by Gene Perry

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival can make you believe in ghosts. He may have died more than 40 years ago, but last week Woody Guthrie haunted Okemah, OK, the town where he was born…

by Gene Perry

It was a typically muggy summer day in Newcastle, OK, but nobody was slowing down at Mindy’s Memory Primate Sanctuary. Not with yard work to do, cages to clean, fences to repair, and hungry primates to feed…

by Casey Holcomb

Norman residents have shown they care what happens to their trash. Seventy-two percent of Normanites voted for curbside recycling, and the percentage of participating households has been unusually high since the program began last year. However, a large gap remains in the waste being recycled in Norman…

Brandt Park (more commonly referred to as the duck pond) is located one block east of the OU campus on Lindsey St. All photos are by Ajit Bhand.

by Danny Marroquin

You may not know the burgeoning songwriter John Fullbright, who’s currently planning his first 5 or 100 albums in the solitude of the East Oklahoma countryside. If you do, anything I write here is obsolete with what your ears have already told you. The best I can do is throw a few links, write some anecdotes and tell you about this really cool thing that happened at The Blue Door on a Friday in May…

by Ajit Bhand

At 8 a.m., dark clouds were already gathering outside to signal another gloomy day full of rain. A baby carriage came to a halt, and the solitary passenger seemed perturbed. At the front of the line, a young boy in a green Incredible Hulk t-shirt was greeted by a friendly voice…