Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Vale Alan Rickman, India's first trans modeling agency, African superheroes and more in this week's look at the web

1. Vale, Alan Rickman Alan Rickman, the British actor best known for his roles as Hans Gruber and Severus Snape, has died at the age of 69 after battling cancer. Rickman began his career on stage, portraying the manipulative Vicomte de Valmont character in the 1985 production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”—a role he later won a Tony Award for. A year later, he garnered international …