John Stewart - American singer-songwriter - (1939-2008) Gage Golightly - American actress - 33 Yuna Kim - South Korean retired figure skate - 36 Kat Graham - American actress, singer, and activist - 37 Emmy Raver-Lampman - American actress and singer - 38 Brittany Furlan - American Internet personality, actress and comedian - 40 Annabelle Wallis - English actress - 42 Sondre Lerche - Norwegian singer-songwriter and musician - 44 Carice van Houten - Dutch actress - 50 Paddy Considine - English actor, director, and screenwriter - 53 Rose McGowan - American actress and director - 53 Dweezil Zappa - American guitarist and occasional actor - 57 April Ryan - American reporter and author - 59 Kristian Alfonso - American actress, former figure skater, and model - 63 Michael Keaton - American actor - 75 Dennis Dugan - American director and actor - 80 Loudon Wainwright III - American singer-songwriter and occasional actor - 80 Al Stewart - British singer-songwriter and musician - 81 Werne...

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James Bay - English singer-songwriter and guitarist - 36 Carter Jenkins - American actor - 35 Kyle Mooney - American comedian and actor - 42 Hank Baskett - American former american football player - 44 Whitney Cummings - American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer - 44 Beyoncé - American singer-songwriter, and businesswoman - 45 Max Greenfield - American actor and author - 47 Wes Bentley - American actor - 48 Lucie Silvas - British singer-songwriter - 49 Mark Ronson - British-American musician, DJ, record producer, songwriter - 51 Dave Salmoni - Canadian animal trainer, entertainer and tv producer - 51 Carmit Bachar - American dancer, choreographer and singer - 52 Nona Gaye - American singer, former fashion model, and retired actress - 52 Carlos Ponce - Puerto Rican actor and musician - 54 Ione Skye - British-American actress - 56 Richard Speight Jr - American actor and director - 57 John DiMaggio - American actor - 58 Mike Piazza - American former professi...

 

Al Jardine - American musician who co-founded the Beach Boys - 84 Jack Dylan Grazer - American actor - 23 Kaia Jordan Gerber - American model and actress - 25 Ashley Boettcher - American actress - 26 August Alsina - American singer-songwriter - 34 Shaun White - American former professional snowboarder and skateboarder - 40 Omi - Jamaican singer - 40 Paz de la Huerta - American actress - 42 Garrett Hedlund - American actor and musician - 42 Christine Woods - American actress - 43 Andrew McMahon - American singer-songwriter - 44 Fearne Cotton - English broadcaster and author - 45 Jennie Finch - American former softball player - 46 Tomo Miličević - Bosnian-American musician and record producer - 47 Nick Wechsler - American actor - 48 Ashley Jones - American actress - 50 Redfoo - American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and DJ - 51 Jennifer Paige - American singer - 53 Maria Bamford - American actress and stand-up comedian - 56 Noah Baumbach - American filmmaker - 57 Dre...

Saw this beauty the other day and it looks like a '70 Grand Prix to me. In 1970 there was a ton of great movies, including the smash hit that spawned one of the best TV shows in history, M*A*S*H, and while watching the show recently I thought, "How great was the casting of Loretta Swit as Margaret Houlihan?" She was a foxy, bleached-blond broad with a big mouth, just like Sally Kellerman in the original Robert Altman movie, plus she was always screaming at someone. My little gayling self was in love with her. Lots of great music that year, too. Bread had a big hit with "Make It With You." They're criminally under-rated IMO, excellent musicians with a big catalogue of great songs. Their finest moment may just be "Guitar Man," a rather melancholy, sweet song about a man who's not quite sure why he keeps playing, but he's always looking forward to next gig. So you know what? Let's hop in that brand-new Pontiac Grand Prix, drive to the bea...

Greetings, Manor Hors! Periodically, "The Roving Pecker" presents urgent missives from filthy esteemed guest writers. Today's post is written by D'Hermitage! ----------- Horlettes, stay with me, it’s a bit much. When Covid happened, some people began to realize how much they’d like to have a little greenery inside their house, since they were no longer able to go outside and ignore them on their walks because of lockdown. A lot of people experimented and shared their experiences online. This is a distilled version of that. THE WHAT: Just wood chips or pine bark and perlite - we’ll refer to this combination as substrate from hereon. You can add or mix coconut chips, pine bark, fern fibre, your old wooden sculptures or grandma’s bones but the basics are wood chips (like those for orchids) and perlite. My wood chip to perlite ratio is one bag of wood chips/pine bark + 1/3 of a bag of perlite. FYI: You can also just buy a bag of orchid soil then add 1/3 of the perlit...

Billy Preston - American keyboardist, singer-songwriter - (1946-2006) Madilyn Bailey - American singer-songwriter, musician - 34 Emiliano Martinez - Argentinian professional soccer player - 34 Lala Kent - American actress - 36 Alexandre Pato - Brazilian former professional soccer player - 37 Zedd - German DJ, music producer - 37 Spencer Smith - American talent agent and former musician - 39 iO Tillett Wright - American author, photographer, actor, tv host - 41 Allison Miller - American actress - 41 Joshua Henry - American actor and singer - 42 Tiffany Hines - American actress - 43 Aimee Osbourne - English actress and singer - 43 Jonathan Kite - American actor and comedian - 47 Shauna Sand - American actress - 55 Katt Williams - American stand-up comedian and actor - 55 Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey - American singer-songwriter, member of K-Ci&JoJo and Jodeci - 57 Camille Meyer - American actress, dancer, model, and tv personality - 58 Jonathan Goldstein - American filmmaker - 58 Cynthia...

Credit: Warner Bros Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock have been making the rounds to promote the release of Practical Magic 2 . And like any good witch movie, of course it has a kitty cat!  In an interview with BBC, Kidman said that she has always been a cat person. She had one cat named Priscilla as a kid and another she fondly named Pinkle Purr. Aww.  She also confirmed that Sandra Bullock cast the cat in the header pic who plays Kidman's familiar in the movie, "purely for vanity choices.....that cat was much more attractive than the cat you wanted" Bullock joked. Practical Magic 2 comes out next Friday! Source: BBC

Joe Trohman - American guitarist, co-founder of Fall Out Boy - 42 Romeo Beckham - English model - 24 Jung Kook - South Korean singer-songwriter - 29 Zendaya - American actress and singer - 30 Carlos Sainz Jr - Spanish race car driver - 32 Bill Kaulitz - German singer-songwriter - 37 Tom Kaulitz - German guitarist, songwriter and producer - 37 Laura Lee - American make-up artist, YouTuber, entrepreneur - 38 Chanel West Coast - American tv personality, rapper and singer - 38 Gaël Monfils - French professional tennis player - 40 Zoe Lister-Jones - American actress and filmmaker - 44 Boyd Holbrook - American actor - 45 Babydaddy - American musician - 50 Angaleena Presley - American singer-songwriter - 50 Scott Speedman - Canadian actor - 51 Ram Kapoor - Indian actor - 53 Polly Shannon - Canadian actress - 53 J.D. Fortune - Canadian singer-songwriter - 53 Ricardo Antonio Chavira - American actor - 55 Maury Sterling - American actor - 55 Rachel Zoe - American fashion designer, businessw...

Greetings, music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with two - count 'em, two - wonderful, mostly forgotten jazz songbirds. Yet they're not forgotten by DJ Li'l Scratch, who's lived many lives, as you know, and has seen and heard so much, and in fact was born with a brood of five wee kittens in the smoky backroom of " The Green Mill Jazz Club."  But that's a story for another day.  Tonight only at the Manor's "Shuck 'Em and Funk 'Em" after-hours lounge and taqueria, DJ Li' Scratch will be spinning tunes by two chanteuses from the "cool jazz" period in the late 1950s through the early 1960s, or tunes with hushed tones, smooth, steady tempos and complex harmonies. First we have Joy Bryan, the epitome of the All-American girl-next-door, don't you think? Yet looks can be deceiving - and all is not vanilla. Joy was yet another one of those terrific, highly regarded late 1950's-era West...

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Van Morrison - Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician - 81 Chloe Ferry - English tv personality - 31 Rachelle Ann Go - Filipina singer-songwriter and actress - 40 Gareth Pugh - English fashion designer - 45 Joe Budden - American media personality - 46 Jeff Hardy - American professional wrestler and musician - 49 Vincent Delerm - French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer - 50 Shar Jackson - American actress - 50 Sara Ramirez - American actor and singer - 51 Chris Tucker - American stand-up comedian and actor - 55 Rania Al Abdullah - Queen of Jordan - 56 Debbie Gibson - American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress - 56 Zack Ward - Canadian actor - 56 Jonathan LaPaglia - Australian actor and tv personality - 57 Dee Bradley Baker - American actor - 64 Mark L. Walberg - American actor, tv personality, and game show host - 64 Julie Brown - American actress, comedian, screenwriter, singer-songwriter - 68 Gina Schock - American musician, drummer of The Go-Go's -...

Getty Images It will be the end of humanity if we let it. Well, it'll be the end of road-tripping white people, that's for sure.  Gas. Station. Food. Just ask Dr. Bernard Hsu, better known as Chubbyemu. He's a toxicologist and former competitive power lifter whose YouTube channel  with 3.9 million subscribers is a wonderland of horrifying medical emergencies. Many of these cases originate with, you guessed it, gas station food.  As someone who's constantly on the bus going from one gig to another, and who used to routinely take the four hour bus ride from Vancouver to Penticton, I have regularly taken my life in my hands and availed myself of an innocent-looking sammich, or perhaps a plastic clamshell of Caesar salad. In fact, I did so just yesterday.  Then I turned on the tv. That was my big mistake. It's dry, but is jerky really safe either? Nachos, apparently, are not . We surely all know to wipe off the top of a pop can before taking a swig, right? What else can...

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