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Jeffrey Meek designs the costumes for Lyric Theater; over in Tulsa, Sara Cruncleton costumes most of the shows at The Nightingale Theater, which she co-owns. Meek has a crew of 13 people, including st...

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Model As, coupes and stubby short-bed trucks growled, crackled and crept toward the starting line of the Tulsa Raceway Park quarter-mile track. Running the drag strip two at a time, the aged beasts ...

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One hundred years is a long time to remain relevant in the rapidly changing world of retail. Kamp's Market & Deli first nestled into Oklahoma City in 1910 as a grocery store, but the new ownership...

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Grease under their fingernails, beer on their breath and lust in their heart " that is how Jeff Beck described the culture he fell for decades ago, a metal motor romance that blossomed the moment he l...

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Divorces may result in scorched-Earth campaigns, while others resemble a relatively amicable truce. Mississippi alt-country act Blue Mountain crumbled in 2001 after its two guiding lights (Cary Hudson...

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Battle-of-the-bands competitions can springboard young musicians, helping them get a jump on credibility. Abilene, Texas' atmospheric pop act Homer Hiccolm and the Rocketboys got a boost when they won...

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One of the metro's storied bars, the Hi-Lo Club, 1221 N.W. 50th, suffered a blow when its longtime manager and current co-owner Jimmy O'Neil was hospitalized recently after a series of strokes. O'Ne...

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Good money says that a majority of Graham Colton's target demographic has already heard "Best Days" by now. They might not know it, but tens of millions of television viewers tuning into "American Ido...

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Fog machines oozed smoke and generic rock music blared, while red and blue specters sped through the maze of walls and windows, lit only by black lights. Amid the occasional growl of frustration, vo...

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Mark Burke first invaded America with his psychobilly group The Phantom Rockers back in 1993. The resulting tour with The Meteors introduced the U.S. to the UK hybrid of punk, rockabilly and heavy met...

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Drinking songs and civic pride aren't known to walk hand in hand, but local barroom rockers The Gunship are marrying their raucous and zombie-infested anthems with an Independence Day voter registrati...

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Grateful Dead has Deadheads, Kiss has its Army, The Cure has shoegazers, and glam rockers Kill Hannah are steadily growing its own base of diehards. "They give you security against any possible coll...

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On Monday, "WWE Raw" will bring all the twists, turns, rivalries and backstabbing of WWE to the Ford Center, with Oklahoma's own Jim "J.R." Ross " one of pro wrestling's most recognizable announcers "...

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Women's semipro basketball now has an in-state stop as the metro's newest team, the Oklahoma Angels, made its season debut on June 7 against the North Texas Flash. The Angels recently made the leap fr...

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Affirmation and approval are at the heart of Cyndi Lauper's 1986 hit "True Colors," a song that's since gone on to be an anthem of struggle for many in the gay community. Lauper formed the "True Color...