Science writer Rebecca Skloot spent more than a decade following the myriad threads that together form the dramatic story of Henrietta Lacks’ robust and immortal cancer cells and the family left behind after her agonizing death at age 31.
The new “Complete Idiot’s Guides” and the “Pocket Idiot’s Guides” are out. It’s a day in the world of publishing that’s not exactly waited for with as much enthusiasm as the day when the next “Harry Potter” book is published.
When Stephanie Cottingham and her sisters Laura and Brianna and their sister-in-law Jill began playing music, they did it for fun. Fast forward a few years and the foursome are set to play one of the biggest music showcases in the world - the annual South by Southwest music festival, a music showcase that has staged some of the biggest names in music - from REM to Vampire Weekend.
"Mom, can we listen to The Beach Boys?” Timmy asked. It’s not an unusual request these days. Ever since Timmy and Brian’s dance class participated in “beach month” at their dance studio, they’ve been obsessed with The Beach Boys.
Almost everyone collects something — seashells, arrowheads, books, sports memorabilia.
J. Marshall Gettys collects Southeast Native American Baskets — and beadwork — and artwork — and 19th-century ceramics. His wife collects Native American Dolls, among other things.
“The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Year-Round Gardening” really isn’t just for complete idiots or even pretenders. Delilah Smittle and Sheri Ann Richerson have nondummy gardening credentials. They’ve crafted a book that speaks our language. I’m suggesting it for anybody who needs solid gardening advice, although I wish they’d change the title.
Five questions with Femke Hiemstra about "Rock Candy," her lovely and surreal book of collected art.
Sometimes the most intriguing books are those not easily categorized. While Boston-area writer Dawn Paul’s new book is fiction, it straddles a cognitive divide between memoir and invention, between what we feel is real and what we believe is imagination.
A new tourist attraction that will spread across the entire state promoting Oklahoma’s musical history may soon be a reality thanks, in part, to state Rep. George Faught.
Leon Chiappini hooks a tire-sized cymbal around his finger and spins it like a basketball. He hits it and listens for the ding, the gravel and the growl: elements of crash that the average ear can’t hear. If it’s not perfect, Chiappini tosses it in the reject pile. “After 49 years, I’d better know if it’s good,” he said with a laugh.
An elementary school boy finds a story worth reading. It doesn't hurt that his friends also find the tales fascinating.
Roughly 15 years ago, two freshmen at Ithaca College were eager to do anything except study, so they began melding one’s poetry with the other’s guitar work. All these years later, would-be poet/songwriter Andy Campolieto and guitarist Ben Lee are the main figures in the Americana band Jo Henley, whose second full-length album “Inside Out” was released Feb. 16.
Southern sun and dousing rains, a diet of alcohol, drugs, cigarettes and a lot of life ahead, often with no clue as to where they’re headed, bear down on Justin Taylor’s characters, giving them time to brood, act out, connect some of the dots.
“What should I eat?” asks Michael Pollan in his book, “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.” He answers parenthetically. “(Eat food.)”
If Jerald Walker hadn’t strayed from the path on which he embarked as a young teen, his life would be very different today. In fact, he might not have survived to tell the tale.
We all have choices, as Linda Lambert Pestana knows only too well. At a young age she joined the Sisters of St. Joseph, and throughout her 40-plus-year journey she faced soul-searching, difficult decisions that would ultimately lead to happiness and fulfillment.
The Shawnee High School Fine Arts Department will present its second musical theater production in the new Performing Arts and Athletic Center.
It has been one of the most ubiquitous sound snippets of the past decade, a soaring little melody whose infectious allure only makes it more difficult to ignore. Love it or hate it – and after its relentless ad campaign, there are plenty of folks in both camps – the Foxwoods Casino theme, “Wonder of It All” sung by Johnny Pizzarelli, has become part of the culture.
St. Gregory’s University Theatre will kick off the spring portion of its season with the off-Broadway musical, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!”
Red Earth, Inc. is accepting applications for artists wishing to participate in the 2010 Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival juried art market scheduled Father’s Day Weekend, June 18-20 at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City. Applications are due no later than March 31, 2010.
