• The Daily Beast

    Why Jon Stewart’s Ex-Head Writer Chelsea Devantez Decided to Tell Him the Truth

    Chelsea Devantez, who served as head writer at Jon Stewart’s former Apple TV+ show, has kept a pretty big secret for most of her career. But with her new memoir out this week, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going to Anyway), Devantez decided it was time to pull back the curtain on her experience with domestic abuse—and what it was like to shepherd Stewart’s Emmy-nominated show while trying to cope with her trauma.“I had cried so much,” Devantez tells The Daily Beast of her time as hea

  • WMUR - Manchester

    Thousands gather in Laconia for start of motorcycle week

    From the newer models to the antiques, Weirs Beach was lined with motorcycles as the 101st Laconia Motorcycle Week was underway.

  • The Daily Beast

    ‘A Desert’: The Wild Horror Film That’s Shocking the Tribeca Film Festival

    Horror movies are often dire warnings about the world and its volatile, unholy chaos, and A Desert is a terrifying cautionary tale about the dangers lurking in the vast wastelands—and beneath the placid surfaces and around the tattered edges—of modern America. Premiering this weekend in the Midnight section of the Tribeca Film Festival, the film is a clash of the civilized and the primal that’s additionally laced with a sly meta undercurrent about cinema’s relationship to the deviance it depicts