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4th Annual Urchie Award Winners!
Welcome to the 2013 Urchies! We are proud to present to you, for the first time anywhere, this year’s esteemed Urchie winners. Amidst all the rubbish clogging our theatres, televisions, and bookshelves, artists around the world are striving to bring … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Film & Television, Literature, Music, The Urchies, Travel, Urchin Eats
Tagged 2013 award winners, Urchie Awards, urchies
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The Iron Lady: Meryl Streep’s Masterpiece Performance as Margaret Thatcher
By Sarah Jost Last Tuesday, lured by the promise of culture after three months of rural living in New Zealand, and by a nearby theatre’s once-weekly discount day, I spent my first night in Sydney attending a showing of The … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Television, Sarah
Tagged academy awards, Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady, urchies
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2011 Golden Globes Recap!
By Sarah Jost Last night, I snuggled up to watch the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards with a blanket, some popcorn, and a good dose of skepticism. I’ve been wary of the Golden Globes since last year’s infamous The Hangover … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Television, Sarah
Tagged 2011 Golden Globes, 30 Rock, Aaron Sorkin, academy awards, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chris Colfer, Colin Firth, Emma Stone, glee, Marchesa, Modern Family, Monique Lhuillier, natalie portman, Olivia Wilde, Robert Downey Jr, Steve Carell, the hangover, the tourist, Tina Fey, urchies, vegan, Wales
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Year of the Urchin: Five Exciting Things to Look Forward to in 2011
Our first full year as a blog went off without a hitch, which makes the possibilities of 2011 very exciting! We hope you’ll stay with us through this new year – but just in case, here are five things to … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Holidays
Tagged 2011, blogs, bookmarks, books, busyness cards, letterpress, libraries, library, london, los angeles, nashville, new year's, new year's resolution, new york city, photoshop, reUMion, ulysses, urchies, urchin manifesto, urchin propaganda, urchins ink
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Why We Are Hungry: A Dave Eggers Appreciation
By Geo Ong Last March, Dave Eggers won the coveted ‘Exemplary Human Being’ award at this year’s Urchies. In 2008, Eggers was the recipient of another award (a bit more prestigious, for now, at least). Eggers was awarded the TED … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged 826, art as social revolution, dave eggers, education, ted, ted prize, urchies
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Only in Los Angeles
By Geo Ong There I was, minding my own business, making steady progress in Vollmann’s Imperial (now that it’s an Urchie-Award winner, I thought I’d better read more of it), enjoying the calmbience of the coffeeshop, when a murder of … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Film & Television, Geo, Travel
Tagged hollywood, imperial, los angeles, networkers, networking, television, urchies, william t vollmann
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That Other Award Show
By Sarah Jost It is hard to believe that the biggest award show of the season is already over. Yes, the Urchies were a wild success! The winners were truly extraordinary, and gosh, can you believe those arrivals? But there … Continue reading
1st Annual Urchie Award Winners!
What a show! Sincere thanks to all who read and voted! Here they are, your winners! Book of the Year Imperial by William T. Vollmann Novelist (that’s right, novelist) William T. Vollmann spent ten years of his life on this … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, Film & Television, Literature, Music, The Urchies, Travel
Tagged 826, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, award shows, Away We Go, beatles, belgium, books, brussels, cheryl cole, chris cleave, clean breaks, dave eggers, edinburgh, ewan mcgregor, george clooney, hanson, imperial, inglourious basterds, inherent vice, jackson browne, jeremy smith, kathryn bigelow, nonfiction, paul mccartney, richard hammond, scotland, st. vincent, The Hurt Locker, thomas pynchon, Up, urchie lifetime achievement award, urchies, vendela vida, Washington D.C., Where the Wild Things Are, william t vollmann
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And the Urchie Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to…
By Geo Ong I don’t believe I deserve dinner unless I’ve done a day’s work. —Charlie Chaplin The Urchins love and respect Charlie Chaplin for plenty of reasons. First of all, he’s English. (You don’t have to be English to … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Film & Television, Geo, The Urchies
Tagged america, award shows, charlie chaplin, city lights, communism, house un-american activities committee, huac, james agee, jesus christ, mccarthyism, modern times, silent film, the circus, urchie lifetime achievement award, urchies
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Welcome to the Urchies Red Carpet Special!
By Geo Ong *The following is a transcript of the Urchies Red Carpet Special. Hack: Welcome to the Urchies Red Carpet Special! I’m your host, Hack Bignose, and this is my lovely, lovely cohost, the gorgeous… umm… hold on, don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Film & Television, Geo, The Urchies
Tagged award shows, ed helms, ewan mcgregor, faust, george clooney, television, the hangover, the office, urchies
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