Category: media

“A brief ‘save the date’ memo described a special event to be held in three cities — Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco — on May 4.”

“‘Talk of the Nation,’ which was an early platform for high-profile hosts like Ira Glass and John Hockenberry, will not necessarily go quietly.”

“But the past refuses to disappear. Like the undead, demons from the darkness of abstract history are constantly coming to life again. And even if they no longer torment grandparents and parents, because soon there will no longer be any contemporary witnesses left to tell their stories, they will continue to haunt the imaginations of their children and grandchildren.”

“These devotees argue that Kubrick’s movie is really about more than a writer going homicidally bonkers. For one, it’s about the genocide against Native Americans; for another, it’s about the Holocaust; yet another says the film is Kubrick’s admission that he helped fake footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.”

“From All in the Family to Modern Family, a lot has changed over the past few decades about the way gay people and their relationships are portrayed in the media. The Post‘s Krissah Thompson stops by to explain.”

“After the arrest in 2010 of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, who the authorities said was the head of a violent Mexican drug cartel, customers at Video Mexico in Austin told Eduardo Betancourt, the owner, something he should have known: the man’s life was already the subject of a low-budget movie.”

“Netflix has done political thriller (‘House of Cards’), horror (the upcoming ‘Hemlock Grove’) and comedy (the upcoming resurrection of ‘Arrested Development’), so it makes sense that science fiction is next on its development slate.”

Among other honorees for the best in electronic media – in addition to the usual New York Times, NPR, CBS and HBO – are local coverage of the Newtown, CT massacre; Michael Apted’s Up series of films; Lorne Michaels; Marina Abramovic; and SCOTUSblog.

“When tax inspectors started becoming suspicious, the gang tried to cover their tracks by actually making a low-budget film about a Gulf War veteran seeking justice for a murdered comrade.”