Making Movies and Flor de Toloache 6 p.m. June 7 Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City 900 N. Portland Ave. osuokc.edu/latinosunidos/ 405-945-9196 Free For the past several years, Making Movies’ Carnival music and education festival has been making waves in its native Kansas City, Missouri. Now the poetic and frequently political fusion Latin-rock band is sharing the […]
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Testing pattern
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series examining cannabis and cannabinoids in Oklahoma leading up to the June 26 medical marijuana referendum. In 2012, Oklahoma passed the Standards for Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Act, which strengthened employers’ ability to administer tests for intoxicating substances against groups of employees suspected to be under […]
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Complex mandate
In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), with encouragement from the White House, announced that it would allow states to mandate work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients to receive benefits and released guidelines for how those mandates should look. Four months later, Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill that requires the […]
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Changing hands
Civic Center Music Hall has been linked to the City of Oklahoma City for decades, but the city’s relationship with the venue will likely soon shift from operational manager to hands-off landlord. In June, Oklahoma City Council is expected to approve handing over general venue operations from the city to the nonprofit Civic Center Foundation, […]
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Full palette
¡Viva Sabor! 6-10 p.m. June 15 Exhibit C Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. okchispanicchamber.org 405-616-5031 $45-$100 After a brief period of relative inactivity, Inclusion in Art reemerged earlier this year with CHROMA: Artists of Color, an art exhibition exclusively featuring local artists of color. Narciso Argüelles, executive director of the nonprofit that advocates for […]
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Next in line
Oklahoma City Public Schools’ Board of Education convened May 22 to approve the hiring of the district’s newest superintendent. It has become a fairly common ritual for the state’s largest school district, which has hired 13 different superintendents since 2000. But unlike the July 2016 vote for the last superintendent hired, Aurora Lora, this vote […]
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Summer Guide: Decked halls
If there is one thing this state is not short on, it is quality museums. It does not matter if you want to stick to the metro or venture out for a daytrip somewhere a few hours down the highway. Either way, you can bet there is a worthwhile and enlightening collection awaiting you somewhere […]
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New path
If asked to guess which national political party affiliate was the first to elect a transgender person to its executive board, most people probably would not think of the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma. But maybe they should. Norman resident and University of Oklahoma (OU) political science student Traci Baker made history when she was elected […]
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Bouncing back
Calling Oklahoma’s November 2014 statewide election turnout disappointing might be an understatement. An August 2015 U.S. Census Bureau report on midterm state elections showed fewer Oklahomans participated in 2014 than in any statewide election over the previous 45 years. In Oklahoma, only 34.2 percent of adults cast a vote in the 2014 general election. Several […]
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Summer Guide: Party mindset
Rocklahoma is always one of the biggest and best annual parties this state has to offer, but the annual Pryor rock pilgrimage shifts into a higher gear when party-life philosopher and metal maestro Andrew W.K. hits the stage. W.K. (short for Wilkes-Krier), has had a presence on the national music scene since the early 2000s, […]