Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street — which helped inspire the musical “Wonderful Town” — is being demolished.

Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street — which helped inspire the musical “Wonderful Town” — is being demolished.

Working with his brother, he became a star of the design world, creating furniture and other objects and elevating the culture of his native Brazil.

Be it objectification or celebration, the annual rite she created earned millions for the magazine and helped usher in the supermodel era.

A songwriter in her own right, she was known for renditions of pop and rock songs, “Pinball Wizard” among them, that made them sound like...