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NORMAN — A poet and visual artist, Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya has spent most of his life recording reactions to the world around him. He never thought that outward expression would lead to a 2012 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry for “Leaving Holes and Selected New Writings,” a collection of works he wrote decades ago that was published last year by Mongrel Empire Press.

In 1992, “Leaving Holes” was co-winner of the first Native Writers’ Circle First Book Award for Poetry. Due to th

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TERRE HAUTE — Todd Stokes artwork has a tendency to fall into two separate bodies of work one that represents that simple break where we stop to notice, to realize what we are given, the natural world that we so often take for granted, and a second that celebrates the creative energy that brought it all together.

Trees have become a major part of Stokes subject matter. The artist believes that they are extremely important to our daily lives. It seems they protect and nurture our existence.

Stokes enjoys walking in the woods, soaking in everything: the sounds, the smells, the essence of natural beauty. T

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Alec Baldwin is taking a stand to prevent the potential contamination of water sources in his native New York by hosting a special screening of the controversial Oscar-nominated documentary .

The environmental film highlights the ramifications of natural gas in America’s water supply due to the industry’s use of hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, a technique which critics claim can contaminate water from the ground and put air quality at risk.

And the star hopes to raise awareness about the anti-fracking campaign on June 2 when he hosts the What the Frack? e

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I’m a decently big fan of the film ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshal’ and its semi sequel ‘Get Him To The Greek’, so when I heard there was another film from the same director coming out I was keen to check it out! Then when I saw it was starring Jason Segel, who was the lead in the directors first film ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshal’ and many other recent great comedies, I was even more pumped for it!

‘The Five-Year Engagement’ sadly though was the diet coke of comedies. Sorry, let me change that. It was the decaffeinated diet coke of comedies! It was such a

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NEW YORK – American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, whose children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” has been a standard bedtime story for at least three generations, has died at the age of 83.

Sendak died during the night at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut from complications from a recent stroke, a hospital spokesperson said on Tuesday. He lived in nearby Ridgefield, Connecticut.

“We are terribly saddened at the passing of Maurice Sendak. He was a glorious author and illustrator, an amazingly gifted designer, a blisteringly funny raconteur, a fierce and opinionated wit, and a loyal friend to those who knew him.

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