An Oklahoma nonprofit remains outspoken and holds annual fundraisers to fight AIDS in the state.
AIDS
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Red Tie affair
Photo: Shannon Cornman This year marks the 22nd anniversary of Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund Inc.’s Red Tie Night to benefit Oklahomans with HIV/AIDS. March 1, Oklahoma City will come together again to rally a cause that has faded from headlines in the past decade, something that OACF wants to change. “It’s more serious today than […]
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Dallas Buyers Club
With Dallas Buyers Club, director Jean-Marc Vallée (The Young Victoria) takes the cinematic liberty to tell Woodroof’s story, revisiting the 1980s during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when rampant conservatism, Reagan’s War on Drugs and the Christian right dominated American culture. In what appears to be the role of his career, an overwhelmingly […]
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Living with AIDS
Whitney Karby and her youngest daughter, Rianna Whitney Karby, a 39-year-old mother of six and grandmother of three, learned she had HIV in spring 2008. That’s when the Oklahoma City- County Health Department notified her that she had been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease. “I was pregnant with my youngest daughter at the time,” […]
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Budding industry
A new reality series on the National Geographic Channel, “American Weed,” focuses on medical pot in Colorado, centering on growers such as the Stanley siblings, and chronicles its eventual demise in one town in the state. Every year, thousands of cardholding patients depend on the Stanleys for medical pot to help ease their pain. But […]
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Life Above All
Now available on a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, the South African film is a mostly unflinching look at the enormous and devastating social consequences the disease still exerts in a part of the world where nearly 12 percent of the population has it. The story, while harrowing, sidesteps becoming advocacy cinema by casting itself in a […]
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Life Above All
Now available on a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, the South African film is a mostly unflinching look at the enormous and devastating social consequences the disease still exerts in a part of the world where nearly 12 percent of the population has it. The story, while harrowing, sidesteps becoming advocacy cinema by casting itself in a […]
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We Were Here
Screening Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “We Were Here” is spare, somber and unsentimental. It is also thoroughly inspiring. Directors David Weissman and Bill Weber illustrate AIDS’ devastating impact on San Francisco by narrowing the focus to a handful of interview subjects. The interviewees — gay-rights activist Paul Boneberg, florist […]
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We Were Here
Screening Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “We Were Here” is spare, somber and unsentimental. It is also thoroughly inspiring. Directors David Weissman and Bill Weber illustrate AIDS’ devastating impact on San Francisco by narrowing the focus to a handful of interview subjects. The interviewees — gay-rights activist Paul Boneberg, florist […]
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‘Angels’ watching over me
Ardmore artist Jan Tindale will open her 3-D exhibit, “Angels and Altars,” at 7 p.m. in the USAO Art Gallery, 1727 W. Alabama in Chickasha. At 8 p.m. the drama department will stage the final performance of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.” Tindale’s exhibit is a culmination of her […]