Action
Rod Lott
To race right to the finish line, as it were, “Drive” is — so far — the year’s best film and a new crime classic.
Thursday 23 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Italian
Frac action
Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter Michael Fracasso creates folk music and pasta dishes with equal flavor.
Music
Joshua Boydston
The Blue Door 19th Anniversary Show with Michael Fracasso, Jon Dee Graham, John Ullbright and more
7 p.m. Thursday
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com
524-0738
$20 advance, $30 door
Night Train Murders
For effective Italian chills, choo-choo-choose this!
Horror
Rod Lott
Blue Underground's cover of the Blu-ray debut of 1975's "Night Train Murders" bears the blurb, "More reprehensible than 'Last House on the Left'!"
Love and meatballs
Because sometimes, PR BS is just too good to be filed under PR BS.
CFN
Gazette staff
Hey there, guy: You thinking about popping The Question tomorrow? Is your special lady a big fan of stuffing her yap full of heat lamp-preserved spaghetti?
The Salt of Life
Comedy
Phil Bacharach
The Salt of Life
5:30 and 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch
okcmoa.com
236-3100
$5-$8
American, Italian or Asian — oh, my!
We recently posed this to our Facebook readers:
American, Italian or Asian: Assume you had to choose between those cuisines. To which local restaurant would you head?
by Carol Smaglinski
05.21.2012
1 year ago
American, Italian or Asian: Assume you had to choose between those cuisines. To which local restaurant would you head?
“Bella Vista is great for Italian food!” —Michael Shoopman
“Grand House.” —Joe Meinhart
“Jana's in Norman: Thai and Italian.” —Gene Glaser
“Spaghetti Warehouse in Bricktown.” —John O'Connor
“My new fave: Charm, for Thai.” —Sara C. Jacoby
“Bistro Lorene in Chickasha.” —Lorene Fite Wood
“American: Cheever's. Italian: Vito's. Asian: Thai Kitchen Cafe downtown.” —Rot Job
“You simply cannot beat that old American standby … Taco Bell.” —Adam Orendac
“P.F. Chang's, Texas Road House, Olive Garden.” —Benjamin A. Pena
“Pachinko Parlor for sushi!” —Bekki Liles
“Papa Dio's.” —Suzanne Pennington Short
Django, Kill! (If You Live Shoot!)
Viewer, watch!
Western
Rod Lott
Is there a title more intriguing yet baffling than the punctuation-heavy Django, Kill! (If You Live Shoot!)? Don't answer that. The important thing is just that the 1967 Italian cult favorite now has been unleashed uncensored on Blu-ray from Blue Underground.
The Five Man Army
Take 'Five.'
Western
Rod Lott
Before he became Itay’s master of horror, Dario Argento knocked out a few screenplays, including one of Sergio Leone's legendary Western epics, Once Upon a Time in the West. Lesser-known is 1969's The Five Man Army. That's too bad, because it brings an “international all-star team” approach to the spaghetti Western, and doesn’t forget the all-aces Ennio Morricone score!
