Google is actively working on fixing the problem it was with showing too much spam for obituary-related queries. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said “it’s something we’re actively looking at ways to improve.” This was in response to a complaint by Matthew Brown who wrote, “Searching for obituary is both depressing and also a comprehensive […]
Stella Chiweshe, who has died aged 76, was a rebel musician who transformed the music scene in Zimbabwe in the 1970s, when the country was still white-ruled Rhodesia. She did so by daring to play the mbira, the “thumb piano”, a small instrument with 22 to 28 metal keys, flattened at the playing end and […]
Lanelle Karen Fikes Lanelle Karen Fikes – dedicated mother of two, grandmother of five, friend of many – passed away on Nov. 23, 2022, with her daughters by her side. She was 75. Lanelle was born in Bryan, to Marie (Ruffino) and Anthony “Tony” Patranella on Sept. 18, 1947, but was raised by Marie and […]
It was expected that Halpern would be roasted at the meeting. But, flanked by his family, he faced the music, unapologetic and unperturbed, admitting the affair but dismissing it as “an innocent little nothing”, and found that the shareholders cared not one jot about his morals, only about their dividends. The executive options scheme was […]
The buoyancy and warmth of the British jazz singer Tina May, who has died of a brain tumour aged 60, were lifelong virtues that made a difficult art sound natural, drew every listener into an intimate space that seemed to be receiving her full attention, and allowed her to impart a beguiling freshness to lyrics […]