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Tweet tweet


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Gazette staff
Chicken-Fried News is as addicted to Twitter as the next idiot with calloused thumbs and too much time on his or her hands, but these days it’s tough to tell which tweets are on the up-and-up and which are of the made-up variety. Twitter has become an irresistible outlet for parodies of people in the news.
 
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Extending dominion


CFN

Gazette staff
Lifechurch.tv, the Edmond-based megachurch with 15 virtual campuses in five states, has made an application for a new .church domain extension. ICANN, the organization that oversees domain extensions, is about to add dozens of new extensions, including proprietary names like .apple and .google.
 
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

You’ve got male


CFN

Gazette staff
Oklahoma City recently took a break from chopping down a tree while simultaneously strangling a grizzly bear with its bare hands to allow the medal of “Manliest City in America” to be pinned upon its big, burly chest.
 
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Wanna bet?


CFN

Gazette staff
Thunder pride and gambling mania have taken hold at the Oklahoma City Public Schools district.
 
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Pious people


CFN

Gazette staff
We hope you’re sitting down for this: Oklahoma City is very, very religious — the third most religious city in the nation, in fact, according to a 2010 study by the U.S. Religion Census.
 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Judge ye not


CFN

Gazette staff
What does a business group do after it has the ability to call the shots in the Legislature, governor’s office and most other major political offices in the state?
 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

SimCity comes to life


CFN

Gazette staff
If you’ve ever wanted to turn a building into your own covert base of operations, now is the time! The only catch is it has to be in the old Friendly Coin Laundry in the Plaza District.
 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Hasty release


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Gazette staff
Thanks to Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne and the antics of his cohorts, words like “blood,” “nude,” “goo” and “orifice” are just par for the course.
 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

CFN’s awfully harsh record review of the week


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Gazette staff
“It’s so ‘down’ and so ‘jiggy,’ I swear they even rip off the damned Proclaimers with straight faces, and suffice it to say, leading forced-shout vocalist and bassist Tyson Ritter is no Johnny Depp/Buster Keaton. ... Did anyone mention the last decade is over now? They didn’t get that memo.”
 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Wayne's whiny world


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Gazette staff
What is Lil Wayne's problem? Once again, the rapper took to his @LilTunechi Twitter account today to moan about his experience sitting courtside yesterday at Game 1 of the NBA Finals series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat.
 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Fear the beard


CFN

Gazette staff
From the historic Carey Place neighborhood to houses of worship, James Harden is proving to be the most famous beard since Michelle Bachmann!Thunder up, OKC!
 
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Haute hoops


CFN

Gazette staff
Have you heard? The Oklahoma City Thunder and Miami Heat are in the NBA Finals. No lie!
 
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Where the buffalo roam naked


CFN

Gazette staff
Shortly after the Oklahoma City Thunder secured its NBA Western Conference championship last week, the team has become the hottest thing in town, overtaking afternoon asphalt and fried chicken oil.
 
Monday, June 11, 2012

Super sizing


CFN

Gazette staff
There’s nothing like a hailstorm to inspire the creativity of TV meteorologists. The May 29 hail that attacked the metro is a prime example. As chunks of ice rained down, the weather guys took to the airwaves to describe just how big the hail was.
 
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Lil’ unprepared


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Gazette staff
Lil Wayne is no Charles Barkley. The rap star, unable to get into the May 31 NBA Western Conference playoff game in OKC, took to Twitter to claim he “was denied by the team to be in their arena.”
 
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
 
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