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Famed statistician (yes, that’s a real thing) Nate Silver, who correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in last year’s presidential election, is at it again. In a March 26 post on his blog, FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver’s Political Calculus, he posited that support for same-sex marriage is increasing steadily and that a majority of U.S. states will vote in favor of it as soon as 2016.

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“Blake Shelton isn’t really a small-town Oklahoma boy anymore. Now he just plays one on TV.”.

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House Bill 1062 — you know, the one that pushed to arm teachers in Oklahoma public schools — will not be heard by the state Senate Education Committee this legislative session, despite the measure having been approved by House members.

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“White wine. Because it makes me smarter.”
—Megan Mullally, actress

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Kevin Mitnick should know something about being conned; after all, Skeet Ulrich played him in a movie. (Zing!) Once the world’s most wanted hacker, the computer consultant addresses “The Art of Deception: Are You in Danger of Being Conned?” in a 3 p.m. Friday lecture at Rose State College’s Tom Steed Community Learning Center, 6191 Tinker Diagonal in Midwest City. Admission is free. Call 733- 7458 or visit rose.edu/rslive.

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Two years ago, controversial comedian Bill Maher told Oklahoma Gazette, “I have more fun in the red states than anywhere,” and he wasn’t kidding. At 7 p.m. Sunday, the host of HBO’s Real Time returns to Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker, with more political satire than you can shake a phony birth certificate at. Tickets are $55-$75. Call 297-2264 or visit okcciviccenter.com.

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• Bill Maher interview   

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How Chic! Nile Rodgers’ 1970s pioneering disco band, Chic (y’know, “Awww, freak out!”), headlines ACM@UCO Rocks Bricktown festival. Also performing: Steven Drozd’s Mutating Cell Ensemble and more than 60 ACM@UCO artists. All this goes down Saturday across 13 stages, from 4 p.m. until 2 a.m. Admission is free. Visit acm.uco.com.

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Metal madness strikes Firehouse Art Center, 444 S. Flood in Norman, with a new exhibition of metalwork and jewelry by master goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain and metalsmith Charleen Weidell. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday; the pieces remain on display through May 31. Admission is free. Call 329-4523 or visit normanfirehouse.com.

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Broadway’s longest-running comedy-thriller, Deathtrap, concludes its run at The Stage Door, 601 Oak in Yukon, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Twists abound in Ira Levin’s classic tale of literary theft and cold-blooded murder. Tickets are $9-$12. Call 265-1590 or visit stagedooryukon.com.

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Commissioned by none other than former FLOTUS Jacqueline Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein’s Mass makes its Oklahoma premiere at 8 p.m. Saturday at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker. The musical-theater work combines dancers, a 180-voice choir, a stained-glass set and the legendary Bernstein’s epic sound. Tickets are $30- $55. Call 232-7464 or visit canterburyokc.com.

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Based on Chaim Potok’s 1972 novel, My Name Is Asher Lev is the latest production of Carpenter Square Theatre, 800 W. Main. The drama of a Jewish painter forced to make a choice between his art and his faith stages at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The show ends its run on April 27. Tickets are $16- $21. Call 232-6500 or visit carpentersquare.com.

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The Oklahoma Legislature has been lobbied by some pretty tough customers over the decades, but perhaps none tougher than Duane Lee Chapman, better known as Dog the Bounty Hunter.

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Popping the question can be a daunting task for any would-be spouse, especially in the wake of unreasonably high expectations set by romantic comedies and those goofballs who propose on the Jumbotron at sporting events. But David Tester, a 28-year-old OKC videographer, was up to the challenge, and even went a tad further than your run-of-the-mill proposal via flash mob.

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If Terrence Malick’s movies are anything, they’re an absolute pleasure to look at. In such films as Badlands, The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life, the acclaimed director, who was raised in northern Oklahoma, has demonstrated a gift for extracting beauty from the most unexpected places (i.e. cornfields, combat zones, um ... dinosaurs).

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It took nearly five months, scads of editorials and a fair amount of prodding from journalists (and if you’ve ever been prodded by a journalist, you know how painful that can be), but on March 29, Gov. Mary Fallin's office finally released those pesky emails involving her April 2011 about-face decision to forgo a $54 million federal grant for an Oklahoma health insurance exchange.