Noodling — a term for fishing for catfish using only one’s bare hands — has increased in popularity in Oklahoma and abroad, perhaps due in large part to native Oklahoma filmmaker Bradley Beesley’s 2001 documentary on the oddball sport, “Okie Noodling,” and its 2008 sequel, “Okie Noodling II.” “I think people just have an insatiable […]
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Virgin territory
Italian Jim’s Restaurant 13 S. Broadway, Edmond 285-8800 What fun! Dine and watch the glassblowing going on next door in the Bella Forte studio. This restaurant is owned by Chris and Linda McGahan, who also own and operate the Yukon location. The menu will feature reliable pizza and a wedge salad, meatball sliders, pasta and […]
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PR BS
—“Ellen Degeneres, Carole King & Crazy Horse Auction” —“Breeding/Farrowing Intentions Don’t Quite Jibe” —“PowerSkin Delivers the Juice with HTC Sensation & HTC ThunderBolt Skins” —“STAIND UNVEILS ‘STAIND’” —“SWeNT Collaborates with Panasonic Boston Laboratory to Commercialize Printed TFTs” —“Purity Vodka and Kathy Casey are Pioneers in the H2O cocktail concept movement” —“DENNY’S FEATURES CLASSIC HEALTHY CHOICE […]
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Wizards rock
These and other performers can be seen at the Metropolitan Library System’s free Wizard Rock Show from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Midwest City Library, 8143 E. Reno in Midwest City, where fans can celebrate and mourn the end of “Harry Potter” series, whose final film opened last week. The fifth-annual concert features […]
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Beat that heat
We made the trek out to the remote corner of the state for the annual Selman Bat Watch, and it was so hot (apparently the thermometer read 113, but I can’t even compute temps above 90) that I bought a hat. And I look horrible in hats. I most closely resembled someone named Wilma, an […]
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Bitter pills
The one-page report listed five painkillers — oxymorphone, morphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone and oxycodone — and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam as causing “probable mixed drug toxicity,” which led to central nervous system depression, pulmonary edema and aspiration pneumonia. “The chemicals found in his system were not those that had been prescribed by a physician, and we […]
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Righteous indignation
In addition to that, I take exception to the ignorant and unfounded implication that there exists, in reality, a single “gay” couple who possess the complete lack of housekeeping and decorating skills pictured therein. Apparently, Mueller has never tuned in to HGTV or TLC. I — along with Charles Darwin and probably Gary Larson — […]
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Spaghetti dinner to benefit wounded soldier
The explosion caused him to lose both his legs and his left arm, making him one of only 23 surviving triple amputees from the war. Dunagan will be honored with a spaghetti dinner and bake sale from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the American Legion Building, 123 N. First in Guthrie. Adults can eat […]
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Regressive progressives
Rob Bennett (Letters, “Ignorance isn’t bliss,” June 29) finds fault with Oklahoma Gazette for publishing my views on various subjects. Like many liberals, he does not bother to check the facts, but rather wants to jump to conclusions that serve his purpose. I assume it is OK for the Gazette to publish many liberal viewpoints, […]
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Labor pains
How Marty Morelli (Letters, “Reader: ‘Hitler was a progressive’”) can reconcile his claims that liberals and progressives are Nazis and Fascists with the fact that Jewish leaders have played a prominent role in liberal and progressive causes is laughable. This is not to say that Jews are only liberals and progressives. There are just as […]