A Three Stooges Celebration

Sample the Stooges for not a lot of scratch.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Hopefully, the new-to-DVD Three Stooges movie — which is actually pretty decent, unless you're a humorless mother-nyuk-er — spurs more viewers to try the real thing. For those wanting to sample their black-and-white brand of slapstick with minimal investment, many bargain-DVD collections exist containing only their material that has fallen into the public domain.

 

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sugar sugar

Kids can’t get enough of the Sugar Free Allstars’ ooey-gooey funk rock. Good thing the Oklahoma City duo has a new album to munch on.

Music
Phil Bacharach
Sugar Free Allstars with Heidi Swedberg
2 p.m. Sunday
Cafe Evoke
103 S. Broadway, Edmond
cafeevoke.com
285-1522
free

 

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Still lovin’ and learnin’

Even with four decades of entertaining under her belt buckle, country great Tanya Tucker is far from being finished.

Music
Mark Beutler
Tanya Tucker with Crystal Gayle
7 p.m. Thursday
First Council Casino
12875 N. Highway 77, Newkirk
firstcouncilcasinohotel.com
866-966-1777
$35-$75

7 p.m. Friday
Lucky Star Casino
7777 N. Highway 81, Concho
luckystarcasino.org
364-3700
$35-$150

 

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Show ’nuff!

Theater season gets into full swing; here's your print-and-save preview.

Performing Arts
Gazette staff
Autumn means a hot new theatrical lineup! Here’s an at-glance guide for the 2012-13 season.

 

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Animal Collective — Centipede HZ

Indie
Joshua Boydston
There really was no way for Animal Collective to match Merriweather Post Pavilion, widely considered the best album of 2009. It’s damn near impossible to bottle lightning twice, especially with the caustic and combustible ingredients the psych-rock band uses to build its ambitious opuses, in which indie electronics meet space rock.

 

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Painting the town Greg

Longtime local artist Greg Burns keeps up with the ever-changing city.

Visual Arts
Patrick Crain
Somewhere there exists a run of prints of a one-off Greg Burns piece containing a small detail that makes it rare. At first blush, it looks familiar enough: a rendering of the iconic Townley’s milk-bottle grocery store on Classen Boulevard.

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

Proves Kong is still king.

Action
Rod Lott
Although my bank account thinks otherwise, I miss the early-aughts craze of DVDs, in which one count upon pristine prints of one martial-arts film or another hitting store shelves. Many of them starred Jackie Chan or Jet Li.

 

Monday, October 8, 2012

Plan B’s

Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
The burger biz must be booming these days, as evidenced by S&B’s Burger Joint poised to open a southside location Tuesday at the corner of Interstate 240 and S. Walker. Owner Bryan Neel said he wanted to expand the horizons for the local eatery, and he likes the area because of its concentration of businesses.

 

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Shiny Toy Guns — III

Rock
Joshua Boydston
After an uneven presence following 2008’s hard rock-leaning Season of Poison, Shiny Toy Guns is back with its third release, appropriately titled III.

 

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Freaky Friday

It’s the end of the Zoo Amp as we know it, and Oklahoma City’s own The Flaming Lips will send it out in style. And blood.

Music
Becky Carman
The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs and New Fumes
5:30 p.m. Friday
OKC Zoo Amphitheatre
2011 N.E. 50th
zooamp.com
364-3700
free

 

Wednesday, October 24, 2012