Zach Harrington, a 2009 graduate of Norman North High School, took his own life last month. The week before his death, the 19-year-old Zach attended a Norman City Council meeting featuring a three-hour debate over a proclamation to name October Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History Month. Video of the Sept. 28 meeting is available […]
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Are you trying to kill me?
Here’s a breakdown of a recent lunch break: Leave office. Head toward the Midtown area for sustenance. At N.W. 18th and Classen, narrowly avoid being sideswiped by a driver going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit and not watching where he’s going; his eyes are focused somewhere below his steering wheel. Perhaps he […]
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The great taco caper
Don’t eff with a town that’s in its third week of triple-digit temperatures. That might be the lesson for fast-food “West-Mex” chain Taco John’s after the social media brouhaha it got into with lovers of local favorite Iguana Mexican Grill. A note for would-be corporate spooks: Consider your timing. It’s the first week of August. […]
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Who loves Jesus most?
Did you know that you can buy Christian breath mints? If you don’t find that at least mildly amusing, it might be time to check yourself in to the “Home for People Who Take Life Too Seriously.” Christian breath mints. Like slapping a Bible verse on something and selling it in the church bookstore makes […]
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The Cimarron Alliance Foundation renews it purpose with a new executive director
Scott Hamilton (not that Scott Hamilton) grew up in Oklahoma never thinking he would return. “I lived in New York for 24 years; it was just not in my thinking at all ever to come back here,” Hamilton said. Hamilton said that several things brought him back to Oklahoma. His husband wanted to return to […]
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Leaving Oklahoma
You’ve had this happen before, right? You’re standing around whatever the 21st century equivalent of the water cooler is (the Keurig? Facebook?), and the conversation takes a dismaying turn to the latest crazy happening down state Capitol way. Someone inevitably groans and says, “I think I just need to move to another state.” Not to […]
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OMRF’s lupus registry hopes to unlock a piece of deadly disease’s puzzle
On Sept. 22, 2009, the world bid farewell to Lucy O’Donnell Vodden, the fabled “Lucy” of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” fame. NEVER IDENTICAL GENETIC FACTORS STIMULUS PACKAGE John Lennon’s son Julian drew a picture of her in 1966 that inspired the legendary track from The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album. […]
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Hit the road for driving tour of Oklahoma’s fall colors
Now that summer has officially ended, Oklahomans might be tempted to put away their mix tapes and spend the cooler months hunkered down with their maps and offbeat tourism books, planning to take next May by the throat and once more see as much of the Sooner State as possible. QUEEN WILHELMINA STATE PARK ARCHAEOLOGICAL […]
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OMRF’s lupus registry hopes to unlock a piece of deadly disease’s puzzle
On Sept. 22, 2009, the world bid farewell to Lucy O’Donnell Vodden, the fabled “Lucy” of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” fame. NEVER IDENTICAL GENETIC FACTORS STIMULUS PACKAGE John Lennon’s son Julian drew a picture of her in 1966 that inspired the legendary track from The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album. […]
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Oklahoma museum honors legendary ‘Singing Cowboy,’ Gene Autry
You probably know Gene Autry best because of Christmas. Every year around the holidays, his classic renditions of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman” and his original “Here Comes Santa Claus” are audio staples of the holiday machine ” the soundtrack to frenetic shopping, tree assembly and eggnog-fueled bacchanalia. SHRINE BEVERLY HILLBILLY Of course, […]