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Man, you can get all the cool, fresh stuff at Whole Foods: Greek yogurt, dungeness crab, goat gouda, black soybean tofu, vagina wipes …

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Just after Thanksgiving, Oklahoma Gazette devoted a cover story to the 50th anniversary of Stark Fear, a B-level slice of film noir primarily conceived and lensed in Norman by two University of Oklahoma faculty members.

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When you’re from a state that has its fair share of natural disasters — tornadoes, drought, Toby Keith — it’s easy to understand the importance of helping other areas stricken by calamity.

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What makes a college worthy of consideration? A good football team? Availability of copious amounts of booze? Or something as quaint as academic excellence?

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Anyone who grew up in the OKC area between the 1960s and ‘80s likely has fond memories of Ho-Ho and Pokey. No, that’s not a cheeky way of describing how Kate Middleton got pregnant, but rather the beloved clown and sock puppet whose children’s show on KOCO Channel 5 entertained kids for nearly 40 years.

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There are “dog people” and “cat people.” There are also “gun people.”

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A few weeks ago, Chicken-Fried News profiled an effort by state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, to push a bill prohibiting state and local governments from participating in the implementation of United Nations initiative — here we will speak in an ominous whisper — Agenda 21.

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Oklahoma-born country music sweetheart Carrie Underwood and actress Olivia Munn have been busy shaming the rest of us self-absorbed brats. The two, by virtue of bestowing charitable gifts of kindness upon those less fortunate — human and animal alike — made DoSomething.org's list of 2012’s “Top 20 Celebs Gone Good.”

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The past year was an interesting one for Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, and 2013 is shaping up to be an interesting one for his former partner, current SandRidge Energy CEO Tom Ward.

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Now that the dust has settled with the averted fiscal cliff, there are dubious Beltway winners and losers, but among the unequivocal winners is Oklahoma's own U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore. Early on, he urged his Republican colleagues to accept tax hikes on the wealthiest 2 percent and wait until spring to battle over spending cuts, and the political postmortems have been more than kind to him.

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Word to the wise if you plan on traveling to Australia anytime soon with a bag full of novelties: Keep your eyes on your giant stage props. The Flaming Lips learned that the hard way last week when someone swiped the supersized laser hands favored by front man Wayne Coyne.

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If you paid any attention to TV meteorologists on Christmas Eve, you might have rushed out to purchase bottled water, shovels and other items necessary to handle the predicted snowpocalypse. Heck, you might’ve even tried gnawing off a foot, just to stave off inevitable postblizzard starvation.

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An Oklahoma man says he’s invented an engine that will run on anything.

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Kris Glenn is very proud of his Dennis Rodman autograph. That’s a good thing, too, since Glenn will have it on his bicep for the rest of his life.

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Anyone who has followed conservative media outlets in recent months probably understands that “Benghazi” is a synonym for “Obama political scandal.”