Ann Powers
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LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted April 22, 2008
New York Times Is Not For Sale: Extra! Extra! Actual good news in the paper for once.
Disney Launches Nature Film Unit: It's an effort to get on the green bandwagon and focus on the environment and all that jazz. Great idea, but will the studio be able to control the impulse... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 30, 2007
Best Subhead of the Day: This Patrick Goldstein story bears the subhead, A recently published history of screenwriting reveals that Hollywood's contempt for writers goes back decades. We can't think of a use for this book -- unless a writer wants to climb up a stack of them and then kick... [FishBowlLA]
LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted July 9, 2007
Winning Hearts and Minds: Democrats are starting to see a shrink.
Their Kung-Fu Is Better Than Ours: We read this Michelle Quinn story about hackers spending a sleepless weekend together to "unlock the mysteries" of the iPhone. And we almost understood every word of it.
Live Earth: That big concert thingy happened. And,... [FishBowlLA]
LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted June 26, 2007
Three Graphs Of News: And 34 graphs of background. We can't blame Andrew Blankstein, though. If we had to wait around Lynwood at midnight to watch Paris's post-perp walk, we'd pre-write as much of this non-story as we could, too.
Luckily, She Doesn't Suck: In fact, Meryl Streep's daughter, Mamie Gummer is... [FishBowlLA]
Cowboy Nation--Critic's Pick or Pick-up of Citybeat Piece? - Posted May 11, 2007
So, did the LAT boil down Cole Coonce's Citybeat piece on Cowboy Nation?
Seems unlikely, and yet, the four sentences of the Critic's Pick, (unsigned by Ann Powers) do call up some of the same imagery as Coonce's longer piece on the alt-country Kinman brothers.
LAT: runs like a dusty river.
Citybeat: speak of... [FishBowlLA]
LA Times Pulitzer DIY Nominees: Swed, Knight - Posted March 14, 2007
Two finalists from the LA Times for the Pulitzer Prize in the critical writing category--art critic Christopher Knight and classical music critic Mark Swed--nominated themselves. The LAT submitted music critic Ann Powers, architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, and media writer Tim Rutten but they weren't selected as finalists.
So, what does this... [FishBowlLA]





