Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!: The Birth of Modern Musical Theatre and a New Image for the State 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays Oklahoma History Center 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive okhistory.org 405-521-2491 Free-$7 For John Steinbeck’s Joads, Oklahoma was a Dust Bowl nightmare they’d give up almost everything to escape. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, on the other hand, […]
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Singer-songwriter Grant Maloy Smith breathes new life into history on Dust Bowl: American Stories
Smith performs Aug. 12 at The Centennial Rodeo Opry.
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American Red Cross celebrates 100 years in Oklahoma
The state includes four Red Cross chapters, all celebrating centennials in 2017.
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“I was pleasantly surprised when I visited there, actually, that I wasn’t totally far off,” she said. “I didn’t end up changing anything.”
“I was pleasantly surprised when I visited there, actually, that I wasn’t totally far off,” she said. “I didn’t end up changing anything.”
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“Today is a Dust Bowl of a different sort,” Chuck D said. “You have a political climate that’s akin to a Dust Bowl, and it’s swirling in the minds of confused Americans.”
“Today is a Dust Bowl of a different sort,” Chuck D said. “You have a political climate that’s akin to a Dust Bowl, and it’s swirling in the minds of confused Americans.”
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Back in Time: The Grapes of Wrath was part of OETA’s ongoing Back in Time documentary series on Oklahoma history.
Back in Time: The Grapes of Wrath was part of OETA’s ongoing Back in Time documentary series on Oklahoma history.
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Cover story: Dust Bowl, Fassler Hall are Midtown’s newest places to score
A feel-good soundtrack, interior design elements straight out of The Brady Bunch, good lighting, unique eats, tasty beverages and bowling.
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Chicken-Fried News: Okie dokie
Governor Mary Fallin has adopted a dog and let Oklahoma residents name it. Oklahomans voted and named the dog Okie.
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Kidnapped!
On a steamy Saturday night, July 22, 1933, two married couples played bridge in the screened-in sunroom of a mansion near downtown. It was after 11:30 p.m., the game starting to wind down, when two armed men — one toting a submachine gun — burst in through the unlatched screen door. One of the women […]
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Carter Sampson — Mockingbird Sing
The album’s 12 tunes brim with crystal-clear, country guitars celebrating all the joys of rural life — and not necessarily just the whiskey-related ones. It’s a dusty gem of an Okie-born album (Sampson’s now based in Fayetteville, Ark.), spiked with the occasional blast of organ and glimmering pedal steel from Chris Moore. Wanda Jackson and […]