Tom Russell has no patience for pigeonholes. Despite a penchant for rootsy story-songs about dust-blown, blue-collar characters, he scoffs at the Americana tag that’s been hung around his neck for years. “They always need a tag — progressive country, new country, altcountry — to put outsider writing in,” Russell said. “I don’t see my music […]
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Under the sea
For being landlocked, Oklahoma doesn’t suffer from lack of scuba shops. A number of metro retailers and instructors, like Blue Water Divers, 922 Straka Terr., are getting people in the water. The outfit certifies almost 600 people a year. “With just a little bit of study at home, a little bit of time in the […]
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Check! Check!
The music mini-festival will take place Friday off Asp Avenue, between the Adams and Walker dorms on the OU campus. Seven bands will play throughout the day and into the night. Derek Knowlton, vocalist and guitarist for The Pretty Black Chains, said that it’s good for people to know what other kind of music is […]
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Garden party
So do it! Whether your garden is contained in one small pot or a massive, backyard plot, getting started in the whole growing business can be simple. “The first thing I tell people is to have fun,” said Brian Pirtle, a nurseryman at TLC Florist & Greenhouses. “I think a lot of people get caught […]
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Clean act
Did I mention we were in college? Steam-cleaning carpets should have been really low on the priority list. On the flip side, another good friend (whom I also lived with in college) once left her unbelievably cluttered, fairly disgusting car sitting in her parents’ driveway all winter and it became a halfway home for mice. […]
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Play nice, y’all!
With an impending legislative deadline upon it, the state House took some time out on March 14 to express formal disapproval of two members of that chamber. The first was against Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, who was compelled to interrupt a preacher’s sermon, which included a discussion on healthy lifestyles. Reynolds apparently thought the […]
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Seeking shelter
For the last 30 days, the car has served as 23-year-old Antwone Taulton’s home. But Taulton is not one of the hundreds of homeless people in downtown Oklahoma City. He is a man on a mission. In February, Taulton, a student at Baylor University working on his master’s of divinity, took the semester off and […]
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Do you realize??
But when some quick googling showed Bucky’s oral fixation to be merely a new Flaming Lips release, we shrugged and went back to work. According to hipster-music website Pitchfork, Wayne Coyne and co. recently contacted a purveyor of unusual confections to create life-size human skulls — complete with brain — out of gelatin-based candy (aka […]
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Brawl in Bricktown
Backing a second indoor professional football team in eight years, Bricktown Brawlers owner Dale Morris vows not to repeat any of the mistakes he made with his last team. Largely overlooked or outright ignored by pro scouts, the same can be said for most of the players on his roster. “We’re trying to get them […]
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Hang in there
Although, I did polish off a bottle of wine a couple weeks ago. And before you freak out, it was over an outstanding birthday dinner at Ludivine, as opposed to drinking by myself with the lights off while sobbing and talking to the cats. Thank God it was the former, not the latter, because I’m […]