Caterina Valentegppbet, a polyglot performer who sang in more than a dozen languages and who was a television mainstay on two continents in the 1950s and ’60s, died on Sept. 9 at her home in Lugano, Switzerland. She was 93. Her death was announced o
Fredric Jameson, who held sway as one of the world’s leading literary theorists for over 40 yearsmanila game, bringing his brand of rigorous, incisive Marxist criticism to topics as broad as German opera, sci-fi films and luxury hotel design, died o
Cat Glover, a dancer and choreographer for Prince who added a frenetic flair to the artist’s late 1980s ensembles, and who danced onstage with him during his “Sign o’ the Times” tourhot646, has died at her home in Los Angeles. She was 62. Her death
Dick Moss, a labor lawyer whohawkplay, with Marvin Miller, the powerful leader of the union that represents baseball players, set the stage for the sport’s free agency revolution, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 93. His death, at an
It sounds like a headline ripped from a supermarket tabloid: In 1994, three Israeli researchers claimed to have found a secret code embedded in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament. But this wasn’t junk science. The paper in which they revea
Michael Nieves sliced his throat with a razor around 11:40 a.m. on Aug. 25, 2022. For the next 10 minutessuper game, correction workers at the Rikers Island jail complex stood by his cell and watched him bleed without providing medical care. Mr. Nie
In 1978, Dr. Francisco Lopera did what recent medical school graduates in Colombia and much of Latin America have long done: He set out for an obligatory year of work in a remote part of the countrylucky horse, where an inexperienced médico rural mi
Lloyd Kaufman, a leading figure in the study of a phenomenon called the moon illusion, an optical trick puzzled over for millenniums by the likes of Aristotle and Kepler, died on Aug. 20 at his home in the Floral Park neighborhood of Queens. He was
It was the perfect New York hustlehb88, a scam of subtle perfection. And for three years, it helped Mark Epperson pay his rent. The hustle, in its simplest form: Borrow a Citi Bike. Ride it one block. Wait 15 minutes, then ride it back. Earn $6,000