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A Door Closes and a Window Opens Through a series of unfor­tu­nate cir­cum­stances, my friend Mark Campbell lost cus­tody of ...
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Artists Raise Funds for Festival Visual artists and musi­cians pooled their tal­ents last Saturday to raise money for the annual ...
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This past Independence Day, my best friend and pho­to­graphic con­spir­a­tor Joe Crumley and I drove to see the aban­doned Gandini ...
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On the same week­end that Joe and I trav­elled to Roosevelt, we stopped in sev­eral other small towns and took ...
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Roosevelt is a small, all-but-abandoned town in west­ern Oklahoma. According to the lat­est cen­sus, the pop­u­la­tion num­bers 248. Today it’s ...
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Photographer Paige S. Wilson recently dropped by Mercury Photo Bureau for a facil­i­ties tour. We traded places behind the cam­era ...
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This is an exam­ple of a por­trait made using x-ray film and a mod­i­fied "Rembrandt" light­ing setup. I used a ...
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Citizens! Do Your Part for Democracy! Vote!NORMAN — Cleveland County res­i­dents cast early absen­tee bal­lots in the November 2016 General ...
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The Interview Jarvix. The man. The musi­cian. The mys­tery. Cynics call his music twee. The less jaded and more gen­er­ous ...
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I met Claude Butler when he 1st moved to Norman in 1987. He had an arrange­ment with the man­age­ment at ...
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The BenefitFriends and fam­ily of 25 year-old Norman res­i­dent Dayna Cannon gath­ered at the Deli on Thursday for a ben­e­fit ...
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NORMAN — Norman res­i­dents had the oppor­tu­nity to cast their bal­lots today dur­ing early absen­tee vot­ing in the munic­i­pal elec­tion ...
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The ShowUnless you've been trapped at the bot­tom of a well for the past 2 weeks, you know the great ...
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Update This arti­cle was updated on 4 December to include links to x-ray film online retail­ers. This is a series ...
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Update:Since pub­li­ca­tion, we've learned that The Boom has requested a 2-weekend return engage­ment of The King of Queen in January ...
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If You're Ever in Oklahoma (Stop at the Power House Bar) Continuing on the heels of his suc­cess­ful Roger Miller, ...
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You Can't Go Skating in a Buffalo Herd … But You Can Sing about It One of the most pop­u­lar ...
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Only the Best People Wear BowtiesI found this cool bowtie on an online auc­tion site — you know the one ...
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Goofing OffAstute read­ers may have noticed that I've been tran­si­tion­ing to using mostly my Fujifilm X-T1 cam­era, with my Leica ...
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I made my usual Tuesday gro­cery shop­ping stop at the Cleveland County Farmers' Market and I saw this very attrac­tive ...
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The most essen­tial item in any photographer's bag is a rel­a­tively inex­pen­sive item, often over­looked — the hum­ble roll of ...
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Just some flow­ers, in case you hadn't noticed that it's Spring. I found these lit­tle beau­ties when I went out ...
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Okra My acquain­tance, Robert Mark Campbell (he goes by "Mark"), recently adopted a 5-year-old cairn ter­rier after his long­time ther­apy ...
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The ShootMy friend Jaime Ladd coör­di­nates an "adven­tur­ous din­ers" group on a pop­u­lar social media plat­form; 1 of the group ...
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In con­tin­u­ing to learn the ins and outs of my recently acquired Paul C. Buff "Einstein" (model E640) stu­dio strobe, ...
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I bought a used Paul C. Buff "Einstein" (model E640) stu­dio strobe just before Christmas; the pack­age arrived on New ...
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#YesAllDaughters Notice: This arti­cle has been updated to clar­ify the rôles of Danielle Brown, Kim Wright, and Stacey Wright within ...
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Norman —Cleveland County vot­ers may cast their bal­lots before Tuesday at the Cleveland County Election Board, 641 East Robinson, just ...
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NORMAN —Norman Democrats cast their bal­lots today in the statewide runoff elec­tion. Democrats will decide between John Cox and Freda ...
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Note:I posted this long ago with the inten­tion of fol­low­ing up with a full report and gallery, but life got ...
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Ziggy LivesYester­day we told you about the Surrogate Band, formed in 2011 at UCO to per­form Pink Floyd’s The Wall ...
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The Show Originally formed in 2011 by mem­bers of Kali-Ra , Psychic Milk, The Venditos , and a small con­stel­la­tion ...
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My good friend David Goad is rais­ing money to tour with his band, Kali Ra, by record­ing a cook­ing show ...
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Today marks the return of the Cleveland County Farmers' Market. Hours have changed from the famil­iar Saturday and Wednesday morn­ing ...
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Sensational Show Ends with Crash LandingOne of Oklahoma's most antic­i­pated music releases of 2014 dropped 23 February, with the release ...
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The Interview Tumbling Nebulæ formed in early 2013 when bassist Steven Machovic and key­board player Cynthia "Luxy" Machovic got together ...
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Brick Street Show One of 9 sib­lings, Rebekah Pulley grew up in rural Alaska lis­ten­ing to her dad, Wallace,Wallace Pulley ...
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The Interview I 1st met singer-songwriter Alex Culbreth in July, when he was fea­tured in a Woody Guthrie Folk Festival ...
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Self-Styled "Post-Brontosaurus Indie Folk/Crunk" Artist Captivates Audience It didn’t really sound like my kind of thing, but then again I ...
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New England Folk Singer Wins Contest For some artists, the more raw the record­ing, the more exposed their short­com­ings. But ...
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A Singer, a Songwriter, a Storyteller I’m silly enough to believe that I’m the world’s fore­most author­ity on what an ...
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Pair Recounts Dark Historical Chapter in Story & Song This was by far the most well-attended pro­gram the library has ...
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Community Outreach at the Okemah Nutrition Center Princess of Twang Nancy Apple and coun­try trou­ba­dour Rob McNurlin are are almost ...
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UpdateSince this arti­cle orig­i­nally posted, Gentry no longer per­forms as Berteal. Her music may be found under Kim Gentry Meyer ...
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Blues & Soul from the High Plains The blues spoke to me and that raw unadorned hon­esty is what still ...
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Singer-Songwriter takes 3rd Prize in Woody Guthrie Songwriting Contest I love Dan's songs and he tells really good sto­ries. Ramblin’ ...
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The Show Although singer-songwriter Audrey Auld describes her style as music with the dirt left on, that's dirt from a ...
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UpdateSince this arti­cle orig­i­nally posted, Culbreth vis­ited the Bureau for a lengthy inter­view, which you can read here. The Show ...
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The Show The Woody Guthrie Coalition have been try­ing to book Grammy Award-nominated duo Trout Fishing in America to play ...
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Note This arti­cle was updated at 2:30 PM -5:00 GMT on 20 November to iden­tify María Ruiz by name. Terrific ...
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The Interview The audio for the inter­view was not up to our usual stan­dards, which pre­sented some dif­fi­cul­ties dur­ing the ...
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My friend David Goad (Kali-Ra, Of the Tower) and his wife Alicia are head­ing to Europe for vaca­tion soon, and ...
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NoteThis arti­cle was updated at 2:10 PM -5:00 GMT on 19 August to clar­ify Chase, Oliver, and Nico's ages.Local teenagers ...
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That really is the spirit of this band; it's like, Well, f*ck; let's just do it this way; and who ...
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The Show Chickasha native Travis Linville was 1 of many Oklahoma artists per­form­ing at the Music4Moore fundraiser this past May, ...
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NOLA Comes to Norman The city of Norman cel­e­brated its 30th annual Jazz in June music fes­ti­val a cou­ple of ...
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The CeremonyMy cousin and his fiancée cel­e­brated the bap­tism and chris­ten­ing of their infant daugh­ter last Sunday at Saint Thomas ...
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The TornadoOn 3 May 2013, at approx­i­mately 2:46 PM, a tor­nado touched ground near Oklahoma City. The mile-wide twister would ...
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Overview Street price $43.95 USD Manufacturer No. LQ119 The Lumiquest SoftBox III is a small, highly portable soft­box that attaches ...
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The 1st time I heard Skating Polly, Justin Hogan was play­ing their 1st album, and I thought to myself, Why ...
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The Interview Skat­ing Polly have been busy. The youth­ful sis­ter act per­formed 7 shows at this year's SXSW fes­ti­val, knocked ...
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To launch our new col­lab­o­ra­tion with direc­tor Mike Walsh, Mercury Photo Bureau was the lat­est guest on his Rev Hi-Fi ...
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The Interview, Part 3 In this con­clud­ing part of the Chloës inter­view, we hear the never-before-told story behind crowd-pleaser Put ...
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The Interview, Part 2. In part 2 of our inter­view with the Chloës, the ladies talk about the joys and ...
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The Interview, Part 1 I spent most of NMF6 run­ning from venue to venue pho­tograph­ing bands, but man­aged to squeeze ...
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The Interview Kite Flying Robot sprang from the sin­gu­lar vision of Nikolas "Kite" Thompson. The band itself has seen a ...
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Overview Description Leica “MT” dig­i­tal rangefinder cam­era Availability August Street price $8950 USD Manufacturer No. 10855 COLOGNE — Leica Camera ...
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The Interview, Part 2Old Dog Records, 1 Degree of Separation, and More This is part 2 of our inter­view with ...
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The Interview, Part 1 Blues-rock duo The Trading Co. (early can­di­dates for band names: Tre Vero [“The 3 Truths”]; King ...
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We Are Bowlsey: The Interview Acoustic duo Bowlsey is mov­ing fast. They granted Mercury Photo Bureau an inter­view before their ...
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The Venditos Interview Notice This inter­view fea­tures strong lan­guage and dis­cus­sions of intox­i­ca­tion and human sex­u­al­ity. If you are not ...
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The Kamals Interview 5 piece fuzz rock out­fit the Kamals (minus guitarist/backup vocal­ist Brad Nance) dropped by the Bureau in ...
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One Gun Solution Interview Neo-grunge out­fit One Gun Solution drove down from Oklahoma City to speak with me ear­lier this ...
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mr. Gnome Interview The word "atmos­pheric" gets tossed around a lot when describ­ing Cleveland-based mr. Gnome. Also "schiz­o­phrenic," "psy­che­delic," "weird," ...
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Skeleton Key In September 2012, elec­tron­ica and exper­i­men­tal world fusion band Beats Antique played the Diamond Ballroom in sup­port of ...
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Urizen Interview Opening for Peelander-Z at Club Dada on Hallowe’en, local favorites Urizen enter­tained the audi­ence at the Deep Ellum ...
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Acclaimed Singer/Songwriter, Sideman, Reunited with Beloved Accordion According to a copy­right story by News on 6, the most pho­tographed Chinese ...
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Electric Eel Shock: A Short Biography Citing Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Guns and Roses among their pri­mary influ­ences, Japanese rock­ers ...
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David Goad (Kali Ra) Interview, Pt. 2 I expended prac­ti­cally no effort get­ting Kali Ra front­man David Goad to talk ...
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David Goad (Kali Ra) Interview, Pt. 1 David Goad, front­man for Kali Ra and var­i­ous other musi­cal and per­for­mance projects, ...
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The Interview Kill the Reflection front­man Morgan Routt took time out after the band's recent shows at the HiLo Club, ...
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Kali-Ra front-man David Goad dropped by for an inter­view yes­ter­day before head­ing over to Opolis to open for CHUD. After ...
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The Show Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin returned to Norman's Sooner Theatre for a nearly sold-out per­for­mance in late October. Mercury Photo ...
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Psychic Milk Interview I sat down to inter­view youth­ful neo-psychedelic rock­ers Psychic Milk after after they opened for Kill the ...
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The Show Hailing from District Z on Planet Peelander, self-described Japanese action comic punks Peelander-Z trav­eled across the galaxy to eat ...
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Long Lines for Important Plebescite Cleveland County vot­ers may cast their bal­lots before Tuesday at the Cleveland County Election Board, ...
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Zombie Event Raises Money for Charity Guthrie Billed as Oklahoma's Premier Zombie Race, the city of Guthrie and pro­moter Guthrie ...
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The Show Recently I had the good fortuneThanks to the good folks at Red Eye USA and tour man­ager Jonny Ver Planck (he's also ...
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The aroma of grilling meat and pota­toes fry­ing in gyros grease per­me­ates the block around the busi­ness, guar­an­tee­ing a packed ...
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I do a fair amount of con­cert pho­tog­ra­phy with the Leica M9-P dig­i­tal rangefinder camera.Since this arti­cle posted, I've switched to ...
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Adobe Lightroom is a pow­er­ful tool for man­ag­ing and pro­cess­ing dig­i­tal pho­tos. It can cat­a­logue and orga­nize your pho­tos, auto­mate ...
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Overview Street price $295 USD Manufacturer No.  801213 Since this arti­cle posted, Arca-Swiss have addressed some of the com­pat­i­bil­ity ...
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This is part 4 of 4. If you haven't read the pre­vi­ous parts, you should prob­a­bly go back to the ...
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This is part 3 of 4. If you haven't read the pre­vi­ous parts, you should prob­a­bly go back to the ...
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This is part 2 of 4. If you haven't read the pre­vi­ous parts, you should prob­a­bly go back to the ...
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My best friend Joe Crumley is an inter­est­ing char­ac­ter. He grew up on a farm in west Texas, served his ...
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Dave Liepmann An adap­ta­tion by Chris J. Zähller Introduction Tufte CSS pro­vides tools to style web arti­cles using the ideas ...
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