Credit: Brad Gregg But the problem, according to a Thunder spokesman, was pretty simple: Lil Wayne didn’t have a ticket. The Thunder contended that the rapper only wanted to sit in the front row, but that no tickets — least of all the Nicholson seats — were still available. Did Lil Wayne have a special […]
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Glenn levity
Credit: Brad Gregg We kid, we kid. Beck’s un-electability, however, is the premise behind his live comedy show, which makes a stop Friday at the Civic Center Music Hall (a performing arts venue built and maintained with public funds). Unelectable is sure to incite the choir. In a 2009 Salon article, Steve Almond called Beck […]
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Super sizing
Credit: Brad Gregg KWTV Channel 9’s Gary England and KFOR-TV Channel 4’s Mike Morgan batted around the usual, tiresome comparisons: quarter-sized, golf ball-sized, baseball-sized, softball-sized. Yawn. Morgan briefly livened things by suggesting some of the hail was grapefruit-sized, but we took a look outside and think he got his grapefruits and clementines confused. But then […]
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Shirt happens
Brad Gregg An Oklahoma City-based business, Warpaint Clothing Co., riled fans of the Seattle SuperSonics — the Thunder’s previous incarnation — for hawking T-shirts that appropriated the Sonics’ logo and read, “Thank you Seattle.” After a few well-placed Twitter mentions two weekends ago brought attention to the shirts, Warpaint began receiving online death threats. “So […]
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Putting the ‘eff’ in ‘friendly skies’
Brad Gregg According to RH Reality Check, a website dedicated to reproductive and sexual health news, American Airlines recently kicked the Tulsan off a flight because of her T-shirt. No, it wasn’t one of those Warpaint ones that spurred so many death threats. Instead, it read, “If I wanted the government in my womb, I’d […]
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Jump, shot
Brad Gregg On May 21, you might recall, Bricktown turned into the OK Corral shortly after the Thunder eliminated the Los Angeles Lakers from the NBA Western Conference playoffs. Eight people were shot just a few blocks west of “Thunder Alley,” the area in front of the arena that began as pre-game entertainment, but over […]
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The season for giving
Brad Gregg Needless to say, the culprit wasn’t Santa Claus, either. OKC police said Jamison Ives Marchette left the bawdy bags for the women, one of whom later picked the man out of a lineup. According to police, one of the recipients found the accused masturbating outside her home. Ding-dong! If the gift-giver was Marchette, […]
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Junk ball
It evidently wasn’t enough that eight people were shot in Bricktown shortly after the May 21 NBA game in which the Oklahoma City Thunder eliminated the Los Angeles Lakers from the Western Conference playoffs. Now, a sports columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune has told his readers that, while the Minnesota Timberwolves aren’t in the playoffs, […]
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When newspeople make news
Brad Gregg Former Oklahoman, Tulsa World and Oklahoma Gazette reporter Scott Cooper recently resigned his position as treasurer-secretary of the Oklahoma Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists after a preliminary review of SPJ’s bank account showed $40,000 in unauthorized withdrawals, according to an SPJ media release. Cooper, who founded the online oklegalnews.com and […]
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Funny people
Brad Gregg After President Obama voiced support for gay marriage, the Oklahoma Senate wasted little time passing what Tim Matheson in Animal House would have termed “a really futile and stupid gesture.” A resolution authored by Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond, and overwhelmingly passed by the Senate on May 14 reaffirmed that the Senate supports marriage […]