Maurice El Medioni, an Algerian-born pianist who combined Jewish and Arabic musical traditions into a unique style he called “Pianoriental,”…
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Patti Astor, downtown Manhattan’s “It” girl, indie film star and co-founder of Fun Gallery, the seedy East Village shop that…
Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer who celebrated glitz and extravagance, sending models down the catwalk and actors down red…
Robert MacNeil, the Canadian-born journalist who delivered sober evening newscasts for more than two decades on PBS as co-anchor of…
Evan Stark, who studied domestic violence with his wife and then pioneered a concept called “coercive control,” which describes the…
When wandering bands of hunter-gatherers domesticated the scavenging wolves at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, they set the stage…
Kate Coleman, an iconoclastic Bay Area journalist who began her career as a radical leftist, writing about patriarchy, politics and…
Lynne Reid Banks, a versatile British author who began her writing career with the bestselling feminist novel “The L-Shaped Room”…
Maryse Condé, a writer from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe whose explorations of race, gender and colonialism throughout the…
Betty Cole Dukert, who began her career in Washington as a secretary in the 1950s and later became the top…