Topic: drugs

Drug testing no answer

Letters to the Editor
Kevin Burns
Trust me: I know it feels good to take the stand that we don’t want our welfare dollars going to drug addicts. I still believe that, but I also used to think that universal drug testing to make that stand was the answer.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Meep, meep

CFN
Gazette staff
If we could anthropomorphize pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in both allergy medicines and methamphetamine, we think it might be the Road Runner in the old Looney Tunes cartoons.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Kill Speed

Higher. Faster. Harder. Dumber.

Action
Rod Lott
I commend you, Kill Speed, for trying to win audience favor, by killing off a drunk Tom Arnold in your opening scene. We don’t see enough junkie’s trailers being blown up these days in such a spectacular fashion. Yet with the level of enjoyment free-falling from there, you quickly prove yourself the year’s worst action movie.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Don't Go in the Woods

Don’t go near the directorial debut of Vincent D’Onofrio.

Horror
Rod Lott
New to DVD, 2010’s Don't Go in the Woods is not to be confused with 1981’s Don't Go in the Woods. That one was a cheap slasher movie; this one is a cheap slasher movie in which characters wonder what John Fogerty and the Donner party have in common, and then sing songs.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

American Animal

If he were my roomie, I’d be on trial for murder now.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Here now, a list of things that the protagonist (antagonist?) of American Animal does over the course of the film:

Friday, June 29, 2012

Dead alive

And you need not take a road trip or forego showering.

Attention, Grateful Dead fans! Yes, you, with the VW van and the closet full of bootleg tapes!

Just a few hours from now — 7 p.m. to be exact — Jerry Garcia’s would-be 70th birthday will be recognized at two local theaters with a rare screening of the 1977 concert film The Grateful Dead Movie. This one-night-only event will be shown at Cinemark Tinseltown, 6001 N. Martin Luther King, and the Hollywood Spotlight 14, 1100 N. Interstate Drive in Norman.

Being a presentation of Fathom Events, there’s more to it than just the flick of the classic rock band at work. Bob Weir and other surprise guests join for a “special birthday commemoration” for Garcia, who died in 1995.

For more information, visit fathomevents.com. —Rod Lott

by Rod Lott 08.01.2012 10 months ago

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The Raid: Redemption

If there’s a better action film this year, ‘The Raid’ will kick its ass into nonexistence.

Action
Rod Lott
Fans of pure action cinema are apt to grow delirious with glee over The Raid: Redemption, an Indonesian crime thriller that relies so much upon the universal language of violence, one could enjoy it without subtitles.

Monday, August 6, 2012

Bad traffic

Mexican drug cartels impact OKC.

News
Clifton Adcock
When federal agents raided a horse ranch in Lexington in early June, it wasn’t to take a dime-bag drug dealer off the street. It was to disrupt a money-laundering operation for one of Mexico’s most brutal drug cartels.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

2 Days in New York

Julie Delpy pokes fun at herself and her homeland in a friendly Franco-American comedy.

Comedy
Rod Lott
2 Days in New York
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch
okcmoa.com
236-3100
$5-$8

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Privaledge — JoeWorld

Hip Hop/Rap
Ryan Querbach
Philadelphia-hailing rapper Privaledge, who is known more locally for his affiliation with Oklahoma City Thunder superstars Kevin Durant and James Harden, released his new mixtape, JoeWorld, last week. The project, a free online release, does not disappoint.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

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