Local country band Lower 40 — with a top 30 single and having had shows in front of audiences numbering in the thousands — ostensibly became a band because of vocalist Kyle Earhart’s height. In 2011, Land Run Records needed a band to be in a film. “They had this vision of a trio-type band […]
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21 Grahams
Graham Colton has a smile on his face most of the time. You wouldn’t know it from listening to his soulful, introspective music, but life has been pretty great for the Oklahoma native. The past two years have been about change — both professional and personal — that culminated in his new album, Lonely Ones. […]
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What the frack?
Amberlee Darold, who previously worked as a contracted geophysicist for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, was added to the University of Oklahoma-based state agency to conduct research with fellow seismologist Austin Holland. Even having a second seismologist on the staff — which also includes scientists studying water, coal and other geological pursuits — hasn’t seemed […]
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Flying high
Brent Weber first visited Camp Summit — a camp in North Texas for special needs people of all kinds — to visit his daughter who was volunteering there. That was in 2008, and it started a “labor of love” project for Weber; he started filming footage with no concrete plans for it. Now, six years […]
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Who’s your daddy?
Late at night in a pool house studio, Jordan Richardson — the songwriter behind Son of Stan — would plug his electric guitar straight into a tape machine, foregoing amps so he could create a synthetic sound that reminded him of the desperation of ’80s suburban shopping malls. “There’s just something about it. There’s something about […]
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Megan’s musings
“Most things that come out of celebrities’ mouths are, well, you know,” said Megan Mullally, trying to explain the nature of fame and the famous and how completely bizarre it all is. The actress and singer also has stories about fans who identify her only with characters she has played and others who have strange […]
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Kings of leon sing about Okie ties
In a recent feature on the making of “Last Mile Home,” the band’s contribution to the film, the Grammy-winning alt-rockers detailed the song’s inspiration. “We’ve been offered movies that they’ve spent $300 million to make. We’ve said no to it, just because we had no connection to the movie,” bassist Jared Followill told The Huffington […]
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1″><span style=" Times New Roman”,”serif”;mso-fareast-Times New Roman”; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ES-BO”> Unclear on the concept Police finally arrested William Footman, 55, in October as the person who somehow managed to swipe inside-front-door mats from at least 37 New York City banks between March and May 2013. No money was ever taken, and some banks were […]
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Instalove
A long-distance photo share turns into a down-home, real-life love affair. After two years following each other on Instagram, an Oklahoma City woman asked her British follower to meet on Skype for a cup of tea. This led to a four-hour date and many more sleep-deprived days for Zitta and Parker Cowans, who married in […]
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1″><span style=" Times New Roman”,”serif”;mso-fareast-Times New Roman”; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ES-BO”> Nuclear tractor pull —Redneck geek: Edward Teller, the famous theoretical physicist known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb” for his work on the World War II-era Manhattan Project, died in 2003, but his daughter Rene told The Free Press of Kinston, N.C., in […]