Britain’s General Dental Council found dentist Alan Hutchinson guilty in April of several hygiene violations, including frequent hand-washing lapses, failure to sterilize instruments that he had taken off treatment trays to clean his own ears and fingernails with, and, more than once, urinating in his surgery sink. The council said it needed another hearing to […]
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Oklahoma weather subject of photo exhibit
A photography exhibit titled “Oklahoma Weather: A Photography Exhibit by Mark Nault and David Ewoldt” will be on display at the Edmond Historical Society and Museum through June 30. According to Iris Muno Jordan, interim director, Nault and Ewoldt’s photographs are perfect for Oklahoma. “I believe Will Rogers quipped, ‘If you stay in Oklahoma very […]
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Black Book
Reviewer’s grade: B Nothing much new presents itself for thought or emotional response in Paul Verhoeven’s melodramatic “Black Book,” but the film pulls viewers along with its unremitting forward action and series of character twists. Starring a skilled group of Dutch and German actors, the film tells the story of a Jewish woman in the […]
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Year of the Dog
g people, they say, can also be selfish, terribly stubborn and eccentric. Welcome to Mike White’s “Year of the Dog,” a film that gives a Chinese restaurant staple three-dimensional, often funny life. Molly Shannon delivers a lovely, nuanced performance as Peggy Bates, who goes into a tailspin of sorrow when her beloved beagle, Pencil, […]
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Lucky You
Reviewer’s grade: C- It’s an obvious title for an obvious story about a man who is compulsive about winning the World Series of Poker because his father has already won it twice and he’s got this Freudian thing going with Dad. What does he need in order to break this chain? I know. How about […]
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Haggling over the toilets in Christianity’s most sacred church
Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre most recently made News of the Weird in 2004 because of continued petty territorial fighting among the six Christian denominations that share management of the church, which is home to some of Christianity’s holiest sites, including that of Christ’s resurrection. As Easter approached this year, three of the groups […]
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Kids’ kitty play holding final performances
“Puss in Boots,” a production of Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, takes the stage at 11 a.m. Wednesday through Friday. These three days mark the final performances of the show, which began April 26. According to an OCT press release, the participation of kids in the audience is key to this adaptation of the classic children’s fairy […]
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Stage Door performs Wilde’s ‘Earnest’
Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” dissects the hilariously inverted world of the genteel rich and, specifically, the marriage matches they make. Victorian social expectations insisted on passing marks in social position, income and morality, in order to make a respectable pairing. Complications of the Wilde-est variety keep everyone off balance before a resolution […]
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The Continuing Crisis
New performance-appraisal rules by India’s Ministry of Personnel, for the country’s senior-level bureaucrats, included a request that females disclose the dates of their last menstrual period, according to an April Reuters dispatch (but within days of the rules’ release, the ministry rescinded that provision). In April, near New Orleans, motorcyclist Charles Warren, minding his own […]
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Carnality Ball celebrates creative, sex drives
show, which will include such dance troupes as:” Perpetual Motion/Modern Dance Oklahoma, ” Hartel Dance Group and ” her own Pseudodance Theatre. “We’ve also got The Nightlight Readers, which is based off the old-timey radio shows which would read scripts and do the sound effects,” she said. “But it will be more suggestive, so that […]