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‘The musician has the power of the bully pulpit’
OKEMAH — On a giant concrete platform beneath bright stage lights and a giant picture of the notable protest singer Woody Guthrie, songwriter Jaimee...
Sam Presti blows up the OKC Thunder as we know it
I heard Rumble may be driving a tank around the court next season for the OKC Thunder, firing t-shirts at the crowd among other...
Peggy Johnson is more than a protest singer
Peggy Johnson folded away her Navy whites. She packed up her civies, a guitar and the frying pan her mother had given her, and...
Pride is more than a week, month, parade or flag
The month of June stands as Pride Month, and this year Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt declared the third week of June as Pride...
It’s official, college costs an arm and a leg
Metaphorically speaking, college costs an arm and a leg. While it hasn't quite literally come to that yet, I expect a limb-exchange program soon...
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...
Oklahoma humidity: Turn around, don’t drown … in the air
Anyone else feel like they're wearing not one — but two — wool sweaters when they step outside? It must be summer in Oklahoma.
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‘Pride is about standing up’: OKC Pride Week kicks off
Oklahoma City Pride Week kicked off Monday evening with a series of speeches, honorary designations and the first official mayoral proclamation in city history.
"We...
Happy Father’s Day! Now help him with housework
Ah the bonds we form with our fathers through good old-fashioned housework! Or sometimes through, uhh, adventures in an old hotel?
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Monster tax credits: Fear and filming in deadCenter 2019
While the 2019 deadCenter Film Festival officially kicked off on Thursday, June 6, one could argue Gov. Kevin Stitt unofficially began the festivities May...