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.
How a Rich Suburban Girl Became a Drug Kingpin
Jeff Deeney is a social worker and freelance writer from Philadelphia. He previously wrote about his experience scoring OxyContin on Pill Hill for the Philadelphia City Paper
Ever since the murder of Rian Thal two weeks ago in Philadelphia, everyone wants to know how this girl from a wealthy suburb ended up a high-stakes drug trafficker in the city's hip-hop scene-but it's not as unusual as you might think.
A Rolling Stone's Second Act
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.
Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell is jamming with Jimmy Fallon's band, farming trees, and launching an environmental Web site. Lloyd Grove catches up with the musician-turned-eco-activist as he prepared to play with The Roots on Late Night.
TV's New Mystery Woman
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The acclaimed soul singer and star of HBO's new series, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, talks about her new album of lullabies, how Botswana made her better American, and having her face on a postage stamp.
The Thinking Man’s Rapper
Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
In a rare interview, Touré talks with Black Thought-front man for The Roots and the new house MC of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon-about what Chuck D. taught him about race, why rapping is like jumping rope, and the reasons behind his rhymes.
Stop Piling on Fallon
Pat O'Brien has been a broadcaster for more than three decades, including many years as the co-host of Access Hollywood and The Insider. A former anchor for CBS Sports, he is also the author of Talkin' Sports: A B.S.-er's Guide. He divides his time among Los Angeles, New York, and Nantucket.
As Jimmy Fallon suffers through morning-after first reactions, Pat O'Brien says it's too soon to write off Late Night. Plus, Conan and Cavett have some advice for the future.
After Hours with Jimmy Fallon
Kevin Sessums is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mississippi Sissy, a memoir of his childhood. He was executive editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and Allure. He is a contributing editor of Parade. His new memoir, I Left It on Mountain will be published by St. Martins Press.
On Monday, former SNL star Jimmy Fallon will take over for Conan O'Brien as the new host of NBC's Late Night. He sat down with The Daily Beast's Kevin Sessums to talk about his first guest, calling in favors from Tina Fey-and positively IDs Will Ferrell's package.
The Daily Beast Hip Hop Battle
Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
Last week, The Daily Beast's Stanley Crouch wrote a column slamming hip hop-and calling for an era of "no mo hos." But his piece outraged Daily Beast columnist Toure, who fired back with this.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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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