Hailing from the decidedly unglamorous city of Lawton, Dewey Binns is the sort of blue-collar rapper everyone can get behind, but he’s just as book-smart as street-smart, as evidenced by this Steinbeck-esque collection of hip-hop vignettes. One gets the feeling that Binns rarely was satisfied with his first word choice, refining each line with the […]
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‘Shout’ it out loud
Although we live in Oklahoma — Native America, as the license plates read — many people still believe the popular cinematic images of American Indians as tepee-dwelling folk clad in ceremonial headdresses and quick to dispense ancient wisdom while passing a peace pipe. It’s a stereotype that Lawton-born Kiowa/Choctaw screenwriter Steven Judd, co-writer of the […]
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Just a small-town girl
The 16th season of TV’s“The Bachelor” boasts an Oklahoma City resident on the prowl for the heart of Mr. Ben Flajnik. Seriously, ABC, you staked one of your biggest reality shows on a guy with an unpronounceable last name? But we digress. Red-haired Jennifer, whose last name is yet to be given on-air, is a […]
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Lawless lawton
Er … maybe this one isn’t worth fanfare. The Oklahoma city of Lawton, nestled close to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and Fort Sill, seems like an idyllic spot to settle. You have mountains and bison and ostensibly a feeling of safety, thanks to the proximity of the U.S. Army artillery school. Alas, when you […]
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Lawless lawton
Er … maybe this one isn’t worth fanfare. The Oklahoma city of Lawton, nestled close to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and Fort Sill, seems like an idyllic spot to settle. You have mountains and bison and ostensibly a feeling of safety, thanks to the proximity of the U.S. Army artillery school. Alas, when you […]
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Shannon elected speaker-designate
T.W. Shannon, a Lawton Republican first elected in 2006 and an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, was elected by the caucus as House speaker-designate, meaning that if House Republicans maintain a majority after the 2012 elections, Shannon will be next in line to replace term-limited Speaker Kris Steele, R-Shawnee. Shannon, 33, will not only […]
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Geronimo’s bones
Geronimo’s name became forever etched in Western lore in the mid-1880s when he eluded 5,000 U.S. Army regulars in the rugged mountains of Arizona and Mexico with a handful of tribal holdouts. A series of close encounters with the rebel leader left soldiers to wonder if they were chasing a ghost. Finally, on Sept. 4, […]