Letters to the Editor
Joyce A. Braunscheidel
Where did our democracy go? With 9/11 came fingerprinting, radio-frequency identification, body scanners, microchips and cameras, just to name a few.

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.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
In the spirit of Earth Day, give the planet — and your pocket — a break by riding all Metro Transit buses for free on Friday.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
You guys give up yet? Or are you thirsty for more? Movies, that is, like the 1990 comedy smash Home Alone. Screening at 8 p.m. Thursday in the great outdoors, the John Hughes production is part of Dive-In Movie Nights at Pelican Bay Aquatic Park, 1034 S. Bryant in Edmond. Park admission is $5. Call 359-4630 or visit edmondok. com/parks, and keep the change, ya filthy animal!

Thursday

Documentary
Rod Lott
Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album, So, found the former Genesis vocalist at his commercial and critical peak. Now, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, it’s not only been reissued in a three-disc box set, but is the subject of the Classic Albums documentary series.

Indie
Joshua Boydston
Few indie bands have had the impact on current music that The Postal Service has. Even fewer have done so with only one album.