Over the last 47 years, the Heritage Hills Historic Home Tour has gradually become one of Oklahoma City favorite pastimes. This year’s event features a costumed narrated walking tour, a vintage automobile display and a vintage fashion display curated by Oklahoma State University fashion design students. The tours take place noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, […]
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Continuing its 30th Anniversary Season, Carpenter Square Theatre presents Lobby Hero, a dramedy by Kenneth Lonergan that demonstrates how good intentions can be undermined by conscious desires. The production was nominated for three Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the Drama Desk Award and the Olivier Award. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday […]
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PBS offers a new perspective on Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds
bY Dean Robbins As an Orson Welles fanatic, I thought I knew everything about his infamous radio adaptation of War of the Worlds from 1938. The 23-year-old genius crafted the program as if Martians had actually invaded the U.S., with news bulletins seeming to interrupt regularly scheduled programming. Listeners believed the invasion was real, and […]
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SCARY DVD REVIEWS
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013) How appropriate a history of the Friday the 13th franchise fits into a snug 13 chapters on Blu-ray and DVD. It makes me wonder if its running time of 6.66 hours also is intentional. Crystal Lake Memories runs a punishing 400 minutes, which signals […]
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Featured Selections from Prix de West, selections from the museum’s most prestigious collection. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. Fuego Friday, this year’s annual event will feature ceramic work and kiln firing techniques as a departure from the annual iron pour, 7-10 p.m., Oct. 25. OU Ceramics Facility, 401 […]
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Mid-Week Market, fresh, delectable local fruits, vegetables and other goods, 4-8 p.m., Oct. 23, 30. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno, 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. WED, WED Farmers Market District Fall Festival, live entertainment with a kids area and vendor booths, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Oct. 27. Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein, 232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com. SUN Paint N’ […]
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1″><span style=" Times New Roman”,”serif”;mso-fareast-Times New Roman”; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ES-BO”> The bar is always open A 61-year-old Texas man admitted to a hospital not long ago appearing to be falling-down-drunk, even though denying having had even a single drink, was discovered to be unintentionally manufacturing beer in his stomach. With “auto-brewery syndrome,” stomach-based yeast […]
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LIFE FOOD & DRINK
LIFE FOOD & DRINK It’s the season for trick-or-treating, holiday parties and countless candy bowls filled with sugary treats. Petra Lusche, nutritionist and food coach, presents a healthy option in the midst of the candy rush for kiddos 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday. Fit Kid Chefs is a mommy/daddy and me class for kids 6-18. Its […]
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Motley ghoul
Recently released digitally and on demand, Ghost Team One is a spirited spoof. BY ROD LOTT With this Halloween season being the first without a new chapter in the Paranormal Activity series, perhaps a Paranormal Activity spoof is the next best thing. There’s no shortage of them, but of the roughly half-dozen I’ve seen, Ghost […]
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1″><span style=" Times New Roman”,”serif”;mso-fareast-Times New Roman”; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ES-BO”> Updates — The family of the great Native American Olympic athlete and Oklahoma native Jim Thorpe (1888- 1953) was so disappointed that the then-governor of Oklahoma would not properly honor Thorpe on his death that one faction of his family moved the body to […]