Music
Joshua Boydston
Johnny Cooper
10 p.m. Friday Wormy Dog Saloon
311 E. Sheridan
wormydog.com, 601-6276
$10
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: legal
Cooper futures
At an age when most are graduating from college, red dirt’s Johnny Cooper is already an old pro.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Locked, loaded and legal
High-profile cases have helped trigger a cottage industry for gun-owners’ rights.
Secret paroles?
Oklahoma County’s top prosecutor accuses the state Pardon and Parole Board of illegally considering the early release of some inmates.
News
Phil Bacharach
Tim Sharp was shocked when he heard from his aunt last month that the woman who had killed his father in a drunk-driving accident was up for parole. The inmate, Maelene Chambers, had served only four years of a 10-year manslaughter prison sentence for the 2006 death, and Sharp knew that manslaughter was one of more than 20 state crimes in which offenders were required to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence.
American DREAM
A group of young people in the state’s Hispanic community is working to help Oklahoma’s undocumented residents benefit under the DREAM Act.
News
Peter Wright
Thousands of undocumented residents living in Oklahoma now can apply for a deportation protection program initiated by presidential order in June. For one group of undocumented students and their friends, the application is not only a reprieve, but also a call to help others who may be eligible.
A question of equality
A state question on next month’s ballot seeks to ban affirmative action in the public sector.
News
Rachel Curtis
A state question appearing on the Nov. 6 ballot would effectively end affirmative action for women and racial minorities in the public sector statewide.
To litigate or not to litigate?
Blue moon
CFN
Gazette staff
In the Downwardly-Spiraling- Individual-Spirals-Downward department, Oklahoma City attorney Lewis B. Moon has been disbarred for recent actions ranging from threatening others to posing as a federal agent. The state Supreme Court called Moon “an embarrassment to the legal profession” in its Jan. 22 order.
Film it
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
The documentary 8 Murders a Day examines the human-rights disaster that has resulted from Mexico's war on the drug cartels — specifically in Juarez, the murder capital of the world. The uncompromising, eye-opening film opens Friday at Harkins Bricktown Cinemas 16, 150 E. Reno, and runs for at least a week. Call 231-4747 or visit harkinstheatres.com.
Friday, daily, ongoing
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay — Away from Keyboard
The torrent site’s founders get a legal lesson IRL.
Documentary
Rod Lott
I first heard of The Pirate Bay when a friend told me about this site where he had just downloaded and watched Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle — then in theaters — at the comfort of his own home.
It hardly seemed worth the trouble. Obviously, I’m in the minority, as the site claims more than 25 million active users worldwide, who share movies, music, video games and other copyrighted works via torrent files.
