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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Meet Kevin Huffman , winner of WaPo 's " America's Next Great Pundit " contest. His prize? A weekly column for 13 weeks at $200 a piece. And the enormous pressure of living up to David Broder , Eugene Robinson and various other Pulitzer Prize winning Post op-ed writers. The search began in October with nearly 5,000 contestants, whittled down to ten. After five rounds of punditry challenges,...
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Wall Street Pit (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Pulitzer Prize winner, Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times wrote a must read article (“Revisiting a Fed Waltz with AIG,” November 21, 2009) on Sunday in which she recaps salient points from the November 17, 2009 report of the Office of the Special Inspector General (Neil Barofsky) for the...
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the irresistible fleet of bicycles (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
an essay by wendell berry. Read it, along with Louis Broomfield’s Malabar Farm. THE NECESSITY OF AGRICULTURE By Wendell Berry, from a May 16 speech given in acceptance of the annual Louis Bromfield Society Award. Novelist and conservationist Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) was the author of over thirty works of fiction and non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel [...]...
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Along with creating music together for more than fifteen years with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman, and The Dirty Three, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have collaborated on soundtracks for films like The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. On January 12, 2010 the pair will release their soundtrack to The Road, John Hillcoat's post-apocalyptic family drama based on Cormac...
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
The Road Running time 119 minutes Written by Joe Penhall Directed by John Hillcoat Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce Welcome to the apocalypse. In The Road , the eagerly awaited movie version of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, the end of the world is no longer on its way. It’s already here, bringing misery, desperation,...
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Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's another awards-friendly poster update from The Weinstein Company. John Hillcoat 's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road finally arrives in select theaters this weekend, with Viggo Mortensen , Charlize Theron , and young Kodi Smit-McPhee . The new poster features a splashy quote from Peter Travers of Rolling Stone . Click the Image to See the Whole Poster
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Seaspook's Rants (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dr. Charles Krauthammer Dr. Krauthammer is on Fox News. He is an M.D. and a lawyer and is paralyzed from the neck down. A friend went to hear Charles Krauthammer. He listened with 25 others in a closed room. What he says here, is NOT 2nd-hand but 1st. The ramifications are staggering for us, our children and their children. Last Monday was a profound evening, Dr. Charles Krauthammer spoke to the Center...
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pluGGd.in (Free subscription) | yesterday
A major flaw has been found in Bing. Thanks to Nicholas D. Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times. Kristof accused Bing for censoring results in simplified Chinese language searches and asked to Boycott Bing in his column to web users. This is not the first time Bing is facing [...] » Join our Google group | » Do check out Indian Startup Directory...
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Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
She was the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the first one born in the 20 th century. Just 24, it wasn’t even her first book, coming seven years after The House of Silk. He was older and more established, holding the post that is now called Poet Laureate of the United States. Not only were they husband & wife, but she was also the great-great granddaughter of Percy...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taylor Swift was named artist of the year at the American Music Awards tonight, leaving the Pulitzer Prize as the only award she's yet to win. But she's releasing a cookbook soon , so that'll change. [ AP ] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond
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Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Coco Zhao is a veteran jazz musician, and a great one at that - he has earned world renown for his smooth blend of Chinese tunes and Western elements , and is a fixture in international jazz festivals. This week, he mixes it up, starring in David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer Prize winning M. Butterfly, directed by Daniel Roy Connelly, about a torrid affair between a French diplomat and a Peking Opera star,...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
26 Miles, a semi-autobiographical play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Quiara Alegría Hudes.<p/> As part of the National New Play Network's ``rolling world premiere'' program, New Theatre in Coral Gables is debuting its own interpretation of the script, which has already played at theaters in four other states.
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Will and Testament (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
On this day in 1859, Darwin's most famous book, On the Origin of Species, was published by John Murray . To mark the occasion, you might wish to listen to The Great Tennesee Monkey Trial, Peter Goodchild's adaptation of the official record of the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee , which was this week's Saturday Play on BBC Radio 4 . Edward Asner plays the fundamentalist leader William...
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