Letters to the Editor
Allie Shinn
In response to Clifton Adcock’s article, “Information or Islamophobia?” (May 4, Oklahoma Gazette), I think it’s safe to put Michael Hoehn in the Islamophobe category.
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: terrorism
American Muslims condemn terrorism
Letters to the Editor
Allie Shinn
In response to Clifton Adcock’s article, “Information or Islamophobia?” (May 4, Oklahoma Gazette), I think it’s safe to put Michael Hoehn in the Islamophobe category.
Tattoo terror
...and that'll be another year apiece for first-degree misspelling.
CFN
Gazette staff
You may remember this tale of tattoo terrorism from a few months back, but here’s a refresher: After a woman accused 18-year-old local resident Stetson Johnson of trying to have, ahem, relations with her, she and her three friends attacked Johnson.
Reflections of Shadid
OKC native and Pulitzer-winning journalist Anthony Shadid is posthumously honored for his life’s work.
Sound of Noise
Breaking the law never sounded so sweet.
Comedy
Rod Lott
One man's symphony is another's pollution, and to police inspector Amadeus Warnebring (Bengt Nilsson), head of the department's anti-terrorism unit, no music is good music. Although coming from a family of musicians, he's tone-deaf. Notes make his ears bleed, literally.
Bomb threat
A collaborative local effort produces technology to thwart suicide bombers.
News
Clifton Adcock
On the conference room table sat what resembled a large, black camcorder from the early ’90s, but the yellow warning label on it — Caution: Radiation — betrayed the item’s benign appearance.
The Viral Factor
Warning: This Asian actioner can be infectious.
Action
Rod Lott
Directed by Dante Lam (The Stool Pigeon), the action-thriller The Viral Factor revolves around the world’s last two surviving samples of the smallpox virus, one of which is an arm’s length away from being used to develop a biological weapon to unleash of five of the world’s seven continents.
Zero Dark Thirty
Controversy doesn’t lessen the impact of one of 2012’s best films.
Thriller
Phil Bacharach
Don’t trust the audience members.
Trusting them appears to be the cardinal sin of Zero Dark Thirty, a masterful, absorbing film dramatizing the CIA's 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden. It has been at the center of controversy for its depiction of U.S. intelligence agents using “enhanced interrogation techniques,” otherwise known as torture.
Zero Dark Thirty
The real torture is its incredible tension.
Drama
Phil Bacharach
Don’t trust the viewers.
Trusting them appears to be the cardinal sin of Zero Dark Thirty, a masterful, absorbing film dramatizing the CIA's 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden. It has been at the center of controversy for its depiction of U.S. intelligence agents using “enhanced interrogation techniques,” otherwise known as torture.
Miles to go
On the eve of the OKC Memorial Marathon, the Boston tragedy brings reminders of the past and lessons for an uncertain future.
Sports
Rachael Cervenka
Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon
6:30 a.m. Sunday
Downtown Oklahoma City
okcmarathon.COm
Safe runnings
Security for the OKC Memorial Marathon is heightened in the aftermath of the Boston attacks.
Sports
Tim Farley
Oklahoma City police say strengthened security should make runners and spectators feel more comfortable during Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon on Sunday.
