above American Bald Eagle at the zoo The Oklahoma City Zoo will be getting some major renovations under a new master plan approved by the City Council at its Dec. 21 meeting. In addition, zoo-goers will also see ticket and membership price increases, with single-day tickets going up by $1 and annual membership prices increasing […]
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Good Fortune
The Fortune Tellers with Feel Spectres and DJ Eddie Lee9 p.m. Friday VZD’s Restaurant and Club 4200 N. Western www.vzds.com 524-4203 If you were in Oklahoma City during that era when cell phones were bigger than irons and neckties were skinnier than Calista Flockhart — the 1980s, for those of you playing along at home […]
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Champions in the NBA feed on doubt, criticism
Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Kevin Durant receives a lot of accolades. Coming into the season, NBA pundits bent over backwards to proclaim Durant as the “odds-on favorite” to win the MVP. Opposing players fawn over his abilities. His performance in the FIBA World Championship tournament had journalists across the globe proclaiming him as the best […]
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Growing rowing
The sport of rowing continues to make a splash in Oklahoma City. In fact, the United States national rowing team has taken so much of a liking to the Oklahoma City River, it decided to make the waterway its new home. The USRowing team will consolidate its lightweight division training operations to the Oklahoma City […]
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Penny for your thoughts
A recent poll of likely Oklahoma City voters shows a majority of those surveyed do not support the city owning a hotel that would adjoin the future MAPS 3 convention center. While likely voters are split about the MAPS 3 convention center’s location, it is important that the site be near Bricktown, according to the […]
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Firefight
The Oklahoma City firefighters’ union has come to a possible agreement with the city in this year’s contract negotiations. The firefighter’s union is the only city employee union that has yet to come to an agreement with the city for the current fiscal year. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the […]
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Bite Size
The Societies of Oklahoma City University are honoring four women at the annual Awards of Excellence dinner Feb. 26 at the Skirvin. The honorees are Jenny Love Meyer, being awarded the Kirkpatrick-Petree Music and Performing Arts Society Award; Julie Hall, awarded the Dulaney-Brown Library Society Award; Lori Hill, awarded Norick-Hulsey Art Gallery Society Award; and […]
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With dunk contest, NBA is grooming Ibaka for stardom
Few events have created more stars than the NBA’s Slam Dunk Contest. From its inception at the 1984 NBA All-Star game, many of the league’s marquee moments have occurred as part of this mid-season exhibition. From Julius “Dr. J” Erving’s free-throw line slam and the mano a mano battles between Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins, […]
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A years-old winning design for a bus stop will jump from sketch to street
“Hey, what is it that you like about this stop?” “What do you think could be done here to improve being on public transit?” And so it went, from the mouth of David Brewer, an architect at Glover Smith Bode Inc. His reason for giving the third degree? Research. Brewer served as captain of a […]