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Remember Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth March from Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age novel, “Little Women”? Well, your children might not. So this weekend, introduce them to the American classic in a way they’ll appreciate. Oklahoma City University will present the state premiere of “Little Women: The Musical.” Students from OCU’s Wanda L. Bass School of […]

  2007 Your kids not ready to make the leap to “Hostel II” or “Saw III”? They can make do this Halloween season with “R.L. Stine’s Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It,” a feature-length, family-friendly fright flick premiering on DVD.   “Hannah Montana” co-star Emily Osment headlines the movie as Cassie, who visits a Halloween […]

The University of Central Oklahoma will host its fifth annual Children’s Asian Moon Festival at 7 p.m. Saturday, at Broncho Lake in the heart of UCO’s campus, 100 N. University, in Edmond. “The festival is traditionally a Chinese celebration in the fall, but we’re taking this day and using it to celebrate the Asian culture […]

Macadam Cage Verbally abusive mother raises daughter. Daughter internalizes abuse, waits for mother to die to release her from her hellish childhood. Now you know the general plot of “Open Me,” Sunshine O’Donnell’s first novel. The work itself is decidedly less cheerful than the author’s name, but fascinating as it blends historical reports documenting the […]

Mentor Hope Publishing Oklahoma City-based business owner Tom Pace collaborates with local author Walter Jenkins to deliver “Mentor: The Kid & The CEO,” a slim slice of inspirational fiction with entrepreneurial appeal. The narrator is Tony, a 19-year-old who lands in the Oklahoma County Jail for stealing a 12-pack of beer. His wayward direction in […]

2007 For the third expedition of The Film Crew “? those “Mystery Science Theater 3000” vets now charged with providing commentaries for films too bad to merit them otherwise “? the boys visit the island of Wongo, in the stunningly awful 1958 flick “Wild Women of Wongo.” Of course, “stunningly awful” translates to “frequently hilarious” […]

ct, a few read so pretentious and flowery that I’m not convinced they’re entirely factual. But, as the saying goes, the truth hurts, at least on occasion. There’s still enough fascinating bits here to merit a purchase, and a hope of more volumes to come. “?Rod Lott  

What do you get when you mix Dr. Doolittle, The Crocodile Hunter and Bill Nye the Science Guy? A high-energy, charismatic animal-lover with a penchant for communicating with children and nature in some of the most off-the-wall ways. His name is Lucas Miller, but he’s better known as “the Singing Zoologist.” Children in the metro […]

DK Books For the budding paleontologist in your family, the ginormous board book “Dinosaurium” is worth more than an all-day pass to Jurassic Park. And far less dangerous.It’s literally 10 books in one. The more pages you turn, the more publications are revealed, hidden in die-cut nooks and crannies. For example, a “Dino Bio” comic-strip […]