Obituary

The World Mourns “La Negra”
Mercedes Sosa, 1935-2009

By Rick Sawyer
October 7th, 2009

Mercedes Sosa, an untiring voice for the dispossessed and the persecuted, a leftist in politics and spirit, and an enchanting contralto, died on Sunday. Sosa was one of Argentina’s best-known pop exports and one of the finest singers of her generation.

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Obituary

“I Just Want to Be Pure…”
Poet/Punk Jim Carroll Dies at 60

By Douglas Newman
September 14th, 2009

I was saddened to wake up this morning to the news of Jim Carroll’s death. A poet of the highest order who also found success as a punk rocker in the early 1980s, Carroll is best known for The Basketball Diaries, a raw, harrowing, and exhilarating account of his high school years addled with heroin and hustling.

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