Tulsa’s music scene is famous for being sprawling and ever-changing, with thriving communities built around punk, metal, folk, hip-hop, and more all across the city. But if you look closely at each flavor of all those musical pies, you’ll find one guy with his fingers in them all. “There was a lot of different music […]
Pete
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Their land
Late folk legend Pete Seeger influenced Woody Guthrie as much as Guthrie did him, and he will receive a posthumous award acknowledging just that. BY SHANNON HELTON “It’s because of Pete Seeger that I know the chorus of every folk song,” said Nora Guthrie, daughter of the late Woody Guthrie. Millions more exposed to his […]
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LETTERS
The Supreme Court, in that very building, promoted equal justice when it recently struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — an act which barred the spouse in a same-sex marriage from receiving federal marriage benefits such as Social Security survivors’ benefits. Therefore, Chuck Hagel, Department of Defense Secretary, ordered states to provide same-sex […]
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PBS offers a new perspective on Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds
bY Dean Robbins As an Orson Welles fanatic, I thought I knew everything about his infamous radio adaptation of War of the Worlds from 1938. The 23-year-old genius crafted the program as if Martians had actually invaded the U.S., with news bulletins seeming to interrupt regularly scheduled programming. Listeners believed the invasion was real, and […]
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Million-dollar members
This year, each of the city’s eight council members will receive a $1 million allocation to spend on projects that were not previously funded. The discretionary spending program comes from the city’s reserve fund, typically 8-15 percent of the total municipal budget. In six of the last 11 years, excess money from the reserve fund […]
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Spyda “the Wise Musician” — Mr. Metaphor
Yes, it’s filled with the typical big-balls braggadocio that has become a hallmark of most hip-hop, but what makes Spyda’s album so refreshing is the way he backs those balls up: He has a sound harder than anything on the radio right now. In a world of punk-ass Tiger Beat tween faves like Drake and […]