Oakland artist chosen to decorate San Diego airport
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Obituaries and memoriums
Susan Luzzaro
October 12, 1948 - May 1, 2017
Susan Luzzaro passed away peacefully in her home in Chula Vista on May 1 at the age of 68 following a year-long struggle with brain cancer. Luzzaro wrote for the Reader since 1999; her coverage ...
Rest in peace, Boss Lady
Talent buyer, club owner Anilee Griffin passes away at 35
Anilee Griffin, known to many punk and metal musicians as the tattooed music lover who hired bands at Hensley’s Flying Elephant in Carlsbad, Brick by Brick in Bay Park, and who owned and operated the ...
Poet Thomas Lux passes away
Wrote for the Reader 1996-2009
Thomas Lux, poet and writer of Reader feature stories, died on February 5 of lung cancer. His poetry collections included The Drowned River (1990), The Street of Clocks (2001), The Cradle Place (2004), Child Made ...
John Brizzolara passes away
John Brizzolara, a Reader writer from 1989 to 2013, died in his sleep at Father Joe’s Villages on October 11. He was 65. Brizzolara wrote about his struggles with alcoholism and other ailments to which ...
Rest in peace, Elizabeth B.
Chica Diabla singer succumbs to cancer, leaves a legacy of rock-n-roll bravado
Elizabeth Borg, the lead-singer of local rockers Chica Diabla, has passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. Borg was initially diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, which, at the time, she appeared to have ...
Dig a hole: Hugh O’Brian
John Wayne’s last on-screen fatality dies
Hugh O’Brian, the lantern-jawed cowboy star who apprenticed at the hands of several Hollywood mavericks and later rose to stardom as TV’s Wyatt Earp, has died. Born Hugh Charles Krampe, O’Brian dropped out of college ...
Dig a hole: Gene Wilder
Face of ’70s comedy dead at 83
Gene Wilder was such a brilliant actor that he fooled audiences into believing one of his most revered creations, Willy Wonka, was something other than a magnetizing Nazi goon offering kids a Golden Ticket to ...
The Hanged Man
This is it. The final installment of Diary of a Diva.
I have kept every message I’ve ever received, the most poignant and rewarding being the responses to my stories about my struggles with anxiety and depression.
Another Elvis has left the building
North County rock-roller Gary Ferritto passes
Back in the 1970s, it wasn’t until a 1950s dress-up day at San Dieguito High School that Encinitas resident Gary Ferritto felt vindicated. Ferritto was mocked and teased in school for being a “greaser” — ...
Deaths in the San Diego music family in 2015
R.I.P. SD
As 2015 comes to a close, we look back at the local musicians who have passed away over the past 12 months. January 12, Garrett Smythe, aka drummer Tank Johnson of Deadbolt. February 5, Professor ...
RIP Scott Weiland: 48-year-old reportedly dead
Facebook page reports death while sleeping
"Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band the Wildabouts," according to ...
Well-known market manipulator Anthony Elgindy is dead
Spent years in prison for activities
Anthony Elgindy, 48, who was famous as a short-seller who claimed to be reforming the penny stock market, is dead. He died Thursday, July 23, although the county medical examiner and the sheriff's office have ...
Dig a hole: Landmark La Jolla Village
Another temple of cinema bites the dust. It’s with a great deal of both frustration and consternation that I bring news of the pending demolition of the Landmark La Jolla Village to make way for ...
Dig a hole: Ken “Pugsley” Weatherwax
Ken Weatherwax, TV’s jocund and rotund Pugsley Addams on the beloved series The Addams Family, died Sunday after suffering a heart attack in his California home. He was 59. Weatherwax was a descendant of showbiz ...
Dig a hole: Joan Rivers
Ten years ago, I could have rattled off the names of the four funniest people on the planet without taking a breath. Today, Jerry Lewis has been vanquished from the Telethon that bore his name, ...
