“Cultural experts are puzzled. None of them can explain why the trend has caught on. It’s just one of those things. They do, however, give the impression that if you don’t learn all about the new trend as quickly as possible, you’ll be in the minority.”
Tag: 12.31.08
Increasingly Irrelevant Village Voice Lays Off Nat Hentoff
The troubled Village Voice laid off three employees Tuesday, including Nat Hentoff, the prominent columnist who has worked for the paper since 1958, contributing opinionated columns about jazz, civil liberties and politics.
The Queen Honours Robert Plant, Terry Pratchett, Courtney Pine For 2009
In Her Majesty’s New Year’s Honours, Discworld novelist Terry Pratchett is knighted, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine get CBEs, and actor Michael Sheen (of Frost/Nixon), gets an OBE.