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 $...
Chef Horror Stories
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.
Exploding propane tanks! Coked-up celebrities! Oprah meltdowns! From Rachael Ray to Paula Deen, the world's most famous chefs reveal their most stomach-turning moments.
The Making of Michelin
Sarah Whitman-Salkin is an editor at Cookstr.com. She lives in New York City.
How a marketing gimmick was transformed into the world's most respected restaurant guide-and four things to learn to become a Michelin insider.
9 Most Outrageous News Videos of the Week
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
This week, Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly broke their fake truce, Sherri Shepherd swimsuited up, and Hillary Clinton boogied down. The Daily Beast presents the 9 most outrageous news clips of the week.
August is usually slow on news and entertainment, which means it's the perfect time to indulge in trainwreck television. Take this, for example: Sh...
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.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
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.
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