By: Brian Berger

Riotous, often subversive satire.

By: Brian Berger

Revelatory ways of relating chords to scales.

By: Devin McKinney

Character wrenched out by vastness and exposure.

By: Erik Davis

He invented the postwar religion of Wicca.

By: Anthony Miller

His work rearranged how we look.

By: Brian Berger

He cofounded The Living Theater repertory company.

By: Brian Berger

A complete entertainer, ill-served by Hollywood

By: Adam McGovern

No public figure transformed himself more profoundly.

By: Devin McKinney

He sang soul as if it were the black man’s country.

By: Anthony Miller

One of the consum­mate world builders in comics and sci-fi.

By: Lynn Peril

Not all millionaires are men, nor gold-diggers blondes.

By: Devin McKinney

Her theme was the corrosive effects of fear and paranoia.

By: Joshua Glenn

A brilliant, ferocious opponent of the “crut.”

By: Tucker Cummings

He’s demonstrated the artistic legitimacy of mocap.

By: Brian Berger

His early Hollywood music was darker than we recall.