Community & Lifestyle

When kids celebrate a birthday, there’s cake and ice cream, but hardly ever a gorilla. But from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Oklahoma City Zoo, children of all ages are invited to a birthday party for Earth that will include just that and much more. Candice Rennels, public relations technician for the […]

More than 30 vehicles ranging from garbage trucks to fire engines to a hot air balloon will fall prey to the wandering hands of children 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. That’s when Mothers Offering Mothers Support hosts the third annual “Touch A Truck” event at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds, 615 E. Robinson in Norman. “Kids […]

Kids attending the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History this weekend are going to dig this ” literally: The museum is playing host to a family fossil-hunting field trip Friday and Saturday, and whatever participants unearth, they get to keep. So, Mom, prepare to make room for a life-size trilobite display in the den. […]

A battle of wits and words will be waged Thursday and Friday at the fifth annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair.   Held at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua in Norman, participants will demonstrate their knowledge of more than 18 different American Indian languages.   Students compete in spoken […]

A park is generally a place where kids can play. An art show is generally for adults looking to be inspired. But Friday through Sunday, art meets the park at Norman’s 33rd annual May Fair Arts Festival.   May Fair’s 2007 Celebrated Artist, Bob Palmer, will let kids help him create three canvas murals honoring […]

1990-91/2007 Almost six years after the first season came out on shiny platters, the second/last season of David Lynch’s revolutionary television series “Twin Peaks” finally hits DVD. The half-decade wait was worth it “? not just because Paramount has done a fine job in the audio/video department, but because the late, lamented show is a […]

These days, Michael Shayne is all but forgotten, but at one time he was among the coolest things going in crime fiction “? so much so that 20th Century Fox bankrolled a series of feature films featuring Brett Halliday’s detective character. Four of these 12 genial crime dramas are collected in the two-disc “Michael Shayne […]

Reviewers’ grade: D An animated movie about talking food items, robots and weird space creatures shouldn’t be this boring, but the “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” doesn’t work on the screen remotely as well as it does on cable television. The film follows the adventures of Frylock, Master Shake and their little- pile-of-meat cohort, Meatwad, as […]

Reviewer’s grade: A- Lewis, a brilliant scientist in the making, is an orphan who is hustled away in a flying time machine by Wilbur, a kid from the future. In Wilbur’s day, a villain known only as The Bowler Hat Guy is attempting to take over the world with the aid of computer-run bowler hats. […]