music Remembering Johnny Cash on the day he died Xeni Jardin

dictators "In Loving Memory of Saddam Hussein" memorial plaque appears on London park bench Rob Beschizza

music The Fall singer Mark E. Smith has died, at the age of 60 Xeni Jardin

art A candy portrait of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, by mosaic artist Jason Mecier Xeni Jardin

science fiction Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant dead at 70 Rob Beschizza

fashion Valentino, Italian fashion legend, dead at 93 Rob Beschizza

Russia returns captured Ukrainian journalist's mutilated body, keeps her brain and eyes Ellsworth Toohey

Technology RIP Mark Klein. He exposed NSA's secret surveillance program in notorious Room 641A Ellsworth Toohey

music David Tennant opens BAFTA awards with stunning rendition of "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" Grant St. Clair

History Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, dead at 96 Rob Beschizza

Comic Books "The Buildings are Barking": Cartoonist Bill Griffith's haunting graphic eulogy to his cartoonist wife, Diane Noomin Ruben Bolling

Comic Books Kevin O'Neill, legendary comic artist and longtime Alan Moore collaborator, dies Thom Dunn

music Ian Curtis mural, painted over with advertisement, to be restored Rob Beschizza

politics Watch the Herman Cain 2012 Smoking Ad — in memoriam Xeni Jardin

tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon's murder, and William Shatner's talking horses in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books RIP, science fiction and fantasy Grand Master Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019 Cory Doctorow

burning man RIP Larry Harvey, Burning Man founder Rusty Blazenhoff

Kids Scenes from today's national gun control student walkout Cory Doctorow

human rights RIP, Bassel Khartabil, Syrian free culture activist executed by the Assad regime Cory Doctorow