Credit: Brad Gregg On Aug. 25, Fallin made the comment that it would be “a nice gesture” if President Obama reached out to the family of an Australian college student who was gunned down in Duncan. Christopher Lane, a baseball player at East Central University in Ada, was jogging near his girlfriend’s house when three […]
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Dr. Phil gets schooled
On Aug. 20, one of Dr. Phil McGraw’s staff published this tweet: “If a girl is drunk, is it ok to have sex with her? Reply yes or no to @drphil #teensaccused” McGraw, who was born in Vinita and attended the University of Tulsa, deleted the tweet almost immediately, but the damage had already been […]
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Coach Stoops opens up … on Twitter
Credit: Brad Gregg Well, technically, the OU football coach has been on it for some time now, but his account was private, so no one could read his tweets unless Stoops said they could (yeah, he was one of those). Stoops becomes the second head OU football coach to join the popular social networking site, […]
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It’s Chelsea, lately
“As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible,” Manning wrote in a statement to NBC’s Today […]
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Street Trash
Debuting on Blu-ray in Synapse Films’ “Special Meltdown Edition,” the 1987 skid-row epic centers on an auto junkyard populated by homeless winos. One of them, who looks like famed Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate, finds that a decades-old bottle of Tenafly Viper purchased at the local liquor store causes those who drink it […]
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I dream of Gabriella’s
Credit: Shannon Cornman Psst. Hey. Hey, you. C’mere Hey, man. You like Italian food? Yeah, I’ll bet you do. Everybody does. You like big portions? You like tasty sauces? Did you like the old County Line building, with the stables and the high ceilings? Then let me introduce you to Gabriella’s Italian Grill & Pizzeria. […]
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Chicken run
On Sept. 20, the new Edmond store opened at 1225 E. Second. The other three Oklahoma locations are in Moore, Norman and Quail Springs Mall. Moreover, the company is planning to open three additional stores in the near future. Among them is a Raising Cane’s planned for Adams Tower on the University of Oklahoma campus. […]
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Killer Joe
The second collaboration between director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and Tulsa-born playwright Tracy Letts — their first being 2006’s Bug — this work serves up trailer-trash noir as savage as it is savagely funny. Not that all audiences will get the joke. Letts’ first play rolls around in the muck, and Friedkin […]
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Love and meatballs
If you answered “yes” to both of these questions — for the record, CFN hopes you didn’t — then tomorrow is your lucky day. We’ll let Fazoli’s Italian restaurant PR guy take it from here: “Fazoli’s is offering any couple that gets engaged in the restaurant on Tuesday, February 14 two certificates for a year’s […]
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Well, what’s ‘Tulsa’ backward?
As of press time, user 77Kittycole’s YouTube video “Alyssa talking backwards. Poteau Oklahoma” had notched more than 2.25 million views, thanks to 14-year-old Alyssa Kramer’s awesomely weird ability to instantly speak any word backward. So either every single one of Poteau’s 8,520 inhabitants has watched the thing 266.2 times, or we’ve got one o’ them […]