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As Nero Wolfe might say....

4/30/2012 3:48 PM


...'Pfui.'

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest No. 329 was not won by Tulsan Barry Friedman.

I voted for his caption for a cartoon of two lab-coated types standing ... 

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New York Times's obituary of Moscelyne Larkin

4/30/2012 12:01 PM

Jack Anderson, longtime dance critic for the New York Times and author of the 1981 book, 'The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo,' has written the Times' obituary ... 

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REVIEW: "Madama Butterfly" by Tulsa Opera

4/28/2012 7:41 PM

The title character of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” makes her entrance several minutes before she appears on stage – singing a wistful song about her impending wedding ... 

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Miss Larkin

4/27/2012 5:14 PM

To me – as to thousands of other Tulsans – she is, was and will always be “Miss Larkin.”

Moscelyne Larkin, who died Wednesday at the age of 87, had many names. She ... 

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REVIEW: "Dinner with Friends"

4/27/2012 1:23 PM

Few things can be more satisfying than the intelligent, nuanced performance of a well-made play.

That is what Theatre Pops is offering, with its production of “Dinner ... 

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Lunch time: A moment's pause

4/24/2012 12:00 AM

I happened across this article from the online magazine Slate, titled “Let’s Do Lunch,” in which the writer Racheal Levy extols the way the French approach the midday ... 

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Lonely at the top

4/17/2012 10:51 AM


Exactly six years ago this week, I achieved a goal that no other Tulsa resident has ever attained.

I won the weekly New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.

A dozen ... 

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"Hunger Games" tops "Most Challenged" list

4/12/2012 4:56 PM


Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” trilogies currently top the best-seller lists, the film version of the first novel in the series has been the No. 1 film at the box ... 

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A new McCall Smith "novel" complete in this blog!

4/10/2012 1:28 PM

I spent a portion of Tuesday morning talking with Alexander McCall Smith, in advance of his coming to Tulsa next week as part of Tulsa Reads.

He mentioned that ... 

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And the light dies down...

4/9/2012 9:03 AM


I once visited a Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery – the one that existed for a brief time in Tulsa’s Woodland Hills Mall.

It was a retail space that had been subdivided ... 

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A rasher of visitors

4/7/2012 10:00 AM


Robert Frost once wrote, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Balderdash. You need bacon.

The first knock on the front door came at about 6:45, as I was about one-third ... 

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Take a walk

4/6/2012 2:47 PM


The galleries of the Brady Arts District will hold their monthly First Friday Art Walk tonight, with receptions and open houses by the various artistically inclined businesses ... 

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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.

Contact him at (918) 581-8478.


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