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Dec 31, 2024 | 
passionweiss.com | Jeff Weiss |Son Raw |Douglas Martin |Evan Nabavian
POW is a website with few ads. We don’t do sponcon, we don’t do clickbait, we don’t have any corporate overlords. This list that you’re about to read is a labor of love, inasmuch as anything can be a labor of love in late capitalism. Even labors of love come at the significant cost of time. This is the result of hundreds of hours of labor. Three editors and dozens of contributors attempting to capture the spirit of the old weird Internet.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
gvwire.com | Douglas Martin
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and a popular and vital force in the Kennedy political dynasty, died Thursday. She was 96. Her grandson Joe Kennedy III announced the death on the social platform X, giving the cause as complications of a stroke she had last week. He did not say where she died. Her death came a little more than six weeks after her third eldest child, Robert F.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Douglas Martin
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a popular and vital force in the Kennedy political dynasty, died on Thursday. She was 96. Her grandson Joseph P. Kennedy III announced the death on the social media site X, giving the cause as complications of a stroke she had last week. He did not say where she died. Her death came a little more than six weeks after her third eldest child, Robert F.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
myheraldreview.com | Douglas Martin
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and a popular and vital force in the Kennedy political dynasty, died Thursday. She was 96. Her grandson Joe Kennedy III announced the death on the social platform X, giving the cause as complications of a stroke she had last week. He did not say where she died. Her death came a little more than six weeks after her third eldest child, Robert F.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
club.drawtogether.studio | Douglas Martin |Wendy MacNaughton
Helloooooo Grown-Ups Table. Well, today is the last day the GUT will be paywall-free. Starting next the GUT’s drawing assignments, community art share and chat, upcoming 30-day drawing session and live and interactive events will be for member-subscribers only. If you are not a GUT member and you want to keep getting our art dispatches/lessons/explorations and stay engaged with the GUT community, subscribe today.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Douglas Martin
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Pat Robertson, a Baptist minister with a passion for politics who marshaled Christian conservatives into a powerful constituency that helped Republicans capture both houses of Congress in 1994, died Thursday at his home in Virginia Beach. He was 93. Robertson built an entrepreneurial empire based on his Christian faith. He also waged a serious although unsuccessful campaign for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Douglas Martin
Pat Robertson, a Baptist minister with a passion for politics who marshaled Christian conservatives into a powerful constituency that helped Republicans capture both houses of Congress in 1994, died on Thursday at his home in Virginia Beach, Va. He was 93. His death was announced by the Christian Broadcasting Network, which Mr. Robertson founded in 1960.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Douglas Martin
Robert Blake, an actor whose career portraying gritty characters like the television detective Tony Baretta was eclipsed by his trial and acquittal in the murder of his wife in 2001, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. The cause was long-term heart disease, Noreen Austin, his niece, said. Mr. Blake began performing at 2, when his father would bring him and his brother and sister to New Jersey parks to dance for money. By age 5 he was a regular in the “Our Gang” film comedies.
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Feb 5, 2023 | 
iqfin.net | Douglas Martin
2023-02-06 02:39:09 The New York TimesBy Douglas MartinHe drew headlines across the world when, during a hunting trip, he was accidentally blasted in the face and torso by Vice President Dick Cheney then apologized himself for the incident. Harry Whittington, a wealthy and well-connected lawyer who gained sudden global fame as the unintended victim of a shotgun blast by former Vice President Dick Cheney, died early Saturday morning, his wife said. He was 95.
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Feb 5, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Douglas Martin
Politics|Harry Whittington, Texas Lawyer Shot by Cheney, Dies at 95https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/us/politics/harry-whittington-dead.htmlHe drew headlines across the world when, during a hunting trip, he was accidentally blasted in the face and torso by Vice President Dick Cheney — then apologized himself for the incident. Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
