Jere Longman

1 day ago | seattletimes.com | Jere Longman

A star runner from Kenya, Faith Kipyegon, is set to try to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes this summer, after a study suggested that she could do so under the right conditions. Kipyegon, 31, set the world record in the women’s mile, running it in 4 minutes 7.64 seconds in 2023. More than 70 years after Roger Bannister, a British medical student, became the first person to break the four-minute barrier, it remains the next frontier for women’s middle-distance running.

2 weeks ago | editorandpublisher.com | Jere Longman

Posted Monday, April 7, 2025 8:50 am John Peck, a cultural omnivore known as The Mad Peck whose dryly humorous style as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic, disc jockey and record collector was accompanied by an ornate eccentricity, died on March 15 in Providence, Rhode Island. He was 82. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was a ruptured aneurysm in his aorta, said his sisters, Marie Peck and Lois Barber. Click here to read more....

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jere Longman

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2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jere Longman

John Peck, a cultural omnivore known as The Mad Peck whose dryly humorous style as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic, disc jockey and record collector was accompanied by an ornate eccentricity, died on March 15 in Providence, R.I. He was 82. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was a ruptured aneurysm in his aorta, said his sisters, Marie Peck and Lois Barber. Mr. Peck was not as well known or acclaimed as underground cartoonists like Robert Crumb or Art Spiegelman.

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jere Longman

NowThe author of more than a dozen books and an award-winning documentary, he died in a car crash in Southern California. Dennis McDougal, a prolific author, Hollywood muckraker and Peabody Award-winning documentarian, died on Saturday from injuries sustained in a car crash in Southern California. He …