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Netflix: The New Toilet Seat

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 [...]

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More on The NY Times and Full Frame

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As we reported earlier, The New York Times has withdrawn its sponsorship of the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.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 [...]

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NY Times Pulls Full Frame Sponsorship

by Andrew Hibbard on March 13, 2009

The New York Times has revoked its sponsorship of the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The grey lady has been a presenting sponsor for America’s fast-approaching, premiere documentary festival since 2001.
The Festival’s other main sponsor, Duke University, has been a sponsor since 2005, though in the Festival’s early years, when it was called the [...]

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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 [...]

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NY Times Picks Top 10 Books

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 [...]

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Grammy Nominations Out

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 [...]

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