For more than three decades, “Sesame Street Live” has brought kids’ favorite characters, including Big Bird and Cookie Monster, from the small screen to life on the stage. Cast member Shannon Maloney, who plays Ernie’s sidekick, Bert, said it’s special to be a part of something that she loved as a child. “I reacted the […]
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Ready Orr not
The “agri-tainment” site is open now through Saturday for spring break, to debut its zip line. “The owners wanted something new and exciting that would appeal to older children,” said Lauren Lorenzen, spokeswoman for the farm. “It’s been tested out by the staff, and they all said it was a lot of fun.” The line, […]
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Talk it out
“There’s a real danger to the maintenance and perpetuation of meaningful communications and personal and professional relationships,” said Hanke. “If you become overly dependent on e-mail or text messages, you focus on the object, but not the person.” She said face-to-face communication is a necessity and most beneficial to achieve clarity, especially when: • Negotiating […]
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PR BS
— “Watonga Trout Derby” — “Hazmat Training Critical to Avoiding Fines for Violation of 2011 Rules” —“Submersible pumps banned on Tulsa District lakes” —“Married OSU researchers expand work through grants” —“Dating advice song for Valentines day – ‘Wear a Condom!’” —“Shell’s Lazare and Petrohawk’s Stoneburner Join DUG™ Keynotes, Enterprise’s Creel to Provide Midstream Spotlight” —“QEP […]
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‘Stereo’ components
Never before has an art exhibit’s title doubled as a set of instructions. That’s according to Sherwin Tibayan, who — along with fellow University of Oklahoma students Lauren Barnes and Ken Sims — curated a different kind of photography show currently on display at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. All patrons have to […]
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An eye for Y
Yousef Khanfar grew up in Kuwait, raised by Palestinian refugees and mute at the age of 6. Concerned, his father took him into the sand dunes with a camera, hoping that if the boy was not willing to communicate with his mouth, perhaps he would with a camera. A lifelong obsession was born. Moving to […]
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Hey! Do this
snap this We all know that caterpillars become butterflies, but what happens after that? Windle Turley, author of “The Amazing Monarch,” a photographic chronicle of the monarch butterfly’s migration patterns, answers that question with his new exhibit, now on display through March 18 at Oklahoma City University’s Norick Art Center, 2501 N. Blackwelder. Admission is […]
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Mind games
The sophomore album is always an uphill battle, and God bless Telekinesis’ Michael Benjamin Lerner for getting through it with all the other obstacles that popped up along the way. The stress of following up his critically acclaimed debut, “Telekinesis!,” was compounded by a litany of other problems: a serious car wreck, a breakup, depression […]
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Truth in advertising
The resulting exhibit, “New Work,” features paintings of landscapes he saw while on a cross-country journey to 16 art shows. It remains on display through Feb. 28 at Adelante! Gallery, 3003 Paseo, where an artist’s reception will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. “It had always been a dream of mine to […]
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Miraculously marvelous
Written in 1957, “The Miracle Worker” dramatizes the story of Helen Keller’s fateful meeting with the teacher who would change her life. At just more than a year old, Keller was stricken by a disease that robbed her of her sight and hearing. By the time she turned 10, Keller’s family was close to giving […]