Stuart Gordon, cult classic horror film director, dies at 72

By Klaritza Rico

Larry Sherman, the founder of influential Chicago-based house label Trax, has died of heart failure.A statement released by the label Thursday announced: "It is with great sadness that TRAX Records and Rachael Cain inform the world of the passing of our founder Larry Sherman he was Jewish and passed away yesterday on his holiday Passover of heart failure." Read the complete statement below.Sherman founded Trax in 1984, as Chicago was becoming the world nexus of the then-burgeoning house music

Larry Sherman, recording engineer and founder of the seminal Chicago house label Trax Records, has died. The label announced the news in a statement on its official Facebook page earlier today (April 9).

Cue “Don’t Worry Baby” by the Beach Boys! When a young Drew Barrymore graced the big screen as a Chicago Sun-Times copywriter named Josie Geller in Never Been Kissed, everything changed. While going undercover to research teenage culture at a high school, the previously nicknamed “Josie Grossie” experiences popularity for the first time — and falls for her English teacher, Michael Vartan’s Sam.

LOS ANGELES — Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emerged from Chicago’s folk revival scene in the 1970s to become one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He was 73.

Heartbroken. Saturday Night Live star Michael Che is reeling after losing his grandmother to the novel coronavirus amid the global pandemic.

By Pat Saperstein

Last month, Chicago superstar G Herbo released his third studio album with PTSD, his most vulnerable project in a long line of emotionally expressive projects. More than anything, the album was dedicated to the myriad of friends Herbo has lost in his 25 years of life, with a special emphasis on the effects that loss can have on those who survived.

Loring Mandel, a two-time Emmy Award recipient and playwright who adapted a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for the Broadway version of the gripping political dramaAdvise and Consent, has died. He was 91.

There’s an old adage that says you should never meet your heroes — but whoever came up with that didn’t know Stuart Gordon.

Horror filmmaker Stuart Gordon has died at the age of 72.

Stuart Gordon, the horror director best known for the '80s classics Re-Animator and From Beyond, has died, his rep,Dominic Mancini, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 72.

The cult filmmaker gave the world 'Re-Animator', 'From Beyond' and more

By Andreas Wiseman

Stuart Gordon, best known as the filmmaker behind such cult classics as “Re-Animator” and “From Beyond,” has died, his family confirmed to Variety Tuesday night. He was 72.