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Best ghost stories

10/31/2008 10:35 AM

We reviewed Susan Hill's 'The Man in the Picture' this past Sunday -- and we take no offense if you have no idea what we're talking about -- and found it an excellent ... 

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NaNoWriMo -- Let the Typing Begin

10/30/2008 9:47 PM

It begins Saturday. That's when a few hundred Oklahomans will sit down before a computer, or a typewriter, or a pad of paper, and write a word. One down, 49,999 to ... 

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INTERVIEW: Sylvia McNair in concert Oct. 28-29

10/28/2008 10:01 AM

Any good one-person show — even one built around examples from the Great American Songbook — has to be an autobiography. At least, that is what Sylvia McNair believes. ... 

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FEATURE: StoryCorps

10/28/2008 9:56 AM

It doesn’t happen often, but on occasion a solitary person will arrive for a session in the StoryCorps Mobile Studio. “Often it’s because they don’t have any family, ... 

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Ballet Oklahoma is gone....

10/27/2008 2:06 PM

...and in its place is Oklahoma City Ballet. New artistic director Robert Mills decided that a new name was necessary to the revitalization of this company, which traces ... 

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A passing thought about political speech

10/27/2008 1:32 PM

Is is just me, or do other people, whenever they hear the word 'maverick,' immediately think of a bull rumming amok?  

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REVIEW: The Three Phantoms

10/27/2008 1:26 PM

This was supposed to have run Monday, but it would seem the journalistic equivalent of quantum mechanics (i.e., matters of Time and/or Space) intervened. So: It ... 

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REVIEW: Diavolo

10/16/2008 5:27 PM

Think of Diavolo as the 'Cirque du Sartre.' This California-based group – not really a dance company, more of a performance art troupe – made its Oklahoma debut Tuesday ... 

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It's not quite "Dewey Defeats Truman"...

10/16/2008 2:25 PM

But Oklahoma novelist Tim Tharp has only been nominated for a National Book Award for his young adult novel, 'The Spectacular Now.' The headline that was affixed to ... 

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Oklahoma writer, Nimrod judge up for National Book Award

10/15/2008 12:24 PM

Oklahoma author Tim Tharp, whose books include 'Falling Dark' and 'Knights of the Hill Country,' is one of the nominees for the 2008 National Book Awards. Tharp is up ... 

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Maybe it's just a coincidence....

10/13/2008 12:28 PM

....but a number of people -- several of them musicians -- have been forwarding me stories about Donald Rosenberg, who was recently removed from his position of reviewing ... 

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Jean-Marie who?

10/9/2008 10:04 AM

The Nobel prize for literature goes to.... Read the story: New York Times announcement I confess M. Le Clezio's work has escaped my notice. Anyone out there ... 

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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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