30 March 2014

The New New Teen Titans

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DC Comics has started to promote an alternative version of its Teen Titans brand, to debut this fall. Teen Titans: Earth One , is what for t...
28 March 2014

The Deep Roots of Inflation Fears

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Back in 2006, the historian Michael O’Malley wrote an article for Common-place about links between fear of economic inflation (money losing...
26 March 2014

The Ruby Slipper Gang

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From the DNAInfo website (via Blair Frodelius’s Daily Ozmapolitan) comes the story behind the recent theft of replica ruby slippers from ...
24 March 2014

A Thoroughly Modern Debate

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The theater program at my old high school has been making news—indeed, prominent news in the Boston Globe —with a production of Thoroughly...
23 March 2014

Who Controls Superheroes’ Family Lives?

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Back in September 2013 I cogitated on whether DC Comics’s heroes could have happy family lives without that interfering with the sort of ...
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22 March 2014

Dummy Type

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Book designers, especially those packaging books that haven’t been written yet, often use “dummy type” to show how words will look on the pa...
21 March 2014

Rience Priebus Speaks to His Party’s Reality

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The job of the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, is to speak up his party, which can’t be easy when a significant port...
20 March 2014

Crisis on Multiple Podcasts

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This week comic-book writer and editor Dennis O’Neil showed up on two of my podcasts. I’d expected to hear his voice on Fat Man on Batma...
19 March 2014

Kick-star-ter for Tik-Tok

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This week I pledged in a Kickstarter campaign for a production of The Tik-Tok Man of Oz , first shown in 1913-14, at this summer’s Winkie ...
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18 March 2014

Oz and the Riverside Orchestra

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On 13 April, the University of California at Riverside Orchestra will offer a program titled “American Fairy Tales,” celebrating the li...