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In an updated edition of his memoir Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain reflected on his intentions for writing the blunt and raucous restaurant industry memoir that turned him into a household name. His goal, he explained, was “to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who …

Jerry Hopkins, an author andveteranRolling Stone writer that served as the magazine’s Los Angeles corespondent in the late Sixties,died in Bangkok, Thailand on June 3rd after a long illness. He was 82.His wife Lamyai confirmed Hopkins’ death. In 1980, Hopkins wrote No One Here Gets Out Alive,the definitive Doors biography …

Tom Rapp, the leader of the beloved psych rock outfit Pearls Before Swine and a longtime civil rights lawyer, died in hospice at his home in Melbourne, Florida. He was 70. A representative for the record label Drag City, reissued Pearls Before Swine’s debutOne Nation Undergroundlast year, confirmed the musician’s …

Chuck Mosley, the vocalist for the mid-Eighties run of pioneering alt-metal outliers Faith No More, died Thursday at the age of 57. The singer pioneered what would eventually become rap-rock on the band’s first hit, 1987’s snarky MTV breakthrough “We Care a Lot.” He left the band shortly after and …