Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
So maybe it was not my best idea to spend a July weekend in western Oklahoma, a place known for sand dunes (hot), salt flats (also hot) and rattlesnakes (hot and deadly).
Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Parker
Beat that heat
You know it’s bad when the national weather people are using your state to illustrate just how hot it is out there.
Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
So maybe it was not my best idea to spend a July weekend in western Oklahoma, a place known for sand dunes (hot), salt flats (also hot) and rattlesnakes (hot and deadly).
Chernobyl Diaries
Another reason not to visit Russia, if you needed it.
Horror
Rod Lott
Famously, tragedy plus time equals comedy. Do they also equal horror? Up to you, but Chernobyl Diaries goes for it anyway.
House of Dark Shadows / Night of Dark Shadows
Double up with earlier big-screen 'Shadows.'
Horror
Rod Lott
Those who liked Tim Burton's misunderstood Dark Shadows movie may be curious about exploring the long-running TV soap opera on which it was based. I understand, but instead would point them first in the direction of the 1970 and 1971 feature films, House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows.
Various artists — A Blackwatch Christmas Vol. II
Indie
Joshua Boydston
Fowler Volkswagen general manager Jonathan Fowler wants Oklahoma to become the indie Christmas-music capital of the world. With three straight stellar Christmas albums Fowler VW has supported (all but the first with Norman’s Blackwatch Studios), that wish feels more like reality.
Listen up
Rock, folk, hip-hop, metal — local music was loud and proud in 2012, and these 10 albums prove it. Just press play.
Hear it
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Parker Millsap topped our 2012 best local albums list with the disc Palisade, so get his 2013 off to a good start by showing up for his first local gig of the year. He’ll play at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Rodeo Opry, 2221 Exchange Ave. Tickets are $15. Call 297-9773 or visit ohfo.org.
Saturday
Hey! Read This:
• OKG's 10 best local albums of 2012
Sam I am
With her brand-new album, ‘Kid Face,’ Shawnee-born Americana artist Samantha Crain decided to write what she knew: herself.
Music
Zach Hale
Samantha Crain with Parker Millsap
8 p.m. Saturday
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com
524-0738
$15-$20
Best in Show
Award-worthy comedy struts onto Blu-ray.
Comedy
Rod Lott
My favorite of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries is easily 2000’s Best in Show. While I think it helps to be a theater nerd to appreciate 1996’s Waiting for Guffman in full or a folk nut to opt for 2003’s A Mighty Wind, “must love dogs” is no requirement here. Love man’s best friend or hate him, the humor in Best in Show is less inside-baseball than its brothers.
SXSW 2013: Zach Winters / Parker Millsap
Zach attack!
Music
Stephen Carradini
Zach Winters’ set of singer/songwriter tunes hinged on the charms of his and other people’s voices.
