What We Loved This Week: ‘Crazy Heart,’ Spring and the Photos of the Year

Travel Blog • World Hum • 03.19.10 | 4:18 PM ET

Eva Holland
“Crazy Heart.” I caught the Oscar-winning flick last weekend and especially loved the road scenes, with Jeff Bridges’ seen-better-days country singer driving a beat-up truck under enormous Texas skies. Here’s the trailer:

Michael Yessis
National Geographic’s photos of the year recap on my local PBS station. The photos are stunning on their own, but I loved hearing the stories behind the images from the photographers. My favorite of the bunch is the fifth one in this slideshow, a shot taken in southeast Australia by Amy Toensing.

Jim Benning
Spring. For the first time in months, we have beach weather in San Diego (contrary to popular belief, you wouldn’t want to hit the beach on the average winter day here). Throw in the extra hour of daylight we got last weekend with daylight savings and I’m one happy Southern Californian.