Hey, hey. My, my. Of all the concerts Brian Beuchaw has attended in his decades as a music fan in Oklahoma City, one memory in particular stands out. “I got to see Johnny Rotten’s asshole,” Beuchaw said, recalling the time the former Sex Pistol’s band Public Image Ltd played the State Fairgrounds in 1992 on […]
George Lang
Posted inMusic
Flipped out
Tyson Meade 8 p.m. Aug. 2 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $10-$25 When former teenagers who used to bravely traverse the local mosh pits in the early 1990s start boring their children with stories about bands with names like Radial Spangle and Coma Club, eventually they tell the tale of Tyson Meade. […]
Posted inNews
Commentary: Ogle, lost
On July 16, as a nation processed what it meant to have a president who explicitly engaged in what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission calls “potentially unlawful conduct including insults, taunting, or ethnic epithets, such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ whether made […]
Posted inNews
Commentary: History repeating
For my July 13 edition of Spy 101, the music history “class” I host on The Spy FM/KOSU, I told the story of Disco Demolition Night, a July 12, 1979 event staged by the Chicago White Sox during a twi-night double-header against the Detroit Tigers at Comiskey Park. Organized and promoted by DJ Steve Dahl, […]
Posted inNews
Commentary: Mechanical bull
Caleb, Jared and Nathan Followill spent their youth and young manhood shuttling between Oklahoma and Tennessee while their father spread the word of God on the itinerant preaching circuit. The brothers and their cousin Matthew Followill started with a foundation in country music and religion, but when they redefined themselves for the global stage, they […]
Posted inNews
Cover: Paper cuts
The sound of folded copies of The Oklahoman slapping concrete in the pre-dawn hours was once familiar, but repeated cuts to the size, coverage, advertising and distribution have left many wondering not only if they will receive their newspaper that day but whether there soon will no longer be a daily newspaper at all. Mary […]
Posted inArts & Culture
PRIDE Abundant Pride
Oklahoma City Pride Friday-Sunday 39th St. District NW 39th Street between Classen and Youngs boulevards oklahomacitypride.org Free Block Party 5:30 p.m. 39th St. District 2100 NW 39th St. oklahomacitypride.org Free Summer Solstice Block Party Friday-Sunday Factory Obscura 25 NW Ninth St. factoryobscura.com Free OKC Pride Parade noon-2 p.m. Saturday 39th Street from Classen Boulevard to […]
Posted inMusic
PRIDE Pop law
When they are going to work, lobbying on behalf of Oklahoma Education Association (OEA), Jacob Abello Tharp wears a wool suit like so many of the lawmakers they talk to every day. It is an incongruous look for the singer and prospective attorney, who became known to local music fans for their audaciously crafted glam-pop […]
Posted inNews
Commentary: Opioid rejection
At age 19, I was just one year into my military service when I was tasked, along with about a dozen guys my age, with pulling all of the food supplies off the USS Midway (CV-41) and restocking them onboard the ancient troop carrier from the 1930s that we would live on while the Midway […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Cover: Tech boom
For its 19th annual celebration of local, regional, national and world film June 6-9 in downtown Oklahoma City, deadCenter Film Festival selected 140 features and short films. Among the final films announced for this year’s event include director Danny Boyle’s musical fantasy Yesterday, about a world in which the Beatles never existed, and Growing Up […]