The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art will host the exhibition, Persian Pictorial Rugs, beginning today through March 25.
Oklahoma Baptist University’s Bisonette Glee Club will sing at Rock Creek Baptist Church in Shawnee at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
Cornell Law School graduate Jim Wawro wrote “Ask Your Inner Voice,” a book designed to aid each of us not just in understanding what intuition is, but its significance as inner wisdom and how to reap the benefits of that wisdom.
The “Sticky Fingers” tour began as a few spot dates last summer in Western U.S. markets, but the response to the shows was so strong, Denson said, he and his band decided to keep the idea afloat for a while. A new stretch of East Coast dates kicks off Tuesday, starting with Boston, Mass.
Stewart O’Nan’s short new novel, “The Odds: A Love Story,” is a nicely done portrayal of an unpleasant 30-year marriage at its tipping point. This excruciating portrait of a contemporary middle-aged American couple — at the height of ambivalence, neglect and malcontent — is painted with perfect and revelatory strokes. It’s “American Gothic: The Narrative.”
Have you ever heard a song for the first time and gotten goosebumps? That happened to me the moment I heard “Two Kings.”
Sherri Wood Emmons is a graduate of Earlham College and the University of Denver Publishing Institute. A mother of three, she lives in Indiana with her husband, two fat beagles and four spoiled cats. As a freelance journalist she has covered stories from the joy of children helping their church and community, to the tragedy and heartbreak of Pati Hensley, whose husband was kidnapped and ultimately executed in Iraq.
Ricky Gervais hosted the 69th annual Golden Globes. Monologues and jokes were typical Gervais: slam the person of the moment. No one was safe. But it was to be expected, so pretty much everybody seemed prepared, including Madonna.
Rodman Philbrick, of Kittery, Maine, is a talented and experienced author whose topics in this e-book range from bullying to an artist’s determination to fantasies of fame. Just like his fiction, “Listening to Kids in America” is funny, smart and deeply touching. Prompting Philbrick’s frank and earnest discussions are the letters he receives from his young readers. The questions the letters pose are personal and his answers are personal, too.
Listening to “Chimes of Freedom,” the new 76-song Bob Dylan tribute to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International, is almost a stream-of-consciousness experience. You sometimes feel like you’ve accidentally stumbled into the most way-out coffeehouse in some alternate-universe Greenwich Village.
A special 100th birthday celebration is being planned to honor Citizen Potawatomi artist Woody Crumbo.
One of the features at the Gardening with the Experts program on Saturday morning, Jan. 28, at Gordon Cooper Technology Center will be a display of several wildlife and nature paintings by Dr. Frank Howard.
Punk rock and Broadway musicals: When those two worlds join together, it’s a sign of the pop culture apocalypse. At least, that’s what we used to think. Then, along came the Broadway show “American Idiot,” based on the landmark, Grammy-winning 2004 Green Day album.
The brief, turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh is the subject of a monumental new biography written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who won a Pulitzer for their collaboration on Jackson Pollock. "Van Gogh: a Life" makes use of copious research and the assistance of the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam to resurrect the tortured artist whose legendary death may have been from an accidental shooting, not suicide as believed.
During the past several years, Oklahoma Baptist University author and alum Lynda Young has encouraged and advised families with children suffering from chronic health conditions through her “You Are Not Alone” book series.
University professor, author and lecturer Dr. Philip Jenkins will present three lectures at Oklahoma Baptist University, hosted by the OBU Hobbs College of Theology and Ministry, on Monday, Feb. 6. The community is invited to attend.
J.J. Grey wanted to do something decidedly different when he finally acceded to multiple requests for a live album.
Crime and thriller author Mary Burton’s professional background is in marketing. In fact, she wrote a book on the subject – “The Insider’s Guide to Direct Marketing.” She also has written (and ghostwritten) articles for periodicals including the Virginia Review and Innsbrook Today. Married with two children, Mary enjoys yoga, cooking, hiking and triathlons. So how did this seeming lady next door become the author of some of today’s premier mystery and crime novels?
Born in New York City and raised in Russia, the classically trained Elizaveta bills her sound as “opera pop,” which is enough to make anybody nervous. But don’t worry.
Authors/chefs/restaurateurs Daniel Holzman and Michael Chernow have given the meatball a soul in their new "Meatball Shop Cookbook." What was once a golf ball-sized hit of protein, usually hamburger, usually aswim in a red sauce, is now a luscious chameleon. Holzman and Chernow have explored the bounds of the meatball and determined it to be limitless.
