Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Kids
Take a break
If you parents need some sanity during fall break, get your kids involved with a metro camp.
Mad Monster Party?
We'll just drop by.
Family
Rod Lott
Before Hotel Transylvania, there was Mad Monster Party? (question mark theirs), a 1967 quasi-classic of stop-motion animation from Rankin/Bass — the company behind all those old Christmas specials that still air every year, from Rudolph to Frosty. What keeps this Party from being as perennial is that it's three times as long.
The fantastic Miss Fox
September marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month — and Victoria Fox’s celebration of a year in remission.
Features
Stephie Gregory
Five-year-old Victoria Fox is a vivacious Oklahoma City girl who enjoys ballet and children’s choir.
Countdown to health
A YMCA program called 5-2-1-0 seeks to improve the wellness of Oklahoma children.
Gazette’s Halloween Parade set for Oct. 27
Sixth annual parade celebrating creativity and artistry rolls through Midtown and Automobile Alley.
News
Gazette staff
On Saturday, Oct. 27, Gazette’s Halloween Parade again marches through Midtown and Automobile Alley celebrating artistry and creativity. This year’s parade will feature 53 entries.
Spec it
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Kids these days: Who knows what crazy things they’ll come up with? You, provided you attend The Spectacle: A New Media Collective Exhibition, showing from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through Oct. 18 in the Fred Jones Art Center, 520 Parrington Oval in Norman. It’s full of film, video, tech art and — from the looks of Tania Khouri’s photo below — goo-smearing women! Admission is free. Call 325-7370 or visit art.ou.edu.
Daily
Frankenweenie
Tim Burton builds a better 'Frankenweenie' and it’s alive! It’s alive! It’s alive with humor and heart.
Children's
Rod Lott
One imagines Frankenweenie is the movie director Tim Burton has been waiting to make his entire life.
Dash of cardio
Junior League of Norman provides a healthy alternative to trick-or-treating.
Setting up camp
A Friday fundraiser benefits a foundation dedicated to camps for children with life-threatening illnesses.
Kids
Jerry Bohnen
Cavett Kids Foundation’s Got Talent
5:30 p.m. Friday
Cox Convention Center
1 Myriad Gardens
cavettkids.org
271-2271
$125-$1,000
