News
Clifton Adcock
Outside of elected officials and public employees, it’s hard to argue that Devon Energy Executive Chairman Larry Nichols isn’t one of the most influential people in Oklahoma City government.
Saturday 25 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: public
Nichols’ tower
The latest building block for Larry Nichols is chairing a new economic development nonprofit for OKC.
News
Clifton Adcock
Outside of elected officials and public employees, it’s hard to argue that Devon Energy Executive Chairman Larry Nichols isn’t one of the most influential people in Oklahoma City government.
Restoration project
The proposed city budget allows for the reinstatement of previously eliminated public safety positions.
News
Clifton Adcock
The public got its first glimpse at the proposed city budget for the upcoming fiscal year during the May 10 City Council meeting.
Womb to grow
Wayne Coyne’s wildly experimental art space, Womb, is now open to the public, with no messy afterbirth.
Visual Arts
Joshua Boydston
People had been trying to enter Womb everyday, curious as to what the psychedelic-painted exterior is housing inside. The mural of swirling color, abstract patterns, eyes and candied lips covering the entire structure certainly contrast with the glass, mortar and steel facades of the surrounding buildings on the evolving Automobile Alley.
Alternate route
After a recent denial for a federal grant, officials look to other subsidies for the city’s intermodal transit hub.
News
Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma City officials are looking for other ways to fund improvements to the city’s planned intermodal transit hub after failing to win a federal grant.
Monkees leader Davy Jones dead at 66
According to his website, the singer’s final public performance was in Oklahoma.
Music
Gazette staff
Davy Jones, front man for The Monkees, one of the 1960s’ most beloved pop groups, died today of a heart attack in Indiantown, Fla., where he resided. He was 66.
In the Raw
The international indie arts organization Raw comes to town with a plate full of cool art and hot fashion.
Visual Arts
Greg Horton
Raw: Solstice
8-11 p.m. Thursday
Farmers Public Market
311 S. Klein
facebook.com/raw.oklahomacity
$10-$15
