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Oil and gas execs in Oklahoma are having a rough patch (not oil) these last few weeks.

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The Internet flew into one of those Internet tizzies last week when a photo surfaced of Barry Switzer sporting a fur coat at the University of Oklahoma Sooners’ spring practice.

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For all of you perturbed by the dizzying number of languages you might encounter these days, fear not! Language-loving lawmakers have your back.

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Way back on Oct. 13, 2004, Oklahoma Gazette reported from the set of Sex Machine, a microbudget indie film shot in the Oklahoma City metro. Its director and co-writer, then local graphic designer Christopher Sharpe, had no visions of making anything other than a good time.

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In a Men’s Health rundown of 2013’s hottest celebrity couples, Oklahoma’s own Blake Shelton and wife Miranda Lambert nabbed the No. 7 spot on a list of 20.

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Aubrey McClendon, soon-to-be-outgoing CEO of Chesapeake Energy, is no longer one of the wealthiest people on the planet. Rest easy, however; he’s still very, very, very rich — just not in the billionaire stratosphere. At least that’s according to the latest Forbes list of human beings with the most moolah in the entire universe.

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The Flaming Lips’ new album, The Terror, arrives April 2.

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When Chicken-Fried News goes into a courtroom — or anywhere, really — we come armed with whichever laws we need, regardless of where they’re from: international law, Murphy’s law, Jude Law ... makes no difference to us.

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When Derek Fisher left the Dallas Mavericks in December to be closer to his family in California, only to re-sign with the OKC Thunder a couple of months later, Mavs owner Mark Cuban offered his opinion, which is basically this: Fisher is a back-stabbing megalomaniac who will roundabout his way to another championship ring (because five isn’t enough, clearly).

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Could Nicoma Park residents be more civic-minded than their counterparts in the big city?

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In the 2001 Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun, country music superstar and Oklahoma native Reba McEntire had no problem settling into the leading role of Annie Oakley. After all, Annie, a gun-wielding spitfire of a lady, isn’t too far removed from McEntire’s own persona.

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UPDATE: The anti-Agenda 21 bill passed the state House and is headed to the Senate.

Conspiracy-minded Oklahomans soon may be free to remove their tinfoil hats! House Bill 1412, a measure designed to protect the state from the United Nations’ insidious Agenda 21 sustainability initiative, has passed its first legislative hurdle.

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We can all agree that Derek Fisher’s return to Oklahoma City Thunder is a good thing, right?

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Science homework might be a little easier for Oklahoma students in the near future, depending on how you look at it. House Bill 1674 by Rep. Gus Blackwell, R-Laverne, would allow students to turn in schoolwork that challenges “controversial topics” such as “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming and human cloning” without adverse consequences, such as a pesky bad grade. It also will force teachers to come up with more creative ways of handling such subjects.

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Steve Green, the president of Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby, spoke at Bob Jones University on Feb. 25. According to a statement from the Christian fundamentalist university, Green was to tell the story of his family’s Christian company and discuss the Green Collection, the world’s largest collection of biblical manuscripts and antiquities.