A return to a more time-honored approach to bluegrass revitalized their career, which over the next 30 years found them...
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Richard Ravitch, a politically savvy, civic-minded developer and public citizen who helped rescue New York City from the brink of...
He was, he said in a memoir, “Witness to Grace” (2008), the unwanted child of an agnostic Yale University professor...
Don Harold, a subway aficionado who sometimes used subterfuge to save vintage train cars from the junkyard — cars that...
Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist who, with the composer Jerry Bock, wrote some of Broadway’s most memorable musicals, including the Tony...
Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick at the Tony Awards in May 2016. Matthew Eisman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Matthew Eisman/Getty...
Teresa Taylor, a drummer for the Texas acid-punk band Butthole Surfers who became an emblem of Generation X aimlessness and...
Bob Brown, who was considered one of the N.F.L.’s most intimidating, aggressive offensive tackles in his era, but who had...
Daniel Ellsberg, an iconic whistleblower who helped and the Vietnam War by leaking the so-called Pentagon Papers of government secrets...
A Swiss bicycle racer who crashed on a fast descent during the Tour de Suisse died on Friday, one day...