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You can pet a porcupine, feed a kangaroo and get friendly with a 17-foot albino Burmese python at Norman’s Little River Zoo, 3405 S.E. 120th. Just south of busy Highway 9, the zoo sits amid 50 heavily wooded acres in the cross timber forest, which the zoo claims is one of the last remaining ancient […]

Oklahoma Laborfest The Plaza District Thursday-Saturday 634-4030, www.oklahomarevelator.com/laborfest Oklahoma’s state motto, “Labor omnia vincit” (which translates to “labor conquers all things”), points to a state that was founded on the principles of hard work and virtues of the working class. But Tim O’Connor, president of the Central Oklahoma Labor Federation, feels that Oklahoma citizens might […]

When the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain, the meteorologists at Norman’s National Weather Center, 120 David L. Boren Blvd. on the University of Oklahoma campus, are on high alert to anticipate Mother Nature’s sometimes-nasty moods. Student-led tours take visitors into the heart of the facility’s weather warning and storm forecasting nerve center for a […]

Open House University of Oklahoma American Organ Institute Monday, 6 to 8 p.m. 2101 W. Tecumseh in Norman 325-7829, aoi.ou.edu Organs may be favorites of churches and phantoms of the opera, but the University of Oklahoma American Organ Institute would like to give the rest of us an up-close look at what makes these room-sized […]

A minor controversy erupted in 2007 when the Oklahoma Senate declared the watermelon the official state vegetable, as most people thought it was a fruit. But Wanda MacGregor, festival chair for Saturday’s 66th annual Watermelon Festival in Rush Springs, said she’ll just go along with the Senate. “Oklahoma deemed the watermelon the state vegetable, so […]

Alexander Graham Bell might be surprised by how much his invention has changed since that first telephone call to Mr. Watson. Lucky for him, he could track his machine’s evolution at the Oklahoma Museum of Telephone History, 111 Dean A. McGee. Tracing the advances in technology that have carried the industry from Bell’s early experiments […]

Midwest Ink & Metal Fest Friday-Sunday Reed Center 5800 Will Rogers Road, Midwest City www.midwestinkandmetalfest.com $15 day, $30 weekend It will be a very metal weekend as body modification, tattooing, custom cars and metal music get their time to shine during the three-day Midwest Ink & Metal Fest. The expo that began last year as […]

Les Hutchens wasn’t particularly disturbed when a woman came to him with her deceased dog’s testicles. Heck, he wasn’t even all that surprised.   It’s all in a day’s work for Hutchens, the president and CEO of Stillwater’s Reproductive Enterprises Inc. Even if that day happens to be the Friday after Thanksgiving, and the work […]

The Bryant Center at N.E. 23rd Street and Interstate 35 was a community center for the city’s African-American population. Martin Luther King Sr. and Clara Luper spoke there in its heyday. Residents gathered to talk and share fellowship. Gamblers traded faded bills and rolled worn dice. It was the gambling that put an end to […]