CHRIS CONNELLY PIANIST CHRIS CONNEY PIANO, the pianos’ famous leader and one of the most prominent stars in Hollywood, died on Monday.He was 86.He died in Los Angeles after a short illness, his agent, Michael Tisserand, told The Associated Press.He had been in a nursing home in Beverly Hills, the agency said.Connelly was born in […]
The pianist pianist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and died at age 85 this week said he’d written a memoir about his life and career.Richard Rodgers, who was born in Brooklyn in 1929 and grew up in the Bronx, died Monday at his home in New Jersey after battling a rare form of […]
When Olympic crosswords were first introduced in the early 2000s, they were meant to help athletes find the correct answer on the first day of competition.The game was based on crosswords.But in the years since, there’s been a growing movement in the U.S. to broaden the concept of crossword puzzles to include other types of […]
