Inside an event center in a strip mall in northwestern Oklahoma City, more than 50 people gathered on Easter Sunday to consecrate a new church. They have dubbed it Church 4 Twenty. The mission statement, as outlined on the church’s website, is thus: “A Cannabis Church is one where Religion does NOT rule, Judgement does […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Precious returns
The library at Oklahoma Baptist University had to be surprised when a package arrived containing all three books of the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) series that had been missing from its shelves since 1972. The anonymous book thief is apparently quite the J.R.R. Tolkien collector; a similar package containing a first-edition of The Hobbit […]
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Open book
E. Scott Jones book signing 7-10 p.m. Friday The Paseo Plunge 3010 Paseo St. escottjones.com Free Sept. 4, Literati Press released the memoir of Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones, an openly gay pastor serving as senior minister of First Central Congregational Church in Omaha, Nebraska. Open: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Sexuality in the […]
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Keeping notes
Later this month, vocal music students from Classen School of Advanced Studies will fly to New York City to perform by invitation at Carnegie Hall with choirs from Southern Nazarene University and Oklahoma Baptist University. In distance, it is a much greater field trip than most Oklahoma City Public Schools students will ever take. But […]
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Marissa Raglin holds free drop-in collage workshops through September at Skirvin Hilton Hotel
As Skirvin’s artist-in-residence, Raglin joins past honorees Romy Owens, Arsenio Corbishley, Kerri Shadid, Gayle Curry and Mike Wimmer.
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The area’s best young art talent gathers inside historic Gold Dome for Momentum 2018
The area’s best young art talent gathers inside historic Gold Dome for Momentum 2018.
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Shawnee’s Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art remains open despite the closing of St. Gregory’s University
The museum officially opened in 1919 as an extension of founder Gregory Gerrer’s interest in collecting cultural artifacts.
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Artist and longtime OBU educator Steve Hicks celebrates retirement with As I See It
A special reception is planned for 6-9 p.m. Feb. 9 during 2nd Friday Norman Art Walk.
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Oklahoma Arts Institute celebrates 40 years of encouraging artistic students
Arts students work with industry professionals and train in their craft at Quartz Mountain Resort as part of Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute.
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Chicken-Fried News: Wesleyan out
Bartlesville university is no longer a member of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities because member schools hired homosexuals.