News
Gazette staff
The Oklahoma Film & Music Office announced its plans for the 2011 South by Southwest Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas.
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Mustang
Oklahoma to showcase film, music and interactive business at SXSW
All three industries to be housed in The Buffalo Lounge
News
Gazette staff
The Oklahoma Film & Music Office announced its plans for the 2011 South by Southwest Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas.
Oklahoma City implements mandatory watering program
Thirteen additional communities affected, effective immediately
News
Gazette staff
Due to poor water pressure, the City of Oklahoma City has declared a mandatory odd/even water rotation program, effective immediately.
Municipal money
More than 220 OKC employees earn more than $100,000 annually.
News
Jerry Bohnen
Salaries on parade: It’s one of the more popular issues of Parade magazine, listing the salaries of people around the country.
No slowing this Mustang down
OKC-based brewer celebrates third anniversary with ‘Hops and Hell’ event.
Food and Drink Features
Gazette staff
In celebration of its third anniversary, Oklahoma City-based Mustang Brewing Company will host the Razing Hops and Hell tour, promising “great music and great beer.”
Dillard’s exclusive
The song 'So Long' marks the start of a hopefully lengthy recording career for OKC jazz-pop songstress Tara Dillard.
Music
Susannah Waite
Tara Dillard with Amy Downes and Molly Blanton
9:30 p.m. Saturday
Picasso Cafe
3009 Paseo
602-2002
Lucky 23
Local brews number the menu of the new Pizza 23.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
A slice of good news: Pizza 23 will open at 600 N.W. 23rd this month. The numerically conscious eatery will feature pizza, salad and beers.
Gone in 60 Seconds: Car Crash King Edition
For pure automobile action, it’s ‘Gone,’ baby, ‘Gone.’
Action
Rod Lott
Compared to its 2000 big-budget remake, H.B. Halicki's Gone in 60 Seconds is deficient in slickness, star power, performances, plotting and humor. Yet the 1974 indie original decimates the Hollywood version as an all-around entertainment. Why? Two simple reasons, boiled down to numbers: some 500 vehicles wrecked and a 40-minute chase scene.
Remembering
Metro author Jim Ross reflects on his wartime experiences in a new memoir.
‘Land’ ho!
Look, up in the sky! It’s local artist Rick Sinnett, working on ‘This Land,’ a mural adorning the outside of Rocktown Climbing Gym.
Visual Arts
Liz Blood
Drive Interstate 40 just south of Bricktown, and you might see artist Rick Sinnett. He’s the one swinging from a rope anchored to the top of Rocktown Climbing Gym, wrangling a 5-gallon bucket of paint as he works on his latest mural, This Land.
