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Why watch Sunday’s Grammys telecast on the couch when you can do so while at the “Gold • Glitz • Glamour” benefit gala at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum? From 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., the venue at 1400 Classen Drive rolls out red-carpet treatment with live music from the Groove Merchants, a silent auction, gourmet hors d’oeuvres and signature cocktails. Tickets are $75. Call 235-2714 or visit oklahomaheritage.com.

Sunday

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As of Thursday, WinStar World Casino at 777 Casino Ave. in Thackerville will reach the halfway point in its Red Dirt Series of weekly concerts. Playing at 8 p.m. is Pat Green, the thrice Grammy-nominated Texas country artist whose most recent album is last summer’s Songs We Wish We’d Written II. Tickets are $10-$25. Call 800-745-3000 or visit winstarworldcasino.com.

Thursday

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Every February, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch, gives you the opportunity to see what you’ve missed among current Academy Award nominees with its Oscar Tune-Up. Through Sunday, catch all kinds of shorts: documentary shorts, animated shorts and live-action shorts. Something long is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 13: The Master. Tickets are $5-$8. Call 236-3100 or visit okcmoa.com.

Wednesday-Wednesday, Feb. 13

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Prepare to huff and puff and move your duff at Saturday’s 18th annual Frigid Five. Edmond Running Club’s annual charity event is anchored by the five-mile run at 9 a.m., followed 15 minutes later by a one-mile fun run, both in Mitch Park, 2733 Marilyn Williams Drive. A children’s free one-mile run is at 8:30 a.m. Registration ranges from $10 to $28. Visit edmondrunningclub.com.

Saturday

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The grapes might be dangerously sour after sitting idle for nearly two years for the state superintendent runner-up, Sen. Susan Paddack, D-Ada.

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“I want to know if you’re aware of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration that has a book called ‘The Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Individuals.’ ...They are going around the nation — they just did this here in Oklahoma Dec. 7 — and having conferences about ... continuing education units on those things.

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Wes Welker’s wife apparently forgot that social media isn’t the safest place to say mean things about famous people. Anna Burns Welker, whose husband is the Oklahoma City native-turned-New England Patriots wide receiver, recently vented her frustration on her personal Facebook page following the Patriots’ 28-13 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship.

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In the Downwardly-Spiraling- Individual-Spirals-Downward department, Oklahoma City attorney Lewis B. Moon has been disbarred for recent actions ranging from threatening others to posing as a federal agent. The state Supreme Court called Moon “an embarrassment to the legal profession” in its Jan. 22 order.

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Last week, Chicken-Fried News took note of some of the more, um, interesting bills filed for the Oklahoma legislative session, which begins Monday.

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Starting Friday, if you’re Seeing Red, you must be at In Your Eye Gallery. That’s when the venue at 3005-A Paseo debuts the exhibit devoted to that color with a free reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Featuring 12 artists working in a variety of media, Seeing Red runs through Feb. 24. Admission is free. Call 525-2161 or visit inyoureyegallery.com.

Friday, ongoing

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Admirals, we salute you! Half a year later, the Stillwater band’s self-titled debut still rings in our ears and alt-rocks our hearts, so imagine what Admirals could achieve live! Better yet, imagine no more. They appear in the flesh at 9 p.m. Friday at Blue Note Lounge, 2408 N. Robinson. Local electro-rock act Jumpship Astronaut opens. Call 600-1166 or visit thebluenotelounge.com.

Friday

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As bad as that recent Hitchcock biopic was, it doesn’t damage the greatness of the suspense master’s films. One of his early successes, The 39 Steps, helped inform a Tony-winning Broadway version in 2008 that now is at Jewel Box Theatre, 3700 N. Walker. The 150-character spy romp stages at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, through Feb. 10. Tickets are $5-$10. Call 521-1786 or visit jewelboxtheatre.org.

Thursday-Sunday, ongoing

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Come 7:30 p.m. Monday, world-renowned German pianist Alexander Schimpf adds Armstrong Auditorium, 14400 S. Bryant in Edmond, to his ever-growing list of venues played. Schimpf has taken top honors at several prestigious competitions ’round the globe, and he’s only 29! (OKG7, by comparison, recently plowed through several episodes of American Horror Story stacked up on the TiVo.) Tickets are $20- $35. Call 285-1010 or visit armstrongauditorium.org.

Monday

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Wes Anderson fans know him as Bottle Rocket’s Kumar, Rushmore’s Mr. LittleJeans or The Royal Tenenbaums’ Pagoda (he of the pink pants above). But on Saturday at Ashtanga Yoga Studio, 120 E. Tonhawa in Norman, Kumar Pallana is just Kumar Pallana. The 94-year-old will conduct a two-hour yoga workshop at 3 p.m. for $35, followed by a 7 p.m. magic performance for $10 (free for kids 12 and under). Call 503-7779 or visit ashtangayogastudio.com.

Saturday

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Colin Currie is sure to ’phone in his performance with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic — vibraphone, that is. The percussionist is adept at solos on the marimba, blocks and drum sets, too, so no wonder the event carries the title of Motion & Emotion. Copland and Tchaikovsky are among those on tap for the 8 p.m. Saturday concert at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker. Tickets are $25- $52. Call 232-7575 or visit okcphilharmonic.org.

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