J.J. Abrams' reboot of Star Trek hits this weekend, and critics are almost universally enamored with the re-imagined early days of Spock and Kirk. ...
I recently came across cambriaphoto.com, which is a photography site from Texas. Cambria Harkey is an Austin-based photographer who mainly shoots portraits of musicians and events like Austin City Limits. I love her work so much because ...
Blake Mycoskie is the founder of Santa Monica, California-based TOMS ("shoes for tomorrow"), a company that donates a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased. So far, Blake and TOMS have given more than 115,000 pairs of shoes to children in Argentina, South Africa, Ethiopia, and the US.
Carrie Underwood American Idol, Season 4 Underwood, who grew up on a farm in Oklahoma, oozed country girl charm during her first few appearances ...
I recommend Dan Morgenstern's Living With Jazz, which is one of the very finest collections musical literature produced by any writer. Morgenstern is a whiz kid panting over the wonder of darkies. He actually likes jazz musicians as huma...
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Since about 1972, Sonny Rollins has seemed intent on disproving the barely arguable fact that he is the finest saxophone improvisor since Charlie Parker. He has often played wonderfully in public but released mediocre to terrible recordi...
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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