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Mural, Clybourn store

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/12/happy-anniversary-the-wizard-of-oz/

http://usanewsupdate.com/news/google-does-the-wizard-of-oz-logo.html

Kristin Chenoweth as April Rhodes in Glee Episode Home 1.16, broadcast 8/31/2010:
“I’m taking my hush money and producing the first ever all-white production of ‘The Wiz’.”

SNL: The Wonderful Wizard of Ass

rerun from May 9, 2010 also see this

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NICHOLAS LEICHTER DANCE + MONSTAH BLACK
THE WHIZ: OBAMALAND
June 16-19 | 8 pm

Ease on down the road to recession and back from the brink of fantasy in Nicholas Leichter Dance and Monstah Black’s take on The Wiz/ard of Oz for the Obama generation. Featuring choreography by Leichter, and a brand new [...]

There’s No Place Like Home
Billie Burke, the actress who went on to play Glinda in the Wizard of Oz, was Twain’s last visitor in 1908. He had her inaugurate the new guest book he was given that Christmas by Mary Rogers. Below her signature and her home town of Yonkers, he wrote, “Billie Burke, the [...]

We didn’t reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name. But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka’s municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains.

In fact, Topeka Google Mayor Bill Bunten [...]

http://www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/wos_3/sprecher/l_p/armin_medosch.html

from: National Geographic, December 2009. “South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea”, by Kenneth Brower

South Georgia sometimes seems like a time-lapse film of weather – one of those frantic abridgments in which clouds boil across the sky while a stroboscobic flickering of light and shadow passes over the land. You sail into a [...]

9 weeks on the list: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young. (Marvel Entertainment, $29.99.) Dorothy travels to the land of OZ, graphic novel style.

clicks – a lot.

“Click my heels togehter 3 times and I’m back in Kansas – could it be that simple?”

from http://www.psychedelicchick.com/

This image shows a page from Lynne Heller’s comic book “The Adventures of Nar Duell in Second Life.”
This is Lynne’s website: http://www.lynneheller.com/

“Pandas, Lions, and Dragons, oh my!”: How White Adoptive Parents Construct Chineseness
Andrea Louie
Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 12, Number 3, October 2009, pp. 285-320

Jeffrey Baer, chanel 11 pledge drive: the Harlem Globe Trotters are not from Harlem, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is not from the North Pole, and the Wizard of Oz is not from Kansas – they are all from Chicago.

By Edward L. Glaeser, NYT, September 1, 2009

Perhaps the most famous example of economics-in-the-enchantment is “The Wizard of Oz,” which has been interpreted by Henry Littlefield and Hugh Rockoff as an allegory about the monetary policy debates of the populist era. According to this view, the Scarecrow represents the farmer, the Tin Woodsman is the [...]

from a Facebook invitation sent by Area Chicago:
Bars, Businesses, Benefits, Oh MY!
To all guests of Bars, (da) Business & Benefits

This evening, as part of AREA Chicago’s ongoing More Money Issues event series, we will continue our conversation with leaders from Mucca Pazza, The Hideout, Backstory Cafe, Epiphany Church, Kuma’s Corner, Quennect 4, and Danny’s Tavern, [...]

http://www.studio360.org/americanicons/episodes/2006/12/29

pay no attention to the glacier behind the curtain

Nova – Car of the Future – Click and Clack go to a geothermal field in Iceland: “where are we? I don’t know, we are not in Kansas anymore.”

” I just came back from a trip to Oz”, Meshach Taylor as Hollywood Montrose in “Mannequin: On the Move”, after wearing the mannequin’s necklace for a few moments.

Myth in Material

An image

from today’s NYT