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Frank Gehry, master architect with flair for drama, dies aged 96 He popularised contemporary architecture, and became such a sensation that he was featured on The Simpsons.

Canada-born US architect Frank Gehry, whose daring and whimsical designs from the Guggenheim Bilbao to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles captivated fans and critics, has died aged 96.
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Green Onions One of the greatest rhythm guitar players of all time has left us

All my guitar heroes are less-is-more kinda players and Steve Cropper was a master of that style

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70 years ago, Rosa Parks’ refusal to move on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama sparked a movement that proved progress is never won without struggle.

To honor her, we cannot accept cynicism or the status quo.

That movement for justice still continues.

This World AIDS Day, we mourn the hundreds of thousands of Americans lost to HIV/AIDS and stand with those living with the diagnosis today.

While the Trump Administration refuses to mark this day, California will never abandon our neighbors, friends, and loved ones affected.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci 1929

93 years ago, Stalin instituted a man-made famine in Ukraine to break its resistance to Soviet occupation, killing millions. Now, Putin’s war and weaponization of hunger once again threaten Ukrainians' survival. We honor the victims of Stalin's famine by supporting Ukraine today.

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff has died at 81. Massive influence to The Clash, The Slits, The Specials, The Police, The Selecter, No Doubt and countless others. RIP

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) where we mourn the trans lives lost to anti-trans violence, hate, prejudice, & discrimination. We honor & remember, recommitting to uplift & empower, working to end violence against the trans community. I stand in solidarity with the trans community!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🕯️

Life’s Been Good | Joe Walsh Julien’s Auctions, announces their event with one of the most fabled, beloved and respected rock icons in the world, JOE WALSH. The “Life’s Bee...

anyone in need of a second-hand guitar or some uniquely great music history should check this out. I love the Joe Walsh stuff but I was blown away by his collected Les Paul relics like the 1955 Steinway and the Les Paul made acoustic panels (made before they existed) up for purchase.

living the cream

drove past that Kerr-McGee plant hundreds of times in my youth. always thought it had a creepy vibe even before I learned what went on there.

This reminds me that, in Russia, the vodka bottles have pull tabs instead of resealable caps

Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.

I’m a purist. I think they really stopped making the penny when they stopped making it out of copper.

short attention-span theater

I spy a young @jimedblanchard.bsky.social in the background 🤣😂

Black-and-white image with a young man's face on the right and a quote on the left about being anti-fascist, anti-violence, anti-racist, and pro-creative. Author: Joe Strummer.

#JosephByrd #RIP

Composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer Joseph Byrd

Founder of the innovative American psychedelic bands The United States Of America and The Field Hippies and initially part of the Fluxus NYC experimental music scene in the early 60s and a student John Cage.

Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux Dead at 78 Donna Jean Godchaux, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead and provided vocals on an Elvis Presley hit, has died at the age of 78.

RIP Donna Jean. On a good night, she summoned angels.

Happy birthday, Henry Winkler

Jack DeJohnette, the renowned jazz drummer who played in Miles Davis’ electric period band and one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time, has died at age 83.

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I miss that man every day. Musically and politically.

Frank clearly saw it coming 👇🏼🧐🤨💙

Image of a man in 19th century American naval dress holding a large U.S. flag as a woman representing liberty prepares to place a laurel on his head. Words beneath read: We Owe Allegiance to No Crown

good work, good trouble today. | We Owe Allegiance to No Crown, by Philadelphian artist John Archibald Woodside. c. 1814 | courtesy, National Portrait Gallery #nokings

Ace Frehley, the wild Spaceman of Kiss who played guitar in the band throughout their Seventies heyday and again during the reunion period in the Nineties and inspired an entire generation of musicians, has died at age 74.

More on his life and legacy:
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The freakout in NYC isn’t about Mamdani’s race, but his critics’ perception of his politics (and to some extent his religion).

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.