by Andrew Hibbard on March 28, 2009
There’s a scene in You’ve Got Mail toward the end. Right before Tom Hanks’ Joe Fox reveals himself to be NY152 to Kathleen Kelly.
Fox: …and the only thing we would fight about is which video to rent on a Saturday night.
Kelly: Well, who fights about that.
Fox: Well, some people. Not us.
Kelly: We would never.
Funny as it seems, maybe Nora [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on March 19, 2009
As we reported earlier, The New York Times has withdrawn its sponsorship of the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The newspaper’s sponsorship was more of a media exchange and involved no funding. Peg Palmer, the festival’s executive director, says that anyone worried about the festival should rest assured it will continue to go on [...]
by David Graham on March 1, 2009
NEW YORK — Greetings from the Big Apple, where I’m covering celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Thelonious Monk’s legendary 1959 Town Hall tentet show, (for background on the projects and these two shows, read this and this and this).
Last night’s show was the Charles Tolliver Tentet playing note-for-note transcriptions from the Monk show, which [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on December 3, 2008
The New York Times Book Review editors have just released their selection of the top 10 books from 2008. The list comes from the editors’ selection of 100 notable books from the year. Predictable picks include 2666 and Toni Morrison’s new novel. But superstars John Updike, Philip Roth, Tobias Wolff and the Times’ own David Carr [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on December 3, 2008
Over at the New York Times, David Itzkoff just wrapped up his live blog of the Grammy nominations ceremony. Gone are the days of early morning announcements:
For the first time in the 50-year history of the Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy is attempting to make the announcement of its nominations as much of a flashy [...]