Community;News

The Metropolitan Library System has made 2,500 songs, stories, interviews and more from its Oklahoma Folklore Collection available online this fall. The year-in-the-making effort is part of increasing access to the library’s offerings and beefing up state-history-related collections, according to Research Librarian Larry “Buddy” Johnson, who curates the collection, housed at the Downtown Library. “This […]

More than 35 speakers from across the nation are scheduled to present at the second annual Oklahoma Biofuels Conference, to be held Oct. 16-17 at The Sheraton, 1 N. Broadway. Among the topics to be discussed include:” the $40 million research and development initiative for the Oklahoma Bioenergy Center,” an update on new farm and […]

One good celebración deserves another. Capitol Hill Main Street, a nonprofit community development agency, hosts the second annual Fiestas de Las Americas on Saturday. The festival, livening up Commerce Street between S. Robinson and S. Walker avenues, unites efforts between Capitol Hill Main Street and businesses in the Capitol Hill district. Jorge Hernandez ” who […]

Turner Network Television’s “Saving Grace” television series, set in Oklahoma City, completed its first season Sept. 17 by outpacing other debuting primetime cable television series with nearly 5.3 million viewers.   Its closest competition, Lifetime Television’s “Army Wives” averaged 4.53 million viewers during its 13-episode season.   The new 15-episode second season will premiere in […]

The International Downtown Association awarded Downtown Oklahoma City Inc. a Special Achievement Award in Public Spaces Sept. 17 at their annual conference in New York City.   Downtown Oklahoma City Inc. received the award for the Downtown tunnel system, The Underground, at the IDA 53rd Annual Conference & World Congress.   IDA also recognized former […]

Members of the Tuskegee Airmen were on hand as the Oklahoma History Center honored an Oklahoma member of the famed air fighters. A life-size statue of Air Force Maj. Charles B. Hall is being unveiled at the center, 2401 N. Laird.   Hall was the first Tuskegee Airman to shoot down an enemy plane in […]

The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oklahoma City will host its fifth annual “Red Shoe Gala” Friday, Oct. 12, at the newly renovated Skirvin Hilton Hotel. Honorary co-chairs of the event, Becky and Barry Switzer (pictured) and Ronald McDonald himself, will be present to celebrate the charity’s primary fund-raiser. One special community member will receive the “Red Shoe […]

Make pinwheels, not war, and celebrate the United Nations’ International Day of Peace from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday with students, teachers, Oklahoma leaders and other community members from across the city. A giant peace dove puppet will welcome event-goers to the Gold Dome Multicultural Society at N.W. 23rd Street and N. Classen Boulevard, where […]

The first annual Ghouls Gone Wild parade, sponsored by Oklahoma Gazette, is the first of its kind in Oklahoma. Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne will serve as grand marshal, marching in his plastic bubble from the corner of N.W. Eighth Street and N. Broadway Avenue into Bricktown Saturday, Oct. 27. Gazette Marketing Director Jill […]

You might have heard of tree huggers, but urban forester Mark Bays embraces them in more ways than one. Bays has been an arborist, forester and tree care provider for more than 15 years.  “I hug a lot of trees,” admitted Bays, state urban forestry coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. […]