Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

Animated Dorothy goes back to Oz for further adventures.

"...varying results. Which brings us to Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, the title (specifically the colon in the title)..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

This biopic provides an introduction to the work of Dorothy Day, activist for the disenfranchised and founder of the newspaper called The Catholic Worker.

"...Paul Lieber, Boyd Kestner, Tracy Walter and Allyce Beasley. Dorothy Day remains a wonderfully fascinating and inspirational historical figure..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dorothy T. Goes Home

Fiery, feisty queen of Austin civil rights activists is recognized, remembered

"...at St. John Tabernacle on April 14 to honor Dorothy Nell Turner, the fiery and feisty queen of Austin..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Saluting Dorothy Turner

"...against white supremacy and the KKK in Texas: Mrs. Dorothy Turner. She was president of the Black Citizens' Task..."

June 26, 2018 Postmarks

They Knew What They Liked

Herbert & Dorothy Vogel's Extraordinary & Personal Art Collection

"...Herbert and Dorothy Vogel married in 1962. They are a diminutive couple,..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

"...and Tom Mcgowan. We all think we know her: Dorothy Parker, an American icon, urbane wit, high priestess of..."

Jan. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ruby in Paradise

"...Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Alison Dean and Dorothy Lyman. Ruby in paradise. Ruby in Florida. Ruby out..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hidden Figures

True story of NASA's black women mathematicians

"...sex, and beauty; and Spencer is the computers’ supervisor Dorothy Vaughan, who creates her own path to advancement by..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Too Late

Experimental neo-noir is held together by the magnificent John Hawkes

"...who’s on the hunt for an exotic dancer named Dorothy (Reed), who fears for her safety. Drug dealers, tangled..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blades of Glory

This ice-skating comedy demonstrates that just because Will Ferrell is game for anything that might draw a laugh, it doesn't mean he should follow through with every idea that comes his way.

"...of real skaters (among them Nancy Kerrigan, Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill, Peggy Fleming, Scott Hamilton, and Sasha Cohen) and..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twister

A daredevil storm chaser gets the tornado he's always longed to see.

"...Pooh's Blustery Day meets Mr. Toad's Wild Ride with Dorothy's house spiraling just above. Only louder...."

May 10, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

"...measure. The 1980 murder of Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten and Hef's recent marriage are there, but as..."

Feb. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pre-Pride Discount

Grab cheaper admission tix to Austin Pride before June 1

"...Friends of Dorothy, ASSEMBLE!..."

May 20, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

Blues Broads

Angela Strehli brings her Blues Broads to Threadgill's

"...wind when Annie Sampson, Tracy Nelson, Angela Strehli, and Dorothy Morrison strut centerstage at Threadgill's WHQ on Sunday. They're..."

June 4, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Life Again in Oz

On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.

"...music would help us track the primary relationship between Dorothy and her aging Uncle Henry. We found it enormously..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Letters at 3AM

Follow the yellow brick road to Wounded Knee in this account of L. Frank Baum's effort to tame the untamable.

"...between four "collector's covers" featuring Judy Garland's earnest, endearing Dorothy about to burst into song. She was 17 and..."

July 21, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...DZ: Was your wife Dorothy that girlfriend in college?..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...Sister Christian: 'They Killed Sister Dorothy'..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Time Again in Oz: Right on Time

Time Again in Oz, a new musical version of Ozma of Oz by Suzan Zeder and Richard Gray, takes Dorothy Gale back over the rainbow to learn the value of time, and based on the production by the UT Department of Theatre and Dance, the creators may have produced a tale that's timeless.

"...Our guide for this lesson is the much-beloved Dorothy Gale, the young Kansan whose kindness and pluck on..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Turner Is Worthy

"...Mike Clark-Madison's article about Dorothy Turner ["Corner to Corner," Vol. 18, No. 2] spews..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Column

Getting to Oz Through Austin Arts

Area arts events make a Yellow Brick Road to The Wizard of Oz in Zilker Park

"...the wonderful wizard was just another mundane Midwesterner, like Dorothy Gale. But what he had that Dorothy didn't was..."

May 19, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

5 Flights Up

Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton play a long-married couple who consider moving from their apartment

"...mid-sixtysomethings than they care to admit. Their 10-year-old dog Dorothy knows better: The couple rushes Dorothy to the vet..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wild Party

"...Directed by: Dorothy Arzner. Starring: Clara Bow, Frederic March, Shirley O'Hara and..."

Feb. 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jerry Maguire

"...ideals. Only two other people flock to his camp: Dorothy Boyd (Zellweger), an agency bookkeeper who defects with Jerry,..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Craig's Wife, Harriet Craig, The Little Foxes

Stephen MacMillan Moser celebrates those glamorous, backstabbing, deliciously bitchy divas: Rosalind Russell in Craig's Wife; Joan Crawford in the remake of that film, Harriet Craig; and Bette Davis in The Little Foxes.

"...Craig's Wife D: Dorothy Arzner (1935); with Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke,..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Art and Photography Books Classics Revisited

"...me pause was The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker (Modern Library/Random House, $15 hard). Let me state..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Books Feature

Lynch/Oz

Is David Lynch's whole career an homage to The Wizard of Oz?

"...Kusama, for example, goes for the thematic resonances between Dorothy's journey home and Diane's delusions in Mulholland Drive. John..."

June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Indoor Queers Club: LGBT-Boo!

Queer horror picks from your trusty Chronicle crypt keepers

"...”The Demons of Dorothy”..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Getting Behind The Tender Bar With Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan

The challenges of authenticity (and George Clooney's acting class)

"...his childhood and extended family, nurtured by his mother, Dorothy (Rabe), and given direction through the beneficial influence of..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cracks in the Ceiling

An extended Q&A with Ann Richards biographer Jan Reid

"...was very ambitious about that – that was what Dorothy [Browne] was doing. But as long as you have..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Arts Post by Michael King

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