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...“I once harboured a dream of having a café of my own,” wrote the singer and author Patti Smith in her 2015 memoir M Train....
...Opponents of traditional burial say conventional embalming fluids, and the concrete used to prevent graves from collapsing as a body decomposes, are bad for the environment, while cremation, especially from...
...That must be why I broke down in tears when I found a photo of Jimmy’s grave — which I had never seen — on Ancestry’s crowdsourced Findagrave site, and stumbled upon the death certificate of a baby uncle...
...The cemetery where my late mother and brother are buried, and where I will also lie one day, sent out emails last week apologising for the tall grass and weeds cluttering the graves, saying they can’t hire...
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...patti.waldmeir@ft.com Letter in response to this column: WeChat is not real issue for American-Chinese citizens / From Seung Chong, Hong Kong...
...I’ve chosen not to make the trip to visit his grave in Michigan....
...They will go to the grave believing that this election was stolen from Trump and funded by George Soros. There is zero upside to arguing with such people....
...(FT) Youngest American voters dislike the choice in front of themAmerica’s youngest voters could hold the key to whether the US elects its oldest president in history in November, says Patti Waldmeir....
...She listened to LPs of black gospel singers (Mahalia Jackson) and white televangelists (Richard and Patti Roberts)....
...As with her previous books, it is interspersed with Smith’s own monochrome photographs: of Camus’ and Weil’s graves, and sites of personal significance in Paris — including one of young Patti leaping for...
Understanding the grave divisions in US society is key to resolving political crisis
...“I’m an alligator . . . ” It felt as if Bowie was speaking from beyond the grave. I had to pull the car off to the side of the road and have a moment to myself — as did many others....
...Additional reporting by Peter Campbell in London and Patti Waldmeir in Chicago...
...What exactly is Patti Smith these days?...
...Two graves in particular transfix her: those of Jim Morrison and Richard Wright....
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...She has photographed his death mask and visited his grave. The devotion to Blake began early when her mother gave the eight-year-old Patti a copy of Songs of Innocence....
...Mr Humphrey’s friends and family now worry that he and his wife Yu Yingzeng are themselves the victims of a grave injustice, having been detained for almost a year....
...of year, as the annual Tomb Sweeping festival approaches, boosting demand for virtual iPads, iPhones and even mistresses offered up to entertain the deceased in the afterlife (or to console him, if his grave...
...Xinhua, the state news agency, reported on Sunday that Liu Tienan, a vice-chairman of the agency, was under investigation for alleged “grave violations of discipline” brought to light by a whistleblower....
...And Patti Smith gives voice to a mermaid. Various Artists Son of Rogues Gallery (Anti)...
...Introduction by Patti Waldmeir, with additional reporting by Yan Zhang …………………………………………………………….....
...I called 12315 to report two grave miscarriages of justice: the day I got bacon in my hotpot when I ordered lamb; and the day a Financial Times team got charged for breaking a clothes hanger at a hotel –...
...In spite of stacking bodies seven or eight deep in graves, the squeeze on space in the city of 20m people has prompted the government to support burials at sea, part of a “green funeral” movement that is...
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