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Top 10 Southern Novels --Let the Arguments Begin

8/31/2009 1:58 PM

The Oxford American has released its list of the Best Southern Novels of All Time -- and for once, it's a list that I find little to quibble about, although I'm sure ... 

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Living Arts -- Found Sound Workshop

8/31/2009 9:57 AM

Living Arts of Tulsa is putting its newly opened space to work immediately, by hosting its first workshop in the new facility at 307 E. Brady St. Jay Kreimer will conduct ... 

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Newly discovered Agatha Christie story published

8/28/2009 12:30 PM

Great Britain's Daily Mail has published a newly discovered short story by Agatha Christie. It's one of two unpublished stories that were found by Christie fan John ... 

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Miscellany: Anthony Burgess

8/28/2009 11:18 AM

'Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.' --Anthony Burgess, 'Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of ... 

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Tulsa Ballet on Japanese TV

8/25/2009 1:23 PM

The Japanese TV corporation Fujisankei did a new piece about Tulsa Ballet's performance in New York City, focusing on dancer Mugen Kazuma, who is Japanese. The video ... 

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One day left to be a part of Living Arts' 40th anniversary

8/21/2009 11:37 AM

Living Arts of Tulsa will be celebrating both its 40th anniversary and the opening of its new facility at the corner of Detroit Avenue and Brady Street on Aug. 28. An ... 

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Andre Prokovsky, who choreographed "Anna Karenina," has died.

8/21/2009 11:00 AM

The New York Times has the obituary here: Read the story: Andre Prokovsky, Ballet Dancer and Choreographer Prokovsky connection to Tulsa Ballet goes back decades ... 

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Mamma Mia! That's a long time on Broadway

8/19/2009 2:18 PM

When the curtain goes up at 8 p.m. Wednesday on 'Mamma Mia!' at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City, it will be a record-setting event. It will mean that this ... 

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Miscellany: Leave it to Somerset Maugham

8/18/2009 11:18 AM

'Now the world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.' ... 

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Overheard at the Guggenheim

8/17/2009 5:24 PM

During our New York sojourn, my wife and I spent a few hours in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, which opened to the public 50 years ago this month. The museum ... 

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Tulsa Ballet included in the NYTimes "Week in Culture"

8/17/2009 12:53 PM

Apparently, the New York Times thought enough of Tulsa Ballet to include it in its slideshow roundup of the local and national doings in the performing arts. See the ... 

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A few more voices from the New York critics on Tulsa Ballet

8/14/2009 9:48 AM

Once you get past the daily papers and their very, very personal, very VERY well-ground axes, the impression you get is that Tulsa Ballet made quite a hit with people. ... 

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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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