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From spacesuits to mylar, it was a bright and shiny week for aging rock gods and pretty young things out on the town. VIEW OUR GALLERY
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, a hearty helping of Meryl Streep, nerds love G.I. Joe, Woodstock flashbacks, Paula's swan song, and more. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in TV, music, movies, and art.
After what seems like the longest promotional campaign of the summer, Julie & Julia finally hits theaters this weekend. For the most part, the crit...
Julie & Julia: I knew that Julia Child had not liked Julie Powell's blog, so I was cautiously optimistic about seeing Julie & Julia at MOMA during the Beard Awards in New York City. But Meryl Streep as Julia with a script by Nora Ephron-...
Jody Adams is the James Beard Award-winning chef/owner of the Boston restaurant Rialto, which Gourmet named one of “world’s best hotel restaurants,” The Boston Globe awarded four stars, and Esquire Magazine named one of the best restaurants in the country. She is the author of In the Hands of a Chef: Cooking with Jody Adams of Rialto Restaurant.
The Right Tools for the Job
What does it take to make a confident cook? OXO brings you the right tools that make all the difference. A simple potato ricer turns a soup into a masterpiece, and reminds us why Julia Child set a generation of cooks on fire.
How Julia Loosened Me Up
Jacques Pepin is the author of over a dozen cookbooks, including the groundbreaking La Technique, and has hosted numerous televisions shows, including the Emmy Award-winning Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home with Julia Child.
More than a great cook and blogger muse, Julia Child was a teacher, writes her TV co-host Jacques Pepin. Her lessons: confidence, patience and the importance of a stuffy French chef not taking himself so seriously.
Nora Ephron's Must-Reads
Nora Ephron is a journalist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. Her credits include Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle. She received three Oscar nominations for screenwriting. Her books include Crazy Salad, Scribble, Scribble and Heartburn. Her latest book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, was a number one best seller. Her latest film is Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
The director of Julie & Julia recommends a few of her favorite books.
Univ. of Martha
Doree Shafrir has contributed to The New York Observer, The New Yorker, Slate, and The Awl, and is the co-author of Love, Mom. She is a former editor at Gawker. Her website is www.doreeshafrir.com.
Martha Stewart's new instructional Web videos promise an upgrade to domestic bliss. Doree Shafrir follows Martha's how-to advice to get organized for the first time in her life.
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, The Bachelor went plus-size, Matt Damon revealed a passion project, and everyone became a Mad Men character. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in TV, film, music, and art.
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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