Features
Sara Custer
Six hundred earthquakes rocked Oklahoma County last year. If you think that’s a lot, you’d be right: That marks an increase from 37 felt earthquakes reported in 2008 and 2009, and only seven from 1987 to 2007.
Wednesday 19 Jun
OKG Newsletter
Topic: jones
Earthquakes 101
Why all the activity of late in-state?
Features
Sara Custer
Six hundred earthquakes rocked Oklahoma County last year. If you think that’s a lot, you’d be right: That marks an increase from 37 felt earthquakes reported in 2008 and 2009, and only seven from 1987 to 2007.
Soda grows up
Whether you call it soda, pop or (the ill-advised) soda pop, fizzy drinks have gone fancy.
Food and Drink Features
Christina Nihira
While summer is still a scorching celebration, try treating yourself to a decadent soda. Curious cream sodas, spicy ginger ales, rich root beers, tart citrus beverages with genuine bitterness, complex colas — they’re all chilling out there beside surprising, one-of-a-kind flavors as diverse as cucumber, chocolate and jalapeño oil.
'Circle' of life
Emily Glass’ oil painting “Social Circle” (pictured) is part of a new exhibit at the Fred Jones Art Center.
Stuart no-so-little
With the grand opening of its Stuart Wing, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will have visitors seeing double.
Visual Arts
Rod Lott
The Opening Of The Stuart Wing
Thursday-Sunday
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
555 Elm, Norman
ou.edu/fjjma
325-3272
Rock of Ages
Fire away.
Comedy
Rod Lott
In the opening scene of Rock of Ages, the lead character of Sherrie (Julianna Hough, Footloose) leaves Oklahoma for California, and quite frankly, we're better off without her. Good riddance, girl.
Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis embodies America's arguably greatest president.
Drama
Phil Bacharach
Lincoln practically shouts “prestige production” before you’ve even had a chance to buy your popcorn. A costume drama about one of this nation’s most revered historical figures, this is the kind of film irresistible to awards groups.
Zorro
Z marks the spot, occasionally.
Action
Rod Lott
It wasn't too long ago you could find crap copies of 1975's Zorro in the dollar-store DVD bins. For a Blu-ray release, Somerville House has cleaned it all up digitally, improving everything but how dull it sometimes is.
Hope Springs
And yet it also falls flat.
Comedy
Rod Lott
Meryl Streep is in a rut — not the actress, who's arguably still atop her game in her fifth decade of screen stardom, but the character she plays in Hope Springs. Long married to frowny sad sack Arnold (Lincoln's Tommy Lee Jones, not exactly stretching), Kay feels more like a roommate than a wife. They don't even share a bedroom any more.
Banned in the USA
Once deemed too un-American for your eyes, the works of ‘Art Interrupted’ get a second chance for public viewing.
Visual Arts
Louis Fowler
Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy
through June 9
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
555 Elm, Norman
ou.edu/fjjma
325-3272
free
