News That Sounds Like a Joke
A 114-pound tortoise, part of the Zambini Family Circus performing in Madison, Wis., in July, escaped. He actually made good time on his dash for freedom, covering two miles in six days before being spotted. About 20 men were present for a Belgian body builders’ championship in May when three anti-doping officials arrived unexpectedly and…
The Jesus and Virgin Mary World Tour
Latest Playdates: Las Vegas, August (Jesus on a sticker on woman’s toilet lid) Bryan, Texas, July (Mary on a bird dropping on the side mirror of a pickup truck) Ravena, N.Y., June (Jesus in a coffee stain on a mason jar) Dallas, May (Jesus-shaped piece in a bag of Cheetos) Harlingen, Texas, May (Mary’s image…
News That Sounds Like a Joke
A 114-pound tortoise, part of the Zambini Family Circus performing in Madison, Wis., in July, escaped. He actually made good time on his dash for freedom, covering two miles in six days before being spotted. About 20 men were present for a Belgian body builders’ championship in May when three anti-doping officials arrived unexpectedly and…
Creme de la Weird
According to prosecutors in Britain’s Preston Crown Court in July, Christopher Monks, 24, wanted two things (based on transcribed Internet chat room dialogue): his parents killed and his penis bitten off. As the Internet is fertile ground for communities of sexual aberrants, Monks easily found a man, Shaun Skarnes, 19, who was searching to accommodate…
The Jesus and Virgin Mary World Tour
Latest Playdates: Las Vegas, August (Jesus on a sticker on woman’s toilet lid) Bryan, Texas, July (Mary on a bird dropping on the side mirror of a pickup truck) Ravena, N.Y., June (Jesus in a coffee stain on a mason jar) Dallas, May (Jesus-shaped piece in a bag of Cheetos) Harlingen, Texas, May (Mary’s image…
Creme de la Weird
According to prosecutors in Britain’s Preston Crown Court in July, Christopher Monks, 24, wanted two things (based on transcribed Internet chat room dialogue): his parents killed and his penis bitten off. As the Internet is fertile ground for communities of sexual aberrants, Monks easily found a man, Shaun Skarnes, 19, who was searching to accommodate…
Recurring Themes
No Respect: The latest community to challenge the taboo about disturbing a graveyard is Peoria, Ill., where the Lincoln Branch Library is planning an expansion, though on land that was a 19th-century burial ground. By law, all bodies must be preserved, but each exploratory dig turns up more bodies, driving up costs to the city.…
Things That Live in the Water
“Goose barnacles”: A 6-foot-long log composed of hundreds of barnacles, locked together, washed ashore near Swansea, Wales, in August. Each of the barnacles uses tentacles for snatching food, and a 6-foot mass of snake-like appendages, writhing simultaneously, terrified local beachgoers. Scientists said goose barnacles usually remain on the ocean floor. “Tubifex worms”: Using a flexible-hose…
Recurring Themes
No Respect: The latest community to challenge the taboo about disturbing a graveyard is Peoria, Ill., where the Lincoln Branch Library is planning an expansion, though on land that was a 19th-century burial ground. By law, all bodies must be preserved, but each exploratory dig turns up more bodies, driving up costs to the city.…
Cutting-Edge Breakthroughs
In April, researchers at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City reported the ability to encase scorpion venom in “nanoparticles” that were somehow able to guide the venom intravenously to the human brain, to attack tumors, potentially doubling the venom’s success rate. A team from Britain’s University of Warwick announced in April that it…
Cutting-Edge Breakthroughs
In April, researchers at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City reported the ability to encase scorpion venom in “nanoparticles” that were somehow able to guide the venom intravenously to the human brain, to attack tumors, potentially doubling the venom’s success rate. A team from Britain’s University of Warwick announced in April that it…
Things That Live in the Water
“Goose barnacles”: A 6-foot-long log composed of hundreds of barnacles, locked together, washed ashore near Swansea, Wales, in August. Each of the barnacles uses tentacles for snatching food, and a 6-foot mass of snake-like appendages, writhing simultaneously, terrified local beachgoers. Scientists said goose barnacles usually remain on the ocean floor. “Tubifex worms”: Using a flexible-hose…
Folk-rock darlings Fruit Bats bite back with solid lineup, new album
Ever live in a shadow? For Fruit Bats, it’s been The Shins, who have hovered over Eric Johnson’s band like an older brother. Both signed to Sub Pop in the early aughts, and the two groups express a similar appreciation for the pastoral psych folk of the ’60s, if with decidedly different levels of success.…
Paper Heart
Charlyne Yi (“Knocked Up”) and director Nicholas Jasenovec (whose credentials seem to consist mainly of being friends with Seth Rogen) have co-written a neat twist on the romantic comedy by blurring identity and reality. The premise is this: Yi, playing herself, claims to not believe in love. She thinks the whole subject has been tainted…
Folk-rock darlings Fruit Bats bite back with solid lineup, new album
Ever live in a shadow? For Fruit Bats, it’s been The Shins, who have hovered over Eric Johnson’s band like an older brother. Both signed to Sub Pop in the early aughts, and the two groups express a similar appreciation for the pastoral psych folk of the ’60s, if with decidedly different levels of success.…
Love Donald Duck
Donald Duck may be a lovable icon of comic mishap to American youngsters, but in Germany, he is wise and complicated and retains followers well past their childhoods. Using licensed Disney storyline and art, the legendary translator Erika Fuchs created an erudite Donald, who often “quotes from German literature, speaks in grammatically complex sentences, and…
Individual Artists of Oklahoma switches sets to make new scene in downtown’s Film Row
It was a lobby, a tiny room crammed between studio spaces in the Paseo Arts District. Late Oklahoma City painter Claude Anderson worked on one side, filling canvases with bold oil portraits. Anderson’s experience with commercial art was instrumental in helping his playwright friend with an ambitious idea. AUTO DEALER FILM MAKER FOUNDATION, FUNDING POETRY…
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
What I wish for you this week is that you won’t be satisfied with mediocre truths; that you’ll be a fussy perfectionist focused on cutting out waste, fraud, and delusion; that you’ll be itchy to know more about the unacknowledged games that are being played. Frustration, I hope, will be your holy fuel. Unsweetened lemonade,…
Documentary ‘Food, Inc.’ pulls back veil on food industry
The documentary “Food, Inc.” begins, appropriately enough, in a grocery store, its brightly lit and vaguely antiseptic aisles stocked with name-brand cereals, soups and salad dressings. The expanse of labels boasts illustrations of inviting red barns, rolling hills of green grass, smiling farmers. It’s a familiar and comforting image, but one that the filmmakers suggest…
Matthew Alvin Brown follows ‘Rainbow’ opus from album, film to Big Apple
le=”MARGIN: auto 0in”> BIG-APPLE STAGE Brown said Saturday’s version of his movie-turned-musical is what he will stage for Big Apple audiences at the Sept. 28-Oct. 18 festival. “We’ll make some changes after the reading, based on audience reaction, but this is close to the final product,” Brown said. Described as a fantastical odyssey of a…
Inspectors investigate pipe dumping into Oklahoma River
The anonymous tipster had interesting news for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry officials. There was a tinhorn dumping who knows what into the Oklahoma River near the Oklahoma National Stockyards and surrounding industrial property. A tinhorn is another name for a steel culvert, or pipe. CULVERT CAMERA AGRICULTURE APPLICATION ATHLETIC RISKS RIVER…
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
What I wish for you this week is that you won’t be satisfied with mediocre truths; that you’ll be a fussy perfectionist focused on cutting out waste, fraud, and delusion; that you’ll be itchy to know more about the unacknowledged games that are being played. Frustration, I hope, will be your holy fuel. Unsweetened lemonade,…
OKC bachelorette party produces colorful police report
You know you’re ready to walk down the aisle when you are bashed in the face and the cops are called to your bachelorette party. At least that seems to have been the case recently when, according to The Oklahoman, just such a fight broke out. According to a series of stories, the bachelorette party…
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because of an incident involving an apple, right? Wrong. Many biblical scholars suspect the fruit in question was either a fig, grape, or pomegranate. I mention this, Gemini, because I think you’d be wise to review your own personal myth of exile. It’s time to…
Oklahoma judge strikes down legislature’s newly passed abortion law
The Oklahoma Legislature may have to go back to the drawing board for another law detailing what women must go through to get an abortion. A recent decision from Oklahoma County District Judge Vicki Robertson ruled that a law the Oklahoma Legislature passed in 2008 is ” go, figure ” unconstitutional, according to a recent…
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
In his book *From Heaven to Earth: Spiritual Living in a Market-Oriented World,* Aaron Zerah riffs on the Hebrew word “nabal.” It describes someone who’s so staunchly concentrated on practical concerns that he becomes impractical. Please don’t let this be your fate anytime soon, Capricorn. For the ultimate benefit of the bottom line, disregard the…
Cornett announces he will run again for OKC mayor
Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett announced Aug. 26 he will seek a third term as mayor of Oklahoma’s largest city. Cornett was elected mayor in 2004 with 57 percent of the vote in a special election against three opponents, and re-elected in 2006 with 87 percent of the vote against two opponents. The election for mayor…
Odd couple teams up for inaugural Moore War Run
Moore War is the nickname of one of the most contentious rivalries in high school football. It all began about 20 years ago, when Moore High School lost half its student body when Westmoore High School first opened its doors. The animosity finds an outlet once a year when the schools meet on the football…
What’s the demographic breakdown of Oklahoma’s unemployed?
If you are a white male, between the ages of 25 and 34 and worked in an Oklahoma factory, there is a good chance you are now unemployed. Those are the main characteristics of the average Oklahoman who is now receiving an unemployment check from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. The latest statistics from the…
Bright Ideas
The preferred “disciplinary” tactic of Tampa, Fla., high school assistant principal Olayinka Alege, 28, is to have underperforming students remove a shoe so he can “pop” their toes. Five students at King High School complained, triggering a sheriff’s office investigation, but Alege was cleared, and indeed, the students admit that the popping is painless (though…
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
A woman living in China’s Jilin province got married in a wedding gown with a train that was 1.4 miles long. Lin Rong’s dress was decorated with 9,999 red silk roses and took three months to sew. In the spirit of her record-breaking ritual, Aquarius I encourage you to be extravagant and imaginative as you…
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
If at some future time you sell your life story to a filmmaker who makes it into a feature film, it may have a lot to do with adventures that kick into high gear in the coming weeks. The fun will start (I hope) when you decide not to merely lie back and be victimized…
Jewel Box opens its season with entertaining ‘Auntie Mame’ production
s who is Mame’s best friend. Some of the best scenes in the show are between Hall and Kerby, as they go back and forth between being supportive and sniping at each other. Cheryl Varnell is another great foil for Mame in a brief role as Sally Cato MacDougall, a rival for the affections of…
Pollard’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ is buyable
ved the hard life of a traveling salesman, driving his New England territory. When his buyers and customers begin to die off or retire, he loses his contacts, hence his sales decline. Willy’s wife, Linda, keeps meticulous track of the family’s finances; she even knows how to calculate his amount commission. Once a top salesman…
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Years ago, a TV sitcom called “The Andy Griffith Show” ran for seven seasons on CBS. Its star, Any Griffith, played a mild-mannered sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. His sidekick was Barney Fife, a bumbling deputy with a sweet disposition. Shortly after he left the show, Griffith had a dream in which…
Throw Rag return from early career abyss to mop up audiences
For some, rock ‘n’ roll is a waypoint on the road to adulthood, but for many of its misfits, mavericks and miscreants, it represents a ledge above a descent into more harrowing pursuits. It’s potentially a narrow, circumscribed life that doesn’t offer a lot of shelter from the elements or room for anyone but bandmates,…
Inspectors investigate pipe dumping into Oklahoma River
The anonymous tipster had interesting news for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry officials. There was a tinhorn dumping who knows what into the Oklahoma River near the Oklahoma National Stockyards and surrounding industrial property. A tinhorn is another name for a steel culvert, or pipe. CULVERT CAMERA AGRICULTURE APPLICATION ATHLETIC RISKS RIVER…
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
What have you always wanted to yell from the pinnacle of the hill in the distance? This is the week to go there and yell it. What is that safe way of getting high that you’ve always wanted to try but never had the time for before? This is the week to try it. What…
CFN Quote of the Week
“My dad was a pit master and now I’m a ‘Top Chef Master.’ … I think he would be really, really, really proud of that.” “Rick Bayless, winner of Bravo channel’s “Top Chef Masters” competition, quoted in the Tulsa World. Bayless is a chef in Chicago at Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. He started at his…
What’s the demographic breakdown of Oklahoma’s unemployed?
If you are a white male, between the ages of 25 and 34 and worked in an Oklahoma factory, there is a good chance you are now unemployed. Those are the main characteristics of the average Oklahoman who is now receiving an unemployment check from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. The latest statistics from the…
Science Museum Oklahoma screens ocean documentary
Taking a seaworthy getaway isn’t easy here in Oklahoma, especially now that summer break is over. But metro families can still soak up a little surf and observe oceanic wildlife inside Science Museum Oklahoma’s 70-foot Dome Theater. In March, the museum brought “Wild Ocean” aboard the large-format screen at 2100 N.E. 52nd. The 2008 IMAX…
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because of an incident involving an apple, right? Wrong. Many biblical scholars suspect the fruit in question was either a fig, grape, or pomegranate. I mention this, Gemini, because I think you’d be wise to review your own personal myth of exile. It’s time to…
University of Oklahoma releases iPhone application
Proving Apple’s iPhone ad claim of “There’s an app for that” true, the University of Oklahoma has released its own official application for the ever-popular mobile device. According to the Tulsa World, the app ” dubbed “OU2GO” ” allows users to view a campus map, read university news, view its YouTube channel, listen to the…
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Are you familiar with the phenomenon known as a fire whirl? It happens on rare occasions when a fire produces a tornado-like vortex that rises up vertically, spinning madly. It’s beautiful to behold but is not something you ever want to be close to. I bring this to your attention in the hope that you…
Bright Ideas
The preferred “disciplinary” tactic of Tampa, Fla., high school assistant principal Olayinka Alege, 28, is to have underperforming students remove a shoe so he can “pop” their toes. Five students at King High School complained, triggering a sheriff’s office investigation, but Alege was cleared, and indeed, the students admit that the popping is painless (though…
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Are you familiar with the phenomenon known as a fire whirl? It happens on rare occasions when a fire produces a tornado-like vortex that rises up vertically, spinning madly. It’s beautiful to behold but is not something you ever want to be close to. I bring this to your attention in the hope that you…
Inglourious Basterds
Many of filmmakers are smart “? in fact, most of them are. Even Uwe Boll got through medical school. But being smart doesn’t mean that they make smart movies. Summer 2009 has been loaded with entertaining eye candy that was dumber than a Redman spit cup. Just when I’d given up all hope for a…
South Carolina artist pours out immense installation
Further emulating Goldsworthy, Brilliant’s material is natural, although highly processed. Instead of “liberating” the materials from Starbucks, he now orders the wood coffee stirrers in bulk quantities to fill ever more ambitious spaces. The resulting works are large-form lattices, developed from an interlocking weaving system. “It’s a little bit like a piece of wicker furniture…
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
What life will you be living at noon on September 1, 2014? Who will you be? How thoroughly will your dreams have come true? What kind of beauty and truth and love and justice will you be serving? Will you look back at the time between August 27 and September 21, 2009 and sigh, “If…
Science Museum Oklahoma screens ocean documentary
Taking a seaworthy getaway isn’t easy here in Oklahoma, especially now that summer break is over. But metro families can still soak up a little surf and observe oceanic wildlife inside Science Museum Oklahoma’s 70-foot Dome Theater. In March, the museum brought “Wild Ocean” aboard the large-format screen at 2100 N.E. 52nd. The 2008 IMAX…
University of Oklahoma releases iPhone application
Proving Apple’s iPhone ad claim of “There’s an app for that” true, the University of Oklahoma has released its own official application for the ever-popular mobile device. According to the Tulsa World, the app ” dubbed “OU2GO” ” allows users to view a campus map, read university news, view its YouTube channel, listen to the…
West Texas guitar-slinger Seth James survives four years in label limbo
Seth James trudged a long, twisting road on the way to his sophomore album, “That Kind of Man,” which was held up by four years of legal wrangling and label turnover, during which the West Texas singer/songwriter bided his time and paid the bills penning commercial music. The trouble started when his guitar-slinging Western blues…
Throw Rag return from early career abyss to mop up audiences
For some, rock ‘n’ roll is a waypoint on the road to adulthood, but for many of its misfits, mavericks and miscreants, it represents a ledge above a descent into more harrowing pursuits. It’s potentially a narrow, circumscribed life that doesn’t offer a lot of shelter from the elements or room for anyone but bandmates,…
Two OKC performers drop full-length albums at performance
Two police detectives stepped from the front door of a house near N.W. 36th Street and May Avenue as I arrived to interview rappers C.B. Dub and Infamous. Before I could ask what was happening inside, one issued a stern look and held his fingers to his lips, dictating silence. “Cut!” bellowed from inside the…
Loony Bin Comedy Club welcomes comedy veteran
Canadian comedy veteran Leo Dufour and Missouri stand-up Mike Baldwin have joined for a five-day stage run at The Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell. Baldwin was a finalist in the well known San Francisco International Comedy Competition in 2007. The comic took third, citing an empty wallet as the inspiration behind his blistering…
West Texas guitar-slinger Seth James survives four years in label limbo
Seth James trudged a long, twisting road on the way to his sophomore album, “That Kind of Man,” which was held up by four years of legal wrangling and label turnover, during which the West Texas singer/songwriter bided his time and paid the bills penning commercial music. The trouble started when his guitar-slinging Western blues…
Documentary ‘Food, Inc.’ pulls back veil on food industry
The documentary “Food, Inc.” begins, appropriately enough, in a grocery store, its brightly lit and vaguely antiseptic aisles stocked with name-brand cereals, soups and salad dressings. The expanse of labels boasts illustrations of inviting red barns, rolling hills of green grass, smiling farmers. It’s a familiar and comforting image, but one that the filmmakers suggest…
CFN Quote of the Week
“My dad was a pit master and now I’m a ‘Top Chef Master.’ … I think he would be really, really, really proud of that.” “Rick Bayless, winner of Bravo channel’s “Top Chef Masters” competition, quoted in the Tulsa World. Bayless is a chef in Chicago at Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. He started at his…
Odd couple teams up for inaugural Moore War Run
Moore War is the nickname of one of the most contentious rivalries in high school football. It all began about 20 years ago, when Moore High School lost half its student body when Westmoore High School first opened its doors. The animosity finds an outlet once a year when the schools meet on the football…
Imagine OKC
Bricktown continues to thrive, especially with the arrival of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, and new housing development in downtown around the Deep Deuce area foreshadows a bright future for the inner city. But there’s more to be accomplished. The Northeast 23rd Street Corridor Plan, if fully implemented, would improve a historic section of the…
Leading Economic Indicators
The Economy Is Working: Carole Bohanan was hired among 300 applicants by the Wookey Hole tourist facility in Somerset, England, in July to be its witch-in-residence, at a pro-rated annual salary of the equivalent of about $83,000. The witch’s job is to linger in the caves full-time during tourist season, looking like a hag and…
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
If at some future time you sell your life story to a filmmaker who makes it into a feature film, it may have a lot to do with adventures that kick into high gear in the coming weeks. The fun will start (I hope) when you decide not to merely lie back and be victimized…
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
In his book *From Heaven to Earth: Spiritual Living in a Market-Oriented World,* Aaron Zerah riffs on the Hebrew word “nabal.” It describes someone who’s so staunchly concentrated on practical concerns that he becomes impractical. Please don’t let this be your fate anytime soon, Capricorn. For the ultimate benefit of the bottom line, disregard the…
Cornett announces he will run again for OKC mayor
Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett announced Aug. 26 he will seek a third term as mayor of Oklahoma’s largest city. Cornett was elected mayor in 2004 with 57 percent of the vote in a special election against three opponents, and re-elected in 2006 with 87 percent of the vote against two opponents. The election for mayor…
Love Donald Duck
Donald Duck may be a lovable icon of comic mishap to American youngsters, but in Germany, he is wise and complicated and retains followers well past their childhoods. Using licensed Disney storyline and art, the legendary translator Erika Fuchs created an erudite Donald, who often “quotes from German literature, speaks in grammatically complex sentences, and…
OKC bachelorette party produces colorful police report
You know you’re ready to walk down the aisle when you are bashed in the face and the cops are called to your bachelorette party. At least that seems to have been the case recently when, according to The Oklahoman, just such a fight broke out. According to a series of stories, the bachelorette party…
Oklahoma judge strikes down legislature’s newly passed abortion law
The Oklahoma Legislature may have to go back to the drawing board for another law detailing what women must go through to get an abortion. A recent decision from Oklahoma County District Judge Vicki Robertson ruled that a law the Oklahoma Legislature passed in 2008 is ” go, figure ” unconstitutional, according to a recent…
Canadian man allegedly pulls prank on Tulsa hotel
The switchboard at the Hilton Garden Inn in Tulsa was a little more harried than usual on July 15. That’s when, according to The Smoking Gun, the hotel’s incoming phone calls had been re-routed to an online prankster in Ontario, Canada. Thus, when visitors fresh off the plane at the airport called to ask about…
Leading Economic Indicators
The Economy Is Working: Carole Bohanan was hired among 300 applicants by the Wookey Hole tourist facility in Somerset, England, in July to be its witch-in-residence, at a pro-rated annual salary of the equivalent of about $83,000. The witch’s job is to linger in the caves full-time during tourist season, looking like a hag and…
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Close your eyes and imagine you’re in a meadow as rain falls. Inhale the aroma of the earth as the ground is soaked. Dwell in the midst of that scent for a while, allowing it to permeate your organs and nerves. Feel its life-giving energy circulating through you. Give yourself to the memories it evokes.…
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
A woman living in China’s Jilin province got married in a wedding gown with a train that was 1.4 miles long. Lin Rong’s dress was decorated with 9,999 red silk roses and took three months to sew. In the spirit of her record-breaking ritual, Aquarius I encourage you to be extravagant and imaginative as you…
Heart has pulsed for more than 30 years, continues to rock
Nancy Wilson clearly remembers the first time she heard her band, Heart, on the radio. It was 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She and her older sister, Ann, had just picked up some groceries and were driving back to the house they shared with their bandmates. “The local radio had started playing a couple of…
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Years ago, a TV sitcom called “The Andy Griffith Show” ran for seven seasons on CBS. Its star, Any Griffith, played a mild-mannered sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. His sidekick was Barney Fife, a bumbling deputy with a sweet disposition. Shortly after he left the show, Griffith had a dream in which…
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
What have you always wanted to yell from the pinnacle of the hill in the distance? This is the week to go there and yell it. What is that safe way of getting high that you’ve always wanted to try but never had the time for before? This is the week to try it. What…
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Close your eyes and imagine you’re in a meadow as rain falls. Inhale the aroma of the earth as the ground is soaked. Dwell in the midst of that scent for a while, allowing it to permeate your organs and nerves. Feel its life-giving energy circulating through you. Give yourself to the memories it evokes.…
Heart has pulsed for more than 30 years, continues to rock
Nancy Wilson clearly remembers the first time she heard her band, Heart, on the radio. It was 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She and her older sister, Ann, had just picked up some groceries and were driving back to the house they shared with their bandmates. “The local radio had started playing a couple of…
Canadian man allegedly pulls prank on Tulsa hotel
The switchboard at the Hilton Garden Inn in Tulsa was a little more harried than usual on July 15. That’s when, according to The Smoking Gun, the hotel’s incoming phone calls had been re-routed to an online prankster in Ontario, Canada. Thus, when visitors fresh off the plane at the airport called to ask about…
Imagine OKC
Bricktown continues to thrive, especially with the arrival of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, and new housing development in downtown around the Deep Deuce area foreshadows a bright future for the inner city. But there’s more to be accomplished. The Northeast 23rd Street Corridor Plan, if fully implemented, would improve a historic section of the…
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
What life will you be living at noon on September 1, 2014? Who will you be? How thoroughly will your dreams have come true? What kind of beauty and truth and love and justice will you be serving? Will you look back at the time between August 27 and September 21, 2009 and sigh, “If…
Two OKC performers drop full-length albums at performance
Two police detectives stepped from the front door of a house near N.W. 36th Street and May Avenue as I arrived to interview rappers C.B. Dub and Infamous. Before I could ask what was happening inside, one issued a stern look and held his fingers to his lips, dictating silence. “Cut!” bellowed from inside the…
Adventureland
2009 “Adventureland” is a fun coaster ride, but don’t expect a “Superbad”-esque laugh-and-vomit comet. Having been a good boy in high school and college, nebbish James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) is psyched for European adventure abroad with his buddies before graduate school. But when his dad’s job is downgraded, James’ trip is nixed, and he is…
Heroes: Season 3
2008-2009 How the mighty have fallen. After a near-genius debut, NBC’s “Heroes” plummeted creatively with a second season seemingly intent on destroying everything that was good about the show. Hearing fan complaints (and seeing the massive ratings freefall), creator Tim Kring pledged the third time would be the charm. He was right “¦ for a…
The Batman/Superman Movie / The Batman vs. Dracula
ntique dragon made of Kryptonite. Batman flies into the picture as well, and he and Supe forge a reluctant partnership against their arch-enemies while they battle for the heart of sultry journalist Lois Lane. While Luthor tries to distance himself from the plot to off the Man of Steel, the Joker finds plenty of help…
