Friday, April 26, 2024

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ArtNow 2017

ArtNow 2017 show features diverse Oklahoma artists

Co-curators Kelsey Karper and Jennifer Scanlan considered dozens of artists for ArtNow 2017. They queried colleagues, reviewed websites and spent months making studio visits...
frozen custard

Sundaze: Highs and lows of frozen custard

I was driving by a frozen custard restaurant Friday and wondered aloud, "Why are they even open?" Instantly, I remembered that, just two days prior, it...
Daft Punkvideo

Albums turning 20: Daft Punk, Built to Spill & Pat Boone

Wanna feel old? Well you're in luck! Because there's practically no better way to age yourself than by counting the years between the release of...
broken spirit

‘A broken spirit refuses to see the lifting of the sun’

Reverie of Light by James Coburn Trickling down eyes of Parisian gargoyles protecting mirth, tears are caught by swallows lifted by storms crossing to Bangladesh in search of peace. Stars fall...
MLK Jr.

Celebrate MLK Jr. with OKC group’s King Holiday Parade

Since 1983, the OKC Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Coalition has sought to host events that celebrate the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King,...
South

South Carolinian’s poems conjure views of the South

Tell A Tale of Cotton by Robert Filos blue jeans growing in October fields the Georgia sky singing the blues red dirt roads pave sights with color as turkeys...
Urban Agrarianvideo

Closing of Urban Agrarian a blow to OKC food scene

Running a small business is hard, and an important OKC enterprise announced Monday it will be shutting down, much to the dismay of many,...
UFO

Chilean UFO shows double-edged nature of the internet

In our latest episode of "The Internet is the worst thing/best thing," my Facebook feed shows a trending topic about the Chilean Navy releasing video...
art-house theatervideo

OKC needs an art-house theater for top-10 films of 2016

Oklahoma City needs an independent art-house theater, because the top-10 films of 2016 deserve an audience but might not find a venue in which to play here. In...
poems

Poems: ‘The Blue God’ of war is coming and more

The Blue God by Joan McNerney The blue god of war is so strong he can twist trees with the tip of his tongue. You better not defy him scream at...

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