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Today's Events

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the Oscars this morning. Canada done good.

Sarah Polley is having a kickass month as her debut directorial feature, Away From Her, racks up the accolades. On Sunday, the Los Angeles film critics gave Polley a New Generation Award for up-and-coming directors. Then, on Monday, the New York film critics felt Away From Her was 2007's Best First Film. In addition, earlier this month Polley was named one of the "50 Smartest People in Hollywood" by Entertainment Weekly. She's the youngest...

Tall Poppy Interview - Davy Rothbart

Most philanthropic organizations have jumped on the rubber band-wagon started by a certain cancer-beating, Tour de France winning, Sherryl Crow dating cyclist

But back to the coffee cups and their venti-circumferencing wisdom. With Starbucks here in Canada, why no Canadian personalities? 'Cancontent,' we cry! We could certainly muster up someone to say something that could rival the gems put forth by that treacly character Mitch Albom!

Who loves Alice more? CBC Schoolmarm Shelagh Rogers had wanted to interview Alice Munro for seventeen years before she got the chance to fawn over the Gilleress last week. And spectacled Jonathan Franzen made a spectacle of his love for Alice in the pages of the Times Book Review yesterday. Torontoist hasn't read Runaway yet, but we listened to a lively Talking Books panel on the work, one in which New Yorker Adam Gopnik used the word 'expatriated' with such frequency that we had to wonder if he was launching a campaign to bring greater popularity to the unruly term. As for Alice, we're happy for her. We hope she wins the Nobel. We like grand dames who wear sunglasses indoors. But we also really like the BlackBook Mag challenge, the one where they ask readers to put people in the ring together (the interview ring, that is). We'd like to see Franzen and Rogers duke it out. Alice proclaims the victor.

Meanwhile, Torontoist's favourite new author, David Bezmozgis, was denied the Giller, but shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Another G, and a prize total of around the same G's, so Bezmozgis shouldn't be too displeased. When we heard him read at the Ashkenaz festival a few weeks back, he seemed an entirely affable fellow (not at all like that Jonathan Goldstein, whose profanity-laced reading caused two long in the tooth and short in the hearing bubbes to run for the exits). And Natasha and Other Stories was one of the best books of recent vintage. So Torontoist is going to support D-Bez in this upcoming election.