Suzanne Peck A decade ago, the Oklahoma City arts landscape resembled a blank white canvas, according to local artist Bryan Boone. “I don’t think there was much to it, but now I think we have a thriving arts scene,” Boone said. “It’s really taken off and kind of arrived.” Oklahoma City’s artistic success is due […]
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Doubting Pokes
T. Boone Pickens OSU uber-booster T. Boone Pickens, who was not implicated, said he was “disappointed” in the magazine’s reporting, which details allegations of players and recruits receiving improper payments, academic misconduct, drug abuse and inappropriate sexual conduct between football recruits and members of OSU’s hostess program, Orange Pride. “Many of the sensational allegations go […]
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Serious play
The rules were simple: kick the ball and run fast. Games ended when the recess bell rang, and final scores were often debated with little, if any, resolution. Many of those same kids have grown up and are reliving their youth in Oklahoma City’s World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA). With competitive and social leagues, there’s […]
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Grooms — Infinity Caller
Through these changes, Johnson remained steadfast in his approach, hammering away at a sound that pays homage to his roots and influences while, at the same time, retaining a distinct individualism. Now, with two albums released on two separate labels behind them, Grooms sound rejuvenated on their third proper full-length, Infinity Caller, their most intricately […]
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Silent no more
It’s amazing that it was ever made in the first place. The film, rediscovered by the Oklahoma Historical Society, tells a four-way love story but also shows the lost way of life of its actors — about 300 Kiowas and Comanches. Those traditions were discouraged when the film was shot in July 1920 in the […]
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Video: Danny DeVito proves ‘It’s Always Sunny’ with Kings of Leon
Had enough of the shenanigans? Too bad! Because the band recently enlisted the kings of shenanigans — the gang from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia — for their latest clip. The promotional video — in which the band is absent, but stars Danny DeVito, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day — features a deranged Howerton on […]
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LETTERS
Two points: First, accurate Christian theology agrees with Vitsmun that God does not damn people for not knowing who Jesus “is.” Her statement lacks understanding of prevenient grace. This is God’s grace that goes before awareness of Jesus. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died […]
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Thank you
It was great to see an organization that is so important to me presented in a positive light and in a way that recognizes that atheists are people too. I appreciate it! — Oklahoma City Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor […]
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Stories We Tell
In this intensely personal, potentially embarrassing work, actress-turned-director Sarah Polley (Take This Waltz) gathers her brothers, sisters, father and family friends in order to piece together a portrait of her late mother, Diane, who died of cancer when Sarah still a child. That alone is hardly remarkable enough to merit a feature-length look. Note, however, […]
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Contraception empowers women
It was nearly half a century before the United States Supreme Court, in the landmark 1965 opinion Griswold v. Connecticut, overturned bans on the sale of contraception to married women. Seven years later, the Supreme Court would recognize this same right on behalf of unmarried women. More recently, the Obama administration, under the Affordable Care […]