Climate & Environment
Lookout Santa Cruz has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 2023 flooding along the Central Coast.
Awards
Los Angeles Times columnist Glenn Whipp sifts through all the awards and nominations announced this week to see if any patterns are emerging.
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.’
Entertainment & Arts
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.
‘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.
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.
Books
“Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.
N. Scott Momaday, the ‘House Made of Dawn’ author and Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist, has died. He was 89.
World & Nation
A campaign on Mohammadi’s behalf said she would be free for 21 days, but would have to serve the remaining prison time later.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese activist organization of survivors of the atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.