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Charles Martin
The summer of 2006 was rough on Josh Jones. The front man of Norman's emerging critical darling Evangelicals spent that summer in a studio deep in the slummier side of Oklahoma City, working on a follow-up album to the band's manic debut, "So Gone."

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Charles Martin
Need a good reason to hit a bar on a Tuesday night? Well, the Sidecar Cocktail Lounge has you covered with its monthly "Disconnect," an event that raises money for a changing list of metro charities. ...

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Charles Martin
Following last month's record ice storm, National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters, an umbrella organization that draws together various volunteer programs, had sent out chain-saw teams to ...

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Charles Martin
Trading snow for sand, the Association of Volleyball Professionals will dump roughly 200 tons of the latter onto the floor of the Ford Center on Thursday night. Its members will don their finest bathi...

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Charles Martin
Pulling yourself out of bed on Tuesday just to head back out to Bricktown might not seem like the ideal way to recover from New Year's Eve, but the Wormy Dog Saloon is serving a healthy dose of acou...

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Charles Martin
In the Eighties, the fanzine " "zine" for short " was the forum of choice for motivated young minds and agitated cranks to rant about music in Oklahoma.   One could find the publications at the...

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Charles Martin
Kristin Gundred, front woman of Grand Ole Party blasts out big and brassy vocals which pipe through their new CD, "Humanimals." She is as brash as Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, but a bit less brat and mor...

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Charles Martin
One name change later, Omniplex is now known as Science Museum Oklahoma " all part of a reinvigorated mission to make the site a more vital tool for the educational community to psych children up ab...

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Charles Martin
Guthrie is now a tourist attraction for the city's vast collection of original Victorian architecture downtown. After massive restoration efforts, the buildings achieved national landmark status and...

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Charles Martin
In a world of posers and shoegazers, there's a need for some good old-fashioned, foot-to-the-floor rock music. Gravity Propulsion System has heeded that call for a decade now, and with its latest albu...

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Charles Martin
The Overholser Mansion is a chateau-style structure that's showing its 105 years with crumbling plaster, faded and chipped paint, as well as cracks running along the walls. It was once the opulent h...

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Charles Martin
  A new outdoor 11-on-11 league is giving pro football a shot. It's dubbed the United Football League, and officials are scouting out 13 potential franchise cities to host the first eight teams....

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Charles Martin
Pudding Attack isn't the worst name in the world " at least not for the Oklahoma City trio which has re-emerged with the album "Miniskirt Cash Machine." The band has traded in the electric guitar for ...

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Charles Martin
Don't let the frightfully bad name throw you; Vampire Weekend is actually an endearing indie-pop outfit from Brooklyn, N.Y., with merry melodies so delicious, a lobotomy might be needed to get its t...

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Charles Martin
Oklahoma City University recently established a varsity women's wrestling program " the first such program in the state. Just two years ago, OCU didn't have a male or female wrestling program, but...