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The Forgotten River 28 Jan 2013 | 08:00 pm
The forest rangers at Mena were all very nice but they could tell me only approximately where the Ouachita…
N. Scott Momaday 27 Jan 2013 | 09:00 pm
Sterlin Harjo photographs Lawton Native N. Scott Momaday, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his 1969 novel House…
Mardi Gras events in Oklahoma 24 Jan 2013 | 11:03 pm
Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday. Carnival. Whatever you choose to call it, there are a bundle of ways…
A Picture Worth a Thousand Nerds 24 Jan 2013 | 09:00 pm
There are approximately eight peanut butter sandwiches inside a jar of peanut butter. I know this because for the…
Peeling in the Years 23 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
On October 3, Britain’s IT1 network aired a documentary, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, in which 10…
Oklahoma Lacks Phoenixes, Albatrosses 21 Jan 2013 | 10:16 pm
My sadness is heart-achingly Boring And normal; we all feel it: The blue and gold …
Pawn 30 Dec 2012 | 06:00 pm
That morning they’d awoke in South Dakota. Tonight they’d sleep somewhere in Texas. Tomorrow: Mexico. “You know,” his father…
Beyond Barnard 28 Dec 2012 | 08:00 pm
After the backhoes and bulldozers had left, all that was standing were the trees. But if the trees could…
Mr. Ray Fits a Suit 27 Dec 2012 | 09:00 pm
When I walk into Ray’s Tailor Shop, I immediately notice the ordered disorder of the two-room store. Directly in…
The Ritual of Mimosas 26 Dec 2012 | 08:00 pm
A mimosa is a simple drink. Combine three parts champagne to one part orange juice in a champagne flute…
