Journalist Gene Weingarten won a Pultizer for his original and interesting piece "Pearls Before Breakfast" (and no, it's not about nasty sex in the morning).
It is about "what happened when a world-famous violinist played for spare change, incognito, for three-quarters of an hour outside a subway station. Playing his priceless Stradivarius, violin virtuoso Joshua Bell, a onetime child prodigy, made a few measly bucks and change. Most people hurried past, unheeding. It was a story about artistic context, priorities and the soul-numbing gallop of modernity."
It was a stunt the writer dreamed up himself.
Original. Different. Compelling.
Then he found out that someone else thought it was too; 70 years ago.
Read it all here.
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