Murder by Death with J Roddy Walston and The Business 8 p.m. Feb. 9 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $20 Concept albums are Murder by Death’s thing. Named after a satirical comedy from the ’70s, the band likes to aim cinematic with stories of small Mexican towns beset by the devil and […]
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Cosmic science
SMO 21: Cosmic Con 6:30-10 p.m. Friday Science Museum Oklahoma 2020 Remington Place sciencemuseumok.org 405-602-3760 $21-$25 Clint Stone is the sort of person who will greet you outside a restroom with a tarantula named Sputnik. Stone is the sort of person who will drive through a rainstorm to tell you about finding an avocado he […]
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Pack mentality
The Wolves Jan. 31-Feb. 3 The Burg Theatre 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave. okcu.edu/theatre 405-208-5227 $15 The Wolves pounces from the opening lines with a flurry of overlapping conversations about Nuon Chea, the 90-year-old right-hand man to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, who was responsible for the Cambodian genocide of over a million people. All while […]
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Wig unboxed
Hedwig and the Angry Inch 8 p.m. Jan. 25-March 2 The Boom! 2218 NW 39th St. theboomokc.com 405-601-7200 $25 Hedwig and the Angry Inch first pinged on Matthew Alvin Brown’s radar when the actor and Fellowship Students frontman was barely breaching his 20s. He had caught a performance in New York City of John Cameron […]
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New Year’s Eve: Semi-charmed 2019
The Drop featuring My So Called Band 9:30 p.m. Monday The Jones Assembly 901 W. Sheridan Ave. thejonesassembly.com 405-212-2378 $35 New Year’s Eve is an important part of our modern mythology as a night when all is possible and a better life is only three … two … one away. It is a night for […]
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Addictive account
Addiction’s cure is not as simple as strength, family or faith. It’s not just moral fiber, intellect or cunning that separates the victims of addiction from the survivors. If the solution was so simple, so easy to prescribe, then our fabulously funded pharmaceutical industry would have already discovered, distilled and dispensed the cure in pill […]
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Food love
Ten years ago, Bob Rogers traversed Oklahoma’s chilly December weather while a freshly prepared and boxed-up holiday meal warmed his backseat. Rogers was on his very first delivery run for Dinner With Love and would soon arrive to the home of a family he’d never met, but he knew they could use a little goodwill. […]
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OKG Shop: Evolving wheels
Steve Schlegel of Schlegel Bicycles found his calling back in 1980 when he was a bruised-up kid pushing his busted BMX bike across northside Oklahoma City. A nearby bike shop named House of Wheels was still under construction, but Schlegel needed to get mobile again as soon as possible. Twelve at the time and an […]
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Dope hope
Jabee Williams started off his day at 6 a.m. with no wallet, no license and no place to sleep that night. Even armed with an Emmy award and a strong fan base, the hip-hop performer struggled to follow the winding path trod by the city’s homeless population every day as they just try to survive […]
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Night notes
Amahl and the Night Visitors 7 p.m. Dec. 14 and 5 p.m. Dec. 15 Sanctuary of First Baptist Church 1201 N. Robinson Ave. paintedskyopera.org $5-$10 On a chilled winter night, Molly Johnson guided travelers toward a barricaded side door of a darkened church in north Oklahoma City. Inside, opera singers oohed, yummed and ha-ha’ed their […]