Tuesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
Danny Marroquin
New frame
Sonarta is one of the newer art galleries in the metro, but it’s physically impossible to enter its doors.
Visual Arts
Danny Marroquin
The classical sonata took on an extra letter and a new meaning when ceramics artist and painter Shahla Reynolds was inspired by her son to create an online-only art gallery, Sonarta, at sonarta.com.
Still make you Sweat
R&B veteran Keith Sweat keeps the hits coming for his swinging, swooning fans.
Music
Danny Marroquin
“In any relationship, communication is very key,” said singer Keith Sweat about his forthcoming book of romantic-relationship advice, “Make It Last Forever.” “As a man who has always known what he wants in a relationship, it’s been an easy subject to analyze.”
Black walls
The new ‘Afro-Americana’ exhibit explores black culture through visual art created in-state.
Visual Arts
Danny Marroquin
Afro-Americana
5-7 p.m. Thursday through April 21
Gaylord-Pickens Museum
1400 Classen Drive
oklahomaheritage.com
235-4458
A sound shade of Blue
One woman changed the Blue Bonnet’s pattern by adding a new item to the Norman bar’s offerings: live music.
Music
Danny Marroquin
Bartlesville native Laura Birkett is the kind of lady who walks up to an aging, beer-only bar on the edge of Main Street and sees a promising oasis of Natural Light and sound.
Get your Phil
Once an Oklahoman and a member of Little Feat, guitarist Phil Brown looks to the music of the past to live for today.
Music
Danny Marroquin
Phil Brown
7 p.m. Friday
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com, 524-0738
$15 advance, $20 door
‘Monday’ mourning
Singer/songwriter Michael Fracasso can't let go of love lost. On 'Saint Monday,' he conveys how the hole in his heart just grows wider.
Music
Danny Marroquin
Michael Fracasso
7 p.m. Friday
The Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com, 524-0738
$20
Write-hand view
Oklahoma Gazette Book Feature: Part publishing house and part art collective, The Consortium surfaces around ideas of self-sufficiency and cross-creation
Features
Danny Marroquin
As the Amazon Internet river carries books and jobs out of struggling stores, many traditional publishers ask themselves, “What happened?”
House calls
Music
Danny Marroquin
For the most intimate of musical experiences, house concerts — literally right in someone’s living room — are where it’s at.
Georgie Rasco works to improve OKC neighborhoods and civic involvement through her position as executive director of The Neighborhood Alliance
News
Danny Marroquin
Rasco and her small staff run The Neighborhood Alliance hub: part neighborhood leader workshop, part grant writing service.
Spencer Krug brings starkly sincere side project to Norman
Music
Danny Marroquin
There's something about what Spencer Krug does that leaves a small habitable gulf between loving and ignoring his music. Throughout obscure projects like Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, Swan Lake, and hi...
Psychedelic poet brings swirling, saloon-folk sound to Norman
Music
Danny Marroquin
The young East Coast singer/songwriter Pepi Ginsberg coos and yearns in a flexible voice that transcends sultry. What makes her third release, "Red," exciting is that she gets to lose herself before t...
Stillwater singer/songwriter storms Norman
Music
Danny Marroquin
Sherree Chamberlain's parents loved music, but not enough to let her sing all the time. "It's a family rule: No singing at the table," Chamberlain said. "We would all be eating at the table, and it ...
The Octopus Project grabs Norman in its tentacles for a show
Music
Danny Marroquin
At one point during Josh Lambert's studies at The University of Texas, he tested boundaries in a few music theory classes, but left them for the wide open spaces rock 'n' roll allows. "I got burnt ou...
Energetic songwriter finds a fan in local rock veteran
Music
Danny Marroquin
Two singers set apart by a generation have been united by the city that launched their careers.
California musical group present abrasive, invasive live show
Music
Danny Marroquin
If there's an indicator that Internet buzz might not be the high road to success it's often hyped to be, look no further than Los Angeles noise-rockers Health. Health " with Gravity Propulsion Syste...
