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National Book Awards -- Not "Now"

11/20/2008 11:23 AM

Well, just learned that Oklahoma novelist Tim Tharp's 'The Spectacular Now' did not win the National Book Award for Young People's literature. It went instead to Judy ... 

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Clive Barnes RIP

11/19/2008 12:21 PM

This hasn't been a good month for people who write about the arts. Clive Barnes, who died Wednesday, was one of the best writers about dance in the world, one of those ... 

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Local Hero turns 25

11/17/2008 4:40 PM

Bill Forsyth's 'Local Hero' is one of those movies that, once seen, tends to become a part of one's life. I first saw this movie, starring Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert, ... 

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Halfway there

11/17/2008 4:36 PM

...in time, if not in productivity. If this were a perfect world, in which creativity and industry to could regulated with clockwork proficiency, there should have been ... 

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REVIEW: Tulsa Symphony "The Magical Music of Disney"

11/16/2008 5:02 PM

“Magic” is a word much bandied about by those involved with the Walt Disney Company and its many offshoots. These days, it refers most often to technology – the mechanical ... 

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Kristin Chenoweth won't play the Met

11/14/2008 11:18 AM

Well, not any time soon. Chenoweth, the Tony Award-winning Broken Arrow native, was scheduled to make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera this season with a much-anticipated ... 

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REVIEW: Signature Symphony at TCC

11/10/2008 8:29 AM

The Signature Symphony at Tulsa Community College sought to supply a little hometown pride with each of the work its presented as part of its Williams Signature Classics ... 

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Not a good week....

11/7/2008 3:24 PM

I never got the chance to meet Rosella Hightower, one of the Oklahoma Indian Ballerinas. Her public visits to her home state were infrequent. But I remember people like ... 

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Getting Woody into the concert hall

11/6/2008 10:50 AM

For some listeners, classical music is a bit like comfort food: they want it to be familiar, they want it to be soothing, and they want it done 'the way it's always been ... 

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Lend me a Tenor

11/6/2008 10:48 AM

The Tulsa Oratorio Chorus' performance of music by Gounod and Rossini this Saturday, 8 Nov., at the PAC will feature Roderick George as the tenor soloist. He's a relativeliy ... 

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REVIEW: Tulsa Ballet "Legends"

11/3/2008 11:18 AM

Tulsa Ballet offered those who came to visit them on Halloween a stage full of treats, in the form of three extraordinary performances of ballets by some legends of ... 

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Opus: Where he belongs

11/2/2008 9:49 PM

Of course. In the pages of the most gentle of places. The final 'Opus' ran in Sunday's Tulsa World, among hundreds of other papers, as well as online at places such ... 

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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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