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Monday, Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m. Actress Shirley Jones will return to Oklahoma for a special celebration of a favorite American musical. The actress visited Tulsa for a screening of the film Elmer Gantry last year. This time, Jones will be in costume and on stage at the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., Oklahoma City, for...

Gilcrease Museum is debuting the new Helmerich Center for American Research, an ambitious project that has been several years in the making, says Dr. Duane King, executive director for the new research center.“People are often surprised something of this caliber is outside a major metropolitan area,” says King. “Tulsa has many important assets, and Gilcrease Museum is one.” In...

Tall and rugged with tousled hair, he’s the sort of man you’d expect to see hanging 10 above a soaring wave or relaxing aboard a luxury yacht. But Brandon Benelli worked for three years in the California kitchen of Napa Valley’s French Laundry, considered one of world’s finest restaurants, cooking alongside its owner, the legendary Thomas Keller. “It was the...

The chill of an early fall night, the roar of the crowd, the thwack of bodies smashing into one another, all fighting to get their hands on a coveted piece of leather, to be the one to carry it across the goal line for six points. This is Oklahoma football. For most Oklahoma high schoolers, summer break is a chance...

What seemed to be an offhand comment made during a sad occasion turned into something far greater for Don White, the veteran Tulsa-based singer, songwriter and guitarist. The occasion was the August 2013 funeral of White’s friend J.J. Cale, the man responsible in great part for popularizing that deep-groove, blues- and country-tinged rock ‘n’ roll style often referred to as...

Five years ago, Oklahoma City resident Marshall Matlock received a bone marrow transplant that saved his life and inspired him to create the Swab Squad. The organization, which spreads awareness of the need for bone marrow donors, helps the Oklahoma Blood Institute expand its donor registry. In spring 2009, Matlock began having persistent joint pain. He was diagnosed with acute myelogenous...

Opens Sunday, Aug. 24 Oklahoma no longer looks like the arid, over-plowed wasteland seen in photos from the 1930s. Photographers documented the Great Depression and Dust Bowl migration of Oklahomans and their neighbors as windstorms shoved mounds of dirt and sand through the cracks of abandoned houses and across barren fields. Artist Alexandre Hogue, too, saw this landscape and painted...

Nicole Ku’ulei-lani Flett The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics Attending: Harvard University Major: Computer science and art What are your career plans? To design, code, and animate my own games and software. Also, to create programs to spread education on topics that many schools don’t even offer (like computer science) and organizations to help those without many opportunities. What led you to want to pursue...

Even as school cafeterias offer more choices to students, some parents still opt to send their children to school with a packed lunch. No matter the reason, parents strive to pack lunches that are healthy and appealing. “Eating a rainbow” is more than a pretty metaphor. With fruits and vegetables, different colors generally signify an abundance of specific nutrients. Orange...

Oklahoma native Dr. Amanda Stevens has been pushing her body to its limits since she was a child, and now she has reached her own mountaintop as a professional triathlete. She is committed to empowering children across the nation, and primarily in Oklahoma, to do the same. In addition to competing professionally, Stevens travels the nation as a motivational...