Nov 20th, 2008 · An animal actor, convinced his TV-show superpowers are real, scrambles to find his way from New York back to Hollywood. Kids will have a fine time, says critic Mark Jenkins, but adults might develop an allergy.
Oct 15th, 2008 · While small businesses employ fewer than 500 people, or in most cases fewer than 20, they account for half of U.S. economic output. And with cash short these days, many small businesses are on the front lines of the credit crisis.
Aug 12th, 2008 · In the art-house movie biz, the sky really is falling, observers say. Studios are folding. The survivors are releasing fewer movies. Even film-festival favorites are finding it hard to find distribution deals.
Mar 13th, 2008 · McSweeney's contributor Dan Kennedy found what he thought was a dream job in the music industry: Director of Creative Development at Atlantic Records. Rock on: an Office Power Ballad is the tale of his time at the label -- where he arrived just in time for what he describes as the collapse of the music business.
Feb 22nd, 2008 · Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony is seen as a potential B-12 shot for a film industry that was slowed by a three-month writers' strike.
Aug 6th, 2007 · Music-biz veteran made a fortune writing and producing songs for others -- Nancy Sinatra, most famously -- but thumbed his nose in his own tunes at an industry whose norms and compromises he viewed with disdain.
Jul 26th, 2007 · The farm bill is up for debate in the House of Representatives. Although environmentalists, advocates for the poor and economic conservatives have joined forces, most think their battle will be lost because large agribusiness interests are just too strong.
Apr 23rd, 2007 · Novelist Joshua Ferris makes his debut with Then We Came to the End, a satire about life in a Chicago advertising agency. Ferris' short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Best New American Voices, and Prairie Schooner.