Sunday Toona: RIP Charlie Watts Edition
The Rolling Stones performing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” from The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was recorded before a live …
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RIP: Ron Popeil
The man behind the biggest fishing invention since the hook … and still only $19.95 has passed on to that big infomercial in the …
RIP: Orvis’ Leigh H. Perkins
Leigh H. Perkins, the man who turned The Orvis Company into an internationally renowned sporting goods brand, has passed away. He was 93. Perkins, who …
“Niekro was as baffled about fly fishing as hitters were about his knucklball”
Phil Niekro, whose signature knuckleball fooled generations of hitters and earned him a spot in Cooperstown, died last week in his sleep after a long …
When I Get To Heaven – RIP John Prine
The man didn’t deserve to die like this. John Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories of …
Sunday Toona: RIP Bill Withers
Bill Withers’ performance for the BBC in 1973. Tracklist: 00:00 Aint No Sunshine 03:18 Lonely Town Lonely Street 09:14 Grandma’s Hands 11:40 Use Me 16:05 …
RIP: Michael Russell
Michael Russell, who has died in Norfolk aged 86, was a publisher, wit and author, especially notable in the latter capacity for writing the spoof …
“Russ never thought of painting as a career. It was just something he did”
Russell Chatham, landscape painter, and printer, writer and sportsman who became entwined with the Hollywood glamour of Bozeman and Livingston, Mont., in the 1980s, died …
“We could use a few more Dick Dahlgrens”
Dick Dahlgren, the man who battled the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to restore permanent flows into Rush Creek and Mono Lake, died …
Sunday Toona: RIP Dr. John
Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, passed away last Thursday of a heart attack. He was 77.