Posts Tagged ‘celebrity death’
Cemeteries: More than Just Gloom and Doom
18, Aug 2010To Attract Future Customers, Cemeteries Hold Parties to Die For Graveyards Plan Concerts, Sky-Diving, Clowns; ‘Meet Us Before You Need Us’ Araby Williams, Wall Street Journal Multimedia Producer and Stephanie Simon, The Wall Street Journal (August 12, 2010) The Wall Street Journal ran this short video on cemeteries working to attract a wider audience. This [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: celebrity death, funerals, marketing, video
Auction House Drops Elvis Embalming Tools Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune (July 23, 2010) Elvis Embalming Tools Withdrawn By Auction House Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago I know for a fact that many people saw last week’s news item about the instruments used to embalm Elvis Presley going up for sale. I know this because many people [...]
Plain or Fancy?
4, Jul 2010Seems like funerals or memorial services are either getting simpler or more complex these days. Green burials and simple home rituals are gaining momentum, but so are high end funeral extravaganzas that spare no expense. In an article that appeared in yesterday’s U.K.-based Independent newspaper, “the rise of the distinctly unconventional celebrity send-off is proof [...]
Vote or Die… or, “and”
3, Nov 2009Episode 20: This Ungainly Fowl Nate DiMeo, The Memory Palace (October 16, 2009) In honor of Election Day in the United States and in roundabout follow-up to Edgar Allan Poe’s century-late funeral, check out this recent podcast from Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace. Nate describes the circumstances surrounding Poe’s mysterious death, who was found [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Crime
- Tags: celebrity death, mysterious deaths
Houdini’s Final Disappearing Act
30, Oct 2009A Halloween Tale: Houdini’s Lonely Grave (New York Times Video Library) Harry Houdini was quite a character. Not only was he one of the most heralded magicians of his generation, but the mystique surrounding the man grew exponentially when he died on October 31, 1926. Some believed Houdini to be a practitioner of the “dark [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Cemeteries
- Tags: celebrity death, spiritualism