Next week, Hulu’s acclaimed adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale begins its third season on the streaming service. A dystopian nightmare in which fundamentalists seize control of the United States in a violent coup, reduce newly rechristened Gilead’s population of women to forced procreation vessels and banish heretics and the infertile to work in […]
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Hard Work
Further solidifying Oklahoma’s reputation as a germination pool for thoughtful, high-consciousness hip-hop, Changing Frequencies’ (CF) debut album FREQ Work is a full-length mission statement — not only for the Tulsa rapper, but for her society’s future. In no way does FREQ Work demand to be graded on a local-statewide curve; CF is ready to take […]
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Commentary: 10 months
A former high-powered executive sweeps into office with experience in an unrelated field. Before he even reports for his first day of work, he sees that a building bearing his name might not be completed due to financial concerns and he proceeds to sledgehammer away at the reputation of his predecessor. On his first day […]
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Commentary: Clearing smoke
Nearly a year ago, just before passage of State Question 788, I wrote an article in Oklahoma Gazette about the historic demonization of cannabis and how political and industrial forces conspired to destroy the market for the plant. Many industrialists and their political allies, including major timber, agricultural and chemical interests, aligned against cannabis to […]
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Commentary: ‘Open-carry hate’
This month, as Oklahoma City observed the 24th anniversary of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, it became clear that disinformation about this mass murder has thrived around us. As the city mourned April 19, Twitter users that we used to call fringe-dwellers until their malevolence was mainstreamed were out in full force. A […]
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Act of hate
Around 6 a.m. Thursday, former governor and first lady David and Rhonda Walters received text messages from their maintenance director, who oversees the Walters’ commercial real estate. The building they own at 3700 N. Classen Blvd., which houses Oklahoma Democratic Party, Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County and other organizations, had been hit with […]
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Commentary: Words matter
Timothy McVeigh was a white nationalist, Turner Diaries-reading terrorist. He used a Ryder truck full of ammonium nitrate to kill 168 men, women and children on April 19, 1995, at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. As we approach the 24th anniversary of this massacre of our neighbors, friends and family, […]
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Commentary: Ill communication
Last week, University of Oklahoma (OU) officials proved they were ill-prepared to address diversity issues when one crisis management attempt backfired and a seemingly good-intentioned message to women came off as retrograde and condescending. The statements were emblematic of the university’s current leadership vacuum, which is sucking the soul out of my alma mater. On […]
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Twiggs, “Hometown”
Oklahoma City’s Twiggs will release its third album, Twiggs III, later this spring, but today the band is releasing two tracks from the album, “Hometown” and “Tennessee.” While “Tennessee” emphasizes the group’s facility with power-pop, “Hometown” is a more pastoral, languid affair, like a midwestern Mazzy Star. The video, which features several recognizable OKC haunts, captures life […]
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Second Chance
Greyson Chance7 p.m. Saturday The Vanguard 222 N. Main, Tulsa thevanguardtulsa.com 918-561-6885 $15-$45 YouTube was four years old and Greyson Chance was 12 when his cover of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” blasted its way onto the internet zeitgeist. A student at Edmond’s Cheyenne Middle School, Chance’s performance in front of classmates was fueled by Juilliard-ready piano […]