Commentary
Kurt Hochenauer
The start of the legislative session had some Democrats here hoping GOP overreach on cultural wedge issues might create voter backlash and fatigue this year that would hurt conservative political candidates in the future.
Saturday 25 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: class
Workers under attack
GOP staging a full fiscal assault on the middle class
Commentary
Kurt Hochenauer
The start of the legislative session had some Democrats here hoping GOP overreach on cultural wedge issues might create voter backlash and fatigue this year that would hurt conservative political candidates in the future.
Free thoughts with the Kern clan
Letters to the Editor
Andy Sands
Regarding the Rev. Steve Kern’s Commentary “Counterpoint: Scrutinizing science” (April 13, Gazette), Rev. Kern expresses his deep desire for Oklahoma’s students to be freethinkers and use their own reasoning.
‘Mars’ attacks!
As part of Lyric’s ‘Rokademy’ class, nine students have created an original rock musical, ‘Teenagers on Mars.’
Performing Arts
Richard York
Teenagers on Mars
2 and 7 p.m. Saturday
Lyric at the Plaza, 1727 N.W. 16th
lyrictheatreokc.com, 524-9312
$7 advance, $10 door
Summer school
Head back to school without the hassle of tests or report cards. Plus, we’re pretty sure Japanese Bookbinding wasn’t offered where you matriculated.
Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
School is fun. No, really. Even if you weren’t Sally Study as a kid, going back — especially to these classes — can be enriching.
Know your Snooki!
She is a best-selling author, after all.
CFN
Gazette staff
As reported in the August issue of Wired magazine, one college class among “TV-Themed Course Work” across our nation’s hallowed halls of higher ed is the University of Oklahoma’s “‘Jersey Shore’ GRC: Depictions of Gender, Race, and Class on the Shore.”
Cheese, please!
Pungent or mild, whatever you fancy, local cheese blocks are full of choices!
Food and Drink Features
Carol Cole-Frowe
Hundreds of delightful cheeses are popping up in markets and grocery stores, from assertive blues to washed-rind Taleggios or fresh, unripened ones like a queso fresco or queso blanco.
Back at school
Protesters greeted students at the first day of class of Douglass High School.
News
Jerry Bohnen
Car horns blared from passing motorists, and the morning sun promised another scorching day as nearly a dozen protesters gathered Wednesday morning outside Frederick A. Douglass Mid-High School at 900 Martin Luther King on the first day of the new school year. The protesters — some of whom had been fired by the Oklahoma City Public Schools district — tried drawing attention to their allegations of grade-tampering by principal Brian Staples.
Solid Goldberg
Music-biz legend Danny Goldberg brings his years of experience to the ACM@UCO Master Class series.
Music
Louis Fowler
Danny Goldberg
7 p.m. Thursday
ACM@UCO Performance Lab
329 E. Sheridan
acm-uco.com
974-4700
free
