Posts Tagged ‘inauguration’
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
There’s been a minor kerfuffle over a little “cheating” at the inauguration:
The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration…
Tags: inauguration, Itzhak Perlman, music, Yo-Yo Ma
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By Jesse Singal - Jan 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I definitely get what Jessica is saying in her argument that folks on the Mall shouldn’t have booed former President Bush (that was the first…
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, inauguration, politics, transition
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By Jessica Hillyard - Jan 21st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Whether you watched yesterday’s 56th Presidential Inauguration on TV or on the Jumbotrons placed on the National Mall, there is no doubt about what you…
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, inauguration, politics
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By Jesse Singal - Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am
What’s that you say? You want to see today’s front pages of more than 600 newspapers from around the world? Sure thing.
Tags: Barack Obama, inauguration, journalism, media
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By Diana Jou - Jan 21st, 2009 at 9:48 am
One of the re-occurring themes of the lead up to yesterday’s inauguration was the life and work of Abraham Lincoln, so it’s fitting that President…
Tags: Barack Obama, food, inauguration
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By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 21st, 2009 at 9:15 am
No, I don’t know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God.
–Vice…
Tags: Barack Obama, inauguration, religion
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By Diana Jou - Jan 20th, 2009 at 11:00 am
“The ceremony has been regimentally rehearsed with military personnel acting as stand-ins for President-elect Barack Obama and family.”
Ron Edmonds/AP, Times Online UK
Thanks, TLIL.…
Tags: inauguration, photography, See
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By Emily Rutherford - Jan 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Sunday afternoon, the inauguration celebration began with a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, featuring James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, will.i.am, loads of other famous musicians…
Tags: Barack Obama, inauguration, music, Pete Seeger, politics
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By Jesse Singal - Jan 16th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Everyone should check out January the 20th.
The group explains:
We’re coordinating a massive journalistic project to document BARACK OBAMA’s inauguration. Observers across the country…
Tags: Barack Obama, inauguration, politics
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By Daniel Strauss - Jan 13th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Via Romenesko, The Washington Post is planning on printing 2.7 million copies of the paper on Inauguration Day. The word on the street is there…
Tags: inauguration, journalism, media, Washington Post
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By Lisha Arino - Jan 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Can’t make it to Washington for the inauguration? Bummed that you’re going to witnessing, like, the biggest political event of our lives on your couch,…
Tags: Barack Obama, inauguration
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By Emily Rutherford - Jan 12th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Russ just wrote about the good news that Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopalian, will be delivering the invocation at an inauguration-related event at…
Tags: Barack Obama, gay rights, Gene Robinson, human rights, inauguration, LGBT, politics, Sharon E. Watkins
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