The museum officially opened in 1919 as an extension of founder Gregory Gerrer’s interest in collecting cultural artifacts.
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Nunsense: The Second Coming brings song, dance and the unexpected to Jewel Box Theatre
The show runs 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 11.
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The Non-Prophet Book of Common Prayer offers secular blessings for the hurting
The book from Literati Press opens with a release show and art exhibition Friday at Paseo Plunge.
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Public Mass of reparation to counter satanic event at Civic Center Music Hall
Event organizers believe a public display like the one planned at the Civic Center deserves a public response.
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The Kentucky Fried Movie
Nothing more than a collection of roughly two dozen unrelated sketches, The Kentucky Fried Movie succeeds most at skewering its own medium: American commercial cinema. Fake trailers mock the exploitation fads of the era with Cleopatra Schwartz (blaxploitation), That’s Armageddon (disaster movies) and Catholic High School Girls in Trouble (youth sex films); they’re so dead-on, […]
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KKNG of kings
Larru Sousa at KKNG radio Credit: Mark Hancock It’s not to be confused with the KKNG that became the current KJKE radio, 93.3. KJKE is the station with the big stick (industry jargon for a powerful signal); KKNG is so low-power, in fact, it has trouble covering the entire metro. Sousa, who spent 38 years […]
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The Perfect Family
The joke of The Perfect Family, of course, is that no such thing exists. Yet in the film, just as in real life, some people put on airs that suggest otherwise. The situation at the heart of this dramedy — running Friday through Mother’s Day at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art — is timely, […]
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Church abuses
Jezior, who moved to Oklahoma City from Ohio last year, is the founder of the metro’s Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) chapter. Ironically, the group’s first meeting last week was scheduled on the day the nation’s Catholic bishops were in Seattle to discuss revisions to the church’s policy on protection of minors. […]