OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff

Ring in 2013 with a few rounds of Thunder! Your favorite NBA team storms Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno, at 7 p.m. tonight, Friday and next Wednesday, to face off against, respectively, the Brooklyn Nets, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Minnesota Timberwolves. There will be blood. Tickets are $120-$300. Call 800-745-3000 or visit chesapeakearena.com.

Wednesday; Friday; Wednesday, Jan. 9; ongoing

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Can’t go to London for the opera? Oh, well, let the opera come to you. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare screens at Cinemark Tinseltown USA, 6001 N. Martin Luther King. The story of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar runs an epic 275 minutes ... until the fat lady sings, we presume. Tickets are $14- $20. Call 424-0461 or visit cinemark.com.

Wednesday, May 15