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(STILLWATER, Okla., April 30, 2024) — A thought-provoking new exhibition, curated by Oklahoma State University students, will open on April 30th at the OSU Museum of Art. “Picturing Resilient Communities: Photographs of Chinese American Encounters in San Francisco’s Chinatown and Peking, 19001925” offers a unique juxtaposition of two distinct photography collections.

Without language, there would be no past, no history or genealogy, and no culture. Language directs, informs, expresses us and makes us and our communities who we are. Pioneer Genealogical Society will explore this perspective Monday, May 6, 7 pm at the Ponca City Library. Of the 500 known Native American languages, only 245 exist today. 65 are extinct, 75 are almost gone (with only a few elderly speakers), and only 169 are spoken at home (per the last census). The focus of the program will be the Kaw tribe and their incredible journey of language.

In theory, “The Fall Guy” may be former stuntman David Leitch’s loving tribute to stunt professionals, but in practice, it’s a demonstration of the importance of movie star charisma. Loosely based on the 1980s TV show that starred Lee Majors as a stunt man moonlighting as a bounty hunter, “The Fall Guy” orbits around one person with a planetary-sized screen presence, Ryan Gosling. Hair streaked with the remaining vestiges of his “Barbie” blond, the sun seems to rise and set based on where he directs his deep blue gaze, which is usually at his co-star, Emily Blunt.

Historical procedurals are expensive to make and therefore all too rare on television. Enter the Tudor-era murder mystery “Shardlake” on Hulu, set during the reign of Henry VIII and adapted from the first book in a series by C.J. Sansom (who died over the weekend at 71) about an English barrister named Matthew Shardlake.

The Northern Oklahoma College Digital Media Institute’s Annual Student Showcase will be held on Friday, May 3, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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Hi kids, do you like violence? “Boy Kills World” is a bloody action thriller revenge comedy built for hyperactive, video game addled 12-year-old boys who think that blood and punching and Uzis spraying bullets while being held sideways are so, so awesome and the pinnacle of this thing we call life. Maybe some of them will see this movie and have all their beliefs reaffirmed.

If fears about “the bomb” permeated life in the mid-20th century, the video game “Fallout” takes that premise to its worst conclusion. In a post-nuclear wasteland, some survivors have been recreating their 1950s-era idyll underground in elaborate bomb shelters called vaults. Those less lucky have been eking out a life on the surface, where it is dusty and brutal, and nasty oddities abound in the form of ghouls, who exist in a liminal space between human and zombie. How the hell did we get here? The Amazon TV adaptation explains by toggling between two timelines: Los Angeles of 2077 and what remains of the place a couple of centuries into the future.