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Oklahoma City memorial offers cellphone tour

09:30 AM CDT on Thursday, August 28, 2008

From staff reports

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City memorial offers cellphone tour

For visitors to the Outdoor Symbolic Memorial section of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, information about what they are viewing is as close as a cellphone.

FILE 2005/Getty Images
FILE 2005/Getty Images
Visitors can listen to a cellphone tour of portions of the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

The museum recently launched a cellphone tour that is open 24 hours a day, just like the outdoor memorial. The museum and other indoor features are not open around the clock.

To reach the phone tour, dial 405-445-4792 from any point on the site.

The memorial and museum honor the people who were killed, injured or affected by the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The act of domestic terrorism killed 168 people and injured 850. Thousands more were affected in some way.

Contact: 1-888-542-4673; or www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org.

HOUSTON

Museum exhibit focuses on black life in America

An exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston looks at the black experience in America.

"The Black List Project" is a collaboration of New York photographer Timothy Greenfield- Sanders and film critic Elvis Mitchell.

The show features portraits of 21 prominent black Americans and excerpts from videotaped interviews. Among the subjects are Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Russell Simmons, Vernon Jordan and Chris Rock.

An HBO documentary on the project is to air Monday, and a book is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.

The show continues through Oct. 26 and is to go on a national tour after that.

Contact: 713-639-7300; www.mfah.org

LOUISIANA

Dallas Black Dance Theatre to perform in Shreveport

You can combine a weekend getaway with support of a Dallas arts group if you see Dallas Black Dance Theatre perform in Shreveport, La., on Sept. 20.

The contemporary modern dance troupe is to perform at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Strand Theatre.

It is presented by Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet. Tickets range from $12 to $32.

Contact: 318-226-8555; www.thestrandtheatre.com.

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