2007 So much for truth in advertising. When Disney released “Bridge to Terabithia” in theaters earlier this year, its marketing campaign made the flick look like a “Narnia”-styled fantasy. The initiated knew better. Based on the 1977 young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, “Bridge to Terabithia” is only partially about fantasy. The story follows […]
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Democracy!
In May, a jury in Weld County, Colo., declined to hold Kathleen Ensz accountable for leaving a flier containing her dog’s droppings on the doorstep of U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, apparently agreeing with Ensz that she was merely exercising free speech. Jenny Bailey was elected mayor in Cambridge, England, in May, and her companion-partner Jennifer […]
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Government in Action!
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network activists told reporters in June that at least 59 U.S.-trained Arabic speakers have been ejected from the military because they’re gay (and in each case despite being a native English-speaker who completed intense, expensive military language school). But a month before that, as symbolic of the government’s shortage of Arabic speakers, […]
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Various artists – Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash
target=’_blank’>best takes on the record, as is, surprisingly, actor Billy Bob Thornton’s rendition of “Road to Kaintuck” with The Peasall Sisters. This is an honest and sometimes funny take on a country music songwriting phenomenon. “?Joe Wertz
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Mixed-media exhibit makes its way back to IAO
The Individual Artists of Oklahoma’s “IAO 24 Works on Paper” has traveled across the state showing contemporary pieces in a variety of media, and now is back home for its final exhibition, showing through July 27. Twenty-four pieces by 16 Oklahoma artists were juried for the show, exhibiting a range of subject matter in paintings, […]
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Transformers
Reviewer’s grade: B- Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is an awkward, unpopular teenager. However, after buying an old Chevrolet Camaro that can turn into a robot several times larger than a car, Sam’s fortunes experience a dramatic reversal as he is forced to save the world from a power-hungry robot named Megatron. In the process, […]
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License to Wed
watching “License to Wed” is that director Ken Kwapis has significant television credits “? “The Office,” “The Bernie Mac Show,” “Malcolm in the Middle” “? and only minimal film experience “? “The Beautician and the Beast” and “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” are best-known. Bringing the worst of both sitcoms and bad films to […]
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Masters of Horror: The Black Cat
2007 With director Stuart Gordon, writer Dennis Paoli, star Jeffrey Combs and a heapin’ helping of gore all present and accounted for, “The Black Cat” serves as a “Re-Animator” reunion. Like that film, which found life in the work of H.P. Lovecraft, this second-season episode of “Masters of Horror” also is based on a […]
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Cyrano’ marks departure for Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park
In the late 19th century, when Edmond Rostand penned “Cyrano de Bergerac,” France was looking back with longing to a golden age it felt was lost. The 1600s had been a time of genteel ladies and loyal musketeers who could wield a sword and poetic words with equal panache. That romantic era produces Cyrano, a […]
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OKC Zoo bowling fund-raiser to aid rhinos
Even gutter balls score this weekend with the Oklahoma City Zoo at the 14th annual Bowling for Rhinos fund-raiser. Whether pro or amateur, bowlers young and old can have a blast while helping to save endangered rhinos. Teams can play at 2 or 7 p.m. Saturday at Heritage Lanes Bowling Alley, 11917 N. Penn. At […]