Interview

At 17, Georgia May Jagger is the youngest daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. But rock-star father and supermodel mother aside, things became atypical for this wee Jagger only recently, when she became the face of the newly revamped denim line Hudson Jeans.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/21/09

Solo efforts from Albert Hammond Jr., Nikolai Fraiture, Fabrizio Moretti, and Julian Casablancas remind us that the Strokes are broken, if not broken up, and that something very good will come of their return.  BLOG POSTED: 10/07/09

Dasha Zhukova, daughter of a Russian oligarch, has emerged as an unlikely force in the international worlds of fashion and art. First she co-created a clothing line. Then she celebrated the star-studded opening of her own contemporary gallery in Moscow. This fall, she adds another line to her résumé: Magazine Editor. The naysayers are ready—and so is she.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

We searched our archive and found today's most celebrated actors and actresses before they were household names. Hear what they had to say on their rise to stardom.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/31/09

For someone who got his big break in comedy-the TV series Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place-the Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds has lately been having a pretty intense time at the multiplex.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/26/09

Bruce LaBruce, the self-described reluctant pornographer, has a new movie out on DVD this week called Otto, or Up With Dead People.  BLOG POSTED: 02/13/09

Best known for his role as a wise-cracking writer on "30 Rock," Judah Friedlander is also an accomplished stand-up comedian and designer of trucker hats.  BLOG POSTED: 02/12/09

Interview asked Neville Wakefield, curator of a recent show of four artists from Los Angeles, about those artists, their cult followings, and how he got on the Beat "beat."  BLOG POSTED: 01/21/09