rip RIP Al Matthews, 'Aliens' fantastic Sgt. Apone Jason Weisberger

music Rachid Taha has followed Joe Strummer to rock the casbah in the hereafter Seamus Bellamy

rip John McCain's farewell to America Gina Loukareas

rip Senator John McCain is dead Gina Loukareas

music Pianist Henry Butler dead at 69 Seamus Bellamy

rip The time I interviewed Harlan Ellison about his lawsuit against a fan who posted his stories to Usenet Mark Frauenfelder

music Joe Jackson, musical family patriarch and Michael Jackson's famously abusive dad, has died. Xeni Jardin

deaths Read the 1999 Anthony Bourdain essay that started it all Xeni Jardin

happy mutants RIP Gardner Dozois, pioneering, genre-defining science fiction editor who helped launch my career Cory Doctorow

magic Harry Anderson, TV's 'Night Court' star, has died at 65 in Asheville, N.C. Xeni Jardin

batman How Adam West played a prank using his local phone book Rusty Blazenhoff

obits RIP Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Mark Frauenfelder

music Chuck Berry, Rock Music Legend, Dies at 90 Xeni Jardin

photography RIP Popular Photography, 1937-2017 Andrea James

rip Legendary jazz singer Al Jarreau, 76, passes away Jason Weisberger

obits Richard Hatch of 'Battlestar Galactica' has died. He was 71. Xeni Jardin

picks Mary Tyler Moore, a television icon for women in an era of change, has died Xeni Jardin

picks Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher dead at 60 Xeni Jardin

picks Fidel Castro, former Cuban president, is dead at 90 Xeni Jardin