Even though it doesn’t evidently air on television for another 10 days, The Quill Awards were announced and the ceremony held Tuesday. The awards were promoted as “a consumer-driven celebration of the written word created to inspire reading while promoting literacy” and voting could be done over the Internet. The news story linked above says […]
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For people who grew up during the Apollo program and manned missions to the Moon, Andrew Smith’s Moondust has an intriguing premise. He sets out to find and interview the men who walked on the Moon and see how it affected their lives. Unfortunately, it ultimately yields the conclusion that many people now seem to […] A few items of interest that passed my screen recently: John Banville wins the Mann Booker Prize for The Sea (evidently slated for US release in March). If you believe The Guardian, it won by one vote over Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. There seems to be much gossip over a reported rift over […] Serenity fell 51 percent at the box office this past weekend. While it did remain in the top 10, the drop and total take certainly doesn’t bode well. The film has brought in $17.6 million (against $39 million in cost) over two weeks. According to The Signal, word is it will take $80 million worldwide […] First a local Demo blog accuses the GOP of a conspiracy to phony up letters to the editor critical of Rep. Stephanie Herseth. Now, the local daily reveals (with typical Beck snarkiness) that the letters actually came from someone associated with the local chapter of something called the Progressive Democrats of America. It appears this […] |
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