Barbara Ehrenreich among winners of PEN literary awards

Malibu real estate recorded another record year in 2020, with a 104 percent jump in single-family home salesand a 36 percent increase in condo sales from 2019, with a median listing price of $3.2 million, according to Realtor.com. As inventory remains low and prices high, agents have noticed an increased interest in other beach areas, including these alternatives: UNDERSTATED IN PALOS VERDESThe Palos Verdes peninsula sits an hour south of Malibu, on the southern coast of Los Angeles County.

New couple alert! Paulina Porizkova and Aaron Sorkin turned heads as they made their red carpet debut at the 93rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday, April 25.

EXCLUSIVE: Sofia Alvarez, the screenwriter behind the Netflix hit To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, will reteam with the streamer to write and direct a feature adaptation of YA novel, Along for the Ride, from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen.

NEW YORK -- Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards will feature some of the genre's biggest stars, though chart-toppers like Morgan Wallen and Luke Bryan won't be in the building.Wallen, whose latest album and singles have found major success on both the country and pop charts, was declared ineligible by the ACMs after he was caught on camera using a racial slur earlier this year. Bryan backed out of the event, airing on CBS at 8 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Fiction authors Steven Dunn and Tope Falarin and dramatists Jordan E. Cooper and Sylvia Khoury are among this year's winners of the Whiting Awards, honors with a cash prize of $50,000 that are presented to each of 10 emerging writers.Previous winners of the award, established in 1985 and managed by the Whiting Foundation, include Colson Whitehead, Michael R.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mulan and Promising Young Woman were the film winners at the 2021 Costume Designers Guild Awards on Tuesday night. The virtual event — recognizing excellence in film, TV and short-form costume design — was hosted by To All the Boys star Lana Condor and streamed live on Twitter.

Annika Pham Zurich-based First Hand Films has snapped up the Norwegian documentary “Trust Me” – about a Justin Bieber concert fraudster.

Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival Heads Outdoors With In-Person Event in JuneAlanna Brown’s “Trees of Peace,” about four women thrown together during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, won two awards, the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema and the ADL Stand Up Award.Other prizes went to Eduardo Crespo’s “We Will Never Die,” Henrik Ruben Genz’s “Erna at War” and Michael Webber’s “The Conservation Game.”The winners:Audience Choice Award: “Alaskan Nets,” Jess HarasimowiczBest Documentary Award:

Alaskan Nets, a documentary executive produced by Chris Pratt that centers on confluence of high school boys basketball and the culture of fishing on a native reserve in remote Southeast Alaska, has won the audience award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Annika Pham New York-based boutique distributor Juno Films has acquired North American rights to the intimate and compelling Norwegian documentary “Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam,” featuring Turkish-German feminist lawyer and one of the first female imams in Europe. The deal was brokered by DR Sales ahead of the film’s world premiere at the San Francisco Intl.

Katy Perry and fiance Orlando Bloom took an eco-friendly tour of her hometown of Santa Barbara, CA on Thurs. Apr. 8, biking around the oceanfront city. The pair rode S-Works pushbikes as they made their way around town, stopping by a furniture store and gardening shop. Katy did a superb rewear of a full-length, white-and-striped maxi dress she originally wore on a Sat. Apr. 3 trip to the beach with the couple’s seven-month-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are cycling together!

Mónica Marie Zorrilla T’Nia Miller, JJ Feild, Charlotte Riley, Adelind Horan and Alex Hernandez have been cast in the Amazon series adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling William Gibson novel “The Peripheral” from “Westworld” creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Variety has learned.They join Jack Reynor, who stars in the lead role of Burton along with fellow cast members Chloë Grace Moretz and Gary Carr, with Moretz set to play Flynne and Carr set to play Wilf.

NEW YORK -- The closing of physical libraries because of the pandemic has slowed but not stopped patrons and others from calling for books to be banned or restricted.On Monday, the American Library Association reported more than 270 challenges to books in 2020, from Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye” to Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird,” compared to 377 the year before.

The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Crown and Schitt's Creek were among the big winners at the 2021 SAG Awards, which aired Sunday as as a one-hour, pre-taped virtual ceremony on TBS and TNT. Filmmaker Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 got a major boost on the road to the Oscars upon winning the SAG Award for best ensemble, the guild's top honor that's equivalent to a best picture prize.