Did Punk Rock Tear Down the Wall?
Tim Mohr spent most of the 1990s as a club DJ in Berlin and much of the current decade as a staff editor at Playboy magazine. He is the translator of the German novels Guantanamo, by Dorothea Dieckmann, which won the Three Percent award for best translation of 2007, and the international best seller Wetlands, by Charlotte Roche. His translation of Broken Glass Park, by Alina Bronsky, will be published in April, 2010. He is currently at work on a book on the punk music scene in East Germany.
The untold story of East Germany's anarchic underground punk scene and the critical role it played bringing down the Berlin Wall.
The Muses Behind the Music
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Lucy of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" just died, but whatever happened to Peggy Sue, Sweet Caroline, Delilah, and Mozart's Elise?
"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is one of the all-time greatest hallucinatory fantasies (rocking horse people and marmalade skies, anyone?), but th...
When They Were Hunks
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
Remember when these heartthrobs made their debuts? View exclusive pictures of young Tom Cruise, Leonardo and Ashton BC (before the crow's feet) from a new book by celebrity photographer Greg Gorman.
Craziest Concert Costumes
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From Grace Jones' daring performance attire last week to Lady Gaga's fiery cone bra and Katy Perry's extra lucky dress, VIEW OUR GALLERY of music's wildest getups and wackiest wardrobes.
Ambiguously Gay Idols
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Adam Lambert might win American Idol this week, but the biggest talk is if the future rock god has a significant other. VIEW OUR GALLERY of other singers with mysterious love lives.
Teenyboppers are wild for the all-glammed-out Lambert, whose performance of "Mad World" was a highlight of the American Idol season-if not the enti...
Hollywood's Exquisite Alien
Amanda Fortini has written for The New Yorker, Slate, Elle, and New York, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
The famously otherworldly and enigmatic Oscar-winning Tilda Swinton talks to Amanda Fortini about her boozy new film, the joys of her open relationship, and why she would rather be a poet.
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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