Wednesday 22 Feb
 
 
 
Hey! Do This

Hear this

“Meet Cupid’s Wingman” as singer/songwriter/pianist Tony DeSare flies in for two shows with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker.
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Film this

Size matters!
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Heart this

Heart this Last year’s Art with a Heart, which auctions works created by kids receiving treatment for cancer and blood disorders, raised more than $50,000.
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Art this

Ten instructors and 35 pieces comprise one show now on display through Sunday: the Oklahoma City University School of Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition.
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Laugh this

Gabriel Iglesias isn’t fat — he’s fluffy.
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Comic this

Watch art created before your very eyes as the Oklahoma Comic Creators host a live art event from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at New World Comics, 6219 N. Meridian.
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Learn this

You can learn a lot from David McCullough.
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Books
 
Top Articles from Books

Seeking subversion

In his latest book, Oklahoma City pastor Robin Meyers proposes a religious equivalent of the ‘common good.’


Nonfiction

Greg Horton
Robin Meyers
6:30 p.m. Thursday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900
 
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Telling his side

Former Gov. David Hall pens a memoir that contends he was wrongly convicted of bribery and extortion.


Features

Carol Cole-Frowe
David Hall
12 p.m. Saturday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900
 
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The Big Book of Breasts 3D

Two reasons why the Kindle won’t kill the printed page entirely ...


Nonfiction

Rod Lott
There is no way to review a book like “The Big Book of Breasts 3-D” without appearing like some misogynist perv.
 
Friday, January 20, 2012

Bud light

A collection of letters shows the softer side of legendary OU coach Bud Wilkinson.


Nonfiction

Andrew Gilman
Jay Wilkinson
6:30 p.m. Thursday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900

2 p.m. Saturday
Barnes & Noble
540 Ed Noble Parkway
bn.com
579-8800
 
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

How to date your dragon

Best-selling and award-winning OKC authors release parody nonfiction.


Features

Jenn Scott
Dating can be trying, at best. Maybe, just maybe, you’ve been dating the wrong kind of man — like, the living kind.
 
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Oklahoma book holiday gift guide

Here’s a novel idea: Give the pleasure of state-related reading this holiday season.


Features

Rod Lott
As Full Circle Bookstore owner Jim Tolbert told me last year, “At Christmas, people come back to books. A book is a gift.”
 
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

State of shock

Author David A. Farris seeks out Oklahoma’s ‘Spooky Stories,’ all stranger than fiction.


Nonfiction

Rod Lott
David A. Farris
2-3:30 p.m.
Sunday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebookstore.com
842-2900
 
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Blacktop book

From pavement to page, America’s historic highway comes alive in the photographs collected in ‘Route 66 Sightings.’


Nonfiction

Rod Lott
Route 66 Sightings
3 p.m. Saturday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900
 
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Wise man

A local archbishop has released a Christian caper.


Fiction

Emily Summars
What do an archbishop, an author and Rome have in common? Robert L. Wise. An archbishop in the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches, he recently released “Shrouded in Silence.”
 
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

'Into the Storm'

Reed Timmer’s tornadovideos.net team debuted on the second season of “Storm Chasers.”

 
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Hangman

Oklahoma historian Alvin Turner based his new book of poetry on hangings.


Nonfiction

Ryan Querbach
In April of 1909, a vigilante mob hanged four men awaiting trial as murder suspects in Ada. Jim Miller, Jesse West, Joe Allen and D.B. Burrell were set to stand trial for the murder of Gus Bobbitt when the angry mob estimated at around 40 people took matters into their own hands.
 
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Beach reads

Whether it’s the beach, the public pool or your own tub, we’ve got a cool summer reading list for these hot days. And don’t dismiss ‘beach reads’ as mere fluff.


Features

Kathy Wheeler
“Beach reads” is a catchy little term, isn’t it? But how would one go about finding out what a beach read is? Or what actually might constitute a beach read?
 
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Doctor's orders

A local doctor hopes to help Oklahomans stay healthy with a new book on preventative medicine.


Features

Ryan Querbach

Dr. John Tompkins
6:30 p.m. Monday
Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway
FullCircleBooks.com, 842-2900

 
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Returning to history

Sonia Gensler’s debut novel, ‘The Revenant,’ digs into a part of Oklahoma history many may not know about.


Features

Jenny Coon Peterson

Sonia Gensler
2 p.m. Saturday
Barnes & Noble, 540 Ed Noble Parkway, Norman
BN.com, 579-8800

 
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music — Nona Willis Aronowitz, ed.

A fascinating republishing of an unfairly forgotten seminal rock critic’s work


Nonfiction

Stephen Carradini
The New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first pop music critic in 1968. She wrote the monthly “Rock, Etc.” column for the magazine until 1975.
 
Friday, June 10, 2011
 
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