Not everybody who wants to write a book should, but the advent of print-on-demand technology has anybody to become a published author. Companies like iUniverse will print anybody’s not-so-great American novel (or anything else) for a fee or a huge cut of the profits, if any. “Get Published!: Professionally, Affordably, Fast ” is a how-to […]
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Festival of the Arts featuring 144 artists this year
nze pouring will be featured. Clint Howard, owner of the Deep in the Heart Foundry near Bastrop, Texas, will coordinate the nightly pours. FOOD AND MUSIC More than two dozen food vendors will be at the festival, Baker said, mostly located south of the Festival Plaza. The Arts After School gallery on the east side […]
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The Ten-Minute Sexual Solution: A Busy Couple’s Guide to Having More Fun, Intimacy, and Sex
Dr. Darcy Luadzers Hatherleigh Press Hard to believe, but some couples forget to spend time with each other. Lack of intimacy can drive a wedge into any relationship, and our state has a divorce rate to prove it. Sex therapist Darcy Luadzers is here to help, with tips on reigniting romance for those who […]
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Oklahoma novelist offers view of state different from Steinbeck
Many may consider “The Grapes of Wrath” the quintessential novel about Oklahoma. Novelist Rilla Askew does not. “People think they know the story of Oklahoma during the Thirties because Steinbeck’s book has become iconic,” said Askew. “The image of Oklahoma is of the Joads heading west on the Mother Road. The state gets summed up […]
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CityRep stages ‘Our Town’ with top-notch cast
Encompassing 12 years at Grover’s Corners, N.H., Thornton Wilder’s Pultizer Prize-winning “Our Town” “? put on by Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre with Oklahoma City University Department of Theatre “? focuses on the effects of industrialization on America, love, marriage and death. Most productions of “Our Town” are done on big, bare stages, so director Michael […]
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Comedian Brian Regan continually updates jokes for a fresh take on the world around him
Brian Regan 7:30 p.m. Thursday Rose State College Performing Arts Theater 6420 S.E. 15th, Midwest City www.brianregan.com 297-2264 $39.50 When Brian Regan found that people knew him as the stand-up comedian who always hunched over and paced around the stage, he decided to stand up straight. When he heard that people knew him as the […]
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Parks and Recreation: Season Two
zon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002N5N5PM&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr” style=”width: 120px; height: 240px;” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″> Universal Studios Home Entertainment has the audacity to slap the quote “This is the funniest show on television” on the back of the box of “Parks and Recreation.” So good thing it really is! While I’m still an unapologetic fan of the series’ abbreviated, foot-finding first season, “Parks […]
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Tuna, Texas is back on stage with ‘A Tuna Christmas’
A Tuna Christmas 8 p.m. Friday, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Through Dec. 12 Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker www.cityrep.com 297-2264 $25-$30, $15 groups, $8 student rush When Jonathan Beck Reed plays a role, it stays played. And in Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s production of “A […]
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The Sooner Theatre gets into the holiday spirit with “Scrooge”
Scrooge: The Musical 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Through Dec. 12 The Sooner Theatre 101 E. Main, Norman www.soonertheatre.org 321-9600 $15-$28 The Sooner Theatre gets into the holiday spirit with “Scrooge,” musical version of the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol.” As in Dickens’ original novella, “Scrooge” tells the story of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge, […]
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Certifiably Jonathan
Getting older may mean getting wiser, but that doesn’t preclude enjoying a good fart joke now and then. Or, if you’re Jonathan Winters, several times a day. The venerable comedian, now 85, is the star and subject of “Certifiably Jonathan,” a cute documentary/mockumentary showing Friday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Shot […]