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      <title><![CDATA[13 Vs. 2,000,000 | Fort Hood shootings a shocker; why not U.S. war crimes?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28524</link>
      <description><![CDATA[American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it&#39;s a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened and how to make sure it never happens again.

The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pret... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
      <category>Columns/Rant &amp;#39;N&amp;#39; Rall</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Tunes | Albums Reviews: GHOSTS and Taking Back Sunday]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28542</link>
      <description><![CDATA[GHOSTS

Karmageddon

Rattlin' Chains

On first listen, Karmageddon might seem a bit of a hodgepodge, as if local band GHOSTS doesn't know exactly what it wants to sound like. The band takes obvious liberties with its influences and does not hesitate to reconsider mashing together disparate styles of...]]></description>
      <category>Music/Music</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Not a School Lunch | Campus Grill widens its sights beyond the college crowd to the whole neighborhood]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Campus life has changed volumes since I was a student at the University of Tulsa, but one thing remains constant: students have to eat.

Through all of the university changes, the commercial area around TU has also changed in many ways to not only attract the college crowd but also the neighborhood... By Katharine Kelly.]]></description>
      <category>Cuisine Scene/Restaurant Review</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beyond Our Control | The countdown to December 21, 2012 begins]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28537</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Oh, lovely catastrophe! Oh, sweet, sweet mayhem! 2012 director Roland Emmerich looks at our planet again and asks, "How do I destroy thee? Let me count the ways."

If you've been keeping count, then this film is the third time that the mass-casualty minded director/writer/producer has put a star-stu... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Slice of American Pie | TSO performs American classics in third installment of the concert series]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Things that are inherently American: baseball, apple pie, capitalism and jazz.

Tulsa Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the latter, along with other inherently American music, with its concert "An American Songbook" this Saturday.

The third concert in TSO's "Hear the World with Tulsa Symphony Orche... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Opening this week: ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28546</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Blind Side: Inspiring true story of American footballer Michael Oher, who is adopted from a broken home by an upper-middle class family who teach him a love for the game. Sandra Bullock stars.

Ninja Assassin: V for Vendetta director James McTeigue amps up the action in this slick-looking reveng...]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Movie Showtimes ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28545</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CIRCLE CINEMA*

12 S. Lewis 592-FILM

www.circlecinema.com

THE BOYS ARE BACK

Wed 11/18 @ 1:00pm

Thurs 11/19 @ 5:30pm

MORE THAN A GAME

Thurs 11/19 @ 11:00am

COCO BEFORE CHANEL

Wed 11/18 @ 3:15 &amp; 7:30pm

Thurs 11/19 @ 3:15

THE COVE

Wed 11/18 @ 5:30pm

Thurs 11/19 @ 1:15 &amp; 7:45pm

ART...]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Movie Showtimes</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[THE ADVICE GODDESS ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28544</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ducky Rubber

I kept seeing this woman I was interested in at pool parties, but I&#39;ve always been very shy and reluctant to make the first move. At the third party, she hugged me as she was leaving. The following week, she kissed me. I invited her to come up for dinner. We had a great time. I eve... By AMY ALKON.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[7 + 1 ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28543</link>
      <description><![CDATA[11.19

Expressing the Times. Beginning with an opening reception from 5-8pm, American Fine Arts and Tulsa's own Pierson Gallery, 1311 E. 15th St., showcases 15 rediscovered works completed between the '50s and the '70s by skilled abstract expressionist painter Eugene Bavinger. "Eugene Allen Bavinger...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Coming Back Home | All American Rejects rejuvenate and go back to its roots for local shows]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28541</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Sometimes you can't help but wonder what it's like to be a big-time rock star: selling millions of CDs, traveling the world, getting major airplay on the radio and MTV (at least when MTV plays music) and being catered to from coast to coast. It's even more abstract a thought when you see a band that... By G.K. Hizer.]]></description>
      <category>Music/Music</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Those Are Still the Days | The Colony remains a landmark for "The Tulsa Sound"]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28540</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Whether you're originally from Tulsa or not, you can't spend too long in our fair city without hearing about "The Tulsa Sound." Blues and rock combined with a lazy shuffle in the mid '70s with the likes of JJ Cale, Leon Russell and Eric Clapton as part of what became known as a signature of our loca... By G.K. Hizer.]]></description>
      <category>Music/Soundcheck</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sinking Ship | Pirate Radio fails to keep us laughing and, eventually, listening]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28539</link>
      <description><![CDATA[When a film wants to do too many things, it can spell trouble. Such is the case for the English film Pirate Radio. It attempts to combine social and cultural elements related to the subject of music. It wants to make us laugh. It also wants to play us a lot of good songs from a particular era and wr... By Joshua Blevins Peck.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Almost Saved | One-man comedy about God and religion digs deep]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[While many in our city attended Sunday evening church services last week, a handful of others and I watched a recovering fundamentalist (you're never fully recovered) act out his long, awkward journey through faith.

Justin McKean's one-man comedy Born Again Yesterday, reprised from its original 200... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts Experienced</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Families Who Pray Together | One Church, One Child program focuses on placing African-American children in African-American homes]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28534</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Historically, the black community has turned to its neighborhood church for guidance and leadership. That's why, in 1980, Father George Clements began to use Chicago-area churches to educate their parishioners about the need for foster and adoptive parents for black children.

In 1979, 70 percent of... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>News/Lifestyles</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beginning to Look Like Christmas | "Christmas for Kids" is doing good, but they're still a need]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Beginning to Look Like Christmas

Thank you, readers! Within two weeks, you all have reached out through e-mails and phone calls to our office. Children have been selected, and we thank you all. But the tree still has many children on it, and our hope is that all of the children on the opposite page... By Aja J. Junior.]]></description>
      <category>News/Lifestyles</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The New Ice Age | Winter sports teams hope to take their games up a notch and into spring playoffs this season]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28531</link>
      <description><![CDATA[What impact does a brand, spanking new, National Hockey League caliber arena have on a proud professional sports franchise whose tradition dates back to the days before the slap shot was invented?

Last year, the BOK Center cast an enormous shadow over much of T-Town, let alone the Tulsa Oilers. Ent... By Dwayne Davis.]]></description>
      <category>Cover Story/Cover Story</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Downtown at Your Doorstep | Officials survey citizens to see how many people really want to live downtown, and why?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28530</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Many city officials and others who support the revitalization of downtown Tulsa have spent the past couple of years talking about the need to attract more residents to the district in hopes of making it a real neighborhood, as opposed to a concentration of office buildings.

But up to this point, th... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
      <category>News/City, State, County, Education</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bee in Her Bonnet? | Hearing will determine if Karen Keith's petition succeeds to remove Elizabeth Wright from commission]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28529</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Wright considers it a foregone conclusion she'll be removed from the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission during a hearing before the Tulsa County Commission on Monday, Nov. 23.

But the reasons for her removal, she maintains, are less clear to her.

Wright's future as a TMAPC membe... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
      <category>News/City, State, County, Education</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rolling Up the Sleeves | After the election, sorta new city councilors get ready to take their seats]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28528</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It would probably be an overstatement to refer to Tulsa's recent municipal elections as a political tsunami. But there's little doubt the results have dramatically changed the elected-officials component of city government.

In addition to a new mayor in Republican Dewey Bartlett Jr., Tulsa voters e... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
      <category>News/City, State, County, Education</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Biz Buzz ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28526</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Closer Together. The curtain looks to be coming down for two of our local theaters. Clark Theatre and Heller Theatres will be closing and consolidating into one entity. The new theatre will be in the Henthorne building at 4825 S. Quaker and looks to open in early 2010. Clark Theatre's, 11440 E. Admi...]]></description>
      <category>News/Business</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Honoring the Fallen

Oklahomans for Equality joins our international transgender community on Friday evening at 7:30pm, Nov. 20, 2009 at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center located at 621 East 4th Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma as we remember those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejud...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Flag on the Play | With controversy swirling around high school football, it's time to reevaluate some things]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28525</link>
      <description><![CDATA["You just... you ain't getting' it. You don't understand. This is the only thing you're ever gonna have. Forever, it carries you forever. It's an ugly fact of life. Donnie, hell ... it's the only fact of life. You got one year, one stinkin' year to make yourself some memories, son. That's all. It's... By Dwayne Davis.]]></description>
      <category>Sports/Left Field</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[&iexcl;ASK A MEXICAN! ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dear Mexican: Why oh why do most Mexican women cut their long, black hair after reaching the pivotal age of 40? Not only do they cut it, but they then proceed to cut it short and dye it all shades of the most unnatural hair color for Mexicans: red. My own madre is guilty of this offense and I see it...]]></description>
      <category>Departments/Ask A Mexican</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Stock Market Shuffle | The stock market appears to be on the rebound, but it doesn't mean it's out of the woods]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is usually the stock market that psyches us out, not the other way around.

There's something about stocks that turns us upside down. For example, normally when something goes on sale, we tend to buy more of it; yet, when stock prices fall, many investors want to buy less.

This reminds me of Bar... By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson.]]></description>
      <category>Columns/OpEd</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kiss and Make Up? | Is it time to revisit term limits to give representatives more time to develop long-term, comprehensive plans?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Admit it -- it felt good to stick it to The Man.

Sure, it was almost two decades ago that Oklahomans vented frustration with politics-as-usual and became the first state to slap term limits on a Legislature widely regarded as overpaid, under-worked and loutish.

Yet, it seems like only yesterday th... By Arnold Hamilton.]]></description>
      <category>Columns/Commentary</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Spewing Hate

Dear Editor:

(In response to Ted Rall's "Dithering while America Sneezes" in the Nov. 12-18 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

This guy is the biggest douchebag around. His columns are full of &quot;truth-stretching&quot; and trumped up accusations, whether they are against Bush or Obama,...]]></description>
      <category>Columns/Letters</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Late Night ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28518</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Kopenhagen Blue Danish Bakery &amp; Caf&eacute;

5076 S. 79th E. Ave., 408-1562

Do your taste buds need a European vacation? Try the Caviar Benedict-- toasted brioche with poached eggs, hollandaise and red caviar. In the mood for something sweet? Hit the bakery for a variety of Danish pastries and...]]></description>
      <category>Cuisine Scene/Breakfast Lunch Dinner</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Live Music ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28322</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Click here for the Events PDF....]]></description>
      <category>Music/Music Listings</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Events ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Click here for the Events PDF....]]></description>
      <category>Events/Events</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Wrong Kind | Writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi fails miserably with latest "reality"-based film]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28487</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The merging of reality and fiction is a popular strategy for films at the moment. Paranormal Activity recently became one of the most successful box office stories in film history with its low-budget, reality-based story. The Fourth Kind attempts to vein some of the same areas; but where Paranormal... By Joshua Blevins Peck.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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