It ran five largely unwatched seasons while critics chastised the television-watching public for wasting their time with “Desperate Housewives” instead. Based on a popular Internet meme relating to the Oklahoma City Thunder, however, you would think it was the most popular program ever on television. Thanks to ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons, the dynamic Thunder duo […]
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smag 7
Distinctive desserts Many great restaurants in the metro feature desserts that are innovative, down to earth and, most of all, luscious. Enjoy these after a meal, or just stop in to indulge while chatting on the phone, talking business or checking your e-mail. Most desserts make a memorable impression, and these seven will. —Carol Smaglinski, […]
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Look ‘Deep’er
One of the known knowns of theater, as Donald Rumsfeld might put it, is that you often have highly qualified, skilled people working with average material. It’s much easier to put on a play when you’re working with a superior script, so even the best practitioners of the dramatic arts will be hard-pressed to exceed […]
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Uncommonly revealing
above Jason Poll with a bottle of wine at Mahogany Prime In the right hands, the grape is exceptionally good at revealing terroir, or the place the grapes came from, and so lends itself to many stylistic variants. The grape has so many strengths, including approachability, that it is more difficult to explain why worldwide […]
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OMG
O Asian Fusion is housed in a freestanding building in a strip mall parking lot on one of Norman’s busiest corners. Even with extensive and tasteful exterior renovation, it’s still unmistakably a former Pizza Hut. But inside O, the dining room transformation is complete. Hardwood floors, stone walls and a central flowing water sculpture grace […]
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Munn ho!: Fourth in a series
Last week, one of the most burning questions surrounding former Oklahoman turned actress/model/geek icon (and now unwitting Oklahoma Gazette cover girl!) Olivia Munn is one that will have been answered by the time you read this. No, not, “Has she Twitpic’d her cleavage again?” (a given), but “Is she going to attend the Super Bowl […]
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With trade winds blowing, Thunder have some options
Between now and Feb. 24, most discussion about the NBA will revolve around trade rumors. As that date gets closer, followers of the league will pontificate about which players are on the market. Some teams will throw in the towel for the season and shed high salaried players while other teams will seek to add […]
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The Mechanic
Fresh from this summer’s all-star “The Expendables,” Statham takes over Charles Bronson’s role from the 1972 “Mechanic” as Arthur, the title’s hit man for hire who is ordered to off his wealthy mentor (Donald Sutherland, TV’s “The Pillars of the Earth”) and then, feeling guilty, takes the man’s destitute son, Steve (Ben Foster, “Pandorum”), under […]
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Bones about it
Museum of Osteology 10301 S. Sunnylane www.museumofosteology.org 841-0006 $5 Families hungry for a fun, brainy afternoon outing now have a new option with the opening of the Museum of Osteology in southeastern Oklahoma City. Featuring an impressive educational return on a measly $5 admission fee, the 7,000-square-foot site bursts with an exotic menagerie of skeletons […]
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Special ‘Bulletin’
Now in its fourth year, the “New Year’s Eve Freakout” hosted by The Flaming Lips has become Oklahoma City’s version of the television networks’ traditional Dec. 31 programming. “Do You Realize??” has become our “Auld Lang Syne”; Wayne Coyne, our Dick Clark. The orb in which Coyne rolls around the arena is the crystal ball, […]