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The musical ‘Oklahoma!’ is still bogus after 75 years
The musical Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943. Seventy-five years have passed, and Oklahomans are still much taken with the dear old thing.
Richard Rodgers...
Silenced Cries: A poem on the Tulsa Race Riot
Silenced Cries
by James Coburn
I don’t remember the terror in Greenwood.
I wasn’t there. Never was it taught to me in history books.
1921 burning of the...
Sonic seltzer: The Oklahoma collaboration we didn’t know we needed
So maybe this is why we don't see those two guys in the Sonic commercials anymore? They never could keep from indulging in every...
Priest added to abuse list worked 8 Oklahoma churches
A former Catholic priest who worked in seven communities across Oklahoma has been added to a list of clergy with at least one "substantiated...
Them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong
After this past week, one has to wonder if Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto pen has any ink left in it. One after another, bills...
The Cherokee story of preserving an endangered culture
In the early spring of 2018, former Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Joe Byrd found a seat on the airport shuttle headed to Tulsa International...
Munich Oktoberfest: Migrants out of sight, not mind
MUNICH — I have been lucky enough to make the trek to Germany five of the past six years for Oktoberfest, but this year's...
Miranda Lambert closes original Pink Pistol, sells building to Blake Shelton
(Update: This post was edited to remove the name of a Pink Pistol employee and additional information at 5:26 p.m., May 25, 2016.)
TISHOMINGO — Country-music superstar...
Sometimes what we think does not match reality
(Editor's note: The following piece discusses racism and includes language that may make some readers uncomfortable.)
When I was 10 years old, my family moved...
Norman photos: ‘Hate has no home’ in my town
I tell my East Coast and West Coast friends that I live on a blue island in a red sea. That is the political...