Features
Rod Lott
Want to know what movies knocked the socks off the Oklahoma Gazette film crew this year? Too bad!

Music
Stephen Carradini
Call it jazz if you want. Or don’t. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey doesn’t care, so long as you listen with an open mind.

Commentary
Brandon Dutcher
According to our friends at the Oklahoma Policy Institute, Oklahoma “will face prolonged constraints on the state budget.”

Sports
Royce Young
What’s a guy to do when the year turns over and he’s got a commentary due soon? Why write a New Year’s resolution piece over the topic he covers, that’s what!

Sports
Royce Young
What’s the best way to riff on different things you’ve been thinking about but don’t really have a reason or hook to write about them? Rank them, that’s what.

Food and Drink Features
Carol Cole-Frowe

It’s “big,” with tastes of blackberry and chocolate and an incredible mouthfeel. A fine wine, maybe? How about an aromatic Southern Ethiopian coffee from the highaltitude Sidama region and the Michicha village?

Music
Joshua Boydston
“A good friend of mine said when she visited the land I’m on right now, ‘Wow, this explains a lot of why your music sounds the way it does.’ There’s Spanish moss hanging off huge, old oak trees with geese and sandhill cranes flying over next to a lake with gators.

Music
Phil Bacharach
Jimmy Eat World with David Bazan & Band
7 p.m. Saturday
Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern
www.diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$22 advance, $24 door

Drama
Rod Lott
Animator Bill Plympton’s “Idiots & Angels” is not what you’d think, for several reasons.