National Karate and Tae Kwon Do in Oklahoma City is celebrating its strong showing in this year’s nationals, which hosted more than a thousand martial arts competitors. The school came home with 13 medals and three national champions, including David Steece. Steece started at National Karate when he was 6. Medals are just a small […]
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CD Warehouse has eye on the future with digital music kiosk
Management with Oklahoma City-headquartered CD Warehouse, which sells music to a worldwide market with more than 150 franchise stores, is hoping a new digital music kiosk will keep their brick-and-mortar record stores relevant in this digital age by giving customers access to a massive music database. The kiosk is getting a trial run at the […]
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Metro area is full of sites for Halloween fright
Fall is the season of ghoulies and ghosties, and if the deluge of fright films and plastic Halloween lawn decorations isn’t enough, Oklahoma City has plenty of places to get your shriek on. Frontier City’s House of Screams11501 Northeast Expressway478-2414 Halloween’s most extensive celebration in the metro is at Frontier City’s annual Fright Fest, including […]
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The Brunettes use tour as a mission: Find Wayne Coyne
Hailing from New Zealand, The Brunettes are a duo led by Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield, neither of whom are tinny, disposable pop-rockers or shoe-gazing intellectuals. Their music is upbeat, but it is also complex, with swelling instrumentation and harmonies as thickly layered as Texas’ The Polyphonic Spree. They also could be smirking at their […]
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Bethany martial arts academy boasts two world jujitsu champs
On Aug. 28, two Oklahomans fought for a piece of history in Brazilian jujitsu’s biggest tournament, the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship in Long Beach, Calif. Rafael Lovato Jr. was trying to become only the second non-Brazilian in history to win a championship as a black belt. He wasn’t alone, either: His training partner, Norman’s Justin Rader, […]
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Blonde Redhead brings dream pop to Bricktown
New York City’s indie-rock breakthrough Blonde Redhead is among the current bands poised to make a leap into the mainstream, and its tour will stop off Thursday at the Bricktown Ballroom. The band has built up 14 years’ worth of underground credibility, budding as discordant art-rock revivalists, but with its latest album, “23,” its members […]
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Cardio tennis marries sport with fitness
Cardio tennis takes place on a tennis court, but a racket is involved only half of the time. The Greens Country Club, 13100 Green Valley Drive, recently introduced the class, which focuses more on footwork drills, medicine balls and stamina-boosting routines, rather than just smashing little yellow tennis balls over the net. “We get a […]
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Book Beat celebrates first decade with concert
Book Beat & Co. was born out of the back of a thrift shop where Shilo Brown, then a 20-year-old book lover, started his shop with $500 and a few hundred books and CDs. A decade and three moves later, Brown still is stocking his shelves, just with more space and loyal clientele. He’ll be […]
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Lisa Curl gives up job to commit to music full-time
Lisa Curl and the Triplets soon will be stepping out of the familiar and into the more uncertain world of regional gigs, label hunting and broken tour vans, in the hopes of making a break and moving to the next level. She quit her day job and the band will record one last demo Thursday […]
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New Route 66 landmark combines cutting-edge design with soda
Landmarks must be unmistakable, and with a 66-foot, lighted, steel soda bottle out front, the new Pops gas station/restaurant is a can’t-miss addition to Route 66. Located in Arcadia, just six miles east of Edmond at 660 W. Highway 66, Pops is a streamlined building possessing a Sixties “Jetsons” sensibility, simultaneously futuristic and retro. Pops’ […]