Performing Arts
Joshua Boydston
Maria Bamford with Jackie Kashian, James Draper and Zach Smith
7 p.m. Friday City Arts Center
3000 General Pershing
cityartscenter.org
951-0000
$22 Advance, $25 Door
Saturday 25 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: oklahoma gazette
Bam!
Maria Bamford brings her self-deprecating humor to City Arts Center.
Performing Arts
Joshua Boydston
Maria Bamford with Jackie Kashian, James Draper and Zach Smith
7 p.m. Friday City Arts Center
3000 General Pershing
cityartscenter.org
951-0000
$22 Advance, $25 Door
The debt deal
Oklahoma’s freshman congressman says the ‘war on debt’ is just getting started.
News
Clifton Adcock
The debt-ceiling fight that consumed politics and media for weeks came to a conclusion on Aug. 3 with President Barack Obama signing a hard-fought deal that would raise the nation’s credit limit and avoid default.
Reclamation project
What do John Wayne, John Birch, dinosaurs and the Pledge of Allegiance have in common? They were all in the house at Reclaiming America for Christ.
News
Clifton Adcock
The intersection of politics, nationalism and religion is often seen as no man’s land.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Chimps ahoy!
Science Fiction
Rod Lott
Say what you will about Tim Burton’s widely despised 2001 remake of “Planet of the Apes,” but if it hadn't made serious bank, this prequel would not exist.
Vending machines
What’s your poison: rock, funk, metal? Oklahoma City’s The Venditos offer ’em all.
Music
Joshua Boydston
The Venditos with The Chloes and Em and the MotherBitches
8 p.m. Friday
VZD’s Restaurant & Club
4200 N. Western
vzds.com
524-4203
$5
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Hendrix in the West / Winterland
How many different versions of ‘Hey Joe’ do you need to hear, really?
Rock
Matt Carney
I’m absolutely, totally, 100 percent, completely in support of reissues. There is great music in the past that often gets neglected or forgotten once the generation that popularized it ambles a few years into their first mortgages.
Blitz
Make a play for the Stath!
Action
Rod Lott
"Blitz" isn't your average Jason Statham flick, in that: a) it skipped theaters, and b) his partner is a homosexual. I can't recall seeing that mix in cinema crime stories since the days of Ryan O'Neal and John Hurt in "Partners," and that 1982 film was a comedy.
'Yahu!
Despite looks that scream novelty, the Jewish reggae rapper Matisyahu resonates for real with faithful audiences.
Music
Matt Carney
Jay-Z has rags-to-riches. Nas, urban poverty. Nearly every word Bob Marley sang, barbed with social criticism.
Collections of Colonies of Bees — GIVING
Wisconsin instrumental post-rockers return to old form after their Volcano Choir collaboration with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.
Indie
Matt Carney
Clocking in at just under half an hour, Milwaukee-based Collections of Colonies of Bees recorded a lyric-less gem in their latest offering, “Giving,” strong enough an effort to challenge the current incumbents Explosions in the Sky as our best post-rock build-up instrumental band.
Why pay $30 million to move OGE substation?
Letters to the Editor
Larry D. Fry
Regarding Clifton Adcock’s “$30 million question” (Aug. 3, Oklahoma Gazette): Moving the convention center 30 months ahead of schedule will have an economic impact on our community.
