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Miscellany -- G.K. Chesterton on politics

3/31/2010 3:28 PM

'The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives ... 

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Miscellany -- Father Brown

3/31/2010 10:26 AM


'The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.'

-- 'The Blue Cross' from 'The Innocence of Father Brown' by G.K. Chesterton. 

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For want of an I...

3/30/2010 11:27 AM

Muscle memory is a strange thing. It can help a dancer remember and recreate a ballet he or she has not performed in years. It can help a musician properly execute a ... 

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A bit of Tulsa Ballet back in NYC

3/23/2010 11:58 AM


Tulsa Ballet principal dancers Ma Cong and Wang Yi will be taking part this Fridday in the 10th annual Youth America Grand Prix Gala -- part of the week-long Youth America ... 

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So this robin comes up to me...

3/22/2010 11:40 AM

Saturday morning, as I sat by the front window watching spring come in like a rattlesnake, I noticed a robin come hopping, as robins do, toward our front door.

Progress ... 

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Keep your hats on -- Midnight Social Club show postponed

3/21/2010 2:31 PM

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is postponing Sunday's performance by the Midnight Social Club because of Tulsa's always lovely spring weather.

The concert was to ... 

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Theatre Tulsa postpones tonight's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

3/20/2010 2:30 PM

From the website of Theatre Tulsa:

DUE TO THE CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' performance scheduled for Saturday, March 20, 2010 is being reschedule ... 

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Tulsa Ballet's "Maninyas"

3/20/2010 2:27 PM

Yes, it's snowing, but after the last few months, we all should be able to deal with traveling in this stuff.

In any case, it will be worth the effort to make it ... 

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Titanic has gone to the dogs.

3/16/2010 6:01 PM


The fascination people have with the Titanic has taken some unusual forms, to say the least.

Leave it to Branson, Missouri, to come up with something nobody else ... 

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Have you seen this painting?

3/16/2010 1:53 PM


This week marks the 20th anniversary of what has been called the largest theft of art in U.S. history -- the break-in at the Isbella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

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The Ides of March

3/15/2010 11:05 AM

The above phrase would probably mean nothing to people if it weren't for students being required to read William Shakespeare's 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.'

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Wilma Mankiller on Write TV

3/12/2010 3:53 PM

WriteTV, the website for the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers, has posted a new interview with Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.

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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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