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Food Network Launching New Health Inspection Show

The Food Network is launching a new health inspection show which debuts October 26. It's aptly called "Health Inspectors." Host Ben Vaughn, a former chef and a restaurant consultant, will visit one of the country's filthiest restaurants and try to clean it up. Some highlights from the upcoming epis ... More >>

Narconon Not Scientology? Then Why Is Its Leader in the Church's Concentration Camp?

On Saturday, we took you inside the troubled Scientology drug treatment center in eastern Oklahoma, Narconon Arrowhead. Three deaths have occurred at the center since October, and the most recent of them, Stacy Murphy, 20, was found on the morning of July 19. A former patient of the center who kn ... More >>

Scientology Drug Program Narconon's Licensing "Extremely Vulnerable" After Oklahoma Deaths, Says Insider

Scientology is facing crises on several fronts: flagging membership, internal schisms, relentless Internet exposure, and whole new levels of public consciousness and mocking because of a celebrity divorce and an upcoming movie with Oscar buzz. But perhaps the most surprising component of the church ... More >>

Scientology's Worlds Colliding: Bert Leahy and David Edgar Love Together in Oklahoma on August 25!

To even begin to explain why it's significant that a Texas man named Bert Leahy and a Montreal man named David Edgar Love are going to meet up in the godforsaken town of Canadian, Oklahoma on August 25 would probably strain most news organizations. But we have an advantage: Bert Leahy and David Lov ... More >>

Stacy Dawn Murphy, 20: Another Death at Scientology's Flagship Narconon Drug Treatment Center in Oklahoma

I just got off the phone with Colin Henderson, who is frenetically monitoring breaking news in Oklahoma, where yet another patient at Scientology's flagship Narconon drug treatment center has been found dead. Jeanne LeFlore of the McAlester News-Capital broke the news earlier today that Stacy Dawn ... More >>

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Empire City: Meta Mineola

600 Highwaymen mess around in the name of art

Mafia Disorganized; 17 Killed in Tornados; Radioactivity Rises Off Japan Coast

​The Mafia is out of commission. Rather, the Mafia Commission, the caucus of leaders of the five main crime families, apparently hasn't met in 25 years. Cue "disorganized crime" joke. [NYDN] A tornado warning has been issued for parts of Georgia as the death toll from recent twisters rises to 17. ... More >>

Pix from Williamsburg's New Barbecue, Mable's Smokehouse

​This is what spectacular brisket looks like. This week, Counter Culture drives the old Chevy pickup to Williamsburg's new Oklahoma-style barbecue, Mable's Smokehouse. That makes three great bbq's in the neighborhood (the others: Fette Sau and Fatty 'Cue).

Chupacabra is the Worst Urban Legend Ever

​Chupacabra, the mythical goat-killing creature that comes from the depths of Mexico, has been revealed a total phony. The bloodsucking fairytale started in 1995, making it the only urban legend ever to scare people wearing the holy fashion trinity of jean jackets, slap bracelets and flannel. ... More >>

9 States Are Now Under Blizzard Warnings, and Other Freaky Weather Facts

​Although our winter storm warning has been downgraded to an advisory, the weather still has the makings of something rather apocalyptic. It's being called "life-threatening." Across the nation, people are freaking out. Even people in England are worried about our well-being (or are smugly enj ... More >>

Man Attempts to Commit Suicide by Bear

​A man in Arizona named Tracy Province, who, along with two accomplices faces capital murder and carjacking charges for killing an Oklahoma couple and burning them in a trailer, decided after enduring great stress and losing 30 pounds due to his escape from prison that he would end it all rath ... More >>

The Group Theater

It's a heydey for collaborative work in New York. How six companies put it all together.

Handy Fat Rolls Conceal Stolen Goodies for Enterprising Oklahoma Ladies

​Here's one deserving the WTF tag, if there ever was. Two women have been arrested for shoplifting at a TJ Maxx in Oklahoma. This wasn't any boring old garden variety put-that-lipstick-in-your-purse shoplifting! Oh, no. They managed to shove four pairs of boots, three pairs of jeans, a wallet, ... More >>

Oklahoma Will Now Be Taken Over by Muslims, Hopefully

​Somewhere near the heart of America, a plot to infiltrate the soul of this great nation is underway, and has moved a step further. Yes, folks, a judge -- those formidable black-robed enemies of the state -- has struck down an amendment to Oklahoma's constitution that would bar the use of Isla ... More >>

Earthquake Strikes Oklahoma, Moves Man in La-Z-Boy

​A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck Oklahoma southeast of Oklahoma City, near Norman, at about 9 a.m. this morning. Aftershocks were apparently felt in Texas and Kansas. Midwesterners are all abuzz on Twitter, not least because earthquakes are somewhat rare in the Midwest. Tulsa World has the b ... More >>

Even Cowgirls Go to Jail: Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo

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Morning Links: Egg Recall Now Massive; Miners Trapped Underground in Chile Are Alive; Gator Sighting in Astoria

​• Half a billion eggs are now being recalled in 17 states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin) due to a salmonella outbreak traced back to two Iowa egg producers, Hi ... More >>

Americans Getting Fatter, More Honest

​Surprise, surprise: Americans have not conquered that unfortunate weight problem that doctors are always harassing us about. According to a government study released today that surveyed adults about their weight by telephone (great way to encourage exercise!), the obesity rate is at nearly 27 ... More >>

Jesus Penis Is Causing Pandemonium in Oklahoma!

via TowlerRoad​This is even more scandaloso than the rumors about Larry King and the wife's sister. A fully erect crucifix in an Oklahomo--I mean Oklahoma--church is getting extreme reactions from parishioners (some of whom have become ex parishioners). This thing puts the "erection" back in ... More >>

GORY GUIGNOL

Theater is a killer

There's Poo In Your Coke; Smoky Foods May Be Toxic

​Curtis Allina, the candy company executive responsible for the modern Pez dispenser, has died at age 87. The former vice-president of what is now Pez Candy helped develop the first character dispensers, which became highly collectible. [NY Times] A recent study reveals that nearly half of al ... More >>

The Future Is Bleak for Foodies; Forget Jared. Meet Christine, Taco Bell's Diet Poster Girl

​The latest food recall comes from National Steak and Poultry in Oklahoma, which is recalling some 248,000 pounds of beef that might be contaminated with a strain of E. coli. The meat could be linked to illnesses in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, South Dakota, and Washington. [ABC News] Wh ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The 10th Annual Voice Film Critics' Poll, the Decade's Best Theater, Art, Dance, and Books, Harvilla's 'Worst Lyrics of the Decade,' and More

If you want to actually read this thing, by all means, click here.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla stages a brutal, single-elimination, March Madness-style tournament to determine the worst lyrics of the decade. Spoiler: the Black Eyed Peas are very much involved! Elsewhere, Christo ... More >>

School Lunch Talk Talks School Lunches

Photo borrowed from School Lunch Talks School Lunch Policy, which has relaunched its website under the banner School Lunch Talk documents how school lunches differ around the world. Basque chicken thigh with herbs, red and green bell peppers, and olive oil in France; zucchini risotto and mozzarella ... More >>

Jockbeat: Lord Help Tim Tebow

Florida's Tim Tebow is the best college quarterback I've ever seen.  Not the best looking, the smoothest or the most classic, but the best, as in the one I want to quarterback for my team in the big game. His performance in Thursday night's 24-14 victory over Oklahoma in the BCS national champi ... More >>

Chicken Slaughter on Kingston Avenue: Is Crown Heights Kapporos Cruel?

Clip Job: Tallmer Gags on the Von Trapps

Clip Job: Saloon Society Update

SXSW: Colourmusic and the Shape

Bred in the Phone

A play built from the poetry of the everyday

Downtown Theater News Update

Soho Rep's new play ground

How $2 Million Could Derail Open-Source Voting Machines in NY Elections

The Call of Nature

New York-based Nature Theater of Oklahoma shine in the Under the Radar festival

Flabby White Guys Wrestling With Racism

A Half-Century of Spying on U.S. Citizens

From Able Danger to Oklahoma City, evidence of domestic intelligence

Morning Report 10/10/05
Whitening Strikes New Orleans

Marriage Equality, State by State

Horoscope

Letters

A Long Wait for Justice

A Reparations Suit for a 1921 Race Riot

Oklahoma, Oy Vey!

Nation

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Listings

Nation

Pass the Remote: Fifty Percent of Voters Stayed Home

Even Close Races Fail to Draw Big

Triple Bypass

Flying Saucer Rock & Roll

Thomas Anderson's Desert Discs