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At 6 p.m. Friday, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm in Norman, gets Notorious. Not the Biggie Smalls biopic, but Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 classic spy thriller starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and One Very Important Key. Admission is free. For more information, call 325-3272 or visit ou.edu/fjjma.

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Betcha can’t guess where the 34th annual Downtown Edmond Arts Festival will be held. Give up? Downtown Edmond! More than 100 artists will showcase their works, with plenty of food and live entertainment to keep visitors hopping from booth to booth, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Call 249-9391 or visit downtownedmondok.com.

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More than 7,000 people in our community suffer from the debilitating nerve disease known as multiple sclerosis. Help find a cure by stepping out at Saturday’s annual Walk MS at Oklahoma City Zoo, 2101 N.E. 50th. Registration begins 7 a.m. for the 8 a.m. walk. Participants can enjoy the zoo for free afterward! Call 800-344-4867 or visit walkmsok.org.

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Jewel Box Theatre, 3700 N. Walker, encourages audience members to boo and hiss at its current production, Dirty Work on the Trail. A golden-era melodrama about a villain out to disgrace the Pony Express, defraud the railroad and steal the heroine’s money, it finishes its run at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $5-$10. Call 521-1786 or visit jewelboxtheatre.org.

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As the state legislative session winds down, some lawmakers are working to resuscitate proposals that already died. That can be promising news for Oklahomans who fancy schoolteachers packing heat, and more bad news for Oklahomans who don’t like the idea of distracted drivers zooming along the highway.

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Numerous NBA stars have weighed in with encouraging words for Washington Wizards center Jason Collins in light of today's announcement that he is gay.

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Did you know that tornadoes are so prevalent around these here parts that they often appear in the guise of country music superstars? According to a lawsuit filed by Lisa Sanderson, Garth Brooks’ business partner of 20 years, we have an F5 cyclone residing in this very state.

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Former Oklahoma legislator and current Washington D.C. lawyer Cleta Mitchell is a powerful woman with a ton of influence, or so says Jonathan Krohn in a recent profile in The Atlantic Monthly Journal.

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Eddie Albert completists, your dreams are now reality! (Assuming those dreams entailed seeing the eventual release of The Oklahoma City Dolls on DVD.)

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Although Earth Day officially has passed, that’s not stopping Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City from going green with its fourth annual Earth Day Fair, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the 900 N. Portland campus. Outdoors at the Student Center, attendees can enjoy free food, music, prizes and more. Admission is free. Call 947-4421 or visit osuokc.edu.

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I can haz cat show? You can indeed, when the ThunderKatz club presents Cat-A-Palooza, its annual championship and household pet cat show. With 200 felines scheduled to compete, the event skulks into the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds’ Centennial Building, 608 Kiamichi Place, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $5, or free for kids 12 and under. Call 213-5612 or visit thunderkatz.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 2013 U.S. Canoe/ Kayak Flatwater Sprint Team Trials on Friday and Saturday at the Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln. Call 552-4040 or visit oklahomariverevents.org.

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Sordid Lives’ Del Shores is back with Southern Baptist Sissies, now being staged at The Boom, 2218 N.W. 39th, as a dinnertheater production. As the title suggests, the play follows four homosexual boys growing up in the church. On Friday and Saturday, dinner starts at 6 p.m., with the show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15. Call 286-9298 or visit tarsplace.com.

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This isn’t your average day at the races. Camels, ostriches and zebras will invade Sunday at Remington Park, 1 Remington Place, for the fourth annual Extreme Racing event, starting at 1:30 p.m. In addition, the day features a 21-inch miniature horse and pig races on the plaza — oh, and normal-size horsies, too, for your betting pleasure. Admission is free. Call 424-1000 or visit remingtonpark.com.

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Because art tells a story, the University of Central Oklahoma showcases an exhibition full of them in Storytellers. Now on display through May 5, the mixed-media works can been seen in the Donna Nigh Gallery of the UCO Nigh University Center, 100 N. University in Edmond. Admission is free. Call 974-5201 or visit uco.edu/cfad.

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