Broadway's Fall Preview
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The new Broadway season has arrived, and Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, and Catherine Zeta-Jones take the stage. Rachel Syme on 17 new shows to watch.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, the Arrested Development movie is finally in development, the mean girls of Heathers plot a comeback, and Julia Child cooks up a bestseller. View our gallery.
Julie & Julia-Nora Ephron's wildly popular film about cookbook author Julia Child and blogger Julie Powell makes you want to run out and buy all of...
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.
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.
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.
Frank Bruni's Nightstand
Frank Bruni is the restaurant critic for The New York Times. His memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, will be published by Penguin Press in August. An adaption of the memoir appeared in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.
The New York Times restaurant critic says Nora Ephron didn't quite believe him when he told her Heartburn always makes him smile, and shares his favorite reads. His memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, is coming out in August.
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.
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.
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