Utne Reader - Winners of the 2007 Utne Independent Press Awards
Here are this year's winners. If you go to their site , you can get a brief description of why each magazine received its honor -- and to get a link to the magazine's web... More »
Here are this year's winners. If you go to their site , you can get a brief description of why each magazine received its honor -- and to get a link to the magazine's web... More »
Time has posted their annual top ten lists . This should keep you busy for a little while. News: The powerful, the profound, the painful and the peculiar: These are the most noteworthy news events... More »
The first major movie awards of the year have been released. From the LA Times: "No Country for Old Men," Joel and Ethan Coen's visceral crime thriller based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, was... More »
Another "best of" list for books, this time from the New York Times Book Review . The list is in alphabetical order. There are two poets that I quite like who made the list: NEXT... More »
This is the first of many best of lists sure to come in the next two months. At least this one is useful, suggesting some good titles to read that we may have missed during... More »
From the Mental Floss blog: The All-Time Best-Selling Books We’ve discussed the top rated TV shows , most popular video games , best-selling albums , and the albums that topped the charts the longest .... More »
I'm a fan of the old stuff, so I thought this list was pretty cool. One quibble: the dating on the shells in number 10 is screwy -- it assesses the date of the shells... More »
If you're going out shopping tomorrow instead of honoring Buy Nothing Day (remember, you were not born to shop), the least you can do is get the loved-one on your list a book. And just... More »