Dexter Romweber, Raucous Torchbearer of the Power Duo, Dead at 57
“They don’t make them like Dex anymore, not till we get our act together as humans,” Jack White wrote in a tribute to Romweber, the founder of the Flat Duo Jets.
John Dee Holeman, Durham’s Last Great Blues Elder, Dies at 92
A remembrance of the Durham musician John Dee Holeman, who passed away on Friday, April 30, 2021.
A Requiem For Sheriff’s Deputy David Whitfield Buie Jr.
A literary 21-gun salute for Sergeant David Whitfield Buie, Jr., the Durham County sheriff’s deputy, college campus officer, and true son of the Bull City, who died September 5.
If Mama ain’t happy … The most honest News and Observer obit ever
Readers of the News & Observer obit pages were treated Thursday to an epic seven-paragraph tale of a life that “seemed like a soap opera … a modern day tragedy.” Whoever authored the obituary for Wilma Marie Voliva Black, who died Dec. 22 in Knightdale at the age of 94, definitely had Wilma’s back, and…
Carolina Wren Press author Jeanne Leiby dies
Jeanne Leiby, 1964-2011 Some slightly belated and very sad news coming across the desk here: Jeanne M. Leiby, who was the Editor of the Southern Review (out of Louisiana State University) and whose debut collection of short stories, Downriver, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2007, died last month in a single-car accident on…
PlayMakers actor, UNC DDA teacher Kenneth P. Strong, dead at 52
Kenneth Strong, an actor and teacher with PlayMakers Repertory Company and the Department of Dramatic Art since 1979, died Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 12. Strong had fought glioblastoma brain cancer since 2007, a battle whose early rounds were documented by arts journalist Orla Swift in a Nov. 25, 2007 feature story in the Raleigh News and…