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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:01 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 MST</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 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[To the Heart of the Matter | The Crucible gets reinterpreted, while music and art shows dominate the art scene]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When Frank Gallagher signed on to direct Theatre Tulsa and Clark Theater's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, he faced two emotions: elation and terror.

He'd wanted to direct the play since 2001, when he signed on with city-owned Heller and Clark Theaters (which, due to budget cuts, will s... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts Experienced</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Holy Moly | Nightingale performance aims to makes religion and God more accessibleAnd gallery openings are plentiful this week]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Don't be alarmed if you walk into the Nightingale Theater this weekend and find yourself staring up at a giant white cross. The backdrop for No Walls Entertainment Group's play God and the Ironing Board suggests the play is a religious one.

However, it's producer and director, Ty Tyson, assures me... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts Experienced</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Sink Your Fangs | Tulsa Ballet takes on larger cast to create a dynamic performance of Dracula]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tulsa Ballet opens its 53rd season with a production that is dark, stunning and sexy: Ben Stevenson's Dracula.

Set to music by Franz Liszt, arranged by John Lanchbery and performed by Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Stevenson's $1 million production, first presented by the Houston and Pittsburgh Ballets... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Turning Up the Heat | Freedom rings true for some and get threatened for others in two local performances]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In its most recent production, Heller Theatre exemplifies how theatre can be a tool to trigger social change as well as a means of entertainment.

Probably the last thing audiences felt during The Exonerated was entertained. What we did feel was perplexed, emotional, angry and inspired.

The Exonera... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts Experienced</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[When the Curtain Calls | Sideshow freaks, a trip to Italy, life on death row and more. The fall arts season rises to the occasion]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[One has to wonder about the motives of a musical that opens with a number titled "Come Look at the Freaks," but Side Show's writers Bill Russell and Henry Krieger want you to do more than gawk; they want you to examine their heroines, conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, and learn from them.

Si... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts Experienced</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Never Gets Old | Oktoberfest thrills all with drinks, German food and a little something called the Chicken Dance]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Beer, rides and a whole feast of German foods that you can't pronounce. Yep, it's definitely time for Oktoberfest. The annual German festival--and Tulsa staple--kicks off this weekend at the River West Festival Park.

Oktoberfest is a long-running tradition worldwide, usually featuring music, bratwu... By Kelli Kickham.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Beautiful Interpretation | TO's opening of Lucia di Lammermoor starts off a delightful opera season]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tulsa Opera opened its 62nd season last week with a production as good as promised -- bloody good.

TO's Lucia di Lammermoor, staged by Stanley M. Garner and starring new mom and Muskogee native Sarah Coburn, daughter to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., opened to a less than packed house, but the sparse au... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Those Old Tunes | Moshe Frumin displays ancient instruments in Sherwin Miller's latest exhibit]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This week, the Sherwin Miller Museum of Art presents the U.S. debut of Israeli sculptor Moshe Frumin's replicated ancient instruments.

Frumin is an artist and amateur archeologist who has fervently researched ancient instruments from the Second Temple period for the past 20 years. To Christians, th... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts Experienced</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Remember the Time | Theatre company participates in nationwide stage reading of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28224</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The little town of Laramie, Wyoming, wasn't the only one affected when one of its residents, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man and student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten and left for dead in an open plain in 1998.

The rest of the country watched in horror and awe as the events unfold... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Gaining Momentum | Young artists gain exposure and resources through local art exhibit]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28223</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It's not easy to make a living as an artist. In fact, it's difficult to make any profit at all--especially if you're a young artist in the middle of the country with no experience at even showing art, much less selling it.

Enter the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition's "Momentum Tulsa: Art Doesn't Stan... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Saving the Boobs | Breast Impressions serves cancer patients through art and fundraising]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28171</link>
      <description><![CDATA[So there I was, naked from the waist up, in the home of a woman I barely knew, ready to let her dress my upper half in layers of wet plaster.

"I'm doing this for a good cause," I kept telling myself.

The lady with the plaster was Judi Grove, founder of a non-profit organization called Breast Impre... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
      <category>Arts/Arts</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Help a Sister Out | Fundraiser at Aberson Exhibits benefits arts education for aspiring young girls]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tulsa Girl's Art School Project has been raking in the dough lately--and deservedly so.

Since it opened last year, TGAS has been steadfast in providing quality arts education to young, underprivileged girls. And the real testament to its value is the art being churned out by its students.

The girl... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[A Grip on Grief | Heller Theatre opens new facility with Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28125</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Heller Theatre opened its new facility last week with a play that is emotionally gripping and, for someone whose hormones haven't quite settled back to normal after giving birth 16 months ago, exhausting.

Directed by Erin Scarberry, David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole gives audiences a view inside a... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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