Webvan.com, the grocery-delivery company and successor to the former Kirkland-based HomeGrocer.com, called it quits Monday. Like other once-hot dot-coms, it tried to "get big fast" by sinking cash into high-profile operations and advertising. Unlike other dot-coms, it also had to spend money on trucks, warehouses, and merchandise in a notoriously low-margin industry.

The Vancouver Grizzlies announced they're moving to Memphis after six seasons, cutting Canada's share in NBA basketball to one team. The hapless Grizzlies were once owned by Seattle cell-phone magnate John McCaw.

Mordecai Richler, 70, wrote The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, the Great Canadian Jewish Novel.

WallOfSound.com went off-line. The five-year-old, Seattle-based music news and gossip site began as part of Paul Allen's Starwave Corp. content sites, which were merged into the Disney-owned Go Network. (The unrelated Wall of Sound record store in Belltown remains alive and well.)

Leon P. Fisher, 75, ran the produce department at Bert's Red Apple Market in Madison Park for 46 years.

June Schuck Thilberg, 81, was the daughter of Schuck's Auto Supply founder Harry Schuck and an indirect descendant of Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole.

Tom Brownell, 86, was a Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer who won awards for a 1960 shot of some fully costumed nuns frolicking at a beach. (The picture now hangs at the Museum of History and Industry.)

Hannelore Kohl, 68, was the wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. She killed herself after suffering for seven years from an allergic condition that made her unable to tolerate any exposure to sunlight.

Ely Callaway, 82, helped turn golf into a mass-market sport with products such as the Big Bertha and ERC drivers. He gained the kind of publicity money can't buy when the PGA banned the latter club, saying it was too powerful for tournament use.

John Costello, 24, was described in his Seattle Times obit as "a gifted artist and an entrepreneur... a man of simple pleasures who truly enjoyed the finer things in life. He had flair and was a sharp dresser. John had a beautiful spirit that brought joy and laughter to all."

Fibber McGee's Closet on East Pine Street closed on Friday. Josh Logan shuttered his antiques and collectibles store (successor to his earlier Fremont outlet, Ah Nuts) because, as he told The Seattle Times, "I can no longer afford rents in Seattle." Logan will remain in the cool-stuff business online.

The Frontier Room, one of central Seattle's last truly glorious dive bars, closes this Sunday. The space, name, and neon sign will be used on a "casual barbecue restaurant" to be opened by the owners of the fancy-schmancy Queen City Grill next door.

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