Recently, while writing a newspaper article, I learned that (a) I needed to know the middle name of the singer Al Green (b) there is some disagreement on how he spells it. He was born Albert Greene on April 13, 1946 (he dropped the final E from his last name shortly after he began his […]

posted 8 January 2023 in Outside. no comments yet

Happy new year! In case you missed it in 2022: I had two articles in the “Overlooked” section of The New York Times (aka “Overlooked No More”), which profiles remarkable people who never got proper obituaries in the Times, due to the cultural biases of past decades. The first article was on Vera Menchik, the […]

posted 5 January 2023 in Archives. no comments yet