A host of activities this week celebrate OKC’s annual Pride Week, including: —OKC Pride Block Party, from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday at the N.W. 39th Street Strip, featuring entertainment, music and a crawfish boil; —the family-friendly OKC Pride Festival, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at downtown’s Film Row, featuring entertainment, food and […]
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CFN headscratcher of the week
“Mind-boggling cryptograms from [The Flaming Lips], the OKC band’s new album, The Terror: You’re not alone / You are alone / You’re not alone / You are alone. Got it?” —GQ’s April 2013 issue
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CFN Quote of the Week
“Part of their (women’s) identity is the potential to be a mother. They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they are being asked to poison their bodies.” —Dr. Dominic Pedulla, an OKC cardiologist, to the Tulsa World. State Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond, […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
“Part of their (women’s) identity is the potential to be a mother. They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they are being asked to poison their bodies.” —Dr. Dominic Pedulla, an OKC cardiologist, to the Tulsa World. State Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond, […]
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CFN Quote of the week
“Guthrie, specifically, is a town that lots of musicians rave about. They’re like, ‘It’s fucking awesome; it’s mental.’” —Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall, telling Oklahoma Gazette why the Logan County town was chosen as one of only three U.S. locations for a music festival in September
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CFN Quote of the week
“Oil and barbecue are the lifeblood of Oklahoma.” —S. Raichlen in the December issue of Esquire
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CFN tweets of the week
“Somebody tell serg Abaka. He aint bout dis life. Next time he run up on me im goin in his mouth. That’s a promise. He doin 2 much.” —The San Antonio Spurs’ Stephen Jackson, in a Dec. 8 tweet about the Thunder’s Serge Ibaka. The NBA fined Jackson $25,000 for the online threat. Jackson later […]
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CFN tweets of the week
“Somebody tell serg Abaka. He aint bout dis life. Next time he run up on me im goin in his mouth. That’s a promise. He doin 2 much.” —The San Antonio Spurs’ Stephen Jackson, in a Dec. 8 tweet about the Thunder’s Serge Ibaka. The NBA fined Jackson $25,000 for the online threat. Jackson later […]
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CFN Quote of the week
“Oil and barbecue are the lifeblood of Oklahoma.” —S. Raichlen in the December issue of Esquire
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Local heroes
Vince Gill, who was born in Norman and grew up in Oklahoma City, has already taken home a record 20 Grammys. He has now been nominated for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The impressive roster of Gill’s fellow nominees includes Elvis Costello, B.B. King and Ray Davies of The Kinks. Anthony Shadid, originally […]