Red Dirt International Film Festival seeks to bolster the state’s connection to cinema by presenting Oklahoma-made shorts and feature-length productions alongside international ones.
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Creativity World Forum featured speakers on global innovation
At Creativity World Forum on March 31, guest speakers stressed innovation, opportunity and community.
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Up in smoke
Without a doubt, the prospect of legalizing marijuana in Oklahoma will draw opponents when a new measure is introduced during the next legislative session in February. Obvious critics will be law enforcement officials and conservative legislators, but they won’t be alone. Some predict the alcohol and tobacco industries also will join the fight. For decades, […]
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Food, service
Above, from left: Kurt Fleischfresser, David Egan and Wayne Hirst present the Leadership Industry Award to Egan. Hirst has cancer, said his daughter, Kari Starkey, at an interview before the Nov. 4 awards ceremony at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. “He looks so healthy on the outside,” she said with tears in her […]
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Reel jobs
On May 24 — the final day of this year’s session — the state House voted against extension of the Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate Program, which provides incentives for qualifiying film productions that spend money on Oklahoma goods and services. Before the vote, House Democratic Leader Scott Inman of Del City called the Democrats in […]
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Something brewin’
A recent change to Oklahoma’s liquor laws is being hailed as a big victory for the state’s growing craft brewing industry. Gov. Mary Fallin last month signed House Bill 1341, which lets Oklahoma breweries offer customers free samples of beer in their premises. “This is a major baby step for the brewing industry,” said JD […]
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Solid Goldberg
If you’re planning on asking music legend Danny Goldberg a question at Thursday’s ACM@UCO Master Class, he’d prefer it if you refer to what he does as working in the music “business” and not the music “industry.” “‘Music industry’ is not a phrase I can relate to. It’s a business. It’s music businesses, plural,” he […]
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Over-regulating energy costs jobs
BY BRIAN BUSH <span style=" mso-bidi-line-height:115%”> As state policymakers debate how to increase Oklahoma’s historically significant role in energy exploration and production, I hope that both state and federal officials will keep in mind the growing concern among voters regarding unnecessary federal regulations that are hamstringing our energy industry. Business leaders and elected officials need […]
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It’s who you know
Scott Booker and Ben Folds Matt Carney “Brian Eno sent that over for Booker,” assured a tall, bearded man monitoring the space, in which five music industry professionals — whose experience ran the gamut from big-name booking agent to major-scale event production — were in conference with inquisitive students of ACM@UCO, aka the School of […]
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Practice makes perfect
Students at the Culinary Arts Center, which welcomed its first class last month and is located at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, have access to the best equipment the culinary industry has to offer. Balanced with the amount of money spent on this amazing school (between $20 million and $25 million) is the reality that nearly […]