The Man Booker International Prize will be awarded once every two years for career achievement to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English, or is generally available in translation in the English language. 2005 sees the awarding of the inaugural prize. The prize, sponsored by the …

The Washington Post and CNN’s media man, Howard Kurtz, spoke with everyone’s favorite pseudonymous conservative gay-escort White House journalist (please see Silas Kain’s story here, and Margaret Romao Toigo’s story here for excellent background on the story): “I’ve made mistakes in my past,” he said yesterday. “Does my past mean …

National Geographic, AEG Live Exhibitions and Arts and Exhibitions International, with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, will bring an exhibition of more than 130 treasures from the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun (King Tut), other Valley of the Kings tombs and additional ancient sites to the United States …

After a live auction and solo performance by John Mayer at Sotheby’s last month, Musicians On Call — which provides live in-room performances by volunteer artists for hospital patients — has more than 45 guitars and other memorabilia available at its online auction. All donated items come with a certificate …

The News The Eagles’ original vinyl Asylum Records catalog, including each of their albums between 1972 and 1980, will be released as the Eagles Box, a limited-edition, nine-disc set including the debut of their “Please Come Home For Christmas/Funky New Year” single on CD. The Eagles Box will showcase each …

The almost impossibly elegant and ethereal Scottish trio Cocteau Twins are reuniting for the Coachella Valley Music Festival on Saturday, April 30 (joining the similarly reforming Bauhaus, and in the wake of last year’s incredibly successful Pixies re-amalgamation). Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde will take the stage as …

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Fur hags to David Cross: “Shut the fuck up, Gallagher, and put some clothes on.” David Cross has joined the PETA anti-fur brigade with a revealing, some might say too revealing, ad. He may play a “never nude” on Fox’s hit comedy Arrested Development, but David Cross wasn’t afraid to …

I’ve been getting feverish press releases from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences leading up to the Oscars, mostly announcing that this or that celebrity has been added to the burgeoning roster of presenters, or that Chris Rock is NOT the anti-Christ or other such necessary but marginal …

The Writers Guild of America has named Super Size Me, written by Morgan Spurlock, as the winner of the Guild’s first-ever Documentary Screenplay Award for outstanding achievement in documentary writing for the screen during 2004. The newly-created award was presented by producer Brian Grazer at a SRO reception for over …