YEAR IN REVIEW: ZONINO! Award 2009

The 2009 ZONINO! AWARD (which is both invaluable and worthless at the same time) goes to...

Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld of Jake & Amir. Their College Humor hosted site and crazy webisodes have amused us for hours on end and turned us into those annoying quote spouting friends you want to muzzle...if you weren't laugh along so hard. It's FTW.

CONGRATULATIONS FOR ALL OF US HERE AT ZONINO!!!

Sergio del Limonar
Mrs. Fitz 1 (and 2)
AmErica
Buzzy
Bee

YEAR IN REVIEW: WEBSITES

This is the eighth in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 Get an intelligent dose of smarts from the cutting-edge writers at Racialicious.
2 Learn something today at Listverse.
3 Who knew cakes could be so funny? Cakewrecks, that's who!
4 Feel better about your handy work at There, I Fixed It!
5 Be glad it's not your family at Awkward Family Photos...or is it?

YEAR IN REVIEW: BOOKS

This is the seventh in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
2 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
3 Tales From the Town of Widows by James Cañon
4 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
5 The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

YEAR IN REVIEW: MOVIE

This is the sixth in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 Awards-darling Precious
2 Kathryn Bigelow's award-winning The Hurt Locker
3 French film Entre Les Murs (The Class)
4 Sci-Fi thriller District 9
5 Michael Jackson's last hurrah This Is It

YEAR IN REVIEW: RECIPES

This is the fifth in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 Strawberry Spinach Summer Salad
2 Sad Apple Pizza
3 Coconut Banana Bread
4 Chicken Pesto Pizza
5 Fries Cuatro Queso Dos Fritos

YEAR IN REVIEW: WORDS

This is the fourth in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 loquacious
2 palpate
3 emporium
4 apoplectic
5 pernicious

YEAR IN REVIEW: EAT OUT

This is the third in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 Crifs Dogs in New York City
2 Coast Sushi in Chicago
3 Grand Avenue Cafe in Eau Claire, Wisconsin
4 Burrito Union in Duluth, Minnesota
5 Izzy's Ice Cream in St. Paul, Minnesota

YEAR IN REVIEW: YOUTUBE

This is the second in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 "I Got A Feeling" lip-synch video by the communications students at UQAM.
2 The vocal stylings of Garfunkle & Oates.
3 Literal Videos
4 Spontaneous performance of "Do-Re-Mi" in an Antwerp train station.
5 The amazing jump rope team performance.

YEAR IN REVIEW: MUSIC

This is the first in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

MUSIC

1 James Morrison's album Songs For You, Truths For Me
2 Toby Lightman's single "My Sweet Song"
3 Jypsi's single "Mister Officer"
4 Anjulie's self-titled debut album.
5 Sarah Lou Richards 5-song EP Emerald City