30 July 2024

“The Dorothy Paintings” and More in South Yarmouth

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The Cultural Center of Cape Cod is hosting a summer celebration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The executive director of the institution,...
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24 July 2024

The Mystery of “Honeymoon Hardships”

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In his memoir, The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood , Coy Watson, Jr., devoted considerable space to the Mack Sennett Comedies short ...
18 June 2024

The Missing Princess of the Marvelous Land

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I’ve been thinking about how The Marvelous Land of Oz could be more of a mystery. As it is, the book is a roller-coaster ride of political ...
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12 June 2024

OzCon 2024 Getting into the Game

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This July’s OzCon International in Pomona will be the sixtieth annual Oz fan convention on the west coast. OzCon started as the Winkie Conv...
17 April 2024

“Outside the Box” Opening Reception in Jamaica Plain, 21 April

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With friends from the Boston Comics Roundtable, I’m helping to organize an exhibit of comics art in the gallery of the Footlight Club, Amer...
20 March 2024

The Characters of Oz “a real treat”

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In the latest Baum Bugle from the International Wizard of Oz Club, Scott Cummings calls The Characters of Oz “a real treat and a fresh add...
19 March 2024

On the Road to CharlOz, Sept. 26–29

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On September 26-29, 2024, the city of Charlotte, North Carolina; the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and other local and national...
16 March 2024

“Historic Children’s Voices” Coming from American Antiquarian Society

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The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester will launch a website on “Historic Children’s Voices, 1799-1899.” Its introductory page exp...
19 January 2024

Detecting Style

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“Red Eye” is a short story by Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane. It was published in Face Off and then in The Best American Mystery Stori...
27 November 2023

The Man with a Butler Did It

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This month I read two British murder mysteries, published twenty years apart, in which the culprit turned out to be the local bigwig killing...