Obituaries
The Late, Great John Mahoney Was Frasier's Father, and Yours Too
A tribute to the man we all know as Martin Crane.
We Lost Ursula K. Le Guin When We Needed Her Most
Her novels and stories spoke with the breath of her politics, a graceful and humanist blend of lyrical environmentalism, feminism, and anticapitalism.
AIM Will Enter Instant Messenger Heaven on December 15
AOL is putting up a permanent away message on one of the most important messaging services of all time.
Don't Mourn For Hugh Hefner
The media has painted the Playboy founder as a grandfather figure with naughty past. It needs to stop.
I'm a Female Pornographer and I'm Sad Hugh Hefner Is Dead
Filmmaker, photographer, and sexologist Shelby Sells on the lasting legacy of the man in the velvet smoking jacket.
10 Thoughts on Holger Czukay, the Cosmic Dad Jokester of Krautrock, Who Is Dead Now
The 79-year-old co-founded the legendary German art-rock group Can, who produced some of the most influential music of the 70s and 80s.
RIP George Romero, Inventor of the Zombie Movie
The director of the Night of the Living Dead franchise has died at age 77.
Remembering Fresh Kid Ice, a Pioneering Asian Rapper
Chris Wong Won broke racial boundaries in hip-hop as a founding member of 2 Live Crew.
The Growing Movement to Memorialize Queerness After Death
LGBTQ representation is increasing in both cemeteries and obituaries.