President Obama and Michelle to attend.
After he issued apology for acts during Korean War.
U.S. added 230,000 jobs in November.
New pill treats infection from hepatitis C.
Winter storm warnings across country.
Weeks after she disappeared.
France to intervene in the conflict.
2014 draw held in Brazil.
Stratocaster fetches $965,000
On December 8.
Just when you thought the most competitive sport in Dubai couldn’t get any more exciting, the owners of purebred racing camels have gone and invented remote-control jockeys to whip t...
One of America’s greatest writers, Jim Harrison, has created an indelible character in the trickster Brown Dog. Now collected for the first time in a new book readers can fully exper...
There’s no nudity, only a soft whisper that gives you a euphoric, almost orgasmic, sensation. This is the erotic world of ASMR videos.
On December 14, 2012, Chris Murphy, then still a congressman representing a mostly suburban Connecticut district, was at the Bridgeport City Hall for a press conference on renewable energy. It was the holiday season, and he was planning to take th...
The Senate’s youngest member, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, held his fellow lawmakers’ feet to the fire on gun control. A year after Newtown, he says he’s not giving up the fight.
The next battle in the civil war within the Republican Party will be fought in Mississippi.On Friday, six-term U.S. Senator Thad Cochran announced he would run for reelection in 2014, setting up a divisive June primary campaign against state senat...
Few expected Mississippi’s senior senator to stand for reelection. Now he’ll be bringing the Republican Party’s civil war to another state, facing an insurgent from the right next Ju...
As we mourn Nelson Mandela and honor his memory, it’s important to remember that—for most of his life—he was a polarizing and divisive figure. As my colleague Peter Beinart notes, American conservatives disdained Mandela. Ronald Reagan placed the ...
Rising party stars like Ted Cruz might be trying to pay tribute to the South African leader, but their conservative elders hated him as a dangerous ideologue—and their base still does.
Both sides caution there isn’t a final deal yet, but an agreement appears to be in the works for a two-year budget that would avoid another damaging government shutdown and replace half the sequester cuts poised to fall on the Pentagon and domesti...
It’s not a done deal, but aides are optimistic about an emerging bipartisan agreement that would avoid another government shutdown and ease the blow of additional sequester cuts.
Most Republicans agree that the party needs a bigger tent. Earlier this year, the Republican National Committee released a whole report to that effect, and individual Republican lawmakers can’t stop talking about how their party is open to everyon...
They don’t want to fund gay candidates, want to repeal the minimum wage, and need classes on talking to women. Republicans agree they need a bigger tent, don’t know how to build it.
The chances of the French authorities attempting to arrest Bob Dylan are probably remote. Slapping the cuffs on a superstar to whom you have just pinned a shiny Légion d’honneur badge would a little look perverse, even by Gallic standards. ...
The French award Dylan the Légion d’honneur, then place him under investigation for hate speech. Have they not been listening to what he’s sung about for half a century?
"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbySit back, relax, close your eyes, and listen to my soft voice. Let your mind wander as I whisper sweet nothings into your right ear...
There’s no nudity, only a soft whisper that gives you a euphoric, almost orgasmic, sensation. This is the erotic world of ASMR videos.
The Coen Brothers’ new movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, is hardly a sunny, soft-focus nostalgia-fest. It depicts a hardscrabble week in the life of the titular folksinger—a period, sometime in the winter of 1961, during which Davis gets punched in the ...
A historian on how the bohemian paradise dramatized in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ became one of the squarest, priciest neighborhoods in New York.
When an 80s rock star and a reality show princess decide to solemnize their feelings with a wedding ceremony, it stands to reason that they will do it on pay-per-view and charge each customer $14.95.“It’s a musical event of love, laughter and musi...
Journey’s Neal Schon is marrying reality show princess Michaele Salahi, and you can pay to watch a ceremony that Schon swears ‘won’t be cheesy in the least.’
Good afternoon, Ratings: NBC's Sound of Music Live! Does Something Very Good. Sound of Music netted 18.5 million viewers. Wonder how many of them actually stayed for the whole thing and did not switch over to Scandal. TVLine. Brian Is Coming ...
And 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Gets Release Date
The chances of the French authorities attempting to arrest Bob Dylan are probably remote. Slapping the cuffs on a superstar to whom you have just pinned a shiny Légion d’honneur badge would a little look perverse, even by Gallic standards. ...
The French award Dylan the Légion d’honneur, then place him under investigation for hate speech. Have they not been listening to what he’s sung about for half a century?
It was a scene that could have been found in any dance studio around the world: tiny ballerinas, ears sticking out beneath perfectly tight buns of hair, concentrated on doing their drills at the barre to the strains of Rachmaninov. Dressed in fres...
In troubled Abkhazia, poverty is rampant and futures uncertain—but the tiny ballerinas of the territory’s only dance school still have dreams of the big stage.
Amid the worldwide mourning and praise for Nelson Mandela, memories flood in of past desperate times in South Africa when the entire police force was hunting him. Mandela was in hiding, running a campaign to end apartheid. I was a young reporter o...
For a young journalist in South Africa Nelson Mandela as a young ANC leader was a major source on the anti-apartheid struggle. He recalls there late night clandestine meetings and th...
On the fourth anniversary of his imprisonment in Cuba, American Alan Gross wrote a desperate letter to President Obama. But a wider look at the many U.S. citizens detained abroad sho...
In Nelson Mandela’s autobiography he tells a story about a sparrow. This was in the early 1960s when the late South African leader was hiding out on a farm near Johannesburg with members of the Communist Party and the African National Congress and...
The future president of South Africa once considered guerilla warfare and terrorism to overturn Apartheid. Imprisoned for so long, his anger mellowed.
Abdullah never gives up. The senior Taliban commander, who goes by one name, lost a leg in the fighting in late 2001 just as Mullah Mohammad Omar’s forces were collapsing. He was captured and sent to the U.S. lockup at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Releas...
Pakistan and Afghanistan have released waves of Taliban prisoners in a goodwill gesture—but instead of returning home, the radicals are rejoining the fight.
We will hear much in the coming days about Nelson Mandela’s surplus of saintly qualities, of which there were indeed many. And we will be treated to the interminable and drippy encomiums of pundits and celebrities who couldn’t differentiate the AN...
He will be forever linked with the abolition of apartheid, but he was also a friend of Gaddafi and Castro, and we must accept his shortcomings to truly fathom his accomplishments.
How might 2014 play out in tech? Silicon Valley may again need to watch out for Microsoft, cheap smartphones will hit markets, and the Edward Snowden revelations will launch the Year of Encryption. Those are a few predictions from Mark Anderson, f...
Microsoft may get its mojo back, smartphones will get cheap, and we’re about to enter the Year of Encryption. A look at what to expect in telecom and computing for the coming year.
By Joe Vennare for Life by DailyBurn What does Steve Jobs have to do with health and fitness?Besides his commitment to jogging and eating a whole lot of fruit, the late great Apple CEO did more than just create the iPod shuffle that gets us moving...
Around college campuses these days, it seems that exams and amphetamines go in hand in hand.A recent study from Brigham Young University mined over 200,000 tweets from college students, discovering mentions of the prescription drug Adderall peaked...
A new study shows just how many college kids are using the ADHD drug. Who’s popping the pills, and how safe are they? A cheat sheet.
I've found that 30 seconds of high-intensity body-weight exercise gives me the same mental boost as a shot of caffeine. After validating the results of my newfound productivity hack on a Stanford-designed test of cognitive performance, these ...
A few pushups can give you the same mental boost as a cup of joe. So next time you need a jolt at the office, considering skipping the Keurig machine and dropping to the ground instead.
Everyone is looking for ways to squeeze more hours out of the day, and unfortunately for many, that means giving up on the one thing they need most: proper sleep.Sleep quantity and sleep quality tend to have a linear relationship—as one goes down,...
Stress got you up all night? From knowing your sleep cycle to eating fat before bed and changing your sheets, here’s how to rest better—even with small children at home.
By Michael Israetel for Life by DailyBurn IIFYM may sound like some sort of computer language acronym, but it’s actually a new approach to dieting that promises a greater freedom of food choices without the loss of results. It stands for “If It F...
For critics of the “selfie” phenomenon, the increasingly popular photo-sharing network Frontback is either a small sign of progress or further proof of the decline of our civilization.The concept: every final exposure is two pictures. The top half...
It’s the year of the selfie, and Frontback—an increasingly popular app that lets users create a composite photo of themselves and their surroundings—is taking full advantage.
From lips licking lipstick to wired Chanel bottles, a new exhibit at cutting-edge IDOLIZE looks at the intersection of beauty, fashion, and design in our culture.
From lips licking lipstick to wired Chanel bottles, a new exhibit at cutting-edge IDOLIZE looks at the intersection of beauty, fashion, and design in our culture.
Each year at Art Basel in Miami Beach, the fashion and art crowds parachute in for a week of parties and debauchery where sinning is aplenty.So Alldayeveryday, the group behind the pop-up Newsstand in Brooklyn’s Lorimer subway station, and writer ...
Sinning in Miami Beach? Talk to Father G, better known as writer Glenn O’Brien, who launched ‘Penance,’ based on his performance art, complete with a Catholic-style confessional booth.
1. The Guide for the Modern Gentleman, $26.70 at ASOS 2. Filson Flask, $78 at East Dane 3. Harry's Razors One-Two Shaving Set, $12 at Harry's 4. Victorinox Cigar Cutter Pocket Knife, $102 at Nordstrom 5. WANT Les Essentiels de la Vie...
The halls are decked and snow is in the air…it’s time to get your Santa on! The Daily Beast rounds up the best gifts for all of your loved ones—even those impossible to please.
Keira Knightley re-wears her wedding dress, Marion Cotillard is a lady in Dior, and Lady Gaga channels her inner-Disney princess. Plus, more best and worst dressed of the week.
Beyoncé Wears Fur to Vegan Dinner: On Thursday, new vegans Beyoncé and Jay Z went to raw food hotspot Native Foods in Westwood, Los Angeles for some lunch. Queen B, however, wore quite an unconventional fur jacket, seemingly contradictory to her r...
And Chanel purchases its official tannery.
May we present 'Radiant Orchid,' the pinkish-purple hue that has already been (and will continue to be) an influence on style everywhere.
Miley Cyrus Named Both Best and Worst Dressed: Time Magazine released its annual Best and Worst Dressed lists for the year, and as a result of her "schizophrenic fashion," Miley Cyrus made both. The nude, latex bikini and foam finger the...
And Versace receives billion dollar offer.
No need to rely on just nature to provide a colorful backdrop to your vacation. The streets and skylines of these global cities pop in jewel tones and primary colors.
No need to rely on just nature to provide a colorful backdrop to your vacation. The streets and skylines of these global cities pop in jewel tones and primary colors.
In central Burma, a picturesque landscape is the stuff of a photographer's dreams: thousands of peaks spiral upward from 26 miles of flat greenery, framed by the Irrawaddy river and a wall of distant mountains. The ancient city of Bagan stret...
There aren’t many places left in the world that are both truly off the beaten path and extraordinary. One town in Burma has over 2,000 stunning ancient temples…and barely any tourists.
The teams of wounded servicemen racing to the South Pole - including one headed by Prince Harry - are suffering 'exhaustion and mental weariness' the organisers of the Virgin Money South Pole Allied Challenge said today. Guide Eric Phi...
The three teams attempting to walk to the South Pole as part of the Virgin Money Allied Challenge battle fatigue in brutal conditions
DUBAI, United Arab EmiratesA late-afternoon sandstorm had descended on the Al Marmoom racetrack, some 40 kilometers outside of Dubai, and dust swirled everywhere. But even with the harsh desert weather, the races went ahead as planned.The camels—m...
Just when you thought the most competitive sport in Dubai couldn’t get any more exciting, the owners of purebred racing camels have gone and invented remote-control jockeys to whip t...
The Coen Brothers’ new movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, is hardly a sunny, soft-focus nostalgia-fest. It depicts a hardscrabble week in the life of the titular folksinger—a period, sometime in the winter of 1961, during which Davis gets punched in the ...
A historian on how the bohemian paradise dramatized in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ became one of the squarest, priciest neighborhoods in New York.
In the neon Day-Glo 1980s—when Miami’s South Beach patios were cluttered with grandmas in rockers, not models with slamming bodies, and the only place to eat on Ocean Drive was the cheerful but not at all chic News Café—Wynwood, north of downtown,...
South Beach may host the main Art Basel events, but artists are flocking to Miami’s up-and-coming Wynwood neighborhood, with its galleries, street art, and people watching.
Of the 981 properties on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, 44 are categorized as in danger for reasons ranging from political instability to tourism. See some of the at-risk sites.
Of the 981 properties on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, 44 are categorized as in danger for reasons ranging from political instability to tourism. See some of the at-risk sites.
It’s almost 8 p.m. I am waiting at the Chateau Rouge metro station deep in Paris’s 18th arrondissement for Phillip, an American expat and craft-beer aficionado. The neighborhood is called Goutte d’Or, which translates to “drop of gold,” and it isn...
Something’s afoot in Paris, but it has nothing to do with kings or the bourgeoisie. The culprit: specialty beer. From microbrewers to bar owners, meet the people leading the uprising.
Art galleries have always been a great escape for those looking to appreciate art while avoiding the throngs of spectators that tend to congregate at the major museum exhibitions. But, the David Zwirner gallery in New York City is proving that may no longer be the case. On November 8, the contemporary art gallery’s 19th Street location opened its doors for the debut of Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived In Heaven. Within days people were lining the block. But, th...
Yayoi Kusama’s new mirrored-room installation has turned her exhibition at New York’s David Zwirner into one of the final “must see” art shows of the year. Beware the lines.
What if you could paint like Johannes Vermeer? What if everyone could? How would that transform our beliefs about artistic genius? Those are the questions at the heart of the brilliant new documentary Tim’s Vermeer, which was released Friday in...
A brilliant documentary, directed by Teller of Penn & Teller fame, chronicles a 5-year quest to solve a 350-year-old mystery.
The last in a week of 1960s Black Paintings by Ad Reinhardt, inspired by the show now at David Zwirner in New York. As I hope has been clear from the images (if not the texts) of my weeklong celebration, Reinhardt’s paintings are, among other th...
His Black Paintings are too lovely not to also be jokes.
Each year at Art Basel in Miami Beach, the fashion and art crowds parachute in for a week of parties and debauchery where sinning is aplenty.So Alldayeveryday, the group behind the pop-up Newsstand in Brooklyn’s Lorimer subway station, and writer ...
Sinning in Miami Beach? Talk to Father G, better known as writer Glenn O’Brien, who launched ‘Penance,’ based on his performance art, complete with a Catholic-style confessional booth.
For years Joel Grey has been attentively photographing billboards once they’ve begun to fall apart, showing what’s underneath and creating surprising and accidental works of art.
For years Joel Grey has been attentively photographing billboards once they’ve begun to fall apart, showing what’s underneath and creating surprising and accidental works of art.
From lips licking lipstick to wired Chanel bottles, a new exhibit at cutting-edge IDOLIZE looks at the intersection of beauty, fashion, and design in our culture.
From lips licking lipstick to wired Chanel bottles, a new exhibit at cutting-edge IDOLIZE looks at the intersection of beauty, fashion, and design in our culture.
Yet another picture from my week-long study of the Black Paintings of Ad Reinhardt, now being celebrated at David Zwirner in New York. This canvas was painted in 1960. So far this week, I've been stressing the conceptual, even anti-retinal si...
Reinhardt's subtlety makes us look until we can't look any more.
When Ariel Castro took his own life in September, many felt the closure offered by the criminal justice system had been thwarted. However impossible Castro’s thousand-year sentence, that he served so little was shocking, partly because it leaves u...
To truly understand the criminal mind turn to a forgotten novel that has inspired writers such as Stephen King and Thomas Harris: John Fowles’ The Collector. Casey N. Cep on a tale o...
When forced to comment on an especially touchy issue—NSA surveillance, say—President Obama’s go-to rhetorical gambit has been to call for a “debate,” sometimes a “conversation,” often in service of “striking a balance” between two obviously import...
It’s one of philosophy’s thorniest questions—the trolley problem—and a new book explores its interesting history, the many answers to it, and what it reveals about our failure to tal...
The prevailing notion of heroism is one for melodramatics and epic poets. There are comic book crime fighters who can fly with the birds, smash through walls of concrete, or transform the weather from sunny to stormy. There are the triumphant cham...
One of America’s greatest writers, Jim Harrison, has created an indelible character in the trickster Brown Dog. Now collected for the first time in a new book readers can fully exper...
The Miracle Maker Sam Seibert, The Daily Beast The extraordinary life of the man who liberated South Africa—and then kept the country from falling apart.On Smarm Tom Scocca, Gawker From literature to politics, smarm—an insistence on civility, a fi...
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. By David Sessions.
“We are on the biggest gold binge ever,” writes Matthew Hart. “Never has there been so much to buy and such a frenzied trade.” The economic meltdown certainly played a part in this binge; gold prices doubled between 2008 and 2011 as investors soug...
The latest wild commodity is none other than one of the oldest: gold. A new book by journalist Matthew Hart takes readers on a while ride from South African gold mines to the trading...
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