Fireworks and sparklers aren’t the only ways to celebrate the Fourth of July, especially here in the metro.
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Birthday bash
Red, White & Boom!8:30 p.m. WednesdayOklahoma State Fair Park Entertainment Plaza3001 General Pershing Blvd.okcphilharmonic.org842-5387free<span style=" Arial” ,”sans-serif””=””> Led by conductor Joel Levine, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic will perform eight American anthems to honor Oklahoma’s heroes with special guest and Broadway veteran Kristy Cates. The concert concludes with a fireworks show. Visitors are encouraged to bring […]
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’Crack down
Credit: Brad Gregg But leave it to the Oklahoma Academy of Ophthalmology to put a stop to all our fun. Since July is Fireworks Eye Safety Awareness Month (did you get our card?), the OAO would like to remind us that — get this — fireworks are dangerous. Who knew? Well, probably all the kids […]
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Set it off
Does it have to do with family, food or fireworks? My bet is that it involves at least one of those three, and maybe all of them. For me, the most memorable Independence Days have involved fireworks. When I was about 10, I clearly remember my two older, ornery cousins wearing blue-and-white-striped denim shorts and […]
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Broad stripes, bright stars
You might be a fireworks enthusiast. After all, it’s the one time of year that blowing up things is OK (outside city limits, of course). Or maybe you want to show off your patriotism, and every single thing about your Fourth of July soiree has to fit that theme. Lastly, you might be the type […]
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’merican medley
As Independence Day approaches, people begin to fret about such things, because when we celebrate America, we must eat American things. (Same thing at Christmas, when we all eat reindeer and drink tinsel wine.) The problem with this is that America is a nation of expats. We use the term “melting pot” a lot, mostly […]