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IndianGiver — Plafond EP

If you were to peruse the “About” section of IndianGiver’s Facebook page, you’ll notice how the instruments attributed to each of the Oklahoma City band’s five members are described with downright flippancy: Dylan Jordan plays “sticks & animal skins,” while Jazzton Rodriguez earns his keep with “shanties & loud noises,” and so on.
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Various artists — Never Give Up: Celebrating 10 Years of The Postal Service

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Big Worm — Bench All-Stars

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Code 22 — Going Soft: The Acoustic Album!

The guys of Oklahoma City’s Code 22 seem like a likable group of fellas. Their latest release, Going Soft: The Acoustic Album!, is likable enough as well — so likable that on first listen, I took its clean, acoustic sound and clear, unstressed vocals as an alternative praise-and-worship band.
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Eureeka — Polysynthetic Fields

It’s always refreshing to hear music that embraces its own eccentricity, yet presents it in an accessible and meek fashion. Eureeka — the Norman-based duo of Jordan Vargas and Devin Wahl — has tapped into this rarified air on its self-released EP, Polysynthetic Fields.
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Oklahoma City Zoo screens award-winning nature documentary


Joe Wertz January 15th, 2009

A free screening of an award-winning nature documentary will be held Thursday at the Oklahoma City Zoo. "America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie," will unspool 6:30 p.m. at the zoo's Rosser Co...

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A free screening of an award-winning nature documentary will be held Thursday at the Oklahoma City Zoo. "America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie," will unspool 6:30 p.m. at the zoo's Rosser Conservation Education Center.

The Nature Conservancy's 2005 film explores a prairie ecosystem mired in a complex relationship with humans. "America's Lost Landscape" is narrated by actress Annabeth Gish and combines archival footage with arresting, sweeping panoramas of scavenged prairies.

The tallgrass prairie was among the largest American landscape features prior to settlement in the 1820s " a 240 million-acre habitat that was drastically transformed into farmland in just 70 years.

Filmmaker David O'Shields argues that settlers eager to change and tame the land altered the prairie's relationship with its original inhabitants, American Indians. Throughout the hour-long film, O'Shields illustrates the need for conservation and sustainable farming techniques.

Admission is free. Moviegoers should enter through the zoo's Education Center, located at the east end of the parking lot, 2101 N.E. 50th. For more information, call 858-8557. "Joe Wertz

 
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