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Chicken-Fried News: Terrible turnpike
A turnpike expansion has residents of eastern Oklahoma County up in arms.
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Religious beliefs only go so far for Hobby Lobby
Hobby Lobby has gained national attention for its recent Supreme Court argument that providing emergency conception through the Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as Obamacare — violates its Christian faith. However, a recent Mother Jones article reported that the company’s own employee mutual funds include millions of dollars invested in some of the companies […]
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The Slumber Party Massacre
Or, if they do have the sense, they stupidly return to the house soon after. In the 1982 original written by Rita Mae Brown and directed by Amy Holden Jones, a girls’ basketball team (whose players suck on the court, it should be noted), shack up for a night at the house of Trish (Michelle […]
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LIFE
The University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s wine-tasting fundraiser, Toast to the Arts, raises money for student activities and special programming. Tasters receive a souvenir engraved wine glass, a cocktail of Cupcake Prosecco with St. Germain and a flight of white wines including Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc, Sofia Riesling, Eberle Muscato, Franciscan […]
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Scorned
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar; here, it’s just one of many atrocities suffered by his rich-guy character when his girlfriend, Sadie (AnnaLynne McCord, TV’s rebooted 90210), discovers he has been cheating on her — and with her own BFF (Viva Bianca, TV’s Spartacus), no less! Over one rainy night and long off her […]
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‘X’ never, ever marks the spot
In the blockbuster Indiana Jones films, Jones is a bookish and tenacious anthropologist reluctantly pulled away from his quiet academic life to rescue powerful artifacts from the wrong (read: Nazi) hands. They boil with action and adventure, a reluctant hero and a happy ending. But we all know that Dr. Jones is the product of […]
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The Spirit
Former Flash Gordon Sam Jones plays another Sunday-funnies superstar as The Spirit, the crime fighter formerly known as square-jawed, straight-and-narrow cop Denny Colt. When he’s shot by a baddie and presumed dead, Denny takes advantage of the situation by donning the teeny-tiniest of blue masks to disguise his identity as The Spirit, who sets about […]
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Seattle’s best
The Seattle-based band Pickwick has played some of the biggest venues in its hometown of Seattle — including opening day for the local professional baseball team, the Mariners — but they’ve never played a museum. It was an unexpected shock to frontman Galen Disston when the band was booked to play the Fred Jones Jr. […]
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The Fugitive: 20th Anniversary Edition
Even people who have never seen it — shame on you — tend to know what it’s about: Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford, never better) is accused of murdering his wife. The cops don’t believe his story of the real culprit being a one-armed man … and neither does the jury that sentences him to […]