In the days preceding our national celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., both Oklahoma and the country at large demonstrated that wide swaths of our society require an emergency history lesson. Unfettered racism and enthusiastic ill was the leit motif for the entire week. When University of Oklahoma student and member […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Science diet
On Jan. 2, University of Oklahoma meteorologist with the extremely scientific first name Kelvin Droegemeier was approved in a U.S. Senate voice vote to become President Donald Trump’s chief adviser on all things science. For those not familiar with voice votes, it’s kind of like an Applause-O-Meter used during talent competitions or rap battles, or […]
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Chicken-Fried News: 2018 takeout
Fallin away The queen is dead; long live the king. Mary Fallin’s eight-year reign of terror over the state is over, and her successor Kevin Stitt is a political outsider who campaigned on his version of “drain the swamp” but has surrounded himself with insiders during his transition to the Governor’s Mansion. Oh, Gov. Fallin, […]
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Modern history
If you’d rather look at the pictures than read this article about an art exhibition, some of the educators at University of Oklahoma might understand. “Language itself can be kind of limiting when you’re talking about visual representations,” said Melissa Ski, director of Learning + Engagement Gallery at OU’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, […]
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Holidays: Sacred selections
Handel’s Messiah 8:30 and 10:55 a.m. Dec. 16 McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church 419 S. University Blvd., Norman normanphil.com Free A Christmas tradition since 1750, George Handel’s Messiah initially caused some controversy for taking sacred subjects from the church into the concert hall. Though the composition most famous for its exultant “Hallelujah” chorus continues to […]
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Musical compassion
DogfightFriday-Nov. 11 A. Weitzenhoffer Theatre University of Oklahoma 563 Elm Ave., Norman ou.edu/finearts 405-325-4101 $10-$30 Dogfight might be one the most interesting choices one could make for a University of Oklahoma stage production in 2018 — the year of #MeToo, Christine Blasey Ford versus Brett Kavanaugh, the year the term “toxic masculinity” went mainstream. University […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Handmaid University
Intolerance doesn’t always march on Southern cities bearing tiki torches while chanting, “You will not replace us.” Sometimes it toils quietly, seemingly benign, in quiet places of authority and trust. And in a recent story broken by OU Daily, sometimes it is responsible for shaping tomorrow’s legal minds. On Sept. 30, OU Daily reported that […]
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Ballet buddies
Two University of Oklahoma students are finding out what it’s like to play in the big leagues, so to speak. Michael Bearden, director of the OU School of Dance, used a sports analogy to describe the school’s new collaboration with Oklahoma City Ballet. “Let’s say I’m the football coach at OU,” Bearden said, “and what […]
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Finest virtuosos
The Music Man 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28-29, 1:30 p.m. Sept. 30 OCCC Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater Oklahoma City Community College 777 S. May Ave. cityrep.com 405-848-3761 $12-$35 It will take more than just 76 trombones to stage Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s (CityRep) upcoming concert production of the classic musical The Music Man. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Debbie Downer … debtor
Jim Gallogly recently snubbed University of Oklahoma (OU) administrators for being in the red and owing a whopping $1 billion in debt. “Our debt has more than doubled in the last 10 years, as we’ve been on a building campaign,” Gallogly said at an OU Board of Regents meeting over the summer. While Gallogly’s comments […]