rip Please donate for Carson Lebkowsky's funeral expenses Mark Frauenfelder

makers How haunters remember their own among 2016's deaths Cory Doctorow

books Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Nobel prize laureate and author, dead at 87 Xeni Jardin

picks Michu Meszaros, who played ALF the extraterrestrial on television, RIP David Pescovitz

rip 'Casablanca' actor Madeleine Lebeau dead at 92 Jason Weisberger

rip A long list of comedians mourn the passing of Garry Shandling, age 66 Jason Weisberger

rip Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner has died at 74 Xeni Jardin

deaths Alan Rickman, 1946-2016 Rob Beschizza

rip RIP Wayne Rogers, 1933-2016 Jason Weisberger

rip RIP Patrick Macnee, 'The Avengers' John Steed, 1922-2015 Jason Weisberger

rip James Horner, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza