Distinguished professor and contemporary artist Michael Ray Charles from the University of Texas at Austin will judge the juried show and choose the recipient of the T.G. Mays Purchase Award. Each year, the university issues multiple cash prizes and chooses one student to receive the award and add his or her work to the permanent […]
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POP goes the funding?
In the latest episode of Anything That Costs the Government Money is Bad, Oklahoma GOPers are stifling the development of the OKPOP museum — a 75,000-square-foot art and culture museum slated to be built in Tulsa — by withholding the necessary appropriations from the state’s 2015 fiscal budget. Clearly, they can’t comprehend the facility’s potential […]
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Clear History
Clear History sure is, if more amusing than actually funny. Its intermittent focus is by nature of a purposely skeletal script to allow a wide berth for Curb-style improv; the feature length just magnifies those inherent faults. In 2003, marketing exec Nathan Flomm (David, sporting a downright biblical beard) gives up his 10-percent stake in […]
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SCARY DVD REVIEWS
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013) How appropriate a history of the Friday the 13th franchise fits into a snug 13 chapters on Blu-ray and DVD. It makes me wonder if its running time of 6.66 hours also is intentional. Crystal Lake Memories runs a punishing 400 minutes, which signals […]
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Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
You read correctly. Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th runs for a butt-punishing 400 minutes, which signals two things: 1. It’s not required to be consumed in one sitting. 2. It’s not for the casual Friday the 13th fan. Based on Peter Bracke’s 2006 book of the same name — as indispensable as it […]
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Word of mouth
The historic Skirvin Hilton BY: Mark Hancock From the tales of the Native Americans who once roamed the barren plains to the modern-day memories of the Murrah Building bombing, the Sooner State carries a precious past that the words in history books can’t always adequately cover. It’s for this reason Clifford Kuhn, executive director of […]
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‘It ignited the country’
The 7-year-old sat beside 12 other members of the NAACP Youth Council at the lunch counter of a downtown Katz Drug Store, 200 W. Main St. and Robinson Ave., on Aug. 20, 1958. They waited to be served. “A lot of kids’ parents wouldn’t let them go. When I look back on it, it was […]
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The Brontë Sisters
The film stars Franco-actress standouts Isabelle Adjani (Possession) and Isabelle Huppert (Amour) before they were household names in international cinema. Adjani is Emily, the most recognized of the Brontë sisters; Huppert is Ann, the youngest; and the moral realist in the family and the oldest and least-known, Charlotte, is played by the late Marie-France Pisier […]
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Clear History is a feature-length showcase for the comedian’s masochism.
BY DEAN ROBBINS All of us Curb Your Enthusiasm fans were suspicious when writer-star Larry David suspended the series to work on an HBO movie. But we needn’t have worried. Clear History is like an extended episode of Curb, with even bigger and better humiliations for the Larry David stand-in (Saturday, 8 p.m.). Here he […]
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Ghost writer
A local author will detail mysterious graves, ransacking outlaws and a religious cult in his latest nonfiction work, disclosing the little-known history of two Oklahoma towns. David A. Farris, resident of Oklahoma City, reached back as far as 127 years in the state’s history to write Edmond and Guthrie, a Little Off the Tracks, his […]