Hell, yeah! Who wouldn’t want to see the Oklahoma City Thunder point guard show off his mad Taco Bell skills? We looked forward to drooling in anticipation of watching him participating in the following: —Chalupa preparation, a timed event; —guess the Gordita, blindfolded; and —Crunchwrap Supreme toss, a distance competition. Turns out none of those […]
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L.A. not-so-confidential
They’ll help Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook represent the Western Conference in their annual tussle with the east this year, but it looks like things might be a little awkward in the All-Star locker room, as Bryant exchanged a lot of words with James Harden (who out-shot Bryant while defending him) and Durant. Watch for […]
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Breeding Ground
The latest star in the making looks to be Noah Crawford, a 17-year-old Oklahoma City resident who just landed a leading role on a new Nickelodeon series, “How to Rock.” Crawford will play a techie keyboardist, a role that will allow him to show his physical-comedy chops. “[Noah] started [acting] when he was 6 and […]
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Grand theft … Zumba?
But state Rep. William Fourkiller thinks outside the box. The Stilwell Democrat is proposing to place a tax on so-called violent video games. His measure, House Bill 2696, seeks a 1 percent tax on the sales of all video games rated “teen,” “mature,” or “adult only,” by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. That revenue, in […]
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Hip to be ’Square
At its inception, Foursquare provoked questions like “But what’s it for?” and “Why do my points matter?” from the non-social-media masses; the hyper-connected felt a collective bond of confusion and embraced the new and somewhat stalker-y app with glee. Using the most basic reward system out there — acknowledgment — the app slowly began to […]
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What is life
In that spirit, it’s worth noting that the first bill passed by the Oklahoma state Senate this session wasted no time diving into the so-called culture war. By a 34-8 vote, the Senate passed a measure Feb. 15 stating that life begins at conception. Senate Bill 1433 ensures that fetuses have the same full rights […]
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God beats labor
As if the Capitol crowd can’t get enough of that old-time religion during the springtime revival known as the legislative session — what with legislative prayer breakfasts, a newly formed prayer caucus and efforts to promulgate Christian creed — some fervent wordsmiths have constructed a state motto to help clarify our identity: “Oklahoma — In […]
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Deposit insurance
While it’s not hard to imagine the state Legislature holding a special joint session to sing that song with as much gusto as “God Bless America,” it had an opportunity last week to prove how sacred sperm can be. “Personhood” legislation is making its way through the Legislature. The measure grants all rights and privileges […]
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Do the Busey
Last week, the paparazzi outlet caught the Oscar-nommed actor (in 1979, mind you, but perhaps there’s hope next year with “Piranha 3DD”?) in a playful moment, dancing in a parking lot, presumably to an audience of his car’s open trunk (parked in a handicapped spot, for what that’s worth). Grooving awkwardly to Orleans’ soft-rock 1976 […]
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Take that to the bank
Oklahoma, of course. Attorney General Scott Pruitt protested that the national settlement against the banking titans — Wells Fargo, Citigroup, GMAC, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America — had morphed into an Obama administration overreach for a regulatory overhaul. Instead, Pruitt cobbled the state’s own settlement with the banks, ensuring $18.6 million for Oklahoma. Compare […]