In news that’s guaranteed to get Grandpa started on a, “These damn kids nowadays with their purple hair and their Pokermans [sic]” rant, Oklahoma City University’s new E-Sports team, which held tryouts on Sept. 14, gives students the chance to play video games competitively against teams from other schools. You know, like a sport. OCU […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Righteous Gateway
As The Righteous Gemstones — the series meant to satirize the hypocrisy of powerful megachurches — is in the middle of its run on HBO, real life is proving to be just as absurd as the television show. Tulsa-based nonprofit The Frontier launched its own investigation into one Oklahoma’s most powerful Christian organizations, Gateway Ministries, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Wing stop?
A continuing city council squabble over a planned public art installation in Enid might mean the work remains incomplete after more than two years of construction. Oklahoma artist Romy Owens asked Enid city council for a deadline extension for “Under Her Wing was the Universe” — a 25-foot-high, 130-foot-long walkthrough sculpture she designed with artist […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Convenient narrative
If you, an average person, decided to leave your job without providing two weeks notice, which would give the former employer the ability to adequately find a replacement, would you expect them to roll out the red carpet if you returned on a business meeting as a member of your former company’s biggest competitor? That’s […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Okie stooges
Oklahoma’s very own three stooges already forgot Mexico was supposed to pay for president Donald Trump’s border wall. But who can blame them? It’s not like Trump tweets about the southern border all the time or anything. In a press release, Sens. James Lankford and Jim Inhofe, along with congressman Kevin Hern, said it was […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Catholic lapse
In August of 2018, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City announced that it would be investigating its clergy for claims of sexual abuse and misconduct, but following multiple postponements of the promised report, a local victims advocacy group is decrying a conflict of interest. “While numerous other dioceses across the nation called on law enforcement to […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Cupcake caper
A Cleveland County man really “nailed it” during a road rage incident that led to an assault charge that involved a cupcake. According to the Pauls Valley Democrat, Trevor Pearson has been charged with a misdemeanor at the end of August stemming from an alleged road rage incident that ended with Pearson throwing a cupcake […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Epic ails
Despite the many controversies surrounding Epic Charter Schools, its advertising campaign, like a runaway train, continues full steam ahead. Tulsa World reported that Epic spent $2.5 million for an advertising campaign that covers television, radio and online ads. It also pays to sponsor play areas inside two malls, adding up to $105,000 in annual costs. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Bad look
A KOCO anchor compared her black co-anchor to a baby gorilla, and she got to keep her job. But it’s 2019 and a white supremacist-enabling narcissist is running the country, so we can’t be too surprised. Despite being one of the more diverse news stations in Oklahoma City (which really isn’t saying much at all), […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Job fulfillment?
Sorry we’re late, but a happy belated Amazon OKC1 Fulfillment Center Day to you and yours. In case you missed it, Gov. Kevin Stitt proclaimed Aug. 25 as a day celebrating the official launch of Amazon’s first Oklahoma fulfillment center. According to a press release faithfully regurgitated by too many local media outlets to name […]