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Who Kept the Pounds Off?
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The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Jason Alexander wants to drop 30 pounds using Jenny Craig. From Kirstie Alley to Fergie, VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who took it all off in public-and some who gained it back.
Haute McNuggets
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Lizzie Stark is a freelance journalist who has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily Beast. She also edits the lit-mag Fringe and is at work on a narrative nonfiction book about Live Action Role Play, or LARP.
Beef bourguignon from a Whopper? Foie gras from a Nathan's hot dog? Farfalle from a Subway footlong? Meet the magician who can turn fast food into gourmet meals. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Fancy Fast Food
Two Taco Bell Burrito Supremes and a beef soft taco are unwrapped, and their fillings mixed in a bowl. Each tortilla is cut into circles, refilled,...
How America Killed French Cuisine
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Kathleen Willcox is a freelance writer and a student at the Institute of Culinary Education.
Freedom fries lovers, rejoice! The growing American influence over French cooking has turned Paris into a city of bad baguettes and processed cheese.
Nightmarish Scenes from New York's Subway
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Seth Michael Donsky is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at the Berlin, Seattle, London and Cinequest International Film Festivals and MoMA, New York. As a journalist he has been published in Los Angeles Confidential, Gotham, the New York Press, and the online versions of ELLE Décor, Metropolitan Home and Home. His writing will appear in Cleiss Press’ upcoming Best Sex Writing of 2010.
As the remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three opens tonight, an intrepid photographer of New York's mayhem-filled 1980s subway system recalls harrowing tales from the tunnels.
Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden. If you have ever tried to use the London Underground map as a guide to walk the city (distances are highly distorted) or have never seen the brilliant, though apparently almost impossible to use...
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Ian Klaus was educated at Oxford and Harvard and splits his time between New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Sonoma County, California, and is a doctoral candidate in history at Harvard. His book, Elvis Is Titanic, was published by Knopf in 2007.
No Pants Subway Ride
Improv Everywhere's latest prank: the annual 'No Pants Subway Ride.' It looked pretty cold that day in NYC.
America's Craziest Cities
A True Hollywood Love Story
Rebecca Dana is a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
The Rove You Don't Know
Matt Latimer is the author of the New York Times bestseller, SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor. He was deputy director of speechwriting for George W. Bush and chief speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld.
Iraq's Next First Daughter?
Michael Hastings is a regular contributor to GQ and the author of I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. He is currently on assignment in Iraq.
Karl Rove's Book of Lies
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
Hillary Deploys a Friend in the Fight for Women's Rights
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People, and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Time, and Forbes.
