Mary Ann Gone

from Deadline Dawn Wells Dies Of Covid-19: Mary Ann On ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Was 82 By Erik Pedersen Dawn Wells, best known for playing the girl-next-door castaway Mary Ann on the iconic CBS comedy series Gilligan’s Island, died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles of...

Homogenized by COVID

from Vox The year reality collapsed into pixels What I learned from spending 2020 working, learning, and entertaining on the same screen. By Alissa Wilkinson By the time the friendly robot Wall-E makes it to outer space in the Pixar movie that bears his name, the...

Pierre Cardin Gone

from BBC Pierre Cardin: French fashion giant dies aged 98 GETTY IMAGES Legendary designer Pierre Cardin, whose futuristic and stylish designs helped revolutionise fashion in the 1950s and 60s, has died at the age of 98. The French fashion giant, whose career spanned...

Willie

from Slate An Interview With Willie Nelson at 87: “I Didn’t Ever Think I’d Get This Old” By JONATHAN L. FISCHER As part of Slate’s project on the 80 most influential Americans over 80, we spoke to some members of the list to reflect on aging, work, and life in...

“My own dog, gone commercial!”

from The Atlantic via MSN Charlie Brown’s Inside Job by Caitlin Flanagan For half a century, it’s been one of the most significant phrases in American Christianity. A prelude to something sacred in an unlikely place: the Gospel of Luke, King James translation, as...