Support the arts and do your heart some good by participating in the 38th May Fair Arts Festival Saturday at Andrews Park in Norman. “Art and Sole” is this year’s theme, since the Assistance League of Norman opted to incorporate a 5K and 2K fun run with its annual event that emphasizes children’s art education […]
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Feminine frames
For the fourth year, Lunafest — a traveling festival of short films by, for and about women — arrives in Oklahoma City. Screening Friday at Lyric Theatre after a cocktail party, the event benefits World Neighbors’ Work of Women and the Breast Cancer Fund. This year’s lineup features nine films on a variety of subjects. […]
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Making an impact
Such is the annual scene for Impact Oklahoma, the nonprofit organization comprised of communityminded women who donate $1,000 a year to impact the quality of life in Central Oklahoma in five focus areas: family, culture, health and wellness, environment and education. Then they gather to listen to five nonprofit finalists’ pitches, and decide who will […]
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Women in Cages Collection / Women in Prison Triple Feature
“Cages” comes as part of the irresistible “Roger Corman’s Cult Classics” line, which is only natural since the skinflint producer practically invented the sub-genre with lots of skin. In the dank, Filipino prison that is 1971’s “The Big Doll House,” the more unfortunate inmates hang in bamboo cages outside to bake in the sun. Inside, […]
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!Women Art Revolution
Pop quiz, hotshot: Can you name three female artists? If you can’t immediately, there’s a good reason: Because for the near-entirety of our nation’s history, they’ve been denigrated, rather than displayed. It took a transformative, feminist movement known as Women Artists in Revolution birthed in the late 1960s to change that, and documentarian Lynn Hershman- […]
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Open-carry calendar girls
Twelve gun-toting gals posing as snipers and sitting on motorcycles (on train tracks, no less) were photographed for the calendar, which was intended to raise money for the Lincoln County Republicans. Calling themselves “Heels Packing Heat” (or the more down-home spelling of “Heels Packin’ Heat” if you squint to read the text screen-printed on their […]
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Councilman on Kern
So hearing Rep. Sally Kern attack Muslims, gays and now people of color and women is very offensive to me. Which group will she attack next? I feel strongly that she cannot be allowed to continually give Oklahoma a black eye. To misspeak is to incorrectly express yourself. Kern’s so-called apology claims she did just […]
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Woman power
In her newest exhibit, “Our Lady of the Perpetual Pin-Up,” now on display at the a.k.a. Gallery, 3001 Paseo, she uses mixed-media collages of vintage paper combined with hand embroidery to comment on what it’s like to be a woman in today’s American culture. In “You Wanna Meat?” and other works, Marilyn Artus examines society’s […]