SophieAldred #SylvesterMcCoy
  11. Radio Free Skaro #1068 – They’re Not Real Bats

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    Doctor Who is back! At least in the United States, by way of AMC+ which will be the exclusive streaming home of Doctor Who (2005-2022). No word if it’ll show up on AMC+ Canada, which does in fact exist, but we’re used to being the forgotten child of media. Plus we have more BFI and Big Finish news, a nice little BF tribute to Gareth David-Lloyd, and we travel back to the Jodie Whittaker era with a Miniscope examining the directing work of Lee Haven Jones on Spyfall Part Two, Orphan 55, and Revolution of the Daleks! 

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    Miniscope:

    #AMC #BigFinish #DavidBanks #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #GarethDavidLloyd #JillCurzon #LeeHavenJones #Merchandise #Miniscope #nuWho #Obituary #Orphan55 #RevolutionOfTheDaleks #SpyfallPartTwo #TheUltimateEvil
  12. Martha’s Mexican Cocina closure leads top Fort Worth news

    A 2026 report analyzing how much it costs to live “in sustainable comfort” in the biggest U.S. cities has found Fort Worth residents need to make $1,123 more than they did last year to live comfortably in the city. Fo…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #Closings #FoodTopics #hotheadlines #mostpopular #OBITUARY #stateparks #tastemakerawards
    diningandcooking.com/2585726/m

  13. CW: Death in the family, Obituary

    My mother-in-law died on Wednesday. It was my great honor to write a tribute to a woman who was responsible for a huge percentage of the very best things in my life.
    #Grief #Obituary #HughGrant
    cremationpa.mykeeper.com/Charl

  14. Jane Goodall, famed #Primatologist , #anthropologist and #conservationist , dead at 91

    "The #JaneGoodall Inst. has learned this morning, Wed, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace & Founder of the Jane #Goodall Institute has passed away due to natural causes," the institute said on social media. "She was in #California as part of her speaking tour in the United States."

    Goodall’s discoveries as an #ethologist revolutionized science
    #obituary

    abcnews.go.com/International/j

  15. Clairvoyance – Chasm of Immurement Review

    By Maddog

    Yes, I picked this up entirely because of its cover. Girardi’s gorgeous spiral of tombstones and skeletons conjures vintage highbrow death metal of the likes of Death. The title Chasm of Immurement grasps at brutal badassery in the vein of Suffocation’s Effigy of the Forgotten. Clairvoyance’s logo remains indecipherable even if you know the band’s name, suggesting kvltness galore. The promo materials describe lyrics that address the isolating effects of depression, foreshadowing a harrowing listen. In isolation, each of these judgments strikes at the truth but glances off. Chasm of Immurement is the debut album from Poland’s Clairvoyance, an unknown band comprising unknown musicians. Lying at the intersection of brainless death-doom and brainiac digressions, Chasm of Immurement is a powerful foray into death metal.

    A first pass through Chasm of Immurement suggests primitive death metal with a dollop of doom. “Eternal Blaze” opens the album with a bang that recalls Faceless Burial’s Speciation. After grabbing me by the anus, Clairvoyance maintains its hold by alternating between mid-range Obituary riffs and lurching Autopsy-style death-doom. These lowbrow highlights feel both as slimy and evolved as an amoeba. With both its riffs and its guitar tone, Chasm of Immurement leaves a palpable layer of grime that justifies multiple colonoscopies. “Blood Divine” emerges as a late gem through riffs that are gory enough to draw blood and enormous enough to evoke Immolation. This isn’t isolated to a subset of the tracks; throughout its runtime, Chasm of Immurement alternates between a sixteen-wheeler and a used minivan without dulling its fun.

    On your fifth listen, Clairvoyance’s experimental bent comes into view. The same doomy riffs you’d heard before reveal spooky foreground melodies (“Reign of Silence”). The same track that you’d interpreted as a caveman ditty blossoms in baffling melodic directions in its second half (“Eternal Blaze”). The same song that introduced itself as by-the-books death metal culminates in a monstrous doomy climax (“Fleshmachine”). The same sections that you’d dismissed as repetitive transform into home bases for grimy excursions, interfering with your sleep schedule and your family obligations. Adorning hefty riffs with sinister melodies, Clairvoyance recalls both Lovecraft’s Azathoth and Morbid Angel’s Trey Azagthoth. It took me a while to realize that I was doing Chasm of Immurement an injustice by pigeonholing it into old-school death metal. It is indeed that, but it’s so much more.

    Clairvoyance’s varying ambitions both empower and dilute each other. Spanning 34 minutes across 6 tracks, Chasm of Immurement is a concise collection of lengthy tracks. Some of its pieces wander, especially at their simplest. For instance, despite being the second shortest track, “Blood Divine” feels lengthy because of its dearth of creative ideas. Similarly, the shortest song, “Eternal Blaze,” suffers from riffwork that’s decent but unimaginative, before eventually redeeming itself with more variety. Even so, these flubs are rare. The six-minute “Hymn of the Befouled” is the starkest counterexample, balancing length with girth by combining a vicious off-kilter main riff with melodic escapades that hold me rapt. Parts of Chasm of Immurement could do a better job of remaining engaging, but it’s hardly a fatal flaw.

    Balancing thoughtful death metal and anti-intellectual death-doom, Clairvoyance’s debut is as weird as it is powerful. Neanderthals who need their fix should look here, as Chasm of Immurement’s crushing death metal riffs rival the best of old-school death metal. Conversely, fans of Morbid Angel’s wonkiness or Tomb Mold’s shapeshifting shenanigans will find just as much to love here. Chasm of Immurement is unlikely to dethrone Faithxtractor’s Loathing and the Noose atop my 2025 death metal ranking, as its occasional meandering loses my interest. But it’s a promising debut from a crew of talented Polish fiends.

    Rating: 3.5/5.0
    DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
    Label: Carbonized Records
    Websites: carbonizedrecords.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/clairvoyancedeathmetal
    Releases Worldwide: July 18th, 2025

    #2025 #35 #Autopsy #BrutalDeath #BrutalDeathMetal #CarbonizedRecords #ChasmOfImmurement #Clairvoyance #Death #DeathDoom #DeathMetal #DeathDoomMetal #FacelessBurial #Immolation #Jul25 #MorbidAngel #Obituary #PolishMetal #ProgDeath #ProgressiveDeath #ProgressiveDeathMetal #Review #Reviews #Suffocation #TombMold

  16. #BillMoyers Dead: Elder Statesman of #PBS #Journalists Was 91

    Bill #Moyers , who carried an unblemished air of moral conviction throughout a 43-year career as an unapologetically liberal #journalist, mostly for PBS, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 91.

    Like his protege #CharlieRose, Moyers was characterized by an insatiable and wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, but he was deeply concerned not only with how things are but how they should be.
    #obituary

    variety.com/2025/tv/news/bill-

  17. Kazuo Sumi, former president and chairman of railway operator Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, died at his house in the city of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 26, sources said Wednesday. He was 76. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/ #japan #obituary #rail #hankyu #hanshin

  18. Obituary for the late Mark Zuckerberg who turned a Harvard campus creeper app, scraping and rating female students' photos, into a global Public Information Utility, who left this life firmly committed to the right of every member of the Public to enjoy their own truth; and to evade their rights established under the Common Carrier clause of the US Code which was enacted to protect citizens from parasitic utilities like those operated by Meta Corp.

    uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?pa

    #law #justice #AI #satire #1A #freespeech #commonCarrier #publicUtilities #antitrust #regulation #oversight #publicInterest #publicSector #journo #journalism #RIP #obituary #meta #social #factChecking #disinfo #disinformation #propaganda #truth #truthMatters #facts #factsMatter

  19. R.I.P. Earl Holliman. Probably most remembered for his role in the TV series, ‘Police Woman’, though I always associate him with ‘The Twilight Zone’ as well as he starred in the first episode, ‘Where is Everybody?”.

    >> Earl Holliman Dead: 'Police Woman' Actor Was 96 hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

    #RIP #Obituary #EarlHolliman #actor #television #PoliceWoman #TheTwilightZone #TwilightZone