Oklahoma might be more rolling plains then white-crested mountain tops, but the lack of sprawling mountain ranges doesn’t limit the opportunities for mountain bike races. Oklahoma’s 2009 Tour de Dirt will fan out across the state, hosting races in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Stillwater, Ardmore and this Sunday’s race in Norman. According to Tour de Dirt […]
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Metal vs. Vinyl brings together two crowds
Empty beer bottles were scattered across the table like tombstones, as Riley Hahn, lead singer of local metal band Soul Crisis, took in the view at a local strip club. Hahn is a scene-surfing oddity of the metro. His long, spindly dreadlocks and dangling, DayGlo goatee can be reliably spotted at rock shows, gentlemen’s clubs […]
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Musicians rally with stimulus plan after Stock Market crashes
The Pretty Black Chains’ free Friday show was meant to be the band’s small, semisecret debut. It didn’t take long for buzz surrounding the Electro Lounge show to build ” a frenzy spurred by the fact that the group was founded by Derek Knowlton and Jonathan Martin of local favorites Stock Market Crash. “This will […]
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Native American middleweight opens up doors in the boxing world
Spectacle has a long, proud tradition in boxing, and the walk-in is the moment where a fighter can use a cavalcade of trainers and booming music to intimidate the opponent while psyching up his fans. As far as entrances go, few can best Lawton’s George “Comanche Boy” Tahdooahnippah. War drums, rap and elaborately dressed fancy […]
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Uptown United screens Pictoplasma animation
Uptown United, 24 W. Park Place, will host a free 7:30 p.m. Tuesday screening of Pictoplasma’s “Characters in Motion Vol. 2,” a showcase of some of the most cutting edge, independent animation work in the industry. Uptown United co-founder Chad Mount found out about the Berlin-based organization through his work as an animator and participated […]
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Edmond Running Club hosts Frigid Five
Valentine’s Day is so predictable, so why not throw your loved one a curveball by signing up for a 5-mile run during one of the most bitterly cold times of the year? Nothing says “I love you” better than mutual suffering, right? That will be the mantra of hundreds of devoted runners this Saturday as […]
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Nashville punkabillies serve up rock ‘n’ roll out of Louisiana bayou
Somewhere on his way from Kentucky to Nashville, Tenn., Legendary Shack Shakers’ front man Colonel J.D. Wilkes must have gotten lost and ended up in the Louisiana bayou. Wandering through the marshes, he’d been ripped apart by a gator ” only to be pieced back together by a voodoo priestess. Trudging out, Wilkes would finally […]
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A.W.F.U.L. Pro Wrestling builds metro OKC following
Crave the physicality of sports, but just wish you had more opportunity to wear flamboyant spandex, trash talk fellow athletes and be the superstar you always knew you were in your heart of hearts? Try professional wrestling on for size. There are a number of small federations across the state on the lookout for the […]
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Figure skating gains recognition as it attracts new skaters by the busload
Don’t let the frilly, sequined costumes fool you. Figure skaters are some of the most resilient athletes in sports as they match the grueling practice regimes of gymnastics, all while braving the relentless cold of ice rinks. Despite the challenges, a growing number of children are hitting the ice in Oklahoma with Olympic aspirations. HERDS […]
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art screens ‘Beautiful Losers’
New York City has seen hundreds of art movements come and go, but none quite like the skateboard/graffiti/punk/DIY scene in the 1990s when street-level outsider art began infiltrating mainstream galleries and museums. “Beautiful Losers” is a documentary about the cultural epicenter that fed off an assortment of artists collectively pushing the medium into mainstream pop […]