John Mayer: Artist or Clown?
Erin Carlson covers media for The Business Insider.
The musician is a cad, an attention-seeker, a Twitter star-and an earnest singer-songwriter. Erin Carlson examines how Mayer's bemused persona plays out in public.
Five Gays on Project Runway's Demise
Choire Sicha is co-proprietor of The Awl and is at work on a nonfiction book for HarperStudio.
This season of Project Runway moved cities (to L.A.) and networks (to Lifetime)-and no one liked either one! As it limps to a close Thursday, Choire Sicha examines what went wrong.
Real Housewives, Real Problems
Amy Kaufman is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. A former reporter for The Wrap, she has also written for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
As their fifth season begins, The Real Housewives of Orange County tell The Daily Beast how they've been forced to downsize their lifestyles-firing maids, selling McMansions, and paying off facelifts.
Will Stars Align for Comcast and NBC?
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Although Comcast is denying it has a deal to purchase NBC Universal, some in Hollywood are convinced it's in the works-and that the cable giant will be better for NBC than its current owner, GE.
The Future of Fashion Week
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
After hundreds of shows, dozens of parties, and one epic night out, the biggest stars in the fashion business contemplate what comes next.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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