Life After Oprah
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Kim Masters reports on how Oprah's exit affects television-and what she's got planned-and Lorraine Ali, who appeared as a guest, on the loss of America's mother confessor.
The Hole in Our Lives
Lorraine Ali is a Los Angeles-based culture writer who's covered everything from gay divorce to Christian rock to the Arab American experience. She's a Newsweek Contributing Editor and has written for the New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone and Esquire. Ali is currently working on a book about her Iraqi family that's due out next year.
Oprah's announced exit from day-time talk is more than a business move. Lorraine Ali on the loss of America's mother confessor-and what it's like to go on the show.
A Toast to Mandela
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Aretha Franklin and French first lady Carla Bruni celebrated Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday last night at Radio City Music Hall. View photos of the party for the former South African President.
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
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VIEW OUR GALLERY of the politicians, news personalities, and celebrities who attended Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the D.C. Hilton.
The Thinking Man’s Rapper
Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
In a rare interview, Touré talks with Black Thought-front man for The Roots and the new house MC of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon-about what Chuck D. taught him about race, why rapping is like jumping rope, and the reasons behind his rhymes.
Armani Brings the A-List
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Caroline Kennedy, Liam Neeson, Alicia Keys, and other celebrities came out last night to pay their respects to the master, Giorgio Armani, for the opening of his new Manhattan boutique. View our gallery.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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