The Nutcracker7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Oklahoma City Ballet Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker 297-2264 $29-$54 While traditional in aesthetic, Oklahoma City Ballet’s annual production of “The Nutcracker” offers up some rousing music, exciting choreography and rich, colorful costumes and sets. It’s a show sure to delight a modern audience looking to […]
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Counterpoint: An internationalist agenda
Agenda 21 is a 40-chapter document spelling out how all activities on the planet are to be brought under the control of the United Nations to create a “sustainable” future for all, forever. George H. W. Bush signed on to this agreement at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. A year later, […]
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Change of plans
A source of funding from the MAPS 3 project that had been promised by supporters of the project to go toward hiring 20 new police officers and 10 new firefighters is instead being used to pay for existing public safety employees because of the city’s budget shortfall. The police and fire unions clashed with supporters […]
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Alleged abuse
A former Oklahoma City Catholic priest has been accused of childhood sexual abuse in a lawsuit by one of his former parishioners. The Rev. Stephen D. Cude is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed recently in Oklahoma County District Court. The plaintiff’s identity is not revealed in the filing. Cude did not return […]
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Zenith
Contrary to the belief of film execs, not everyone hitting the cinemas at Christmastime wants to see Reese Witherspoon in a romantic comedy or Jack Black being tied up by little people. For those seeking a decidedly different, off-off-Hollywood experience, you’ll get it — and then some — in “Zenith.” The self-described “retro-futuristic steampunk thriller” […]
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Cheeky citation
Shot in Guthrie and Oklahoma City, the crime film “The Killer Inside Me” failed to bowl over critics and audiences upon release this summer — budget, an estimated $13 million; total gross, $214,966 — but at least it’s taken home one coveted year-end award: inclusion on Mr. Skin’s Top 10 Nude Scenes of 2010. The […]
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Year-round learning
The Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Dec. 13 to change the district’s traditional calendar to a “continuous learning calendar,” which features a shorter summer break while increasing the time of fall, winter and spring breaks. The new schedule has the same number of days as the old one, and allows students […]
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The View ‘From the Top’
Want to get to the top via “From the Top”? The NPR program is on the lookout for pre-college-aged classical musicians to perform at its live concert radio performance at 3 p.m. May 15, 2011, at Oklahoma City University. From soloists and vocalists to composers, interested students age 8 to 18 who have not yet […]
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The year in theater
Oklahoma City theater hibernates from Christmas until about the ides of January, so as we turn our attention to bowl games and ringing in 2011 — which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee — let’s look back on some of the city’s more noteworthy dramatic […]
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Bumper cars
One of the major projects of the approved MAPS 3 program came under fire by an Oklahoma City council member who said it was at odds with other city initiatives and something city leaders would end up regretting. Around $130 million from the MAPS 3 fund is dedicated to the modern streetcar project, which will […]