Their hair is graying and less plentiful. Mullets are cropped away, resurfacing as beards. Like their bellies, the musicians’ sound has fattened from the feedings of nicer equipment. NOT DISTORTED ENOUGH SMATTERING OF SONGS HALLOWEEN DEBUT Members of Tall Tales once gigged with The Fleshtones, Agent Orange and The Neighborhoods. The Oklahoma-based band, which performed […]
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Tall Tales reboots at Campus Corner confines of The Deli
Their hair is graying and less plentiful. Mullets are cropped away, resurfacing as beards. Like their bellies, the musicians’ sound has fattened from the feedings of nicer equipment. NOT DISTORTED ENOUGH SMATTERING OF SONGS HALLOWEEN DEBUT Members of Tall Tales once gigged with The Fleshtones, Agent Orange and The Neighborhoods. The Oklahoma-based band, which performed […]
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Mayor prioritizes modern streetcar in OKC for MAPS 3
If Oklahoma City is to be a destination ” one with an active, jazzy nightlife in Bricktown and a world-class, millions-of-dollars new convention center, how will people get around when they arrive? EMERGING STREETCAR UNABASHED SUPPORT CANAL EXTENSION ROUTE CANAL The proposed convention center will possibly be located somewhere south of the existing Interstate 40. […]
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Mayor prioritizes modern streetcar in OKC for MAPS 3
If Oklahoma City is to be a destination ” one with an active, jazzy nightlife in Bricktown and a world-class, millions-of-dollars new convention center, how will people get around when they arrive? EMERGING STREETCAR UNABASHED SUPPORT CANAL EXTENSION ROUTE CANAL The proposed convention center will possibly be located somewhere south of the existing Interstate 40. […]
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OPUBCO eliminates 155 positions, 14 percent workforce cut
Something was in the air Oct. 8 at The Oklahoman. Last month, the state’s largest daily newspaper announced the company’s 1,100-member workforce would be downsized in two stages: an initial phase of early retirements in September, followed by a second phase of layoffs the next month. Carrie Coppernoll, an Oklahoman columnist, posted her thoughts at […]
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State’s largest newspaper announces cost-cutting measures
As far as local news cycles go, the biggest announcement Sept. 3 was arguably the official, and largely anticipated, naming of the Oklahoma City Thunder. But, earlier in the afternoon, the state’s largest newspaper posted an article online that resonated throughout the journalism industry. ‘BELLY UP’MORE SOFT NEWSNEWSPRINT COSTS A story titled “‘The Oklahoman’ to […]
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Experts ponder future of small-town daily newspapers
Professor of Community Journalism. “If you owned five newspapers in an area, maybe you can have a central accounting office instead of having an individual at each location, and you provide group buys for your papers and things of this sort to provide economic efficiencies. And that’s helped the profit margins.” Washington Post columnist Steve […]
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Hudson offers to resign if Porter does the same
According to a brief 185-word statement released by The Gooden Group, the chairman of the Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of Education, Cliff Hudson, has offered to resign if current Superintendent John Q. Porter does the same. “We need to get on with the business of the district for the sake of the students. We […]
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LSD experiment at zoo in 1962 killed elephant
Five minutes into the acid trip, Tusko trumpeted, collapsed and lost bowel control. The 7,000-pound elephant’s limbs trembled and his brain entered a dangerous state of persistent seizure. An hour and 40 minutes after the injection of lysergic acid diethylamide, the 14-year-old elephant died. Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West, then professor and head of the […]
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Slain Okarche priest steps closer to sainthood as his murder is probed
The Rev. Stanley Rother’s indigenous parishioners lobbied to keep the slain priest’s heart in Guatemala to symbolize preservation of his spirit after his body returned to Oklahoma. A ‘mammoth’ task A Guatemalan request Unclassified documents While a requested joint Guatemalan-United Nations investigation may shed light into the assassination of the Okarche native, the Archdiocese of […]