Music
Joshua Boydston
Norman folkster Penny Hill had plenty of thoughts for songs, but it took prodding from friends for her to fly.

Visual Arts
Sara Custer
Be the first to get an early peek at JRB Art at The Elms’ 2011 calendar and a chance to buy pieces featured in it, as the gallery hosts the exhibit’s opening, with a 1 to 6 p.m. reception on Saturday.

News
Sara Custer
Oklahoma made the international spotlight by becoming the first state to execute a U.S. inmate with a drug normally used to euthanize animals.

CFN
Gazette staff
Former Oklahoman turned actress/model/ geek icon Olivia Munn won’t return our Twitter DMs. We assume she’s too busy being a “Daily Show” correspondent and all, so throughout 2011, Chicken-Fried News will attempt to keep tabs with her semi-tabloid life.

Drama
Rod Lott
Animator Bill Plympton’s “Idiots & Angels” is not what you’d think, for several reasons.

Kids
Courtney Silva
FIRST Robotics — “FIRST” stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” — is an organization dedicated to inspiring young people to be engaged in the fields of science and technology.

Bite Size
Carol Smaglinski
The Societies of Oklahoma City University are honoring four women at the annual Awards of Excellence dinner Feb. 26 at the Skirvin.

Letters to the Editor
Merle D. Wright
Since reading the Gazette’s Feb. 9 Commentaries (Jason Reese, “Legislate morality,” Kurt Hochenauer, “Separation anxiety”) about new bills introduced in the Oklahoma Legislature that would permit some religious teaching in our public schools that concern creationism verses evolution, I have been struggling with some feelings.