Wayne Cochran, the ‘White Knight of Soul,’ dies at 78
Wayne Cochran, the “blue-eyed soul” singer known for his towering pompadour, has died of cancer at his Florida home. He was 78. The singer, who was called the “White Knight….
Wayne Cochran, the “blue-eyed soul” singer known for his towering pompadour, has died of cancer at his Florida home. He was 78. The singer, who was called the “White Knight….
Herb Kelleher, the lawyer with a Texas swagger who built Southwest Airlines Co. into the biggest discount carrier and set the standard for budget air travel for more than three….
The streets of South L.A. were marked and divided by gang warfare when “Boyz n the Hood” arrived in America’s movie houses, a violent and profane yet somehow deeply sentimental….
Nicholas C. Petris, who was a leading liberal voice for nearly four decades as a California state senator and assemblyman representing his hometown of Oakland and other East Bay cities,….
In 2004, Anna Bermudez received some unsolicited advice from Xavier Montes about one of her art pieces. Tall, mustachioed and almost always dressed in white slacks, a white guayabera and….
NEW YORK — Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and….
Child actor Dickie Moore, who was in “Our Gang” comedies and numerous notable films, was so used to the limelight by the time he was 6 that when he got….
Caroline McWilliams, an actress and director best known to television audiences for her work on the series “Benson” and “Soap,” has died. She was 64. McWilliams died Feb. 11 at….
At the center of an FBI corruption investigation that employed fake Middle Eastern sheikhs, a 65-foot yacht, plush hotel suites and paper bags of cash was a convicted con artist,….
Emile Norman, a self-taught California artist whose best-known work was the massive and intricate glass mosaic window he created more than 50 years ago for a Masonic temple in San….