Hollywood’s Culture Storm
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Lady Gaga and the Bolshoi Ballet performed at MOCA, Miuccia Prada released a glossy book, and Jeff Koons sold out in Beverly Hills. VIEW OUR GALLERY of Los Angeles' art-filled weekend.
ChloA« Sevigny and Zoe Saldana, both in Miu Miu, attended the Prada book launch on Rodeo Drive on Saturday. "It's Fall '09-it's old, but I love it,...
Diane's Fashionable Journey
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Diane von Furstenberg: Journey of a Dress, a retrospective of the designer's career, opens this weekend in Moscow.
Norman Mailer working in the writing studio on the third floor of his Provincetown, Massachusetts, home in 2003. Here, he is writing the work, Cast...
Drop the Bomb, Obama
James Carroll's recent book is Practicing Catholic, a story of American belief. He is a columnist for the Boston Globe and Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University. His other books include An American Requiem, which won the National Book Award, House of War, winner of the PEN-Galbraith Award, and Constantine's Sword, now an acclaimed documentary.
When he addresses the U.N. Security Council Thursday, the president will repeat the shocking proposal John Kennedy made a half-century ago: Get rid of nuclear weapons-forever.
Obama's Russia Problem
As Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow for a nuclear arms deal, he faces the challenge of winning over an unimpressed Russian public.
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.
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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.
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