The Week in Culture

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.

Rachel Syme

Published Oct. 15 2009 7:35PM EDT

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Let the wild rumpus start! Winter storms rage, boys in balloons turn out to be figments of our imaginations, Jon and Kate end their television run for good—the world is topsy-turvy right now. And it’s no different in the land of culture. The fashion industry is abuzz over Lara Stone in blackface, the food world is chattering about the debut of the new New York Times critic, the film world is welcoming wild beasts, and in music, Britney Spears is back on top, which is just confusing to everyone. View all this—and more in art, television, film, and media—in The Week in Culture.

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Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.

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