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Lots of press releases cross our desk. Last week, these titles least screamed “Stop the presses!”
Saturday 18 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Oklahoma City University
PR BS
Aw, crap.
CFN
Gazette staff
Lots of press releases cross our desk. Last week, these titles least screamed “Stop the presses!”
'Scope this
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Hubble Space Telescope researcher Matt Mountain gives you space at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Oklahoma City University’s Meinders School of Business, 2501 N. Blackwelder.
Speak this
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Accomplished author, New York Times columnist and NPR analyst David Brooks will speak on “Liberal Arts for the Social Animal” at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Oklahoma City University’s Henry J. Freede Wellness and Activity Center, Northwest 27th and Florida Avenue.
Bau this
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Called the “Walt Disney of Israel,” the late artist Joseph Bau survived the Holocaust via Oskar Schindler’s list.
It was a dark and stormy night
OCU hosting a creative writing festival
This is for all you creative types out there. The Oklahoma City University is hosting a creative writing festival April 16, themed “The Business of Being Creative.”
The event is free (free! Yay!) and will include workshops, book signings and seminars. Workshops will be led by Oklahoma City writers Lou Berney (pictured) and Gwendolyn Hooks, as well as professors Danita Berg and Abigail Keegan of OCU. Reps from Village Books Press and Mongrel Empire Press will lead discussions on the publishing world.
For the brave and/or cocky, festival attendees are also invited to bring their own writing to read aloud.
The festival is at the Walker Center on OCU’s campus. Register by emailing drberg@okcu.edu.
PR BS
Just in case you find a dead body somewhere...
CFN
Gazette staff
Lots of press releases cross our desk. Recently, these titles least screamed “Stop the presses!”
Grim rapier
For ‘Family Funeral,’ playwright David Pasto called upon his own experiences in dealing with death.
Performing Arts
Eric Webb
Family Funeral
8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Oklahoma City Theatre Company Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker
OKCTC.org, 297-2264
$19, $16 seniors
CFN Quote of the Week
Wonder if he got that one out of his thesis.
Oklahoma City’s choices
Commentary
Chance Hunter
Oklahoma City was built for cars. Like many young cities in this part of the country, its growth sprawled out across a grid of major streets intersecting every mile, overlaid by a wider grid of in-town highways. Most trips take just 10 or 20 minutes even if they take almost as many miles.
