Food Network Star Gone at 55

Food Network Star Gone at 55

Reading Time: 3 minutes Extremely sad news today out of the entertainment industry: Anne Burrell — the popular chef known for her spiky platinum hair, very outgoing personality and culinary expertise — passed way on the morning of Tuesday, June 17 at her home in Brooklyn, New York. She was 55 years old. Anne Burrell…

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DEF JAM’s LONG STRANGE TRIP

DEF JAM’s LONG STRANGE TRIP

Russell Simmons says he was “shocked” to learn T La Rock and Jazzy Jay’s 1984 single “It’s Yours” was produced by Rick Rubin, a white Jewish kid attending college at New York University and making music from his Weinstein Hall dorm room.   Simmons, who had already established Rush Management by the early ’80s, was well…

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