Norman Music Festival April 24-26 Downtown Norman normanmusicfestival.com free Readers of 2024 album-of-the-year lists and Oklahoma Gazette will find several familiar names in this year’s lineup for Norman Music Festival. La Luz (laluzband.com) — scheduled to take the festival’s main stage at 9:50 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 — made multiple year-end lists for its […]
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Dancing psychedelia
Shorts 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 9 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10 2 p.m. Sunday, May 11 Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. 405-594-8300 okcciviccenter.com/ $20-$103 Oklahoma City Ballet’s upcoming production, Shorts, brings together three distinct works that showcase different facets of contemporary dance in a single evening. While each piece stands on its […]
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Following the light
The blast from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing found Polly Nichols in a northwest corner office on the third floor of the Journal Record building, where she worked as the executive director of a nonprofit. The office was just across the street from the federal building, so the blast was devastating, collapsing the […]
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Breakfast and brunch
Hatch Early Mood Food multiple locations hatchearlymoodfood.com Get your Hatch fix at one of six locations across Oklahoma, including the Will Rogers International Airport. Hatch offers familiar breakfast and brunch dishes from steak and eggs to strawberry arugula salad, omelettes and sandwiches. Its full-service bar options include coffee cocktails, mimosas for the table, mocktails and […]
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Cockfighting returns?
Oklahoma voters banned the sport of cockfighting more than 20 years ago, but efforts to legalize or lessen penalties have resurfaced in recent years. A political action committee largely made up of cockfighters began pumping thousands of dollars into lawmaker coffers a few years ago, which helped allow some bills to receive a hearing and […]
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School board elections
If there’s one thing education doesn’t need more of, it’s partisan politics. But in an era when Oklahoma’s top education official is pushing school-sanctioned religion and fealty to President Trump, state lawmakers want to see local school board elections injected with that same kind of right-wing pandering. Senate Bill 6, which was advanced last month […]
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Shopping carts
Oklahoma’s House of Representatives recently advanced a bill that would increase the penalty for stealing a shopping cart. A person could end up in jail for a year and pay a $1,000 fine if House Bill 1689 were to become law. Oklahoma has a special connection to the shopping cart. It was invented here in […]
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Shop local
Norman Music Festival April 24-26 Downtown Norman normanmusicfestival.com Free Touting more than 250 acts across three days on stages indoors and out (weather permitting), Norman Music Fest gives visitors a chance to relive the pre-algorithm days when you found out about new music by just kind of happening upon it. As fans of the continuation […]
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Power from the people
There’s nothing that scares Republican lawmakers more than giving more power to the people. Oklahoma is a politically conservative state, but when given the chance, voters have supported some fairly progressive issues in statewide votes, including Medicaid expansion and medical marijuana. That’s why the initiative petition process that puts issues on a statewide ballot has […]
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Remembering the bombing
The current article is intended to be an extension of Remembering the bombing. Odds are that most Oklahomans over the age of 40 can tell you where they were when they heard that the Oklahoma City federal building had been bombed. It is also fair to presume that anyone under 40 has no recollection of […]