Music
Mike Robertson
Francis Ford Coppola is an odd duck. Insofar as he has the same type of name recognition and public persona as Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg and many other directors of his gen...

Music
Mike Robertson
A biopic is kind of like reality TV, but with people you're actually interested in. It generally involves taking a famous person's biography, cutting out some of the boring stuff while ignoring ...

Music
Mike Robertson
Collectively, the Japanese imagination is pretty effing wild. Moving from the "Godzilla" movies to Hayao Miyazaki's crazy mind-scapes to the landmark "Ghost in the Shell" and cultural mashups li...

Comedy
Mike Robertson
Close male friendship — or "bromance," as it's been known — has long made some people uneasy. All the forceful hugging, grab-assing, sports stuff and general physicality between certain men can beg the question, "Are these guys secretly hot for each other, or what?"

Music
Mike Robertson
The myth of the lone, misunderstood, genius artist toiling away in obscurity is a narrative that has come to overshadow " or at least dominate " the value we put on artists. That is, one has a t...

Children's
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Music
Mike Robertson
 "The Cake Eaters" is the story of two families whose present is bracketed and, in some ways confined, by a shared past. Beagle (Aaron Stanford, "X-Men: The Last Stand") lives a soli...

Music
Mike Robertson
When a show " take "ER," for example " has been around for a long time, it's easy for people to start thinking it has more cultural significance than it really does. "A Prairie Home Companio...

Music
Mike Robertson
For those of us who don't know New Orleans, the damage left by Hurricane Katrina is still an abstract concept. Aerial shots on the news showing roofs peering up from the stagnant floodwater surface, a...

News
Mike Robertson
The United States gets a certain amount of flack from the rest of the world " and rightly so " for some of its cultural exports. McDonalds, KFCs, and Taco Bells are in every available international no...

News
Mike Robertson
Since Oklahoma City roller derby was resurrected two years ago with the creation of the Tornado Alley Rollergirls, what at first seemed like a novel, possibly temporary sports phenomenon has instead e...

News
Mike Robertson
The idea that "love is in the air" during the spring season is an old one. But is human interest in love actually stronger in the spring, and if so, is it based in our chemistry the way it is for an...

Music
Mike Robertson
Ron Lira " certainly one of the few full-time luthiers in Oklahoma City " has maintained a steady flow of business as Honest Ron's Guitars, in the same location at 1129 N. May since 1985. "Most of w...

Music
Mike Robertson
Oklahoma native Jason Cadamy is living his dream of getting paid to play the guitar, even if it's not the most ideal situation: spending long stretches as a musician-for-hire on cruise ships. In Jan...

News
Mike Robertson
Winter is the time when bacteria and viruses like to curl up in your body, knowing that the consistently low temperature outside and steady infusion of your grandma's pecan divinity and alcoholic eggn...