Seven months after they began, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests at North Dakota’s Standing Rock Indian Reservation have converged with Native American Heritage Month, bringing even greater focus on the thousands of people from various indigenous tribes and nations working to halt pipeline development on Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lands. The tribe’s goals are, […]
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Alternative Thanksgiving celebrations offer a respite from stress
Friendsgiving celebrations can be anything hosts want them to be, and someone else can even do the cooking and cleaning up.
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New arts campus for Oklahoma Contemporary on its way
The new campus will provide space for arts education and activities in OKC.
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Packer Land merges the worlds of crafts, fine art and football
Artist Michael Litzau grew up as a Green Bay Packers fan in Wisconsin.
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UCO’s theater department stages comedic farce A Flea in Her Ear
The play humorously draws parallels between issues of the ’60s (and the early 1900s) and today.
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IAO Gallery turns back the clock with traditional audio play Not Worth Shootin’
Co-playwrights Gaylene Murphy and Linda McDonald met at the University of Central Oklahoma.
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Local R&B artist Gabrielle B. leans on family for success
The artist hopes to release a new single “Hold onto Me” in October.
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UCO stages forums in advance of Nov. 8 elections
An informed citizenry provides for a healthy democracy. But young people also generally fail to show up to vote.
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Lady Dynamite star Maria Bamford performs Sept. 9 at UCO
Bamford’s comedy is usually a self-deprecating look at her own mental health.
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ESPY finalist and UCO resident athlete Heather Erickson attempts to take home Paralympic gold in sitting volleyball
An amputation at age 8 allowed Erickson to pursue her sports dreams.