Monday, July 15, 2024

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The ‘Machete Order’ for X-Men: One fan’s guide

It’s hard to imagine another franchise whose filmography is as intimidating to newcomers as Star Wars. So, in 2011, blogger Rod Hilton devised a...

WoodyFest 2023: The ‘big family reunion’ runs July 12-16

Oklahoma City photographer M. Tim Blake is packing bedding, camera gear and a guitar in his two-man camper trailer for the annual pilgrimage he...

While dirty details remain, Edmond sculpture park proposal has good movement

At last, it seems "common ground" is being found on the proposed Uncommon Ground Sculpture Park in Edmond. After a year of disagreement and drama...
The Oklahoman libel

Jury awards $20 million in punitive damages as The Oklahoman’s libel trial concludes

MUSKOGEE — The Oklahoman libel trial culminated today when jurors announced their verdict finding Gannett Co., Inc. liable for $20 million in punitive damages...
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An ode to Meatballs: The summer I learned to laugh

Sometime in late June 1979, my dad dropped me and a friend off at the Spectrum Twin movie theater in south Tulsa for a...
Muscogee Creek Indian

Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen: ‘They basically voted us out’

Five years after petitioning the Bureau of Indian Affairs for status as a separate tribe, members of the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band remain in...
Oasis Fresh Foundation, Aaron Johnson

Seeking $30 million for food deserts, innovative grocery store proposal faces oversight questions

A proposal to provide a nonprofit organization $30 million of federal American Rescue Plan Act funding to build four grocery stores in underserved areas...
Fukushima nuclear plant

Only Godzilla can bring attention to the Fukushima nuclear plant

Alarming radiation levels at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant represent one of those stories we hear about and think, "Hmm, that doesn't sound good." But then we move...
school cemetery

Lack of records confounds school cemetery’s history

(Editor’s Note: This is the third and final piece in a series of stories about an ongoing land dispute between the Wichita, Caddo and Delaware...
Trail of Tears

Exiled to Indian Country: Trail of Tears shaped Oklahoma

WASHINGTON — Known as the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of Native Americans to Oklahoma was one of the most inhumane policy implementations...

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