If Mary Fallin takes the podium Nov. 2 as Oklahoma’s governor-elect, she would cement her status as the most successful female politician the state has ever known. It won’t exactly be history in the making for the two-term congresswoman, since it’s a title she already holds, but it will cap a 20-year rise for the […]
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Chesapeake’s Aubrey McClendon aims to cement legacy with sprawling campus
Two pages into Chapter 4, Grandpa Joe tells a wide-eyed Charlie how a work-obsessed Willy Wonka shuttered his candy factory for fear of spies. He chained the gates and told thousands of workers to go home. One day, months later, a wisp of vapor wafted from the smokestack, Grandpa Joe recalled. The whirring of machines […]
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Chesapeake’s Aubrey McClendon aims to cement legacy with sprawling campus
Two pages into Chapter 4, Grandpa Joe tells a wide-eyed Charlie how a work-obsessed Willy Wonka shuttered his candy factory for fear of spies. He chained the gates and told thousands of workers to go home. One day, months later, a wisp of vapor wafted from the smokestack, Grandpa Joe recalled. The whirring of machines […]
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From Norman to NYC, Champian Fulton is back for a string of shows
A good jazz singer is a luxury, like an extra olive in a vodka martini. It’s an extravagance that only comes with a little seasoning and hours propped against or at the bench of a black Steinway. That’s where Champian Fulton comes in. The Norman native has been on a six-year sojourn through the jazz […]
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From Norman to NYC, Champian Fulton is back for a string of shows
A good jazz singer is a luxury, like an extra olive in a vodka martini. It’s an extravagance that only comes with a little seasoning and hours propped against or at the bench of a black Steinway. That’s where Champian Fulton comes in. The Norman native has been on a six-year sojourn through the jazz […]
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MAPS 3 could bring massive central park to OKC downtown area
If MAPS 3 wends its way through the maze of approval and retains its current form, the cracked asphalt that rambles around the Salvation Army and the empty U.S. Postal Service terminal south of Interstate 40 will be unearthed to reveal a paradise, buried for decades in a dense, urban casket. GRAND SCHEME FIRST CENTRAL […]
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MAPS 3 could bring massive central park to OKC downtown area
If MAPS 3 wends its way through the maze of approval and retains its current form, the cracked asphalt that rambles around the Salvation Army and the empty U.S. Postal Service terminal south of Interstate 40 will be unearthed to reveal a paradise, buried for decades in a dense, urban casket. GRAND SCHEME FIRST CENTRAL […]
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Dozens of musicians play tribute to Okie folk hero, political activist Woody Guthrie
For Jonatha Brooke, the feeble scrawls of Woody Guthrie in his twilight are a city thing. After all, she’s a city girl, and Guthrie played out his final years in the low-rise Gotham that seems determined to shove Coney Island out into the Lower New York Bay. So when Brooke spent two weeks of five-hour […]
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Iranians living in Oklahoma look eastward
In 1977, Goli Dunkle came to Oklahoma from her native Iran to pursue a graduate degree in management. By the time she finished, the Iran she had left no longer existed, and there was no going back. As an adherent of the Baha’i faith ” founded in the mid-19th century in what is today Iran […]
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Dozens of musicians play tribute to Okie folk hero, political activist Woody Guthrie
For Jonatha Brooke, the feeble scrawls of Woody Guthrie in his twilight are a city thing. After all, she’s a city girl, and Guthrie played out his final years in the low-rise Gotham that seems determined to shove Coney Island out into the Lower New York Bay. So when Brooke spent two weeks of five-hour […]