In the past year, Feed the Children has changed both its focus and its leadership. Now it hopes to educate people about its mission by recreating the atmosphere of an African slum inside an Oklahoma City warehouse. After walking through a hallway lined with pictures of kids in Feed the Children programs, visitors see a […]
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Over the Rainbow
Scott Booker, circa 1988 Photo: Scott Booker Today’s world is a virtual playground for music lovers. There’s no shortage of avenues to learn about breaking bands, download new songs or unearth a rare track. And there is little to no effort needed to find what you want or stumble upon the unexpected. All you need […]
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’Wood burning
A lot rides on a debut album: It’s the first — and sometimes only — chance to tell the world what you’re all about. Ramsay Midwood did just that with 2002’s spectacularly named Shoot Out at the OK Chinese Restaurant. “There were a lot of gunfights in Chinese restaurants in California … too much MSG […]
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Chin up
Photo: Caitlin Lindsey Kyle Mayfield doesn’t sleep … not well, at least. But he doesn’t let that cripple him, musically or otherwise. In fact, the music he crafts as Larry Chin wouldn’t have the same panache if Mayfield was leading a more lucid existence. “I’ve been having sleep issues for such a long time. When […]
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A Three Stooges Celebration
That means they more or less hold the same contents — namely, four or five shorts (i.e. “Disorder in the Court” and “Sing a Song of Six Pants”) and many more of the seven-minute New Three Stooges cartoons from the mid-’60s, with live-action wraparound intros and outros that show how Moe and Larry had aged […]
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Taking the three
Nope, we’re talking about a man so obsessed with NBA legend Larry Bird that he requested three more years on his Oklahoma Department of Corrections prison sentence just to match the jersey number of the former Boston Celtics star. The Boston Globe reported that Eric Torpy is perceived to be a “birdbrain” for taking a […]