As Miss Renee Hilton and the reigning Miss Gay Oklahoma America, Ryan Wood takes drag to high art.
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Planned highlights for this year’s tour include Guilford Gardens and the Potager Garden, soon to be featured in Southern Living magazine.
Planned highlights for this year’s tour include Guilford Gardens and the Potager Garden, soon to be featured in Southern Living magazine.
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The Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits will honor local nonprofit leaders with the center’s fourth annual Visions awards.
The Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits will honor local nonprofit leaders with the center’s fourth annual Visions awards.
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Missed connections
Virginia Singleton, an Oklahoma City Community College student, is using the somewhat-infamous Internet site to try to find her stolen truck instead of relying on police. Her 1994 Chevy truck and some valuable camera equipment were stolen from an OCCC parking lot last month. One of the 300 campus security cameras caught the thieves on […]
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New order
Lisa Rotondo-McCord Lisa Rotondo-McCord didn’t intend to become one of the nation’s leading experts on post-disaster museum management. Her work could easily be called on-the-job training. It is a highly specialized skill set, one learned from experience. Before Hurricane Katrina, Rotondo-McCord was the curator of Asian art at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). […]
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Food Network headed to local eatery
First, the Food Network’s Restaurant Impossible show will tape an episode Jan. 28-29 at the venue, 322 NE Second St. Show host, chef Robert Irvine, is tasked with helping save America’s most desperate restaurants from impending failure in two days with $10,000. Irvine is seeking volunteers to help with painting, crafting, construction, remodeling, cleaning, decorating […]
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Sharing is caring
HiLo bartender Topher Sauceda Photo: Mark Hancock One such event is Saturday’s annual chili cook-off at HiLo Club, 1221 NW 50th St., to benefit Other Options Inc. “[It] was originally put together by longtime patrons and friends of the HiLo, Kendall Simpkins and Tracy Lansing,” said bartender Topher Sauceda. “For four years now, we have […]
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Relief
More than 2,000 families in Moore, El Reno and Shawnee are getting help to rebuild their homes. TOTO USA, a leading manufacturer of bathroom products, is lending a hand by donating showers, bathroom fixtures and toilets. Bill Strang, president of operations for TOTO, is familiar with disaster relief. “When we saw the devastation that occurred […]
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Redux, resized
Only three years after opening the doors of its own venue at NW 16th Street and Broadway Avenue, Reduxion Theatre, one of the metro’s youngest companies, has outgrown the intimate in-the-round setting that has played host to a series of acclaimed shows. To accommodate its expanding audiences and artistic ambitions, early next year, Reduxion’s new […]
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Not in my backyard
The nonprofit agency is building a $15 million, 50,000-square-foot, multipurpose facility that includes an overnight shelter, a feeding site, administrative offices, a chapel and social services offices. The new building replaces the abandoned flea market that was housed there for decades. Marilyn Blackburn, who lives north of the facility at 1101 N. Barnes Ave., complained […]