She grew up on the Upper West Side and graduated from City-as-School, an alternative public high school where students design their own curricula based on experiential learning, mostly through internships. (Jean-Michel Basquiat was an alumnus, as was Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys.) Ms. Raphan was an intern...
Constance Demby, whose ethereal music, some of which was played on instruments she designed, was greatly admired by New Age aficionados, spiritual seekers, and fans of electronics, died on March 19 in Pasadena, California. She was 81 years old.Her son and only immediate survivor, Joshua Demby, said the...
Malcolm Cecil, a UK-born bassist with the soul of an engineer who revolutionized electronic music by helping create a giant analog synthesizer that gave a new sound to Stevie Wonder's albums, died Sunday in a Valhalla hospital, NY. He was 84 years old.His son Milton said the cause...
KABUL, Afghanistan - Three health workers, all women working for the government's polio vaccination campaign, were shot dead Tuesday in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, local officials said just weeks after three television women were killed in the same city .The women, all in their twenties, were working in the busy...
George Segal, whose long career began in serious drama but became one of America's most trusted and well-known comic book actors, first in film and later on television, died Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California. He was 87 years old. According to his wife Sonia Segal, the cause was...