The Making of Schmatta
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
Documentarian Marc Levin turns his lens on the ailing New York City garment industry and finds not just clothes, but a microcosm of the current world order.
Tune in to Brick City, a five-part documentary that begins tonight on the Sundance Channel. It follows the lives of Newark's Mayor Cory Booker, citizens on the frontlines, and key figures as they re-make Newark. It creates a vivid portra...
Adrian M. Fenty was elected the fifth Mayor of the District of Columbia in November 2006. He has made quality public education for all and efficient and accountable government hallmarks of his administration.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Beatlemania had a major revival, Ellen signed on to Idol, and Whitney took on Susan Boyle. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Standup comedian, sitcom star, talk-show host, and now...American Idol judge? Seems like a natural enough progression-this is America! Anything is ...
Isabella Does Bug Porn
Will Doig is the Features Editor at The Daily Beast. He has written for New York, The Advocate, Out, Black Book and Highlights for Children.
In a series of green shorts for SundanceChannel.com, Isabella Rossellini enthusiastically performs sex acts as an earthworm, a spider, a bee, and other invertebrates.
Taking a page from R.Kelly's Trapped in the Closet playbook of serialized music-videos, and adding in a dash of Michel Gondry-esque pop-surrealism, singer-songwriters David Driver and Chris Anderson created an online "mirco-opera in thre...
Bill Bragin is director of public programming for Lincoln Center, where he produces the popular Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors festivals. Bragin has been director of Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, artistic director of Central Park SummerStage, music curator at Symphony Space, and general manager of NYNO Records.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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