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2007 For their second go-round of B-movie skewering, the “Mystery Science Theater 3000” alum comprising The Film Crew tackle 1954’s science-fiction cheapie “Killers from Space.”   After a host opening that’s funnier than their initial one (on “Hollywood After Dark”), the boys don headphones and mics to provide hilarious commentary to this awful, awful, awful […]

DC Comics   Occasionally, on TV and in movies, 3-D is trotted out as a desperate gimmick to boost ratings or box office. For whatever reason, the effect is always disappointing; the last truly good 3-D seems to have been in Vincent Price’s 1953 classic “House of Wax.”   But the comics are another story, […]

Chesapeake Boathouse’s 2007 Summer Rowing Camp is giving teens 12 to 19 the chance to see if they have a knack for rowing. Coaches put beginners on the Oklahoma River and teach them basic rowing techniques and commands. The one-week camp, Monday through July 27, takes off from the boathouse at 725 S. Lincoln. “Most […]

Seth Grahame-SmithQuirk Books Need “all the skills to dodge the kills”? Look no further than this humorous how-to, purposely severed-tongue-in-cheek, presented as if its reader actually were a stereotype trapped in a horror film “? from the “Slutty Goth Chick” to the “Black Guy Who Buys It 20 Minutes In.” Harassing a hobo or screwing […]

Edited by Tom PomplunEureka Productions CliffsNotes, meet your match: A drawing is worth a thousand words “? or at least a couple hundred “? as five classics go graphic in this slim anthology. Inside, readers find a crash course in Gothic Lit 101 “? isolated settings, macabre and mysterious happenings, tremulous heroines “? via J. […]

2007 So much for truth in advertising. When Disney released “Bridge to Terabithia” in theaters earlier this year, its marketing campaign made the flick look like a “Narnia”-styled fantasy.   The initiated knew better. Based on the 1977 young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, “Bridge to Terabithia” is only partially about fantasy. The story follows […]

Even gutter balls score this weekend with the Oklahoma City Zoo at the 14th annual Bowling for Rhinos fund-raiser. Whether pro or amateur, bowlers young and old can have a blast while helping to save endangered rhinos. Teams can play at 2 or 7 p.m. Saturday at Heritage Lanes Bowling Alley, 11917 N. Penn. At […]

Whether it’s to fix that hole in a person’s favorite pair of Levi’s or to turn an ordinary T-shirt into a unique statement, sewing is a skill that remains in high demand. The Oklahoma County Oklahoma State University Extension Center, 930 N. Portland, is doing its part to keep local youth threaded with its “Summer […]

2007   Out of nearly 200 episodes that comprised the late, lamented “Mystery Science Theater 3000” television series, all but maybe three are a guaranteed good time, which makes every box set Rhino Home Video puts out a must-buy.   For the uninitiated, “MST3K” involves a space-stranded host forced to heckle excruciatingly bad movies with […]

y “? certainly the only one all year to involve a porn-addicted customer, a mental institution, a failed polar expedition and the very real possibility of ghosts. Siegel’s novel is not prurient, but its lyrical language and strong characterization intrigues the senses. Siegel makes good on the multiple-meaning title, enveloping the reader in his richly […]