The moment the seasons hint at change, our cravings change, too.
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Ethiopian cuisine means spicy, communal eating
With the mountains creating a natural isolation barrier to outside influences, Ethiopian cuisine became quite unique.
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Have you met? E. Blake Jackson
E. Blake Jackson uses what comes second nature to him to tackle the expanding universe of communications for Saxum.
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Oklahoma City rapper L.T.Z.’s improbable story is best told atop a beat
Love, trust and Zion. After an asthma attack put him in a coma for nine days back in 2001, those were the words that kept popping up in the prayer book left beside the hospital bed of a then-11- year-old L.T.Z. It felt like a sign.
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Tesla is back on the road, feeling refreshed and ready to rock
Tesla was born into the hair-metal heyday of the ’80s, its L.A. epicenter located just down the highway from their native Sacramento. But the gap between the two Cali metropolises proved just enough to instill a different set of sensibilities, even if they traveled in similar circles.
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11-year-old Olivia Kay is already wowing crowds
Standing at just over four feet at center court of Chesapeake Arena before Game 2 of the Thunder-Grizzlies playoff series in April, 10-year-old Edmond singer Olivia Kay nailed every note and word of the national anthem to audible awe from the sellout crowd.
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You might call Jimmy LaFave the Cal Ripken Jr. of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. In 16 years, the singer-songwriter and founding father of Red Dirt hasn’t missed a single hour of the five-day festival.
You might call Jimmy LaFave the Cal Ripken Jr. of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. In 16 years, the singer-songwriter and founding father of Red Dirt hasn’t missed a single hour of the five-day festival.
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SOUND MIXING FOR FEATURE FILM PANEL
FRIDAY, APRIL 11 AT 1 PM LOCATION: SONGWRITING ROOM (FIRST FLOOR OF ACM@UCO, 25 S. OKLAHOMA AVE.) HOSTED BY: LANCE MCDANIEL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL, AND DAVID HANON, ACM@UCO PRODUCTION FACULTY. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Yo ho ho and a flagon of rum
The band’s persistence resulted in a recording contract with Side One Dummy records (Irish punks Flogging Molly are label-mates) and a spot on Vans Warped Tour after a parking lot audition for Warped Tour owner Kevin Lyman. Its debut album, Forge & Flagon, came out in 2012. Band members went on to play their self-described […]
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Web and flow
Photo: Mark Hancock There’s a lyric from Josh Sallee’s new album, Know Society, in which the 26-year-old Oklahoma City rapper confronts this very issue: “Who is he?/ Is he who he sees?/ Is he everything that he ever liked or seen?/ Is the game of fame influencing?” The song — “TLD – Technologicallogicaldreams” — serves […]