﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><ttl>60</ttl><title>Steve Lopez Online Blog</title><link>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com</link><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:58:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:58:54 GMT</pubDate><language>en</language><copyright /><itunes:subtitle> </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author /><itunes:summary /><description /><itunes:owner><itunes:name /><itunes:email>asazimbabwe@gmail.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Arts" /><item><title>Booking Information For Steve Lopez | Speaking Requests</title><link>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2009/02/15/booking-information-for-steve-lopez--speaking-requests.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><description>&lt;span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "&gt;If you would like to book Steve Lopez for speaking engagements, please contact:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "&gt;Penguin Speakers Bureau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Jacqueline.fischetti@us.penguingroup.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(92, 69, 32); "&gt;Jacqueline.fischetti@us.&lt;wbr&gt;penguingroup.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "&gt;212 366-2271&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><comments>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2009/02/15/booking-information-for-steve-lopez--speaking-requests.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">0acccd21-0830-4453-8a66-51bae23c8289</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:38:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>One Book One Philadelphia 2009 | In Philadelphia Everyone Is Reading "The Soloist"</title><link>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2009/02/01/one-book-one-philadelphia-2009--in-philadelphia-everyone-is-reading-the-soloist.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><description>&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;One Book One Philadelphia 2009 | In Philadelphia Everyone Is Reading "The Soloist"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;http://libwww.freelibrary.org/onebook/obop09/index.cfm&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://libwww.freelibrary.org/images/OneBook/obop09/Soloist_bookcover.jpg"&gt;Soloist_bookcover.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "&gt;The &lt;i&gt;One Book, One Philadelphia&lt;/i&gt; Selection Committee has chosen Steve Lopez’s &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Soloist&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; as the featured selection for 2009. The story follows Lopez, a columnist for the&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/i&gt;, as he sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a violin with two strings in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Envisioning this “Violin Man” as the topic of his next column, Lopez befriends Ayers, and uncovers an even more extraordinary story about a street musician who was once a promising Juilliard student. While Lopez initially set out to improve Ayers’ circumstances, he finds that it is his own life that has changed for the better.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;One Book, One Philadelphia&lt;/i&gt; is a joint project of the Mayor’s Office and the Free Library of Philadelphia that promotes reading, literacy, library use, and community building by motivating tens of thousands of people to read an annual featured selection. Marking the seventh consecutive year for &lt;i&gt;One Book&lt;/i&gt;, the 2009 program runs from January 14 to March 19, 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the featured selection, for the third year in a row, &lt;i&gt;One Book&lt;/i&gt; has named two thematically related companion books for children, teens, and family reading: Steve Seskin and Allen Shamblin’s &lt;i&gt;A Chance to Shine&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Double Life of Zoe Flynn&lt;/i&gt;, by Janet Lee Carey.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of Community Partners have contributed resources and developed programs to facilitate the success of &lt;i&gt;One Book, One Philadelphia&lt;/i&gt;. We thank our &lt;a href="http://libwww.freelibrary.org/onebook/obop09/sponsors.cfm" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; "&gt;sponsors and partners&lt;/a&gt; — especially Independence Blue Cross, our lead sponsor for the seventh year in a row—for their tremendous support.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stay tuned for a complete list of &lt;i&gt;One Book, One Philadelphia&lt;/i&gt; events, suggested supplemental reading and film lists, a comprehensive Resource Guide, and much more!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>One Book One Philadelphia 2009 | In Philadelphia Everyone Is Reading "The Soloist"</category><comments>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2009/02/01/one-book-one-philadelphia-2009--in-philadelphia-everyone-is-reading-the-soloist.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">6e3c2cf9-a5e6-4f86-8e78-a7b090d3ab7e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:31:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Soloist movie trailer</title><link>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2008/09/12/the-soloist-movie-trailer.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><description>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cQwifPQ0PIk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cQwifPQ0PIk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><comments>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2008/09/12/the-soloist-movie-trailer.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">0826df8a-fe8f-478d-bc75-a068a0d7093b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:58:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lopez Commencement Speech at USC Annenberg Journalism Graduation 2007</title><link>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2008/03/10/lopez-commencement-speech-at-usc-journalism-school-2007.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><description>&lt;object width="480" height="380" data="http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf?mediaId=267548" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="revvervideoa17743d6aebf486ece24053f35e1aa23"&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf?mediaId=267548"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="allowFullScreen=true"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf?mediaId=267548" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="allowFullScreen=true" allowfullscreen="true" height="380" width="480"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><comments>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2008/03/10/lopez-commencement-speech-at-usc-journalism-school-2007.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">21798083-6b69-4a0e-82ac-cb842a224dc4</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Steve Lopez's Opening Blog</title><link>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2008/03/08/steve-lopezs-first-blog.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><description>The conversation begins. Pick your topic.&lt;br&gt;Music, medicine, friendship, happiness, sanity, public policy, books, movies. I'll answer questions about the book, about Mr. Ayers, about the inspirational work at Lamp Community and the generosity of several members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.</description><category>Steve Lopez's First Blog</category><comments>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2008/03/08/steve-lopezs-first-blog.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">978e2233-3143-4870-9f42-fed6f8980d99</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:08:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>First Blog</title><link>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2008/03/07/first-blog.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><description>This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. If this was an actual emergency...</description><category>First Blog Category</category><comments>http://blog.stevelopezonline.com/2008/03/07/first-blog.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">adf5714b-7df2-4f2e-a3a5-27059ec1f244</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:09:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>