Filmmaker Mike Walsh latched onto Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” when he was 3 years old. His much older brother would come home stoned and play the 1979 double album on Walsh’s Fisher- Price record player. “It gave me nightmares and, ever since then, I’ve been fascinated with Pink Floyd,” he said. Being about isolation and […]
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Great ‘Wall’
Filmmaker Mike Walsh latched onto Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” when he was 3 years old. His much older brother would come home stoned and play the 1979 double album on Walsh’s Fisher- Price record player. “It gave me nightmares and, ever since then, I’ve been fascinated with Pink Floyd,” he said. Being about isolation and […]
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Blood alcohol
Grabbing a bottle of Vampire Cabernet Sauvignon on the way to a costume party won’t cut it. A little ingenuity goes a long way. Bill Compton wannabes perfecting their vampiric smolder just got a boost from HBO’s marketing department in the form of Tru Blood, the blood substitute on the series “True Blood.” The nonalcoholic […]
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Urban renewal
“As our city grows and expands, people are wanting more public art,” co-owner Amanda Bradway said. “We were walking around downtown one day, thinking about all the different buildings that have been sold, gutted out or demolished. We thought it would be cool to capture this moment in our history by picking photos of buildings […]
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Tower of cower
Crowds swelled at the OKC Farmers Public Market, waiting to enter the 2010 Carnality Ball when a handful of Bible-thumping protesters with bullhorns set up shop across the street. Hellfire-and-brimstone Scripture was volleyed at scantily clad women and drag queens, but members of the avant-garde band Of the Tower stormed out in costume, banging drums […]
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Shimmy show
When Soraya Al Musri turned her back on the Royal Ballet School in London to begin a family in America, she knew she wouldn’t be able to return. “I knew I wanted to dance still, since I’d always danced, but you can’t go to a ballet company at 30 years old. It just doesn’t happen,” […]
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Phil in
John-Paul Philippé (pictured) departed Henryetta decades ago for the art hubs of New York, London and Japan, but Eastern Oklahoma’s hilly landscapes left an enduring impression that has re-emerged in an exhibition opening Friday at [Artspace] at Untitled, with a 1 p.m. Saturday artist talk and walk-through. “Being back here brings up all these associations […]
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To scale
Size matters. For artists participating in the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s annual “12×12” fundraiser, the challenge is to make a grand statement confined to the small space of the show’s title. “The scale is nice, because it allows you to experiment with different ways of presenting your work,” said Norman’s Grace Grothaus. “You have to […]
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Fighting words
Elaborate belts, ridiculous costumes, fabricated rivalries, convoluted story lines. They’re all part of Rob Sturma’s vision for Extreme Championship Poetry, staged the fourth Friday of each month at the IAO Gallery. Tired of stale readings rife with petty politics, he created ECP as a way to present the earnest soul of slam poetry through the […]
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On the Fringe
Because there is strength in numbers, the group Fringe has formed to give professional female artists a way to network, brainstorm, boost visibility and provide peer support. “Fringe is important because feminine art in Oklahoma City is vastly overlooked,” said Amanda Bradway. “Also, community is important, so getting a bunch of people together, whether male […]