Drew Barrymore is featured on the cover of the September 2011 issue of “Condé Nast Traveler” Magazine! The magazine follows Drew on a trip to Africa as she acts as the World Food Programme ambassador.

Check out a preview of the cover to the left and watch a video from the journey below!

Following her 2009 directorial debut, Whip It, Drew Barrymore is back in the game with her MTV “Supervideo” for “Our Deal” from the surf-pop indie band, Best Coast.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Barrymore opened up about the opportunity to work with MTV and why she chose a West Side Story theme for the video.

“I’ve never done a music video and I’ve always wanted to. The format is dying!” Barrymore explained of her decision try a new creative outlet. “What I love about music videos are the stories in them.”

A fan of romance, action, and tragic love stories, Barrymore opted to draw on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story, The Warriors and The Outsiders – all while keeping actress Chloe Moretz in mind for the lead. As for Tyler Posey, Barrymore discovered the Teen Wolf star along the way.

“I didn’t want to do a period piece, per se. For this, I thought, stick with the timeless,” she explained. “Take a jean jacket, its ‘50s, ‘70s, ‘90s, now… And I never met a graffiti I didn’t like! That’s how it all started.”

What started out as a small 2-minute project quickly escalated to an 11-minute video as Barrymore realized her ambitions. After asking MTV for permission to expand the project, the short was filmed in downtown LA on a shoestring budget and in only two days. Barrymore called in “every favor on the planet” to make it happen.

“MTV Networks finally decided they would let us make and air the 11-minute version. That, for me, is the greatest lesson in all of this,” she recalled. “If you really push yourself, you could create an opportunity for yourself that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. You have to earn it, and you gotta go out there and make it happen. How could I push the limit? Went outside the traditional lines on this one, I feel really lucky, just another side to me to not sit with your dreams, and try to make them manifest.”

Adding, “I spent three years on Whip It, and to do this in two days – wow. It gave me hope that you don’t have to take yourself so seriously.”

Watch the full, extended version of the music video below.

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Go behind the scenes of Neiman Marcus’ Fall 2011 campaign The Art of Fashion, photographed by Norman Jean Roy and starring Drew Barrymore.

MTV’s Supervideo series, which pairs movie directors with bands for ambitious music videos, kicked off in the fall with a David Ayer–directed, Anna Kendrick–starring clip for LCD Soundsystem’s “Pow Pow.” Now Supervideo’s back, with Drew Barrymore: The multi-hyphenate took directorial duties for Best Coast’s “Our Deal” and has churned out a nice, frothy little West Side Story homage full of young, good-looking famous people. Chloe Moretz and Tyler “Teen Wolf 2.0″ Posey are the star-crossed lovers; Donald Glover, Alia Shawkat (who was also in Barrymore’s Whip It), and Miranda “iCarly Money” Cosgrove are the supporting players. Not present: Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino or Cosentino’s indie-rock famous cat, Snacks. Carles is going to be bummed.

There is a new release date for the film “Everybody Loves Whales”. The film has been pushed back from January 2012 to February 3, 2012! The film is about a news reporter who works with a Greenpeace activist to save a family of gray whales trapped by ice in the arctic circle, and how their quest even caused the Soviet Union and the United States to momentarily put their conflict on hold during the Cold War.

Drew Barrymore teams up with photographer Norman Jean Roy for a Neiman Marcus fall advertising campaign.

The 36-year-old actress is only the second celeb to represent the brand since the chain’s “Art of Fashion” campaign debuted in 1994.

“The shoot tells the story of a star’s transformation and Ms. Barrymore had a strong hand in the execution, even down to having a point of view on hair styling,” Eddie Nunns, vice president of Neiman Marcus brand creative, told WWD. “She’s a powerful, modern woman with trans-generational appeal.”

Drew’s campaign will debut in the September issues of magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and W, and a digital version in collaboration with Vanity Fair will be available on iPad.

Drew Barrymore is attached to produce with an eye to direct Heist Society, a young adult thriller being made by Warner Bros.

Drew Barrymore joins Denise Di Novi and Di Novi Pictures’ Alison Greenspan as producers on the project, which Warners won last year in a multi-studio bidding war for the novel by Ally Carter. Screenwriter Shauna Cross is set to adapt.

The book follows a young woman named Katarina Bishop who hails from an extended family of cat burglars and master thieves. The girl leaves her illicit life behind, but when her father is the prime suspect in the case of a mobster’s missing art collection, she assembles a crew to track down the art and steal it back.

The studio is aging the characters a notch into their early 20s. Barrymore will also supervise the writing.

By attaching herself to Society, Barrymore is again working with Cross, who wrote Whip It, Barrymore’s well-regarded female-centric roller derby flick starring Ellen Page and Kristen Wiig, among others.

Drew Barrymore, repped by CAA, is signed to helm How to Be Single, a New Line romantic comedy, and the plan is to tackle Society after Single.

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Drew Barrymore has made it to #59 on the PopSugar 100 of 2011 List!

59. Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore took Going the Distance around the globe, but shortly after promotions for the film wrapped, she and costar Justin Long went their separate ways in real life. She hadn’t been single for long when she started dating Will Kopelman early this year, and they’ve enjoyed romantic dates, casual lunches, and courtside Lakers seats in the Spring. Drew headed to Alaska in the Winter to shoot Everybody Loves Whales. She’s now gearing up to direct again, with the project How to Be Single in development. There was more professional success in store, as the Charlie’s Angels TV series, which she’s producing, got picked up by ABC.