Food and Drink Features
Sarah Lobban
Odyssey de Culinaire
6 p.m. Thursday
Skirvin Hilton Hotel
1 Park Ave.
okrestaurants.com
$125-$200
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Tulsa
Chef swap
The Oklahoma Restaurant Association raises funds for up-and-coming students in the hospitality industry.
Food and Drink Features
Sarah Lobban
Odyssey de Culinaire
6 p.m. Thursday
Skirvin Hilton Hotel
1 Park Ave.
okrestaurants.com
$125-$200
Forté’s forte
Music has existed within Tulsa singer-songwriter Fiawna Forté almost as long as she has.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Fiawna Forté with Honeylark
10 p.m. Friday
Blue Note Lounge
2408 N. Robinson
thebluenotelounge.com
600-1166
$5
Foreign Home — How Strange the Night
Indie
Joshua Boydston
Arena-ready indie rock sounds like a bit of a contradiction, but with bands like The Black Keys, Muse and Kings of Leon all headlining the biggest venues in town, the weird subspace is here to stay.
Killer Joe
The trailer-trash noir dares you not to look.
Thriller
Phil Bacharach
Killer Joe is brutal, pulpy and utterly, irresistibly lurid — provided, that is, you like your perversity when it’s deep-fried and extra crispy.
Friday night frustration
OKC and Putnam City public schools want a different athletic classification to spur competitiveness on the football field.
Poo-pooing Planned Parenthood
CFN
Gazette staff
After Oklahoma decided to terminate some Planned Parenthood funding, the organization responded by birthing a lawsuit against the state Department of Health. (Oh, Mistress of Tortured Metaphors, have you no shame?) Planned Parenthood does not perform abortions in Oklahoma, but it does in other states. In the Sooner State, however, the group — among other responsibilities — distributed Women, Infants & Children (WIC) services in three Tulsa clinics.
The Fabulous St. Knicholas Cage — Shit Surf
Rock
Joshua Boydston
The landlocked state of Oklahoma might not seem the most likely breeding ground for excellent surf-punk bands, but it’s bore more than a few in recent years, although none so fabulously named as Tulsa’s The Fabulous St. Knicholas Cage.
Novel ideas
Eight Oklahoma authors offer suggestions for curling up with a good book when it’s cold.
One Sweet sell-out
Sweet Brown has time to shill for a Tulsa dentist.
D-graded
CFN
Gazette staff
Pop quiz: Did the authors of a study finding significant flaws in Oklahoma’s A-F grading system for schools renounce their findings?
