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Red Fern Festival This Weekend

The last weekend in April means it’s time for the Red Fern Festival in Tahlequah, Okla. The morning rains didn’t cancel the events as vendors got their booths set up along Muskogee Avenue. The event is held each year in honor of Wilson Rawls, who lived in the Tahlequah area. He famously wrote the novelContinue reading “Red Fern Festival This Weekend”

‘The Truth vs. Alex Jones’ Sets The Story Straight As An Arrow

I was at the news company’s Christmas luncheon when word spread of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. I was sitting in the lobby of the dorm at Georgia Southern University when I heard of the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. These two incidents alone should’ve caused aContinue reading “‘The Truth vs. Alex Jones’ Sets The Story Straight As An Arrow”

‘Erasure’ Is A Good Work Of American Fiction That Seems Too Real

Percival Everett published the dark comedy satire Erasure in 2001. A year prior, Spike Lee released his satire Bamboozled. Both seem to be about a black male protagonist who doesn’t fit what most think of as black men. They’re both highly educated, sophisticated intellectuals. Yet they are constantly criticized by those around them for howContinue reading “‘Erasure’ Is A Good Work Of American Fiction That Seems Too Real”

‘Night Swim’ Drowns In Boredom

Night Swim is one of those typical Blumhouse horror movies that is released in the month of January that people have forgotten about by the time the Super Bowl rolls around. It’s boring and has a tedious pace typical of something that started out as a short movie concept that the filmmakers were given moreContinue reading “‘Night Swim’ Drowns In Boredom”

Some People Must Really Want To Watch The World Burn

We’re not even a third of the way through 2024 and I didn’t have heavy flooding in Dubai on my Bingo Card. If you haven’t heard and you just read that previous sentence, I didn’t mean Dublin, Ireland which has about 26-27 inches of rain recorded a year. No, I mean, Dubai the capital ofContinue reading “Some People Must Really Want To Watch The World Burn”

Fort Gibson Celebrates Bicentennial

On Saturday, April 20, Fort Gibson, the oldest town in Oklahoma celebrated its bicentennial with a parade, live entertainment and vendors and activities in the downtown section of the town. People also went to the Historic Site as Fort Gibson was once the westernmost U.S. Military fort as well as one of the locations onContinue reading “Fort Gibson Celebrates Bicentennial”

‘Leviathan’ Is A Hodgepodge Of Terror Under The Sea

Picture it, 1989. George H.W. Bush had just been sworn in as President becoming only the second incumbent Vice-President to be elected to the Oval Office. Batman mania was spreading across the nation. The Berlin Wall was going to be torn down by year’s end. And everyone was dancing to “Walk the Dinosaur.” It wasContinue reading “‘Leviathan’ Is A Hodgepodge Of Terror Under The Sea”

‘The Royal Hotel’ Offers No Frills

The marketing for The Royal Hotel indicates it’s a thriller/mystery. But the only mystery is why should this movie exists. It reminds me of those independent movies you’d see in the 1990s and 2000s with some names of recognizable actors so you’d rent it. Yet after an hour and a half later, felt like youContinue reading “‘The Royal Hotel’ Offers No Frills”