If Steven Adams can be neatly distilled into just five seconds, then it would absolutely start at the 5:47 mark in the fourth quarter of an Oklahoma City Thunder home game against the Toronto Raptors on December 27, 2017. Coming off a pick and roll, Russell Westbrook passed to the hard-charging, seven-foot Kiwi wrecking machine […]
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Couple goals
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman adore each other. They’re two comedy titans locked in an enduring love of social media legend. Like Barack and Michelle Obama, they serve as both couple goal material and paternal figures engrained in the modern American moment. Mullally and Offerman’s new book, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, is a […]
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Lethal beauty
Unknown Origins 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays through Feb. 9 Oklahoma Hall of Fame Gaylord Pickens Museum 1400 Classen Drive 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Suite 100 oklahomahof.com 405-235-4458 Free-$7 When one person has cancer, everyone has cancer. Gayle L. Curry has been battling cancer with her family for a decade since […]
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OKG Shop: Unique jewel
Not too long ago, Oklahoma City jewelry buyers were relegated to either BC Clark Jewelers, chain mall stores or gaudy costume jewelry that instantly turned the wearer’s skin an unsettling shade of green. The emerging artisan jewelers would have to haul foldable card tables to dusty craft fairs stuffed into churches or swap meets set […]
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The doors
Artist statements can be a tricky business, especially when the creators aren’t trying to portray a story or a message, but to capture a specific feeling, an abstraction. The work is created entirely through intuition; as Michelangelo famously said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the […]
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Musical compassion
DogfightFriday-Nov. 11 A. Weitzenhoffer Theatre University of Oklahoma 563 Elm Ave., Norman ou.edu/finearts 405-325-4101 $10-$30 Dogfight might be one the most interesting choices one could make for a University of Oklahoma stage production in 2018 — the year of #MeToo, Christine Blasey Ford versus Brett Kavanaugh, the year the term “toxic masculinity” went mainstream. University […]
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Original print
Did you know that an Okie from Muskogee currently reigns as America’s premiere sly and comedic history writer? Or that a seminal novelist in neo-crime noir was born and bred in Anadarko up until his father fled his post as sheriff amid embezzlement charges? Such is the far-flung and colorful nature of an array of […]
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Hunting eggs
The Blind Rooms 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday The Lightwell Gallery OU School of Visual Arts 520 Parrington Oval, Norman ou.edu/finearts 405-325-2691 Free A cluster of 10 black, cushioned headphones hung at one end of the The Lightwell Gallery underneath a looming, multi-story abstract tapestry. On the other end of the gallery, a squat, top-hatted creature […]
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OKC rearview
Mick Cornett beams amiability. In press conferences, in official city functions or while puttering around The Paseo Arts District, he projects likability. Within the bubble of Oklahoma City, many from both sides of the political divide viewed his ascension from mayor to governor as guaranteed, even destined. Cornett’s new book, The Next American City: The […]
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Funny books
Jerry Bennett’s boisterous and bellowing laugh is a whale song within the region’s comic book community, guiding fans through perilous mobs of cosplayers and pop culture completionists packed into sprawling convention spaces. Armed with a print wall of whimsical, referential mashups from movies, comics and cartoons as well as a silver, bushy beard of local […]