CFN
Gazette staff
What better way to commemorate the centennial of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation than with a postcard exhibiting one of the state’s most notorious transit disasters?
Saturday 25 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: bridge
Questionable commemoration
CFN
Gazette staff
What better way to commemorate the centennial of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation than with a postcard exhibiting one of the state’s most notorious transit disasters?
Street fight
Opposition to initial plans for the downtown boulevard call a bridge counterproductive.
News
Clifton Adcock
Controversy is dogging a future downtown boulevard as the Oklahoma City Council prepares to receive an update on the project Tuesday.
Road warriors
A flurry of options and disagreements arises over a proposed downtown boulevard.
News
Clifton Adcock
Amid growing controversy over a planned downtown boulevard, Oklahoma City officials will hire a consultant to examine competing options for dealing with a proposed elevated section of the thoroughfare. Meanwhile, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation has set an Aug. 21 public meeting to discuss the boulevard project, while a group opposed to the would-be elevated section on Monday will hold a town hall-style meeting on the matter.
You’re going to need a bigger boat ... again!
Six bona fide movie classics are headed back to Cinemark Tinseltown.
One of my 10 favorite movies of all time, space and dimension, Jaws, is not only debuting on Blu-ray on Tuesday, but soon will re-surface on the big screen at Cinemark Tinseltown, 6001 Martin Luther King.
The supreme shark flick to end all shark flicks kicks off the Cinemark Fall Classic Series, which features digitally restored prints of half a dozen classic films, Oscar winners all. Each will play for one Thursday only, with showings at 2 and 7 p.m. Here’s the schedule:
• Jaws (1975), Aug. 23
• High Noon (1952), Aug. 30
• Doctor Zhivago (1965), Sept. 6
• Chinatown (1974), Sept. 13
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Sept. 20
• The African Queen (1951), Sept. 27
Tickets are just $4-$6, and on sale now at cinemark.com. —Rod Lott
Painting the town Greg
Longtime local artist Greg Burns keeps up with the ever-changing city.
Visual Arts
Patrick Crain
Somewhere there exists a run of prints of a one-off Greg Burns piece containing a small detail that makes it rare. At first blush, it looks familiar enough: a rendering of the iconic Townley’s milk-bottle grocery store on Classen Boulevard.
Boldly going ...
OKC Trekkies recreate the iconic Starship Enterprise for an Internet-only series.
Features
Alyssa Grimley
In an unassuming warehouse in south Oklahoma City, the Starship Ajax, destroyer class, is docked and awaiting orders.
