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Then a follow up article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2014/10/14/gene-weingarten-setting-the-record-straight-on-the-joshua-bell-experiment/ htt

• wnissen 3y ago
  And a follow-follow-up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401153_pf.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/0... Unfortunately for Weingarten, the only living two time Pulitzer winner for feature writing leaned into his ignorance about Indian food and managed to get himself invited to retire from the Post.
  • lupire 3y ago
    After 10 years of only writing his opinion/humor column, not features, his contract was not renewed in 2021 in the wake of the curry controversy. His feature writing was long done by then.
    • akuchling 3y ago
      He wrote "A Dog's Life" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/08/why-are-so-many-people-so-cruel-their-dogs/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/08/why-are-s...), a feature in the Post's magazine, in November 2021. (A heartbreaking story, if you're a dog person.)