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If you’ve ever been to a hockey game, you’re surely familiar with the Zamboni — you know, the big vehicle that glides around the rink to smooth out the ice between periods.

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Boy, the OKC Thunder sure does rub some music stars the wrong way.

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Seattle basketball fans finally might be ready to store their Clay Bennett voodoo dolls in the basement.

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If you haven’t seen 2009’s Coraline, you might be more inclined to surrender yourself to the macabre charm of ParaNorman. Both films, works of stop-motion animation by the Oregon-based Laika company, share much in common: an outcast protagonist, ineffectual grown-ups, visually stunning riffs on the supernatural.

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The national collegiate wakeboarding championship kicked off May 31, but rather than the competitors rocking the Oklahoma River, they found themselves paddling up, well, Shit Creek. The contest had to be moved to Guthrie after elevated levels of E. coli bacteria were found in the water.

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Who knew there was an insatiable hunger to read press releases from politicians?

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The Ice Man cometh to Oklahoma City.

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Can’t make it to Broadway? At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic brings it to you, at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker. Wicked Divas is a sampler of showstopping tunes from Wicked, Titanic, Gypsy, Ragtime and Carmen, belted out by two Wicked stars, Julia Murney and Alli Mauzey. Tickets are $15- $65. Call 842-5387 or visit okcphilharmonic.org.

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You could see a future gold medalist — and, therefore, potential Wheaties box model — when the Oklahoma River plays host to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials for Flatwater Sprint in canoe and kayak on Friday and Saturday at the Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln. Also on Saturday, kids age 8 to 16 can go for a short paddle with a top U.S. athlete. Admission is free. Visit boathousedistrict.org.

Friday-Saturday

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Forget Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Letters to the Editor
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It was with great shock and applause that I read Jenny Coon Peterson’s “Not everybody’s ready for some football” (Oct. 12, Gazette).

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The Oklahoma City Public Schools’ Board of Education will have a new face, after an incumbent was unseated during the Feb. 9 elections.

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In reference to “Citty under siege,” I have to respond to the comment by Councilman Sam Bowman. In reference to the AR-15 rifle he said, “This is a very, very different piece of weaponry out there that is military in nature and just separate from all.”

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Williams is simply incorrect on his chronology. He stated current Oklahoma alcohol laws date to statehood 103 years ago. Oklahoma came to statehood absolutely prohibiting possession, sale, consumption, manufacture (and I think transportation) of alcohol: complete and total prohibition.

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Trial attorney Garvin Isaacs, a noted storyteller, re-enters the limelight with another high-profile case.