Jason Eady 8 p.m. Saturday The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave. bluedoorokc.com 405-524-0738 $25-$30 Learning Arabic as an Air Force translator helped Jason Eady write better country songs. “It definitely made me realize that everybody is the same,” said Eady, who’s scheduled to play with his band Saturday at The Blue Door. “Everybody has […]
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Rewind revival
VHS and Chill: Birdemic: Shock and Terror 8:30 p.m. Thursday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. vhsandchill.net 405-463-0470 Free In the beginning, there was RoboCop, a VHS copy in a cardboard box full of old movies and episodes of Star Trek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer taped from television. For “like […]
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Deadline OKC
Last year, Oklahoma City’s 48 Hour Film Project resulted in a 911 call. “I am looking at the dumpster, and there’s something very disturbing,” said the caller. “I’m not sure if I’m looking at it right. … I hope I’m looking at it wrong, but I don’t wanna touch. It’s in a plastic bag, and […]
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Loud house
When Trinity Slough and Nicolaus Vannostran, aka Mom and Dad, had friends over to their Norman house to watch Limp Wizurdz play last summer, they didn’t know what it would lead to. “It went pretty good,” Vannostran said. “I mean, the turnout wasn’t fantastic, but it was fun. … We didn’t realize it was going […]
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‘Doin’ fine’
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!: The Birth of Modern Musical Theatre and a New Image for the State 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays Oklahoma History Center 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive okhistory.org 405-521-2491 Free-$7 For John Steinbeck’s Joads, Oklahoma was a Dust Bowl nightmare they’d give up almost everything to escape. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, on the other hand, […]
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Ideal music
Woody Guthrie Folk Festival July 11-15 Okemah woodyfest.com $30-$100 Woody Guthrie said he always heard the best jokes, stories and songs from the people who society shuns. “You can learn a lot by talking to a shine boy,” Guthrie told folk historian Alan Lomax in an interview included with the singer’s Library of Congress recordings […]
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Call on Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! Tuesday-July 15 Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. lyrictheatreokc.com $47-$93 Carol Channing and Dolly Levi made each other famous. Channing won a Tony for playing the original version of Levi, the titular vivacious widow in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway in 1964. Then for the next 30 years, according to Playbill, Channing […]
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Independent celebrations
Last week, the US withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council while images of refugee children locked in cages were virtually inescapable on every media platform. So packing a picnic and passing out sparklers to commemorate living in the “land of the free” might feel funny this Fourth of July. But there is this. […]
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Strong spines
Maybe you can’t get everything from Amazon — like connections and understanding. “Most bookstores — cool bookstores at least — are much more than just a place to go and buy a book,” said Camille Landry, who recently re-opened Nappy Roots Books with her husband, Banbose Shango. “It’s a place to hang out. It’s a […]
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Undead reborn
Oklahoma’s Original Goth Prom 8 p.m.-2 p.m. Saturday The Ruins Live 12101 Interstate 35 Service Road thesanctuaryokc.com $5-$7 Unlike Bela Lugosi, Oklahoma’s Original Goth Prom is back from the dead. Started in the early 2000s (its creators have long since forgotten its birthday) Goth Prom returns to Oklahoma City Saturday after a multiyear absence. Goth […]