It marks not only singer Carah Faye Charnow’s return to the band whose founders were born in Shawnee, but also a return to the New Wave synth-pop sound that made them famous. The opening trio of “Somewhere to Hide,” “Waiting Alone” and “Carrie” are just as synthsational as the band has ever been. “Carrie” is […]
guns
Posted inNews
When guns don’t help
I think you would have developed enough wisdom to understand that not everyone thinks that the Second Amendment means what you think it means. It seems ironic to me that Morris seems to imply the Lt. Col. is a traitor and then goes on to glorify other traitors. It is unclear to me what makes […]
Posted inMusic
Locked and loaded
UK rock band Young Guns didn’t have the biggest expectations for its first substantial trek across the pond. “We were kind of thinking, ‘We are first ones on, from England, and no one is going to give a shit,’” singer Gustav Woods said. “It’s been fantastic, though. We were hungry. It’s so great to come […]
Posted inNews
Patriot acts
Before the end of that nine-day standoff, Weaver’s wife and son would be killed along with a deputy U.S. marshal. And the repercussions of the siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, would help fuel the anti-government militia movement of the 1990s. Now, the nation and Oklahoma are seeing a resurgence of the so-called patriot movement beyond […]
Posted inNews
Bad traffic
Zule Farms in Lexington Credit: Mark Hancock The evidence that Mexican drug cartels are doing business in Oklahoma appears overwhelming, and while the state has not seen levels of cartel-fueled violence even close to that occurring in Mexico, the Sooner State does play an unfortunate role in the madness. Situated almost squarely in the middle […]
Posted inNews
How many children must die?
These events have become routine in this country, but this one is getting attention because its on a larger scale. What is wrong with us? How many children have to die before we do something about this nonsense? I don’t care what the Second Amendment says: We are not responsible enough as a society to […]
Posted inNews
Open carry is an embarrassment
Robin Meyers In almost every column I wrote, there was a singular refrain: Beware the triumph of the Christian right in the halls of power. Beware the lawmaker whose intolerance masquerades as faith, and whose fundamental distrust of women creates laws designed to shame them rather than to protect them. Don’t say that you weren’t […]
Posted inNews
Locked, loaded and legal
Jerome Ersland, before his life sentence for a shooting death Mark Hancock There are nearly 125,000 active concealed-weapons licenses in the state, 24,018 of which were approved last year. Gun legislation is ever-present. The most prominent such bill from the current session would allow people with a concealed weapon license to carry their guns openly. […]
Posted inNews
Redneck rhapsody
Brad Gregg At a National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, the “Cat Scratch Fever” crooner railed that if Obama were re-elected in November, Nugent would “either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” The comments came during an interview with NRA news host Cam Edwards, a former reporter and talk-show host […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Wolf Head
Ryan “Staples” Scott just wanted to “do something funny, with guns.” “The image of a gun has so much more weight to it,” said the Yukon resident. “I wanted to create a plot to push that.” The end result is his directorial debut in feature filmmaking, “Wolf Head,” shot entirely in the Oklahoma City metro […]