Fishin’ When Sulphur native Skip Thompson began painting in 1980, she had no idea that 34 years later, her artwork would be exhibited in the Governor’s Gallery at the Oklahoma State Capitol. At the beginning of her instruction with her first teacher, Maude Landsford, there were some testy times because Landsford was a tough teacher. […]
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Queerbait
Of all things, the VHS tape is in the midst of a nostalgic resurgence. Not only does the dead medium of the 1980s enjoy having a horror-anthology franchise named after it, but no fewer than three new documentaries celebrate its heyday, and a few indie labels have issued limited-edition releases on bulky cassettes rather than […]
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Womb with a view
After much fanfare, Wayne Coyne’s artistic brain child, Womb Gallery, a “psychedelic art gallery” located at 25 N.W. Ninth, was shut down by The Man over a year ago for various code violations. Not that they were all that surprised. “It was closed due to lack of proper coding. That would be the best way […]
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LIFE
Of all the things one can accomplish in 48 hours, writing, directing and filming a movie isn’t the first that comes to mind. But the 48 Hour Film Project — which provided local filmmakers with a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre — required its participants to do just that. The […]
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LIFE
Of all the things one can accomplish in 48 hours, writing, directing and filming a movie isn’t the first that comes to mind. But the 48 Hour Film Project — which provided local filmmakers with a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre — required its participants to do just that. The […]
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See the IVC
Instead, he began an art gallery, the recently opened IVC Gallery at 710 N. Broadway. The venue features works by Fuller and seven other resident artists, all but one of whom is local. The IVC houses an eclectic and interesting collection, which Fuller attributes to its artists’ diversity. “Every artist is very distinctly unique, which […]