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No more refunds for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

1/31/2010 9:54 AM

Because the final performances of 'August: Osage County' will go as planned, the PAC will not be refunding people's tickets if they are unable to attend.

The only ... 

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Jazz Hall concert Sunday postponed

1/30/2010 11:43 AM

Sunday afternoon's concert at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, 'Pam Swings the Classics' with vocalist Pam Crosby has been postponed unti March 28, due to the weather ... 

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Gone a-"Rye"

1/28/2010 2:08 PM


I have to confess two things.

First, when one of my editors read off the wire alert that J.D. Salinger had died, my immediate response was, 'How could they tell?'

Yes, ... 

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Miscellany: "August: Osage County" part two

1/27/2010 11:41 PM

In the prologue of 'August: Osage County,' Beverly Weston (played by Jon DeVries in the touring production now at the Tulsa PAC) recites a couple of snippets of T.S. ... 

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Miscellany: "August: Osage County"

1/27/2010 4:27 PM

This is the epigraph for the published version of 'August: Osage County.' It comes from Robert Penn Warren's classic novel, 'All the King's Men.'

'The child ... 

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Rules of Thumb No. 1

1/26/2010 2:26 PM


Today's entry is from 'It's a Dog's World: The Savvy Guide to Four-Legged Living' by Wendy Diamond (Ballantine Books), a 'pet-lifestyle expert' who appears on morning ... 

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This day is just sad.

1/25/2010 12:25 PM

No, really. We have the math to prove it.

About six years ago, there came out of England a press release, supposedly by a tutor at Cardiff University who described ... 

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Spenser is no longer for hire

1/20/2010 12:57 PM

Robert B. Parker, whose novels about the Boston private investigator known only as Spenser, died Monday at the age of 77.

Most of the 40 novels Parker wrote in his ... 

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This is just to say...

1/20/2010 11:45 AM

Enough with the 'Pants on the Ground.' It was cute. For a while. And the Neil Young parody by Jimmy Fallon was remarkably accurate and even funny.

But please. ... 

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Oh, Poe....

1/19/2010 10:44 PM


For the past 60 years, a cloaked individual has left a bottle of brandy and a handful of roses on the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, sometime in the early hours of Jan. 19, ... 

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Mondo Tulsa

1/18/2010 5:21 PM

Tulsans with long memories might associate the word 'Mondo' with an Italian restaurant of years past. But in this case, 'Mondo Tulsa' is a new video project by former ... 

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Of "O's" and Sundays and little green men

1/16/2010 3:19 PM


Three icons of the 1960s died last week:

Jan Gabriel, the Illinois racing promoter and pitchman who coined the phrase “Sunday Sunday Sunday!” – bellowed at the top ... 

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James D. Watts Jr. has lived in Oklahoma for most his life, even though he still has people saying to him, "Don't sound like you're from around these parts." A University of Oklahoma Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Watts has received the Governor Arts Award, Harwelden Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Beth Macklin Award for his writing. Before coming to the Tulsa World, Watts worked for the Tulsa Tribune.

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