Let the Gay Games Begin
Sure, Chicago lost the Olympics, but Cleveland nabbed the Gay Games. Itay Hod on the stunningly lucrative spectacle that had cash-strapped mayors going to the mat.
A Three-Star Food Fight
Bob Spitz is an award-winning journalist and author, whose best-selling biography, The Beatles: The Biography is considered the definitive work on the subject. His most recent book, The Saucier's Apprentice, will be published in paperback in May. He is currently working on a biography of Julia Child.
Is foie gras a delicacy or the product of torture? Or both? Journalist Mark Caro chronicles the bizarre foie gras wars that have pitted chefs against chefs and animal-rights activists against waitresses.
Obamaville
Don Rose is a political consultant and head of Don Rose Communications and The Urban Political Group. Rose writes about political and cultural affairs, as well as food and travel, publishing a weekly dining-out column in the Chicago Sun-Times for 16 years.
Chicago, the thriving cultural capital, is finally getting its due.
Who You Calling Second City?
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of seven best-selling novels including Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, and Personal Injuries. He frequently contributes essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy and The Atlantic.
How an Obama win would make Chicago the new world capital.
Has Sarah Palin Put a Target on Obama?
Thurston Clarke has written ten books, including The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (a New York Times bestseller), California Fault (a New York Times Notable Book) and Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America. His articles have been published in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Robert F. Kennedy's biographer says the GOP's rhetoric echoes the vile words that preceded RFK's assassination.
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.
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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