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'NYT' Gets Top 2 Pulitzer Photo Prizes

And their excellent Lens blog naturally features with full portfolios, both related to terrors attacks (Nairobi and Boston).  Tyler Hicks classic, left.

Pulitzer Day

Update 3 p.m.  Indeed, The Guardian and Wash Post do win it for NSA/Snowden.  Full list of all winners (and below).     Here's oft-overlooked finalists. Edward Snowden comments. "Today's decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognises was work of vital public importance."

JournalismPUBLIC SERVICE - Two Prizes: The Guardian US and The Washington Post
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING - The Boston Globe Staff
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING - Chris Hamby of The Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
EXPLANATORY REPORTING - Eli Saslow of The Washington Post
LOCAL REPORTING - Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia of the Tampa Bay Times
NATIONAL REPORTING - David Philipps of The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING - Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall of Reuters
FEATURE WRITING - No award
COMMENTARY - Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press
CRITICISM - Inga Saffron of The Philadelphia Inquirer
EDITORIAL WRITING - The Editorial Staff of The Oregonian, Portland
EDITORIAL CARTOONING - Kevin Siers of The Charlotte Observer
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY - Tyler Hicks of The New York Times
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY - Josh Haner of The New York Times
Books, Drama and MusicFICTION - "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
DRAMA - "The Flick" by Annie Baker
HISTORY - "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832" by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton)
BIOGRAPHY - "Margaret Fuller: A New American Life" by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
POETRY - "3 Sections" by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION - "Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation" by Dan Fagin (Bantam Books)
MUSIC - "Become Ocean" by John Luther Adams (Taiga Press/Theodore Front Musical Literature)

Earlier: My new piece at The Nation: Will Greenwald and Poitras take home a Pulitzer today?

From Mick & Keith to...Stan & Ollie?

Laurel & Hardy hoof it to one of my favorite (relatively) obscure Stones' songs,  orchestrated version of "Out of Time."

Ali on Trials

Supposedly great doc, "The Trials of Muhammad Ali," comes to PBS's "Independent Lens" tonight, that means 10 p.m. in NYC.

"Like a Rolling...Sex Machine."

Incredible, improbable, Dylan/James Brown mash-up.

Racist, Anti-Semite, Ex-KKKer Arrested for Shooting Three Near Kansas City

You've heard the story Sunday, now watch the video, as the man, in custody in back of police car, yells 'Heil Hitler!"

True National 'Anthem'

A song for tonight, from Leonard Cohen, one of his greatest, "Anthem," here in recent live version. 

Blues for Breakfast

Some may be looking at their newly-delivered NYT right now and notice that the Sunday magazine's cover story is "The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie."  It's a lengthy and remarkable story of two black women who recorded a total of six blues numbers, vocals and guitar, around 1930, that have knocked out listeners when they were re-discovered quite a few years back, and posed a mystery re: who they were, how the records (few of which survive) came to be, and what the heck happened to the two women.  But make sure you that the Times has done what their cool multimedia things online with video and a lot of audio and extra photos.  And here's one of those classics, in minor key but oh so major, which promoted the mystery when used the Crumb doc back in the 1990s.

Watch Now

That "Years of Living Dangerously" doc series on climate change that you may have heard about--there are viewing parties set all over the country--doesn't air on TV until tomorrow but first episode now up at YouTube.