#award winners

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James Hong, The Main Man

Chances are, if you've watched movies in the last seven decades, you’ve seen or heard Minneapolis native James Hong. With over 650 film and television credits, he is one of the most prolific actors of all time. His latest accomplishment is a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for the film Everything Everywhere All at Once, which was released on March 25, 2022. The film also garnered 7 Oscars from 11 nominations at this year’s Academy Awards, which Hong attended wearing a bowtie with googly eyes—a nod to the film. In 2022, at age 93, he became the oldest person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

James Hong was born in Minneapolis to Chinese immigrants in February, 1929. His father, Frank W. Hong, managed the Golden Pheasant, one of the first Chinese restaurants in the city (it opened in 1919 next to the more famous Nankin, which opened the same year). The Hong family later owned a business in what some considered to be Minneapolis’s Chinatown. Sent away to Hong Kong for elementary school, James returned to Minneapolis for middle school, where he had to re-learn English. He attended the old Bryant Junior High and then Central High School, where he graduated in 1947.

Learn more about the Hong family and Minneapolis’s Chinatown in this MinnPost article from 2015.

If you enjoyed Everything Everywhere All at Once, or are waiting in the queue for the DVD, check out more books and films featuring the writers, actors, and directors of this Oscar-winning film.

Images of James Hong from the 1946 and 1947 Minneapolis Central High School yearbooks. See more yearbooks and restaurant menus in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #famous people #actors #1940s #high school yearbooks #James Hong #award winners #Chinese Americans #Everything Everywhere All at Once

[queerliblib]

Hi! I just got my library card and I'm so excited to start reading!!! Do you know if there's a way to sort by, for lack of a better term, queer experience on libby? If, wow stories, asexual stories, trans stories, etc? It's a lot of collection for me to just scroll through, so I'm trying to narrow down my starting search. Thank you for all that you do!!!!

Hi! Yes there is. you can either use keyword searching, (on the libby app, there will be a little magnifying glass icon at the footer - you can click that and then search with any keywords you’d like including ‘ace’, ‘queer’, ‘trans’ etc..). You can also browse by subject, or explore any of our pre-curated lists!

welcome & happy reading!!

#the lists should show up on our home page on libby #we have curated lists for queer horror #staff picks #disability pride #award winners #& more right now! #you can also filter for titles that are ‘available now’ if you want to make sure you can read something right away without a hold

[wellesleybooks]

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday, amazingly there were two novels chosen for the award for fiction.

Pulitzer Awards for Books, Drama and Music

Fiction

"Demon Copperhead," by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

"Trust," by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)

Finalist:

"The Immortal King Rao," by Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton & Company)

Drama

"English," by Sanaz Toossi

Finalists:

"On Sugarland," by Aleshea Harris

"The Far Country," by Lloyd Suh

History

"Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power," by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)

Finalists:

"Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America," by Michael John Witgen (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)

"Watergate: A New History," by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

Biography

"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," by Beverly Gage (Viking)

Finalists:

"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

"Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century," by Jennifer Homans (Random House)

Memoir or Autobiography

"Stay True," by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)

Finalists:

"Easy Beauty: A Memoir," by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

"The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir," by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)

Poetry

"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists:

"Blood Snow," by dg nanouk okpik (Wave Books)

"Still Life," by the late Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)

General Nonfiction

"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

Finalists:

"Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern," by Jing Tsu (Riverhead Books)

"Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction," by David George Haskell (Viking)

"Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation," by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday)

Music

"Omar," by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

Finalists:

"Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)," by Tyshawn Sorey

"Perspective," by Jerrilynn Patton

#pulitzer prize #books #award winners #barbara kingsolver #demon copperhead #trust #hernan diaz #harper books #riverhead books #g-man #beverly gage #stay true #hua hsu #his name is george floyd #robert samuels #toluse olorunnipa #viking books #doubleday books

[wiiildflowerrr]

AMAs 2014: 5 Seconds of Summer wins New Artist of the Year

23 November 2014

Ash, see you in the cone...

#this day in 5sos history #5sos #5 seconds of summer #calum hood #luke hemmings #ashton irwin #michael clifford #amas 2014 #awards show #award winners #new artist of the year #23 november #2014

[kylieforeverandever]

Kylie Minogue at the 16th Annual ARIA awards held on October 15, 2002 at the Sydney SuperDome in Sydney, Australia. 

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[publicmediasolutionpr]

Thrilled to announce that Public Media Solution has been honored with a Certificate of Appreciation for our unwavering dedication, commitment, and exceptional services! 🏆 Thank you, Yewale Amruttulya, for this prestigious recognition. We're proud to continue serving our community with excellence.

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[twbmagazine]

The World's Best Awards Australian Global Company of 2024

Here are the #winners of The World's Best Awards #Australian Global Company of 2024 title honoured for their outstanding accomplishments and contributions in both the Australian and global #business landscapes. #theworldsbestawards #theworldsbestmagazine

Australia is a shining star on the international scene, where leadership and innovation have become essential for success. Here are the winners of The World’s Best Awards Australian Global Company of 2024 title honoured for their outstanding accomplishments and contributions in both the Australian and global business landscapes. These businesses have not only excelled in their fields, but they…

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[tweedsmuir-library]

New Non-Fiction

Come down to your School Library to check out some of our newest non-fiction titles:

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#Award Winners #history #music #non-fiction #Science #social science #space

[thecatsreaderslibrary]

Happy Monday, Eclipse Re-Blogg and Share of Updates From Our Award-Winning Author Elizabeth Upton. She Is Everywhere!

All Her Books Are Available From AmazonIn Paperback, Kindles, Audio Books, andWithin Kindle Unlimitedhttps://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001KEA1NG/allbooks “My Thoughts of The Week” While Celebrating Spring With All My Inspiring Self Discovery Spiritual Kindles On Sale From Amazon. . .

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[spotlyts]

In Focus: 5 Award Winning Women Photographers  

There are time when moments slip through our fingers like sand. Yet photographers are the magicians who freeze time in captivating frames. Karl Lagerfeld was onto something when he extolled the magic of photographs, and these award-winning women photographers have truly mastered the art of capturing fleeting moments. From Annie Leibovitz’s iconic portraits to Imogen Cunningham’s intimate…

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[webawards-com]

Today’s Web Award goes to WeAreSky.com thanks to its excellence in quality, originality, design and content. Congratulations @wearesky

WeAreSky is a psychological design studio based in Los Angeles.

More Details: WebAwards.com

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[carlocarrasco]

Philippines wins big at the 2024 ASEAN Tourism Awards thanks to three cities and many stakeholders

In the 2024 edition of the ASEAN Tourism Awards held recently in Laos, the Philippines won big as three cities and more than twenty stakeholders won honors, according to a Philippine News Agency (PNA) news article. To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the PNA news report. Some parts in boldface… Three cities and 21 tourism stakeholders from the Philippines have been…

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#achievements #achievers #ASEAN Tourism Awards #Asia #award winners #awards #Blog #blogger #blogging #Bongbong Marcos #business #business news #Carlo Carrasco #Christina Frasco #Department of Tourism (DOT) #domestic tourism #economics #economy #Economy of the Philippines #Ferdinand Marcos #food tourism #foreign tourists #geek #Inspiration #jobs #Laos #local tourism #local tourists #Marcos #news

[dirteaicecream]

Open Living Room in Raleigh

Inspiration for a large farmhouse open concept medium tone wood floor, brown floor, vaulted ceiling and shiplap wall living room remodel with white walls, a standard fireplace, a wood fireplace surround and a wall-mounted tv

#a-frame beams #award winners #best interior design #hickory trusses #lake house #top design ideas #wooden walls

[gallifreyfallsnomorre]

Open Living Room in Raleigh

Inspiration for a large farmhouse open concept medium tone wood floor, brown floor, vaulted ceiling and shiplap wall living room remodel with white walls, a standard fireplace, a wood fireplace surround and a wall-mounted tv

#a-frame beams #award winners #best interior design #hickory trusses #lake house #top design ideas #wooden walls

[thebookbin]

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink

Publisher: Crown Publishing (Penguin Random House) Genre: nonfiction, history, journalism Year: 2013

Wow, what a read.

As a Houstonian who lived through both Katrina and Harvey, the devastation of hurricanes and flooding is not lost on me. I spent days ruminating over this book, and I still feel conflicted about it. While the investigation and reporting of events inside the hospital are some of the most profound words journalism has ever produced, the Part II "aftermath" section is riddled with the author's biases, especially in a religious sense.

For those not in the know: this book follows the events at Memorial Baptist Hospital in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, in which 45 people died at the hospital and where one doctor and two nurses were charged with accusations of euthanasia. While the investigation of what went on at Memorial is poignant and powerful, Fink's insistence on framing this entire debate on personal responsibility, while simultaneously letting a corporation she acknowledges as corrupt in passing off the hook is infuriating. Fink describes in detail and had access to Tenet's (the parent corporation of the hospital) emails where they actively chose not to send aid to the doctors at their own hospital, and yet focuses all her vitriol on the nurses and doctors trapped there with no water, no electricity, limited resources, and dying patients. This is where I believe Fink's personal religion colors this book to an unacceptable degree that makes this work unworthy of the Pulitzer Prize it won. Sheri Fink's disdain for certain topics shines through every snide remark disguised as journalism. She clearly does not agree philosophically with euthanasia. Fink is obviously religious, as she is incapable of removing her biases from her supposed "objective reporting" leads to targeted questions that clearly are intended to discredit the opinions she clearly disagrees with, "Could the societal embrace of suicide for terminally ill or disabled people lead to those groups feeling more worthless, devalued, and abandoned? Would it discount the meaning to be had from family reconnections, insights, forms of spiritual enrichment, and personal growth that may accompany death's approach?" This quote comes from a passage where Fink is discussing and "airing the debate" of assisted suicide. She seems to have no problems with Jehovah's Witnesses exorcising their rights to refuse treatment, but holds a palpable and sharp distaste for those who want the power to choose the time and place of their passing and be able to pass along painlessly. Even the veneer of her journalism can't hide her pompous disdain for the idea. While I personally don't know enough about medically assisted suicide to have an informed opinion, I have compassion for people who may be considering this route, and am curious enough about the debate to hear arguments and considerations from all sides. But Fink's biases are so strong I found myself siding in opposition to her, just to spite her obvious attempts to sway my opinion. Towards the end of the book it gets worse. She describes a doctor who went to jail for facilitating a physician assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient in the 90s, and then switches to the perspective of an investigator who, upon reading a newspaper "what she read, made her cry." She only shows the emotions of the people who's perspective she agrees with, and somehow that perspective never points any blame at any corporation, government, or system that failed and always on individual people's actions.

Fink also seems to completely disregard class consciousness until it serves her. She has no intellectual curiosity on how or why class affected Katrina outcomes, unless it's to be condescending to her target: Dr. Anna Pou. This ends up reading as absurd, when a billion dollar hospital group was responsible for lack of preparation before, ignoring federal regulations and warnings about their storm-readiness and Fink reports all of this like it's an afterthought. Ah yes, the entire system failed, the government failed to intervene and when they finally did their efforts were so disorganized they actively hindered rescue operations, but let's not look any closer there, we definitely can't investigate corporate malpractice, or even the possibility of personal responsibility for those in charge of the situation—no. We only care about personal responsibility of those not in charge. It's this hyper-individualistic stance that confirmed for me that this book is religious in nature. She hyper-fixates on Dr. Pou's wealth, while barely mentioning the two middle-class nurses charged alongside her unless it's a brief mention of how they struggled financially after their respective arrests. Fink seems desperate to frame this novel as taking down the Big Guy, but instead of doing the more interesting and admittedly harder work of investigating the Big Guy, she chooses a single doctor as the figurehead of the worlds problems and dresses her up as the boogeyman while allowing the actual menacing entity responsible for this tragedy continue to exist unexamined.

Overall, I would say my feelings towards this book are... conflicted. I do think that documenting what went on is important, as is the discussion of euthanasia, medical standards and how they might shift in disasters, and the philosophical and ethical questions of practicing medicine in extenuating circumstances. I just firmly believe this book fails to achieve that to any meaningful degree, and instead reads as a religious manifesto on the sanctity of life, an attempt to take on the Man that was misaimed in a way that lets actual corrupt power fester unchecked.

storygraph | bookshop.org | local houston

★★★ don't read this unless you want to be angry

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[kenzoparis]

Open Living Room in Raleigh

Inspiration for a large farmhouse open concept medium tone wood floor, brown floor, vaulted ceiling and shiplap wall living room remodel with white walls, a standard fireplace, a wood fireplace surround and a wall-mounted tv

#a-frame beams #award winners #best interior design #hickory trusses #lake house #top design ideas #wooden walls