Sponsored by the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Association, the family-friendly event features some unusual races for a worthy cause. Each animal and jockey combination will be assigned a celebrity trainer, who has chosen a local nonprofit organization to represent. The winners of both races will receive a $1,000 donation from Remington Park for the champs’ […]
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City life on the farm
Elia Woods Mark Hancock At the forefront of this realm of agriculture is Elia Woods, who enlisted the help of neighbors to form CommonWealth Urban Farms. After years of teaching weaving at City Arts Center, Woods was ready to change gears. She took a market gardening course at Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City and the idea […]
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‘Cat’ lady
It’s not often that a cat writes a New York Times best-selling series, but for more than 20 years now, Sneaky Pie Brown has defied the odds, with the help of her human owner, Rita Mae Brown, of course. This month, the 20th anniversary book of Brown’s Mrs. Murphy mystery series, The Big Cat Nap, […]
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That’s hard-core
In Oklahoma, artists aren’t always able to unleash their wild side, but Biting the Apple provides an annual exception. From Friday to Saturday at Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, there’s no holding back. Doubling as a fundraiser, Biting the Apple is a juried art and performance exhibition where local creatives can express themselves through provocative […]
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Camp a lot
King GuitArthur and The Drüggs 8 p.m. Friday-SaturdayThe Boom2218 N.W. 39th kgatd.com/tickets601-7200$10-$13 Lots and lots of glitter. Written by Nicholas Tankersley and Matthew Alvin Brown and featuring 14 songs written by Brown, GuitArthur focuses on an alien rock band that comes to Earth and gives one final show before they destroy the planet with their […]
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Isn’t it ‘Funny’?
If you’re thinking that sitcom story lines were only original 60 years ago, think again: Even then, they were recycled. To see an adaptation of comedy at its original roots, catch A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, presented by Oklahoma City Community College’s Department of Music and Theater Arts. This musical […]
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‘Royal’ treatment
Johnny Royal joined the society six years ago, and is now a Master Mason and officer at the Elysian Lodge 418 in Los Angeles. The idea of making a documentary on the world of Freemasonry came to him last May. This week, he and his crew will be in Guthrie shooting for the film, The […]
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Stretching for serenity
These are not ordinary students. Founded by Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, the school is designed to protect and empower African women who have been abducted, raped or abandoned. Many of the estimated 200 young women at the center were victims of warlord Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, where they were forced to serve as child brides […]
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Spring fling
Set aside the electronic gadgets and the technological advances, and you’ll see that the modern-day teenager isn’t too different from a 19th-century one. And Spring Awakening, showing at the Lyric at the Plaza, is a Tony Awardwinning musical that explores the enduring theme of young love. Awakening is the adaptation of a 1891 play written […]
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Frontier cookin’
Ree Drummond 1 p.m. Saturday Full Circle Bookstore 1900 Northwest Expressway 842-2900 The megapopular blogger and author will speak and sign books at Full Circle Bookstore to benefit the YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter. A Bartlesville native who attended college in Los Angeles, Drummond is a city girl accidentally gone country after she fell for a […]