Awards
Tonight the American Society of Magazine Editors will crown this year's glossy kings and queens. Perennial favorites like New York and the New Yorker may be gearing up for a haul, but Bloomberg Markets editor Ron Henkoff is keeping is expectations tempered. "I've been down this road before," he told The Observer last week at Bloomberg's futurist HQ. In 2008, Markets was a finalist for a Public Interest Ellie in but didn't win. This year... MORE >
Eyebrows are being raised in Queens Democratic circles today after word went out that Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. was honored last night for a "leadership award" by the Queens Conservative Party. Vallone is exploring a run for the Queens borough presidency or the district attorney after he is term-limited out in 2013. "Why would he do that? This borough is 80 percent Democratic," said one borough pol. "If I was running against him I would... MORE >
The 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships have been announced! The website for the foundation that dispenses the $40,000 grants is on the fritz, but here are some selected winners from the 180 awarded the grant this year, partially culled from the press... MORE >
The Peabody Awards--so much more staid and trustworthy than those flashy Emmys!--announced the recipients of their prizes for excellence in media this morning, and the list is deliriously familiar, if worthy: PBS' Great Performances, American Masters, and American Experience, C-SPAN's online library, HBO's The Pacific. All very worthy recipients!... MORE >
We're liveblogging the Grammys here starting at 6p.m. Keep refreshing this page for updates and... MORE >
A sizeable pocket of Hollywood descended upon 42nd Street last night for the National Board of Review Awards, at Cipriani. The Carpetbagger tagged along for the ride, and returned with anecdotes of the stars and starlets who descended upon the massive space: Ben Affleck, Aaron Sorkin, Jon Hamm, a bored and yawning Christian Bale. You know, the... MORE >
Time magazine has rejected the will of the people and selected Mark Zuckerberg as person of the year. Julian Assange won the popular vote, but as the editors at Time remind us, Zuckerberg is something of rebel himself: "Like two of our runners-up this year, Julian Assange and the Tea Party, Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have a whole lot of veneration for traditional... MORE >
Meet your hosts for the 2011 Academy Awards: James Franco and Anne Hathaway. Ever heard of these young... MORE >
"Everybody's bitchin' because there's been too much competition." And so Newmark Knight Frank's Jimmy Kuhn kicked off the star panel at this year's Capital Markets in Real Estate Global Markets Recovery with an unintential real estate rap. Sadly, not all real estate gurus can rhyme, but everyone's got some talent. We bring you the juicy bits from this afternoon's star panel, New York City: We Are the Golden Apple: --"Out-of-the-box is not out of the... MORE >
Literary Review, a British monthly publication, does its best to alleviate the pains caused by all the cringe-inducing, overwrought, or just plain gross sex scenes that appear in the pages of the world's most acclaimed novels. Each year it hands out a Bad Sex Award to a novelist who rendered that sacred sensual act laughably ridiculous. Past winners include writers such as Norman Mailer and Tom... MORE >
Former NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker will be honored at the Center for Communication's Annual Luncheon on Nov. 1, according to an update on the center's website. At the ceremony Zucker will receive the Frank Stanton award for his work in... MORE >
Yesterday at the American Magazine Conference at the Fairmont hotel in Chicago, David Carey accepted a Cover of the Year award from the American Society of Magazine... MORE >
With time running out to place bets on the novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize before the winner is announced on Oct. 12, literary gambling aficionados can now direct their attention to the writers in the running for the Nobel Prize.... MORE >
The results are in for this year's Webby Awards. The New York Times and College Humor lead the winners with five Webbys apiece. The Times took home both Best News site and Best Feature for David Rohde's "Held by the Taliban." Roger Ebert was named Person of the Year and Google's Vinton Cerf, "the father of the internet," was honored with the Lifetime Achievement... MORE >
More gossip from last night's ASME awards, courtesy of WWD. David Remnick inducts Anna Wintour into the magazine editors hall of... MORE >
