On April 26, Hugo police detectives attempting to apprehend a robbery suspect accused of taking $398 from a Pizza Hut opened fire on a pickup truck, wounding three children in the back seat. “A bullet pierced the left frontal lobe of 4-year-old Asia’s brain,” The Associated Press (AP) reported. “Asia’s 5-year-old brother suffered a skull […]
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Chicken-Fried News: High trustees
Two Choctaw County jail trustees recently took the night off from jail to go party with their girlfriends.
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Fall Guide: Pumpkin patches
Nothing says fall like a good pumpkin patch and festival, and Oklahoma is full of them.
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Metro Briefs: city wastewater, museum money and smoking ban
Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust chooses new wastewater treatment management, the Chickasaw Nation makes a bid for The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum and Oklahoma City Council bans smoking on OKC property.
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Chicken-Fried News: Better jobs at what cost?
Mary Fallin made a campaign stop in the bustling metropolis of Hugo, Oklahoma.
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Texas Killing Fields
While Ami Canaan Mann’s “Texas Killing Fields” is her first, she no doubt picked up some tips from her director dad, Michael Mann, who’s made more than his fair share in “Heat,” “Thief” and “Manhunter.” That much, I’d expect. What I didn’t expect was that the daughter’s film would be better than her revered father’s […]
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Contagion
Propelled by Cliff Martinez’s other terrific score of 2011 (“Drive” being the other), “Contagion” starts there, on day two of a new, highly lethal virus’ outbreak. Why not day one? There’s a valid reason for that. With the skill of a circus veteran, Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns (“The Informant!”) keep many plates spinning, […]
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Oklahoma film critics group names ‘The Artist’ best film of 2011
It also earned two additional wins for Michel Hazanavicius in the categories of Best Director and Best Screenplay, Original. Set in the early days of Hollywood’s motion picture industry, “The Artist” celebrates the wonders of film as it explores the hazards of celebrity in the structure of a charming love story. Like another of the […]
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Hugo
What is unexpected, however, is that this mash note comes in a rare outing for him: a family-friendly film based on a popular children’s book. Set in 1930s Paris, “Hugo” concerns Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield, “The Wolfman”), a young boy who keeps the clocks running in a sprawling train station. Orphaned and on his own, […]
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Hugo
What is unexpected, however, is that this mash note comes in a rare outing for him: a family-friendly film based on a popular children’s book. Set in 1930s Paris, “Hugo” concerns Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield, “The Wolfman”), a young boy who keeps the clocks running in a sprawling train station. Orphaned and on his own, […]