Wednesday 19 Jun
OKG Newsletter
Gazette staff
Don't get lowballed
Lower salary offers can accompany high unemployment
Features
Gazette staff
Employers may take advantage of high unemployment by offering lower-than-usual salaries to new hires, warns a corporate recruiting consultant.
The world of tomorrow
Homes that are cooler than yours.
Features
Gazette staff
When it comes to tomorrow’s homes today, everything old is new again, at the Eco-Tech Home Tour, open now through Sunday at 17515 Prairie Sky Way in Edmond.
Inside and out
Spring cleaning needs include your car
Features
Gazette staff
While spring cleaning, don’t forget your car! The Car Care Council advises a inside-and-outside cleaning can prevent rust and chemical buildup, as well as ensuring a safer drive.
Swapping spit
No, it's not just condensation.
CFN
Gazette staff
Lazy band geeks: Remember discounting the band instructor’s advice to clean your instrument after each lesson?
PR BS
No Doubt about it.
CFN
Gazette staff
Lots of press releases cross our desk. Recently, these titles least screamed “Stop the presses!”
Munn ho!: Sixth in a series
"Day wasted." Really.
CFN
Gazette staff
Remember that scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” when Karen Allen drank that big dude under the table? If Hollywood remakes that — and Chicken-Fried News prays it doesn’t — Olivia Munn would make a great replacement.
Lil’ Lips
Fake blood not included.
CFN
Gazette staff
Why send your newborn to dreamland with a terrifying lullaby of a cradle falling to earth? Come April 26, you can do so with the sweet, sweet sounds of an Asian woman fighting robots.
CFN QOTW, Part Deux
Maher for president?
CFN
Gazette staff
“Oklahoma Gazette (I pronounce it Gay- Zette) has a cartoon likeness of (Bill) Maher on the front cover riding on the top of a tank looking like Michael Dukakis when that goofball blew any chance he might have had in his failed run for president, more years back than I want to remember.”
He’s Poppe-ular
Nakedness will always get you press.
CFN
Gazette staff
The Oklahoma Film and Music Office’s Buffalo Lounge at the Austin, Texas, music conference South by Southwest drew more famous people than CFN intern Bucky’s favorite TV show, “The View.”
Spruce up your speeches
How to give a memorable talk
Features
Gazette staff
Speeches don’t have to be dull for your audience. If you have to give one, sales presentation trainer Patricia Frapp recommends following this seven steps for your speech to stick.
No time like the present
First-time home buyers enjoy best market in recent history
Features
Gazette staff
First-time home buyers, this may be the best market in recent history, according to the real estate website Move Inc. Affordable housing prices, ample inventory and historically low interest rates have combined to make it so.
Price pains
Gas prices affecting new vehicle choice
Features
Gazette staff
Have drivers had enough of rising gasoline prices to the point where they’re looking for more fuel-efficient vehicles? Maybe, according to AutoTrader.com, which tracks consumer searches on its website.
Hear this
Hey Do This, Hector BerliozFirst Presbyterian Church, Requiem, French Revolution of 1830
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Experience one of composer Hector Berlioz’s greatest works as performed by 350 chorus and orchestra members 4 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 1001 N.W. 25th.
Brew this
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
A Chinese tradition gets a contemporary twist in the new exhibition “Tea & Immortality: Contemporary Chinese Yixing Teapots from the James T. Bialac Collection,” opening Saturday at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm in Norman.
