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Recording artist Keri Hilson, known for her sexiness and power collaborations (Nelly, R. Kelly and Kanye West), appears to be hot ’n’ heavy these days with Serge Ibaka, OKC Thunder’s power forward. A few weeks ago, Hilson celebrated her birthday in Bricktown after the Thunder’s trouncing of the Los Angeles Lakers at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.

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Okie country cutie Carrie Underwood is guilty of many things: having a powerful singing voice, being hot, winning Grammys, being hot, lending legitimacy to American Idol, being hot, marrying a hockey player, being hot and being hot.

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Sometimes, your back hurts. Maybe you threw it out playing Frisbee golf, or maybe you sat on an uncomfortable old sofa watching a Firefly marathon. How it happened isn’t important. Your back hurts and you need some help, and it’s not like doctors just hand out muscle relaxants anymore.

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Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett will need to clear some room on a bookshelf for an award celebrating something that hasn’t happened yet, sorta.

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Kobe Bryant is not known for his graciousness. Especially not toward excellent young players who repeatedly school him on the court, sometimes in his own house.

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How many make-believe cops can you name off the bat? Let’s see … there’s Sgt. Joe Friday, Dirty Harry, Axel Foley … oh, and John Doak. If the name of Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner doesn’t immediately strike fear among the criminal kind, it’s certainly not for lack of trying. Doak’s agency has bolstered its anti-fraud unit by spending more than $180,000 on police cars, pump-action shotguns, bulletproof vests and the like.

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That scream you heard carry across the metro at 8:48 a.m. Dec. 10 was untold thousands of tween girls reacting to Chesapeake Energy Arena’s announcement that Justin Bieber had scheduled a local stop for his “Believe” world tour, for July 2, 2013.

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If there’s one thing Oklahoma politicians know, it’s that no one appreciates a moocher. Unless that moocher is a corporation.

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The spanking Mitt Romney took in the presidential election might have the GOP thinking it’s time for a new quarterback — perhaps a real, honest-to-goodness QB. And so it is that J.C. Watts, the former Oklahoma congressman and University of Oklahoma Sooners quarterback, says he is being encouraged to run for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.

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Usually, when OKC makes it on national TV, local boosters howl about it from the rooftops.

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Would you rather go to jail or church?

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Well, Chicken-Fried News hasn’t actually seen the musical Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. But even before its world premiere in La Jolla, Calif., last month, we knew it would be much better than Cats. And the critics agree!

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Lyndon Johnson once remarked that he knew he’d lost Middle America’s support for the Vietnam War when he lost the support of CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite.

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Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is known for some of cinema’s all-time finest tough-guy films — Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull — so when he ventures outside his crime-minded comfort zone, it raises eyebrows. (And have you seen his eyebrows?) News of him potentially directing a television special starring Yukon’s favorite son Garth Brooks would have CFN doing just that, but we got our brows waxed and plucked so thin, they barely move. Anyhow, according to The Las Vegas Sun, Brooks just wrapped up a three-year stint performing in Sin City, and real-estate mogul Steve Wynn says Marty “said he’d love to” shoot it for all of America’s eyeballs.

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“Here’s a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man’s right in the law.”