The Trailer Park Gourmet
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Guy Fieri has become the Food Network's biggest star, while offending foodies by promoting lowbrow favorites like BBQ sushi. He talks to Rachel Syme about taking on the haters.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Natalie Portman went on an anti-meat campaign, British theater companies went digital, and a Glee single went gold. View our gallery of the week in art, music, TV, and film.
Kenny Ortega's This Is It, a filmed version of Michael Jackson's would-be new tour from rehearsal footage, opened on Tuesday at midnight and made $...
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, wild beasts storm theaters, Britney is back on top, the Mad Men suit hits stores, and more from the worlds of art, theater, film, and television.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Jude Law and Carrie Fisher debuted on Broadway, Chris Rock made a film about black women's hair, we lost Gourmet, and more from the worlds of TV, film, and art.
A Touch of Audrey
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
As the breakout star of An Education, Carey Mulligan is being compared to a young Hepburn. She talks to Rachel Syme about older men and playing Gordon Gekko's daughter in Wall Street 2.
This weekend, one of the year's most talked about indie films hits theaters. An Education, written by Nick Hornby and adapted from a memoir by Brit...
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Winnie-the-Pooh made a comeback, Spielberg and Lucas teamed up again, James Bond and Wolverine flopped on Broadway, and more in film, TV, music, and art.
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.
On the Trail With Ken Burns
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The documentarian's new series, The National Parks, debuts tonight on PBS. He tells Rachel Syme about the virtues of big government, and how he feels about being called a socialist.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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