The nonprofit group Freedom of Information (FOI) Oklahoma recently presented Fallin with the Black Hole award for her adeptness at obfuscation. It capped off FOI Oklahoma’s Sunshine Week program. “Gov. Mary Fallin was named as deserving the Black Hole recognition for damaging access to records that should be easily available to the public” for the […]
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The University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s wine-tasting fundraiser, Toast to the Arts, raises money for student activities and special programming. Tasters receive a souvenir engraved wine glass, a cocktail of Cupcake Prosecco with St. Germain and a flight of white wines including Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc, Sofia Riesling, Eberle Muscato, Franciscan […]
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The University of Central Oklahoma’s 12th annual holiday musical revue, titled Holidays at Home, features student vocalists from UCO’s Musical Theatre Division performing a variety of holiday-themed songs. See the performances 8 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, with encore performances Dec. 12-14, at the UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St. in Edmond. Tickets are $20. For more […]
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Celebrate it
Celebrate it bottom It’s Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s 50th anniversary, but you’ll receive the presents. To celebrate, Lyric invites the public to a free concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno. The program includes a performance by above Julie Johnson and previews of the summer musicals Tarzan, The King and […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
“Nation, recently Oklahoma passed a ballot initiative forbidding the use of Islamic Shariah law. Thank God. It is the only thing keeping Oklahoma’s huge Muslim population from instituting burqa night at the Tulsa Hooters.” —Stephen Colbert on Jan. 25’s “The Colbert Report.” This isn’t the first time Oklahoma’s controversial Shariah ban has found itself parodied […]
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Liquor bargain
He correctly implies that the restrictions currently in place have an adverse effect on quality of life. It would certainly be desirable to have access to wine and quality beer outside the current 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. While Mr. Bishop clearly writes his argument from a stance of protectionism, it […]