Where is the local music scene? Conventional knowledge finds it in the small coffee shops and dive bars of a city, but savvier minds find it on the internet. As social media has taken gig posters from record store windows to digital feeds over the years, the challenge to stay engaged with new bands in […]
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Up-Down Games
Starting with one humble location in Des Moines, Iowa, and then methodically expanding to Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Milwaukee, Up-Down Arcade Bar went scouting for its next city. Joey Akers, who had helped pick several of those sites, was dispatched to Tulsa and Oklahoma City to determine if there was a good spot […]
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Take Shelter Oklahoma files lawsuit against attorney general
The lawsuit made its way to the state Supreme Court, which ruled last week that Pruitt’s changes to the petition were valid. However, the court also gave Take Shelter Oklahoma another 90 days to collect signatures. “We do believe the ballot language used by the attorney general is not fair. We think it’s inaccurate, and […]
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Love Triangle?
From tragedy comes art, so Lyric Theatre presents the new musical Triangle at the Plaza Theatre, inspired by the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The show’s creators — Curtis Moore (music), Thomas Mizer (lyrics) and Joshua Scher (book with Moore and Mizer) — also link the story tenuously to the World Trade Center attack of […]
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Nice curves
Glimcher Realty Trust reported the $51.8 million buy of Classen Curve, The Triangle at Classen Curve and Nichols Hills Plaza on March 3. The purchase plan first was announced in Glimcher’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013 results released in February. The sale is the latest move in an effort by the energy company to […]
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Odd men out
An ancient theatrical relic is on display in the Plaza District under the auspices of Lyric Theatre. The historical artifact in question is a comedy from A.D. 1965 titled The Odd Couple (you may have heard of it) by a popular playwright of that era named Neil Simon (who, for the record, is still alive). […]
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Nowhere to hide
State Rep. Joe Dorman (D-Rush Springs) said the statewide figure demonstrates a greater problem because more than half a million students and teachers are without adequate protection from tornadoes. “It’s shocking how many school districts are without shelters,” he said at a meeting last week, highlighting a report released the week of Sept. 23. “I […]
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Seeking shelters
Their wish is that storm shelters had been in place four months earlier as a powerful EF-5 tornado swept through southwest Oklahoma City and Moore, killing 47 people, including seven students at Plaza Towers Elementary. Among the students who perished were their sons — Nicolas McCabe, 8; Kyle Davis, 8; and Christopher Legg, 9. With […]
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’Live and well
It’s a common occurrence within urban sprawl: Historically thriving neighborhoods succumb to Father Time as new developments arise, businesses relocate and the activity of city-dwellers inevitably shifts from one area to another. Until recently, Oklahoma City’s Plaza District — the mile-long strip along 16th Street between Classen Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue — was merely another […]
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BREAKING: Petition drive seeks storm shelter funding
Take Shelter Oklahoma is a movement that comes four months after a series of tornadoes ripped through southwest Oklahoma City and Moore, killing 47 people, including seven children at Plaza Towers Elementary. Twisters also struck Canadian Valley Vocational Technology Center on May 31 and leveled parts of Pottawatomie County on May 19, killing two people […]