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March 15, 2024
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Serge Raoul, Whose SoHo Bistro Glittered With Stars, Dies at 86

Raoul’s, which he founded, was a celebrity magnet and a neighborhood institution in the 1970s and ’80s. But he had never planned on a life in […]
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March 5, 2024
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Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46

When the hashtag #EndFathersDay began trending on Twitter, she realized it was more than just an absurd joke. It was a coordinated disinformation effort. Shafiqah Hudson […]
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November 4, 2023
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Helen Williams, Top Model in a Segregated Era, Is Dead at 87

She was one of the most photographed Black models of the 1950s and ’60s, seen mainly in magazines, like Ebony and Jet, aimed at the Black […]
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August 31, 2023
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With Ceramics and Wallpaper, an Engraver Straddles Centuries

Andrew Raftery’s ceramics and wallpaper energize the laborious art of engraving to explore contemporary life. This article is part of our Design special section about new […]
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July 30, 2023
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SunRay Kelley, Master Builder of the Counterculture, Dies at 71

The go-to guru for those seeking their dream yurt, spiritual retreat or treehouse, he brought forth his handmade structures like a wizard with a chain saw. […]
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April 14, 2023
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Lucinda Williams Tells Her Secrets

The singer-songwriter reveals herself in a memoir that captures her adventures with charming rogues, puzzled music executives and her own demons. NASHVILLE — “Bless your heart!” […]
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March 25, 2023
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The Key to Gerri on ‘Succession’? ‘Inside She’s a Nervous Wreck’

For decades the New York theater world paid homage to J. Smith-Cameron, a veteran stage actress who has often been compared to Carole Lombard for her […]
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August 20, 2022
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Latisha Chong, Hair Stylist Who Helped Change Fashion, Dies at 32

In work seen, among other places, on the cover of Vogue, she was part of a vanguard of Black talent that altered an industry and expanded […]
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June 29, 2022
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Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106

Known as “the Red Headed Ball of Fire,” she began performing at age 14, became a headliner on two coasts, and outlived most of her peers. […]
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June 23, 2022
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Harry Gesner, Architect of Soaring California Style, Dies at 97

His houses cantilevered from cliffs, straddled canyons and sprung from mountains; they would come to define the Southern California landscape. Harry Gesner, the dashing, surf-loving architect […]
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