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Bagging the Media Queen
From December 2008: For two years, Kitty Kelley, America’s most notorious celebrity biographer, has been tracking Oprah, a notoriously private subject. The multimillion-dollar game of cat-and-mouse promises to play out in an epic cultural showdown
Oprah Unbound
FROM DECEMBER 2008: After 25 years, Chicago’s Media Queen builds a bigger business and charitable empire, dabbles in politics, and strikes out for the West. Can $2.7 billion buy happiness?
All I Want for Xmas is a $2 Old Style
Darwin, Dinosaurs, Drag: Must Be Christmas at the Hideout
Here’s one you won’t see in back-to-back rotation on the ABC Family channel: The Third Annual Hideout Christmas Dinosaur Panto—a play modeled on the traditional British style of pantomime, which calls for lots of audience participation in the form of hissing and booing—follows Charles Darwin in his quest to discover the origins of Christmas, and stars such local luminaries as rocker Jon Langford (as a woman) and Hideout co-owner Tim Tuten (as the father of evolutionary theory). If that’s not trippy enough, Old Style cans are a mere $2. The show runs 7 and 10 p.m. Friday…
Writers on Writers: In Vino
Reflections from the man who introduced America to the moschofilero
I’ll Pass, Thanks
If you’ve been thirsting for plagues, taxi driver stories, and miracle food in The Closer, you’re not alone
Under the Influence
We chart the vortex of influences that came to bear on the latest 500 Clown Christmas show
Second Look
The original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is back with a new name and a new DVD series
A Happening
In my years in fashion, I have often been asked how I got started. My path swas fairly uncommon compared with the routes taken by other editors. After starting out in engineering school, I did a stint in computer graphics, but I have known since I was a child that I wanted to work in … Read more
Awe, Nuts
What’s on Tap
Caroling is so anaerobic. You haven’t experienced “Winter Wonderland” until it’s been sweated out by a pack of hardcore hoofers. Case in point: Chicago Tap Theatre’s Tidings of Tap!, featuring choreography set to seasonal tunes from the Grinch theme to Hanukkah songs. Performances run 8 p.m. Friday the 12th and Saturday the 13th, 3 p.m. Sunday the 14th at U.I.C. Theater (1044 W. Harrison St.; chicagotaptheatre.com). Tickets are $18 to $30. Across town, Reggio “The Hoofer” McLaughlin leads his annual production The Nut Tapper (get those snickers out of the way now), a loose interpretation of, yes, The Nutcracker…