Drama
Rod Lott
Animator Bill Plympton’s “Idiots & Angels” is not what you’d think, for several reasons.
Saturday 18 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: What
Idiots & Angels
Clipped wings
Crown heights
The reigning Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson puts on a ‘Party’ locally to celebrate her new album with The White Stripes’ leader
Music
Joshua Boydston
Wanda Jackson with Green Corn Revival
7 p.m. Friday
ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 323 E. Sheridan
974-4700, free
Just looking
What does a OKC homeowner actually look like?
Features
Gazette staff
What does the typical homeowner in Oklahoma City look like, literally? According to a recent survey conducted by The Media Audit, whites comprise 79.8 percent of all homeowners among adults age 18 and older in town.
Now that’s what I call mad money!
Greyson Chance is so totally now.
CFN
Gazette staff
It took him 13 years, but Edmond pop moppet Greyson Chance has finally landed a song on one of those “NOW That’s What I Call Music!” compilations. (You know the ones: You’ve seen them advertised on TV, yet aren’t exactly worthy of the all caps or the exclamation point.)
CFN Mailbag
Missing point of view
CFN
Gazette staff
Recently, in your fine publication, I’ve read a number of letters from Christians addressing what a terrible threat Islam is to “Christians and Jews,” specifically one that was posted in the Chicken-Fried News (CFN Mailbag, Penelope M. Blair, Jan. 19, Oklahoma Gazette).
’Ham it up
As DJ Bronzai, Jon Mooneyham isn’t your typical record-spinner. He’s on a mission to save the state from bad music. That means you, Ke$ha.
Music
Joshua Boydston
DJ Bronzai
9 p.m. Thursday
VZD’s Restaurant and Club
4200 N. Western
www.vzds.com, 524-4203
Strip club
With a shoestring budget but a deep pool of talent, Oklahoma City University students give stage time to brand-new musicals.
Performing Arts
Charles Martin
OCU Stripped
8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
Oklahoma City University, Petree Recital Hall
2501 N. Blackwelder
Free, donations accepted
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Conditions are ripe for marital strife in Oklahoma, where divorce comes sweeping down the plains.
Features
Malena Lott
Love may be a many-splendored thing, but in Oklahoma, love often turns into a country song, à la Tammy Wynette’s 1968 No. 1 hit, “D-I-V-O-R-C-E.” Unfortunately for Oklahoma, as the decades roll by, the state can’t seem to get out of the top-five ranking for highest divorce rates in the U.
Cornett should improve air supply
Letters to the Editor
Sue Clancy
Regarding the Feb. 2 Oklahoma Gazette Commentary “Mayor McModern” by Keith Gaddie: I wish Mayor Mick Cornett the best of luck in attempting to modernize a city that has Christian extremist/ fundamentalists ringed around its throat.
Graphic substance
Norman author Rob Vollmar bypasses caped crusaders in favor of cerebral historical fiction set in ancient Sumer, in ‘Inanna’s Tears.’
Features
Charles Martin
Rob Vollmar and J. David Osborne
3-6 p.m. Saturday
Atomik Pop
918 W. Main, Norman
atomikpop.com, 329-9695
