Visual Arts
Sara Custer
Be the first to get an early peek at JRB Art at The Elms’ 2011 calendar and a chance to buy pieces featured in it, as the gallery hosts the exhibit’s opening, with a 1 to 6 p.m. reception on Saturday.
Saturday 18 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: media
Put it on the calendar
Visual Arts
Sara Custer
Be the first to get an early peek at JRB Art at The Elms’ 2011 calendar and a chance to buy pieces featured in it, as the gallery hosts the exhibit’s opening, with a 1 to 6 p.m. reception on Saturday.
Tweet ’n’ eat
Metro restaurants have embraced social media to spread their message to tech-savvy diners.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
“We had a rough Saturday night,” the tweet read. “We want to apologize to everyone we had to turn away. We’re a small restaurant & sometimes mistakes happen.”
Tweet to win
Social media used well can aid job search
Features
Gazette staff
College grads have an advantage in job hunting that previous generations have not: social media. But it must be used wisely.
PR BS
Under the what?
CFN
Gazette staff
Lots of press releases cross our desk. Recently, these titles least screamed “Stop the presses!”
Radio daze
Don’t touch that dial! Because it may be a thing of the past, as more local ventures go online to keep your ears entertained.
Music
Stephen Carradini
There’s never a shortage of articles claiming that old X media will disappear because of new Y media: newspaper/radio, radio/TV, newspaper/Internet — same story, different verse.
War on logic
Commentary
Kurt Hochenauer
June marked the 40th anniversary of the so-called war on drugs, but there wasn’t much celebrating.
What's a few thousand between friends?
A pretty big damn deal, apparently.
CFN
Gazette staff
Tec-An, an Oklahoma company that had been helping Department of Human Services collect child support payments from one of the business’s employees, misplaced a decimal point, turning what was supposed to be a $92 payment to DHS to a $9,200 payment, according to a story from KFOR.
BEST OF OKC: People & Media
Here come your champions for 2011!
Shame on The Oklahoman
Letters to the Editor
D.W. Tiffee
An Oct. 12 editorial in The Oklahoman (“Occupy Wall Street movement: Raging against what exactly?”) described the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators as “useful idiots” who were protesting “The Man” — people like Steve Jobs.
R.I.P. Dan Slocum
The former KFOR-TV news anchor died last weekend in Seattle.
News
Phil Bacharach
Former KFOR-TV Channel 4 news anchor Dan Slocum died Feb. 25 of an apparent heart attack. He was 54.
