–Advertisement– – By Colin Newman – I’m a fan of documentaries, because I’m always fascinated by the interplay between reality and narrative- it’s misleading to say that documentaries are non-fiction, because there is still the contribution from the filmmaker, choosing what we see and don’t see, choosing how to present what they do show [...]
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The Beat Goes On at Paseo Arts Fest
–Advertisement—By Colin Newman This has been a rough week for everyone. Why not go out to the Paseo and decompress? Here is a quick interview with Paseo Artists Association Executive Director Jennifer Barron about the festival. Q: The Tornado hit just as you guys were making final arrangements for the festival. How did this effect [...]
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Another year, Another Anniversary
By Sam Scovill There were children born on the day the Murrah Bombing happened. Today they are old enough to vote. I do fear that people will forget. As tragic as the events of the last week are, they are still eclipsed by the magnitude of what happened here in Oklahoma City, and not just [...]
Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love
By Colin Newman, Photos by Helen Grant – “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin Luther King, Jr. – I’m terrorized. After all of these years, I still feel a little bit terrorized. That is, [...]
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Bombing
By Patricia Waldron – Everyone has a story for where they were April 19, 1995. Some people were close enough to hear the explosion; others were called by friends and family or heard about it on the news. One of my friends was at work at the State Health Department over a mile away, and [...]
Polarity
By Colin Newman “We have got an important task assigned to us and we are not going to be able to fulfill it to anyone’s satisfaction as manic-depressives in a perpetual state of personal train wreck.” – Walter Alter I have always found the world alternately transcendentally beautiful and soul crushingly unbearable. I have taken [...]
Red Carpet Carping
On the Monday following the Oscars, Vogue went to its social media outlets and suggested that followers look through photographs of starlets on the red carpet and read Andre Leon Talley’s thoughts on the best and worst looks of the evening. This is pretty standard fare for the fashion world. In lauding Renee Zellweger’s [...]
Halloween Hijinks: a Goulishly Goodtime
1. Myriad Botanical Garden’s Pumpinkville Halloween Party Oct. 27th in OKC There’s nothing particularly spooky about the Myriad Gardens, but any excuse to visit one of my favorite spots in the city is welcome. If you have kids in tow, this is a Halloween event that won’t leave them with a [...]
Haunt the Runway 4: Vampire in Bricktown
If you like exclusive, original, accessible fashion and prefer an upscale entertainment environment, then consider spending the Saturday before Halloween at the 4th annual Haunt the Runway show in Bricktown. The event is a collaboration between Ph.D. Entertainment, Vane Magazine, and KoKo Dolls. Haunt the Runway is Ph.D. Entertainment’s brainchild. Photos from the past [...]
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