2023’s annual Perseid meteor shower has arrived and conditions including modest waning moonlight promise hopeful viewing. Oklahoma summers are marvelous for stargazing – as the heat eases with the setting sun, stunning celestial sights break forth — and this perennial celestial event is no exception. Partly cloudy skies with a 20 percent chance of late […]
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What the hell is Twitch?
Mike Aguilar wasn’t trying to change the academic world or flip established industries on their heads in November 2016. As a technology strategist for the University of Oklahoma’s Central IT department and the Honors College, he was simply trying to answer the questions his boss asked, including how OU could use it upon returning from […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Rather than do the right thing and name it the Misinformation Superhighway,
Rather than do the right thing and name it the Misinformation Superhighway, the Oklahoma legislature decided once again to take it too far (like they always do). Coming soon nowhere near you: Donald J. Trump Presidential Highway. Once again, instead of pushing through important legislation during unprecedented times for the nation, this state or its […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Lankford almost does the right thing
For just one brief moment, U.S. Senator James Lankford remembered that he was an American and not just a Republican. While Trump, Giuliani and the gang were busy wasting the country’s time pretending they didn’t get their asses handed to them at the ballot box earlier in the month, Lankford told a Tulsa public radio […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Jesus take the wheel
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections rapidly approached 5 percent of the state’s population, its leaders are hard at work avoiding dealing with it. Gov. Kevin Stitt has completely taken his hands off the wheel, preferring Jesus to take it instead. Diana K. Davies, a minister at Oklahoma City’s First Unitarian Church shared on […]
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Comprehensive brewery and taproom guide
When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved State Question 792 in November 2016 – a ballot initiative commonly characterized as an opportunity to modernize the state’s oppressive liquor laws – it set in motion a chain of events that, among other things, has resulted in two dozen breweries and taprooms in Central Oklahoma, almost all having been […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Ice, ice baby
Well, 2020 certainly has no shortage of surprises, and what better way to further fray the narrow band between reality and a mass psychotic break than a freak ice storm knocking out electricity to half a million customers during the first cold snap of the season. OG&E stood back as tree limbs and their infrastructure […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Change, but not in Oklahoma
It was a rough week for anyone to the political left of Benito Mussolini. While Joe Biden won the election by a wide margin of the popular vote (a fact will not change no matter how many tweets or temper tantrums hit the news cycle) in a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s recklessly ignorant tenure […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Great Scott!?
The universe keeps writing punchlines for Gov. Kevin Stitt. Three months after being the first governor in the country to contract COVID-19, Stitt came bursting out of the gate last week with another one of his five-minute ideas: the Oklahoma Pandemic Center for Innovation & Excellence. Two days in a row after the announcement, the […]
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Spooky Oklahoma
While Oklahoma does not have the centuries of lore attributed to colonial America, there are plenty of bizarre places and occurrences in the state. Real or imagined? You decide. Put on your hoodie and gather around the campfire as we explore some of the most popular bits of weird lore the Sooner State has to […]