Departures

Santa Monica public radio station KCRW will part ways with more than a dozen staffers and end the popular podcast “Greater LA.”KCRW-FM (89.9) host Steve Chiotakis, who created “Greater LA,” announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the final episode of his daily news program would air Thursday, as “management is ending it after nearly 5 years.”“I am so grateful for the time we had, the wonderful people who helped put it together, and all the ears that listened,” he wrote. “Thank you for everything!”Chiotakis’ announcement…

Following the exits of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega from Scream 7, director Christopher Landon has announced that he stepped down from the horror film too. In a statement regarding the decision, he said this "dream job" "turned into a nightmare," and he explained why it was time to "move on" from the project.Taking to X, Landon posted a candid statement about why he's decided to step away from Scream 7. The director wrote:I guess now is as good a time as any to announce I formally exited Scream 7 weeks ago. This will…

Over the past couple years, rock and roll has enjoyed an extremely silly waterfowl-related coincidence: The simultaneous rise of the indie jam band Goose and the Brooklyn punk band Geese. Though these two outfits couldn’t be further from each other in sound or style, they’ve been inevitably conjoined by name. And now, in the craziest fluke, both Goose and Geese have announced the departures of band members in a classic Friday-before-Christmas news dump.  For Goose, they’ll be parting ways with longtime drummer and…

Wednesday was an eventful day for Slipknot fans. It marked the start of the vaunted heavy metal band’s European tour but also saw the departure of two familiar masked faces from the group — and the arrival of a potential new one. Sampler and keyboardist Craig “133” Jones announced his departure after 27 years from the Grammy-winning megaband whose nine members perform in various chilling masks. A now-deleted message posted to Slipknot’s social channels stated, “To our fans, Slipknot is announcing that we have parted ways…

Passengers check in for Southwest Airlines flights at Chicago Midway International Airport on April 18, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesSouthwest Airlines briefly paused its departures on Tuesday after reporting technical problems, delaying flights around the country.The Federal Aviation Administration said the ground stop had been lifted, but many flights were still delayed. As of shortly after 11 a.m. ET, more than 1,500 flights, or 36% of Southwest's schedule, were delayed, according to…

A senior lawyer at Twitter submitted his resignation Thursday, four people familiar with the matter said, becoming the latest in a string of executives to leave the company since Elon Musk took it over nearly six months ago.The lawyer, Christian Dowell, rose to the top of Twitter's legal department in recent months after the company's legal leaders resigned or were fired by Musk. Dowell had been intimately involved in Twitter's recent negotiations with the Federal Trade Commission, two people familiar with those…

Shannon Stapleton | ReutersHundreds of U.S. flights were delayed Wednesday morning after the Federal Aviation Administration suffered an outage of the system that sends messages to pilots.The FAA ordered airlines to pause domestic departures until 9 a.m. ET "to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information." The agency said it was working to restore the Notice to Air Missions System.More than 1,200 U.S. flights were delayed on Wednesday by 7:25 a.m. ET, according to FlightAware."This…

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Apple has hired a startup founder and former Facebook executive to run its information systems group after departures in that department. Apple Inc. has hired a startup founder and former Facebook executive to run its information systems group after departures in that department, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Timothy Campos will lead the Information Systems and Technology department, better known as IS&T, which handles the infrastructure behind Apple's online services, customer support and…

Several developers who worked on Disco Elysium reportedly “involuntarily” left ZA/UM, but the company says development “still is a collective effort.” On October 1, a Medium post written by ZA/UM founder Martin Luiga alleged that several members of the core team left “involuntarily” at the end of 2021. Luiga announced the “dissolution of the ZA/UM Cultural Association” and stated that Disco Elysium lead designer Robert Kurvitz, writer Helen Hindpere, and art director Aleksander Rostov were let go. “I, Martin Luiga, a…