Dan Nowicki

How Mary Weiss Influenced Musicians From the Ramones to Amy Winehouse Her singing career began and ended before she turned 20.

“Mary Weiss Influenced Musicians From the Ramones to Amy Winehouse.” (via New York Times Magazine) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

R.I.P. Michael Cole of "The Mod Squad." www.azcentral.com/story/entert...

60 YEARS AGO: Rankin/Bass Productions' holiday classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is broadcast for the first time on Dec. 6, 1964. Here's the ad for the NBC TV special that was published in that day's edition of The Arizona Republic.

Happy Thanksgiving 2024!

'Everybody liked him': John Katsenes, businessman and former city leader, dies at 94 Katsenes served only a short time on the Phoenix City Council, and a brief stint as a county supervisor. But his time in office was consequential.

John Katsenes was a former Phoenix City Council member and Maricopa County supervisor as well as a longtime civic leader.
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Shel Talmy, Early Producer for the Who and Kinks and a Pioneer of the Brit Beat Sound, Dies at 87 Shel Talmy, producer of the Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' and the Who's 'My Generation' among many others, has died.

R.I.P. the great producer Shel Talmy.

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