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I was deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Brian Dovey, a partner at Domain Associates and a family friend on August 27. Imagine my surprise at receiving a signed copy of his new book, synthesizing so much of what he had learned in decades of investing in young entrepreneurs and nurturing companies that have made a material improvement in human health and flourishing. Years-long opportunities to exchange ideas

Now that we’re at peak summer, it feels right to drop the next post in my series on food-artist extraordinaire, Claes Oldenburg. This time it’s all about THE BURGER. (You can find the first post, on his baked potatoes, here.) Oldenburg’s Floor Burger is an icon. If you don’t know it already, you’ll be in love with it by the time you finish reading. And if you do know it, I think you’ll find at least one tidbit below that’ll make you love it even more.

When I first met chef Dan Kluger many moons ago, he was cooking under the late great Floyd Cardoz at Tabla, the groundbreaking contemporary Indian restaurant with its beautiful Bread Bar and tart and tangy Tamarind Margaritas (I spent a lot of time with those margaritas at the Bread Bar). It was such a gorgeous and soulful restaurant, and an important one too; it paved the way for modern Indian cooking.

Around midnight, as Friday was slipping into Saturday, I put on the recording of that magic moment in New Haven history. I heard, yes, “Sha-doo, shoo-be-doo…” This was the perfect way to commemorate it all, the amazing life of Fred Parris. He and the rest of the Five Satins continued to sing, with Fred in the lead: “In the still of the night, I held you, held you tight…” “I remember” is a refrain of that song.

Hudson Soft, founded in the 70s, did just about everything a studio and publisher could do in the video game industry before it was fully absorbed into Konami on March 1, 2012. For the next month here at Retro XP, the focus will be on the roles the studio played, the games they developed, the games they published, the consoles they were attached to, and the legacy they left behind. After all, someone has to remember them, since Konami doesn’t always seem to.

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Wednesday, February 14th would have been Jeffrey Buck’s 24th birthday. But he wasn’t celebrating the day with his friends and family. Instead, his friends and family were gathered around him while he laid in a casket inside Frank T. Mazur’s Funeral Home in Dickson City, Pennsylvania. Death, like life, is not always fair. And as a 47-year-old father with two adult children of my own around Jeff’s age, who also both knew him personally, it was not easy for any of us to rationalize or comprehend this fact.

We had heard that she was ill, but it was still a shock on Friday when messages started coming in from friends that the poet Louise Glück had died. Everybody dies, and Glück was eighty, with a life behind her of extraordinary accomplishment and extraordinary recognition; so why did it feel so unjust? Maybe because her illness, at least in my awareness o… ncG1vNJzZmifkafBqbPRnpynr5WhuW%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iqlaKyrq7Eq6Cnn12hvLa10p5koKSlmLhufZhtamZqYGeA

I will never forget the day that Nathan Cirillo died or how his death has continued to ripple through our lives in the years since that fateful day. I was in lockdown in the Centre Block of Parliament when I learned that one of our sentry soldiers at the National War Memorial had been killed. Our lockdown was a result of the aftermath of Cirillo’s death. The killer forced his way into Parliament following the attack at the National War Memorial.