This is a melancholy post io9 does every year—but it’s an important one, celebrating the actors, directors, artists, composers, writers, creators, and other icons in the realms of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy we lost this year. Their influence and inspiration lives on.
California Property Trust, the owner of the building that houses Twitter headquarters, is suing Elon Musk’s social media company for failing to pay $136,250 in rent. According to Bloomberg (via The Verge), the firm notified Twitter on December 16th that it would default on its lease for the 30th floor of the Hartford Building, located at 650 California Street in San Francisco, if it didn’t pay its outstanding rent within five days. In a complaint filed this week with the San Francisco County Superior Court, California Property Trust said Twitter failed to comply with the order.
According to a December 13th New York Times report had “for weeks” stopped paying rent on all of its global offices to save on costs. The company also faces a lawsuit for failing to pay $197,725 for charter flights Musk took during his first week at Twitter. Over that same time period, Musk has reportedly brought over “more than half a dozen” lawyers from SpaceX to bolster Twitter’s legal team.
“Today we lost our dear friend Jeremiah. He laid down to rest and simply faded out,” the band posted Saturday on it’s social media accounts.
The shooting happened a few blocks away from the main stage for the Moon Pie Over Mobile festival.
Before the release of the Willow sequel series for Disney+, showrunner Jon Kasdan had stated that the show would take some time in putting Val Kilmer’s character of Madmartigan from the original film on screen. (Kilmer, it should be said, has had throat cancer in 2015 and has undergone chemotherapy and two…
Chief Justice John Roberts is praising programs that protect judges, saying that “we must support judges by ensuring their safety.”
Anita Pointer, one of four sibling singers who earned pop success and critical acclaim as The Pointer Sisters, died Saturday at the age of 74.
A remarkably successful effort to make firearms easier to carry has swept across the country over the past 12 years.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty after waving guns at racial justice protesters walking past their home, but Missouri’s GOP governor pardoned them.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers backup is being hailed as a hero for his actions.
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