Culture Beast: An Idiot’s Guide to New Year’s Wine

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1 Food & Drink New Year’s Wine for Dummies Just because you’ve seen Sideways doesn’t mean you know a bottle of vino from a boxed wine, let alone where malbec comes from. Winston Ross runs down the whites and reds that’ll help you ring in 2013 in style—and on the cheap. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 Music The Best Songs of 2012 From Frank Ocean’s 10-minute R&B odyssey “Pyramids” to Jack White’s guitar shredding on “Sixteen Saltines,” The Daily Beast’s year-end best-of playlist. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 FILM The Year’s Most Overlooked Movies The one where Channing Tatum didn’t strip, a heartbreaking novel adaptation, and more forgotten gems of 2012. Read it at The Daily Beast Call them The New Brit Pack. Andrew Garfield, Ben Whishaw, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and, last but not least, Eddie Redmayne…” READ IT NOW › 5 Books The Most Essential Read of 2012 Critic Nathaniel Rich wraps up his American Dream series with his can’t-miss pick of the year. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 Television Shirley McLaine Rattles ‘Downton’ As a brassy, bitchy American heiress, the actress shakes up the coming third season of Downton Abbey. She talks to Sandra McElwaine. Read it at The Daily Beast Best & Worst Dressed of 2012 Mighty Morphing Museums Stars’ Christmas Twitter Pics The Royals’ Mad, Mad Year In response to Django Unchained’s Damsel in Distress: I hope this movie will generate talk about slavery but not only in terms of the past. Foxx, Washington, DiCaprio, Tarantino can be a part of today's abolitionist movement. —Sojourneron In response to The World According to Sean Penn: I'm not a fan of Penn's politics, but he is a fine actor. At least he's famous for something other than his uneducated political views, unlike Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck. —Mark Morrow

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