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 […]
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Music, man
Woodstock 50th Anniversary Celebration Aug. 15-17 Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W. Reno Ave. myriadgardens.org 405-445-7080 Free-$5 In August 1969, New York hosted an event called Woodstock, promising three days of peace and love; Oklahoma City, meanwhile, did not. Fifty years later, the opposite might be true. While Woodstock 50 — which boasted a lineup featuring […]
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Nerd alert
Brian Posehn 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday The Paramount Room 701 W. Sheridan Ave. facebook.com/theparamountroom $25-$30 When comic, actor and sometimes heavy metal vocalist Brian Posehn describes himself, one word comes up frequently. His 2006 debut album is titled Live in: Nerd Rage; his 2018 memoir is titled Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and […]
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Unbearably Buff
Audio Book Club and Special Thumbs 9 p.m. Aug. 9 51st Street Speakeasy 1113 NW 51st St. facebook.com/audiobookclubokc 405-463-0470 $5 Audio Book Club’s debut EP, What If We Got Buff?, is meant to make you laugh. “One day, I was talking with my wife, and it just turned into a conversation about what if, after […]
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Greased lightning
Oklahoma Victory Dolls Roller Derby 5 p.m. Sunday Star Skate 2020 W. Lindsey St., Norman oklahomavictorydolls.com $10-$15 Almost as soon as she started practicing, Cheyenne Riggs wanted to quit roller derby. “After, like, day two, I was like, ‘Fuck this shit,’” said Riggs, head of the public relations committee for Oklahoma Victory Dolls Roller Derby. […]
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Lion, tamer
Occasionally, the stuff people shout at the stage is more useful than “Free Bird.” “I get helpful hints and advice through interactions at shows sometimes,” said Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan. “In San Francisco a year or two ago, maybe more now, I guess … I was sort of shrinking from my role as, you […]
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Sugar kisses
Ester Drang 8 p.m. Aug. 2 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. facebook.com/esterdrangmusic 405-463-0470 $3 The Boston Globe warned that the HBO documentary Heroin: Cape Cod, USA “will break your heart,” but Echo & The Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch must have liked the soundtrack. Hearing “The Greatest Thing” by Tulsa’s Ester Drang in the […]
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Cover: His shot
As part of the cast of a different Broadway musical opening the same year, Marcus Choi got a good idea of how popular Hamilton: An American Musical is. “No other show mattered,” said Choi, who played Johnny Goto in Allegiance, a musical about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, which closed in 2016 […]
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Tackling subjects
Fathers of Football 18 p.m. Friday Rodeo Cinema 2221 Exchange Ave. rodeocinema.org 405-235-3456 $10 He lives in Austin now, but filmmaker Bradley Beesley has spent much of his life thinking about Oklahoma. His documentaries about barehanded fishing (Okie Noodling), the Oklahoma State Penitentiary rodeo (Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo) and The Flaming Lips (The Fearless […]
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Kabuki rodeo
Cowboy Swordfight! Sunday-Monday Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 Free-$10 Inspiration for Jack Fowler’s latest art exhibition came from concerns that he might be hanging meaningless garbage in his house. “I’ve got stuff on my walls from my travels that probably don’t mean anything to the people that are from those countries,” Fowler […]