Guess whose 15 minutes aren’t quite up yet? Oklahoma City’s Sweet Brown, whose apartment-fire interview with KFOR Channel 4 made her an Internet superstar overnight. Not just anyone can parlay a life-threatening incident into an appearance on Comedy Central’s hit Tosh.0. Chicken-Fried News wasn’t bowled over by Brown’s spokesperson ad last year selling homes, but […]
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Funny business
Comedian Jay Mohr recently used his popular podcast, Mohr Stories, to call Brian Regan the funniest comedian in America. That was news to Regan. “I didn’t realize he said that, but I’m quite honored. That means a lot to me,” him said. “Compliments are always fun, but when they come from people who do what […]
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All that jazz
Ask local jazz enthusiasts about vocalist Michael Summers, and they may refer to him as the “Michael Bublé of the 405.” This, however, is news to Summers. “You know what? I’m not offended,” Summers said. “He’s a great singer, for sure. I’ll take it!” While pleased with the comparison, he’s quick to note that he’s […]
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Thumbing it
More than 870 people turned out at Wantland Stadium to form a continuous chain, breaking the previous record of 846 that had been set by the University of Missouri at Rolla. The chain remained intact for five minutes while the event was videotaped and photographed to send to Guinness World Records, which is expected to […]
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Pet sights
Now pet lovers can honor their pets and benefit a good cause, all at the same time. Candid Color Systems is donating 100 percent of proceeds from its recently launched Pics Saving Pets website to the Central Oklahoma Humane Society. Under the initiative, pet owners can upload photographs of their animals — with or without […]
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Cafe central
Incidentally, I realized I loved this type of food while staying at a lodge in Costa Rica some years back that was renowned for its bird watching. The food of Costa Rica, which sits farther down the narrow snake of land that forms Central America, loses some of Guatemala’s spice, but the foundations are there: […]
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Trending upward
Forty-five percent of responding CFOs believe the economy will improve over the next six months, which is up from only 30 percent half a year ago. While hiring currently remains tepid, 36 percent of CFOs said they intended on increasing head count at their firm (up from 24 percent six months earlier), and exactly half […]
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Gone with the wind
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the University of Central Oklahoma’s Wind Symphony puts its lips to a concert of 20thcentury classics at the campus’ Mitchell Hall Theater. On the program are compositions by Sergei Prokofiev, Roger Nixon, H. Owen Reed and Ingolf Dahl. “Besides the lush scoring and soaring pictorial themes, the pieces are well-crafted, with […]