Died 2001

We commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by remembering the past and considering the future.

Before comedy pioneers Joan Rivers, Carol Burnette, and Lily Tomlin helped disprove the notion that women couldn’t be funny, another woman was cracking up audiences decades earlier: Imogene Coca.

Joey Ramone was an icon of American punk, the face and voice of a movement. To commemorate the anniversary of his birth May 19, 1951, listen to five of our …

When most of us are 14 years old, we’re clumsily navigating the early years of high school. When R&B superstar Aaliyah was 14, she was recording her debut album – …

Some of the most important movies of the 20th century owe their creation to filmmaker Stanley Kramer.

Though John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the vast majority of Beatles’ tunes, George Harrison proved his compositional chops whenever he had the chance. On his birthday, we look back on his some of his …

As if being a role model to generations of female pilots wasn’t enough, Anne Morrow Lindbergh was also an award-winning author and prolific writer of poetry and non-fiction.

There was a time when actor Ray Walston worried that he would always be a Martian…

Ernie K-Doe was one of the many unique characters that make Louisiana great. With his quirky rhythm and blues music and outrageous antics, the New Orleans native fit right in …