Catching Up With the Hipster Grifter
Her sensational Internet fame over, Kari Ferrell-now in a Utah jail for fraud and forgery-displays her reflective side in a wide-ranging chat with The Daily Beast about the harsh realities of jail (food, masturbation and what the guards call her), how she will change when her sentence ends-and why Steve Jobs should send her a check.
My friend's mom, Wendy, blogs almost daily on a site called Wendy from Encore which goes great with my morning coffee. I like to catch up with my friends across the country by reading their blogs, which is ironic as the phrases "my frien...
Scarlett Johansson is a four-time Golden Globe nominee, BAFTA winner, and Venice Film Festival Best Actress winner. In May 2008 she released her album Anywhere I Lay My Head. Johansson recently wrapped production on her directorial debut, New York, I Love You. Her upcoming films are He’s Just Not That Into You and The Spirit. Other film credits include: Lost in Translation, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Horse Whisperer, In Good Company, Match Point, and The Nanny Diaries.
The Shirts vs. the Skins
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
As cable demagogues and bloggers compete for America's top ranter, moderates like me (i.e., most Americans) are getting left in the dust. And it's getting uglier by the day.
The Sugar Daddy Replies
The writer is a college senior in Philadelphia majoring in journalism and economics, and is an intern at a public-relations firm. She hopes to work in broadcast journalism after completing a graduate degree. Melissa Beech is a pseudonym.
Last week, The Daily Beast published a confessional from a young woman whose life is financed by an older man. Today, he puts his mouth where his money is.
The inquest into why McCain lost has become the first skirmish in an increasingly bitter battle for the soul of the Republican Party and the opening shot in the next presidential election. Center stage is Sarah Palin, the new champion of the conservatives-and their candidate for 2012.
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.
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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