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Oklahoma Watch, Sept. 18, 2024

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Airdate: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 at 12 p.m.

For anyone creative, especially performers and live artists, there was arguably no more difficult time for finding that motivation than the pandemic era of 2020, when live performances and social gatherings largely ceased and musicians, dancers, and even restaurant chefs were left to question just why they do what they do. OKC-based singer/songwriter JMASTY found himself asking exactly that question.

For all the talk of OKC’s recent cultural renaissance that’s brought a remarkable wave of sports, leisure, arts, and entertainment options to the city over the past decade, the sheer size and sprawl of our capitol can still make it difficult to find just the right kind of fun you’re looking for.

Hip-hop has always been a platform for multiculturalism and worldly exploration with language itself as the guide. But especially in a place like Oklahoma City, it still feels particularly fresh and unique to see an artist emerge like Sundeep Sharma, an Indian-born hip-hop experimentalist who writes and raps in Hindi.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is in the process of determining whether the State Board of Education violated the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act during its July meeting.

Historic developments in the last two weeks have dramatically changed the dynamics in the highly consequential 2024 presidential election.

After almost twenty years as membership director at KGOU, veteran radio journalist Laura Knoll is retiring. KGOU names Cate Howell as her successor.

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Excerpted interview from the August 3, 2024 broadcast of The Weekend Blues

Governor announces more than 450,000 names of ineligible voters have been removed from registration prior to 2024 general election.