Scoop: New Outsider Art
Charles Steffen’s drawings on display at the Russell Bowman Art Advisory
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Investment Tanking
MBAs find fewer finance jobs
In & Out: Obama Names
A baby-naming expert explains a postelection trend
You Should Know … Justine Nagan
The new head of the celebrated documentary film company Kartemquin kicks off her tenure with a quirky film about type
Hear and Now
An acclaimed music series catches on.
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