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Food
Arturo Enciso’s recipe for pan de muerto includes sourdough starter, ground fennel and orange zest for maximum deliciousness. Follow his step-by-step instructions for making the holiday sweet breads.
Entertainment & Arts
Playwright and director Richard Foreman, one of the pillars of New York’s downtown theater scene, dies at 87.
Television
Richard Cohen, the journalist husband of broadcaster Meredith Vieira, has died at 76, more than 50 years after an MS diagnosis. He also beat colon cancer twice.
Obituaries
Richard Simmons, the colorful fitness guru who turned aerobic dancing and positive energy into decades of fame, died Saturday, law enforcement sources told The Times.
Gusto Bread’s Arturo Enciso built his bakery around wood-fired breads, then changed the conversation around Mexican pan dulce. He shows us how to make pan de muerto for the Día de Muertos holiday.
Movies
British actor Timothy West, who played wartime leader Winston Churchill on screen three times and appeared in numerous Shakespeare plays, has died. He was 90.
Hollywood Inc.
Parsons was named chief executive officer of AOL Time Warner in 2002 after the $124-billion merger of the dial-up internet provider and the largest entertainment and media company started to fall apart.
REDCAT presents the West Coast premiere of the Wooster Group’s production of Richard Foreman’s ‘Symphony of Rats.’
Music
Richard Perry, who produced Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain,’ Rod Stewart’s ‘Great American Songbook’ and Barbra Streisand’s genre switch, dies at 82.