During the 1895 trials of Oscar Wilde, it became clear that the writer frequented the area, kissing waiters at the Soho restaurant Kettner's (recently re-opened) and hosting orgies at the Savoy Hotel. Just two years before the beginning of the first world war, theCave of the Golden Calfo...
Drag luminaries like Coco Peru, Varla Jean Merman, and Lady Bunny also paid their respects, along with numerous RuPaul’s Drag Race alums like Jinx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme, who had performed with Heklina in Peaches Christ’s drag parody of Death Becomes Her. Her death was covered even by ...
However, it was his portrayal of Gustavo 'Gus' Fring in the television series Breaking Bad and its prequel Better Call Saul that cemented his status as a formidable character actor. His chilling depiction of the calm, calculating drug kingpin earned him several award nominations and widespread ...
Stephen the first Christian Martyr, as he was being stoned to death by the Farisees, assisted by Saul, who later met Jesus in a vision and changed into the Apostel Paul: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” Jesus Christ: Jesus, after a long morning of torture and a 3 hour lasting excr...
The Well of the Sea was popular from the start and stayed in business until 1972, a year before the Sherman itself closed. © Jan Whitaker, 2024 Continental cuisine comes to Orange County In the mid 1950s Geril and Gosta Muller arrived on the west coast. They were born in Denmark and...
Just as the curtain went up on surprise Broadway hit “Death Razzle Dazzle” in the Season 3 finale of Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” Charles, Oliver, and Mabel had solved their latest murder mystery, the death of leading man Ben Gilroy (Paul Rudd). But just as one case cl...
His address coincides with a period of unusual upheaval in U.S. politics. Former President Donald Trumpsurvived an assassination attempton July 13, days before he officially became the Republican presidential nominee. President Bidenended his reelection campaignon Sunday after his party lost confidence...
Evidence for this comes, among others, from the Old Testament, and most notably from the First Book of Samuel, according to which King Saul became ‘mad’ after neglecting his religious duties and angering God. That David played on his harp to appease Saul suggests that, even in biblical ...
Born in London in 1965, next up is the legendary guitarist Saul Hudson – famously known as “Slash.” Considered one of the greatest guitarists in rock history, Slash made a name for himself by being Guns N’ Roses' lead guitarist. But like many great musicians, Slash struggled with...
Most of the rooms were doubles, but I don’t remember anything about his roommate or whether he had one. Les and I became friends with another freshman, Aaron Fogel, and the three of us used to hang out and talk about books. All three of us wanted to be writers, and we all joined...