Climate & Environment
Lookout Santa Cruz has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 2023 flooding along the Central Coast.
World & Nation
Argentinian President Javier Milei has been awarded Israel’s prestigious 2025 Genesis Prize in recognition of his support of Israel.
Entertainment & Arts
Conan O’Brien is the 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy, honored ‘not for humor, but for [his] work as a riverboat pilot.’
Movies
Carolyn Cole, a veteran L.A. Times photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of civil war in Liberia, breaks down the depiction of her profession in A24’s ‘Civil War.’
Awards
Los Angeles Times columnist Glenn Whipp sifts through all the awards and nominations announced this week to see if any patterns are emerging.
In a sweeping reversal, the Pulitzer Prize Board will accept submissions from non-U.S. citizens but the change will not go into effect until 2025.
‘English’ by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play gets a sensitively acted production at San Diego’s Old Globe.
Caleb Eberhardt stars in the West Coast premiere of Eboni Booth’s ‘Primary Trust,’ winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for drama, at La Jolla Playhouse.
Books
N. Scott Momaday, the ‘House Made of Dawn’ author and Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist, has died. He was 89.
Consumer Goods & Retail
Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation (VSEDC) awarded a $25,000 grand prize to All Chill Ice Cream during its inaugural Grand Pitch Competition, according to a press release.