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Given its proximity to bars, restaurants and the curbside beverage stands that will adorn Main Street, you can’t be faulted for enjoying an alcoholic beverage or six at Norman Music Festival this weekend.
Given its proximity to bars, restaurants and the curbside beverage stands that will adorn Main Street, you can’t be faulted for enjoying an alcoholic beverage or six at Norman Music Festival this weekend.
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Death becomes him
Carpenter Square Theatre continues its 30th anniversary season with a production of Is He Dead?, a fast-paced comedy penned by American humorist Mark Twain and adapted for modern audiences by David Ives. Set in 1846 France, Is He Dead? tells the story of gifted but still-starving artist Jean-Francois Millet, who is in debt to nefarious art […]
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Psyched up
As a new generation of youth absorbs psychedelic classics like The 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson and Pink Floyd, others take it upon themselves to spawn new renditions of that familiar, swirly groove. All the while, the comparatively venerable Dead Meadow nods in approval. The trio was peddling those trippy dirges and swollen, guitar-driven voyages […]
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Godspeed, good man
Bown died Nov. 17 at the age of 82. He was at the helm when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in 1995 and when the original MAPS was approved and implemented two years earlier. Known for his humor, quick wit and frankness, Bown served as city manager from 1991 to 1998. After […]
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Welcome home, Mr. Inhofe
But did you know that if we had “socialized medicine like Obama is trying to impose on America,” he might not have been afforded his recent emergency quadruple bypass heart surgery? That’s how he put it, anyway. “A person can find out, here in the United States, that he has this emergency situation where he […]
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Grave secrets
Without the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement, Calgon detergent and Fred Rogers’ tonsils, Night of the Living Dead would not exist. And without Night of the Living Dead, there would be no The Walking Dead, no World War Z, no entire cottage industry centered around those “all messed-up” ghouls who crave and dine […]
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Day of the Dead
By the time 1985 rolled around, Romero had made one other Dead film: the brilliant Dawn of the Dead. Other countries, especially Italy and Spain, turned zombie movies into virtual cash machines and zombies, for the first time, were everywhere. So there was great anticipation for Day of the Dead, Romero’s third film in what […]
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Hunkered down
Kristi Conatzer said the governor has created an unneeded public debate over keeping children safe based on comments she made opposing an initiative petition. Conatzer’s daughter, Emily, was one of the seven children who died at Plaza Towers Elementary School. “There shouldn’t be an argument over this,” she said. “We lost something on May 20 […]
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Heeeere’s Johnnie’s corpses
“Just trying to scare people, that’s what I like to do,” Mullins told News9, and then laughed. It worked. Neighbors called 911, and the police and fire departments responded. So far, News9 reports, nobody has broken any laws. In fact, Mullins has added another corpse. They will rest where they rest until after Halloween, Mullins […]