Tuesday 18 Jun
OKG Newsletter
Nicole Hill
Detox Diary
Hundreds of detox systems on the market promise to clean and recharge your body, but do they work? One brave writer attempted to find out.
Features
Nicole Hill
At 2:42 on a Thursday afternoon, I came to the startling realization that my will to live, at least to some not-so-small extent, is directly related to my consumption of alcohol and high-caloric foods.
Oklahoma's Children's Hospital Foundation helps infants both at home and abroad
Music
Nicole Hill
Dr. Marilyn Escobedo and other CHF doctors visited Changchun, China, in June as one form of outreach in a new type of partnership between CHF and Jilin University.
A local organization helps families struggling to support their pets
Music
Nicole Hill
Pet Food Pantry is for the couple who walked in to the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter prepared to give up their pets after tearfully explaining they could no longer afford to feed their cats and dogs.
How to spot a hipster, or dress like one
Features
Nicole Hill
It's a sea of TOMS shoes, skinny jeans and plaid. Hard to define, but easy to spot " these are hipsters.
Adoption is on the rise in Oklahoma
News
Nicole Hill
OKDHS facilitated a record-breaking 1,696 adoptions in this last fiscal year. That number marks an increase of more than 600 adoptions from five years ago.
Goodwill is raising money to complete a move to a larger space
News
Nicole Hill
Goodwill is trying to raise $300,000 through public donations to fund its ongoing relocation, made necessary by the city's "Core to Shore" project, which will realign Interstate 40.
Kids and families will be amazed and entertained at Saturday\'s \"Pandemonium of Magic\" event
Kids
Nicole Hill
Pandemonium brings together professionals and up-and-comers to raise money for the Magic Club, Ring 46 in the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Despite deadly risk, few Oklahoma teenagers get immunized against meningitis
News
Nicole Hill
The Oklahoma City County Health Department and Oklahoma County Immunization Coalition will offer free immunizations from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 14 at four locations.
A spooky staple of local TV for years, Count Gregore finds himself facing a new battle
News
Nicole Hill
Years of traumatic accidents and near-fatal family health issues have brought the affable 82-year-old to the brink of foreclosure on the home he's lived in since 1995.
Open house at the American Organ Institute offers a behind-the-scenes workshop and a showcase of newly restored organs
Music
Nicole Hill
The University of Oklahoma American Organ Institute would like to give people an up-close look at what makes the room-sized instruments bellow.
Three Oklahoma teachers got to be kids again at space camp in Alabama as part of math and science initiative
News
Nicole Hill
The goal of the training was to provide teachers with new ideas and activities to make science and math more interesting to their students.
A lot of us think dirty jobs are disgusting and downright dreadful, but hey, somebody's got to do them...
Music
Nicole Hill
From worm farmer to animal semen collector to roadkill removal, the dirty jobs all get done by someone. And we talked to those someones.
A national report on childhood well-being does not paint a favorable portrait of Oklahoma
News
Nicole Hill
In fact, Oklahoma comes in 40th or worse in five of the 10 categories: infant mortality rate, child death rate, teen death rate, teen birth rate and percent of children in poverty.
Norman mayor and professor present talk on book chronicling House Speaker Pelosi's ascent
Music
Nicole Hill
Norman Mayor Cindy Rosenthal and Ron Peters, a professor, will speak about their book, "Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics," 2 p.m. Sunday.
On the road and \"always free,\" rock band Blacklist Royals mixes influences and makes friends
Music
Nicole Hill
The members of the Nashville, Tenn.-based band will bring their brand of "punk 'n' roll" to The Hi-Lo Club Monday, with San Francisco's Nothington.
