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Pure babbittry: American Ninja Warrior at Okla. Capitol
Babbittry. Look it up. Try a dictionary that isn’t on your phone. Not that there’ll be a picture of Oklahoma State Sen. David Holt (R-OKC), but there...
TNT ‘Shaqtin A Fool’ in Thunder, Spurs series
Of all the rough nights and bad performances that can be part of a tough NBA playoff series between the OKC Thunder and the San...
Political Suicide: Slippery slope to the six six feet
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world....
OKCPS suspensions more complex than just race
Conservative school reformer Mike Petrilli has criticized the U.S. Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and its recent agreement to settle a complaint against the Oklahoma City...
Media narratives: Bob Stoops as postmodernist sage
(Editor's note: This excerpt from How Postmodernism Explains Football, and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum focuses on news conferences in which OU football...
Sundaze: Oklahoma halved and a poem from India
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world....
Photos: Norman Music Fest 9 people watching
NORMAN — April was Norman Music Festival month. This year was the ninth iteration of the three-day smorgasbord of sound.
NMF attracts thousands of fans...
Rebuttal: Your Oklahoma Standard ‘myth’ is my blue sky
The Oklahoma Standard is not a myth.
It is a dream. A goal for people who believe in this place. Our place. It doesn’t really...
Spurs series is Billy Donovan’s biggest test yet
The Oklahoma City Thunder did the expected and dispatched with the Dallas Mavericks in a fashion perhaps best described by Monty Python’s Black Knight:
The...
Hostility punctuates OKCPS community meetings
Teaching in the inner city is tough, and it can be as exasperating as it is joyous. Nobody is perfect, and I could recount...
