The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Michael Bublé dominates everyone, von Trier's Antichrist brings terror to theaters, a rare violin goes for $10 million, and more from the worlds of art, music, television, and film.
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Al Sharpton danced in honor of Jacko, Helen Mirren shined on stage, and Monty Python had the last laugh. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in film, TV, art, and music.
Runaway Governor: The Sequel
Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group and author of Save the Males.
Coming soon to a Statehouse near you: After South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's disappearing act, Kathleen Parker muses on the attention-grabbing strategies the other 2012 Republican contenders are plotting.
Coldplay took home three, Jennifer Hudson came up big, and Alison Krauss and Robert Plant owned the night-but the greatest controversy concerned two superstars who were no-shows. Our guide to music's biggest night.
M.I.A. Goes to War
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.
Grammy and Oscar-nominated artist M.I.A. speaks to The Daily Beast's Toure about her Slumdog single, how she's a better humanitarian than Bono, and why Kanye West just might help her give birth onstage.
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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