OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Warning: Not appropriate for children or those with virgin ears! The Actors Warehouse Studio stages its last shows of “Hurlyburly,” a play highlighting the good, bad and the ugly about Hollywood in the 1980s.
Monday 20 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Children
Stage this
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Warning: Not appropriate for children or those with virgin ears! The Actors Warehouse Studio stages its last shows of “Hurlyburly,” a play highlighting the good, bad and the ugly about Hollywood in the 1980s.
You must be not tall to enter
Participants are urged to “dress for mess” at Tiny Tuesdays.
Dress for mess
Participants are urged to “dress for mess” at Tiny Tuesdays.
Hugo
‘Hugo’ is Martin Scorsese’s love letter to the cinema.
Drama
Phil Bacharach
Martin Scorsese loves movies. Anyone familiar with the director of “Raging Bull” and “The Departed” knows he worships at the altar of film. It’s not surprising, therefore, that Scorsese would make a love letter to the art form in which he immersed himself from his days as a sickly child growing up on New York’s mean streets.
Food for thought
CFN
Gazette staff
While you’re scarfing down your Christmas goose this week — what, you don’t eat goose? — consider this sobering stat: One in every four Oklahoma children goes to bed hungry.
What OETA means
Letters to the Editor
John McCarroll
We were a little perplexed to see a letter to the editor from Carl Hall (“Elmo A-OK?” Dec. 7, Oklahoma Gazette) stating that no one from OETA had answered his wife’s email about the impact of state funding cuts.
Getting schooled
The state gets an ‘E’ for effort, but no gold star in the Race to the Top competition for early childhood education funding.
News
Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma has been considered a leader in early childhood education, consistently topping national rankings for accessibility and accountability in that realm.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins / The Smurfs
Doing Dad’s dirty work again.
Laura Massenat: involved and independent
Commentary
Bill Bleakley
On Tuesday, in the heart of the Oklahoma City school district, District 4 voters have an opportunity to elect a new school board member.
A heavy duty
Government and nonprofit initiatives try to counter childhood obesity.
News
Rachel Curtis
Waistlines in the U.S. have ballooned over the past 30 years, with one in three Americans today considered obese. As the nation struggles to tame the health crisis, some states are faring better than others.
