17 Pygmies-13 Black Birds
Trakwerx 17 Pygmies have been away for 17 years, but the 10-member 2006 version of the California consortium has returned younger than yesterday to produce its best work yet, a 30-track, two-disc beguiling behemoth. Even if you discount the fact that disc two is 13 versions of the same song, done in wildly differing ways…
Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass/Various artists-Whipped Cream & Other Delights Re-Whipped
Shout! Factory Every music collection needs at least one cover sporting a model in a Reddi-wip bikini. Chances are, your grandparents have one in the form of Herb Alpert’s classic 1965 album “Whipped Cream & Other Delights.” But a much more revealing one adorns that album’s 40th-anniversary remix collection, appropriately subtitled “Re-Whipped.” While not…
Transition for Oklahoma labor commissioners crosses lines of miscommunication
Brenda Reneau and her top staff finally vacated the office of state labor commissioner this week. It can be hard for someone who has held an elected position for several years to wake up to reality and hand over a job he or she has been told to leave. Back in November, more voters…
Oklahoma woman’s house explodes after sewer, gas line mishap
Forgive that headline, dear CFN reader, but what are we gonna say about this one? According to recent stories in The Oklahoman, the home of an 88-year-old Madill woman exploded after city workers drilled through a gas line that happened to have been laid in her sewer pipe more than 10 years ago. Now…
OKC Casady grad’s talk show cancelled
Allow CFN a moment to pause and reflect about the glory that was Megan Mullally’s talk show. Ahh. OK ” we’re better. According to published reports, the one-time Oklahoma City high school student’s chat-fest bit the dust last week, hitting the skids less than five months after it first aired. “I am extremely proud…
Oklahoma sheriff-turned-spa-owner faces sex charges
Turns out it’s not the long arm of the law we have to worry about, but “¦ um “¦ other appendages. A former sheriff turned spa owner in Durant has been charged with sexual battery, according to a report in The Oklahoman. The story says Jon Livingston, one-time sheriff of BryanCounty, has been accused by…
Passing the buck?
Send me a dollar. Don’t ask why. Don’t ask what for; just do it. In a way, that is what our government says. Yes, the government budget does list categories where our money goes, and we do have a bunch of governmental services, but does anyone know how our dollars are spent? Our…
Ghostface Killah-More Fish
Def Jam Scattered Wu-Tang Clan projects are better than none at all. Ghostface Killah’s “Fishscale” was one of 2006’s more accomplished rap records, competing perhaps only with Rhymefest’s “Blue Collar” for the crown of year’s best. Squeaking in at the end of the year, “More Fish” continues the bracing brilliance of “Fishscale,” a paranoid, poetic…
Hangman, be not proud
More than 3,000 American servicemen and women are dead. Forty-seven thousand reportedly are injured. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead, and the region is awash in sectarian violence that never ends. The reputation of the United States is in shambles, billions of tax dollars have been poured into the sand and the most radical…
