One of the good things about social distancing and being quarantined is it gives us time to read. As an avid reader myself, I’ve found it heartwarming to see the ways everyone is trying to get readers the books they need while in seclusion. Bookstores are doing more mail and curbside service and book lovers […]
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art goes virtual
Since we can’t go to Oklahoma City Museum of Art for the foreseeable future, OKCMOA is bringing the museum to our computers. “There is no replacement for standing in front of a great work of art, spending time in its presence, seeing what the artist saw. Unfortunately, it is an experience that has been put […]
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Moving forward
Momentum 7-10 p.m. March 20-21 and 2-7 p.m. March 22 Dead People’s Stuff 1900 Linwood Blvd. ovac-ok.org 405-879-2400 Free-$15 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s annual exhibition Momentum “focuses on everything emerging and first,” said executive director Krystle Brewer. “We have the emerging artists who participate,” Brewer said. “We have the emerging curator that’s learning how to […]
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Empathetic edge
Margaret Cho 7:30 and 10: 30 p.m. March 13-14 Bricktown Comedy Club 409 E. California Ave. bricktowncomedy.com 405-594-0505 $30-$40 You don’t have to agree with Margaret Cho to laugh at her. “I hope that I can be contrary and also bring up another way of thinking about something — or even be cruel or be […]
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Politically direct
Hari Kondabolu 8 p.m. March 12 The Paramount Room 701 W. Sheridan Ave. facebook.com/theparamountroom 405-532-6376 $20-$25 In a 2017 interview with Antigravity magazine, stand-up comic Hari Kondabolu said he wanted to get more personal with his material. In a 2020 interview with Oklahoma Gazette, Kondabolu said incorporating more jokes about his own life has helped […]
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Jazz messengers
Kamasi Washington/Jeremy Thomas Quartet 8 p.m. March 7 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $30-$45 On the short car ride home from his brother’s choir concert, Jeremy Thomas, 13 at the time, heard something that changed his life. “My dad turned on the radio, and he stopped at the jazz station,” Thomas said. […]
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Seldom herd
Home on the Range Sunday – June 30 Exhibit C Native Gallery & Gifts 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Suite 100 exhibitcgallery.com 405-767-8900 Free Home on the Range offers 20 different ways of looking at a buffalo. Exhibit C manager Tom Farris said the exhibition — on display Sunday-June 30 at Exhibit C Native Gallery & […]
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Survivors’ guilt
The Library Friday-March 14 Carpenter Square Theatre 800 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $5-$25 The Library opens with a 16-year-old high school student being rolled into an emergency room. “Riddled with fragments,” says the nurse. “Multiples shotgun blasts to chest and abdomen,” the surgeon replies. The play, which runs Friday-March 14 at Carpenter Square Theatre, […]
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Home cooking
Having Our Say Feb. 19-March 8 Lyric Theatre 1727 NW 16th St lyrictheatreokc.com 405-524-9312 $25-$64 Monique Midgette remembers her grandmother’s house — the sights, the sounds and the smells. “The house always smelled like food,” Midgette said. “Something was always cooking. You could always find some good food at my grandmother’s house, and there was […]
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Golden thread
Tiny Little Fables: The Enchanted Feb. 7-May 18 The Art Hall 519 NW 23rd St. arthallokc.com Free Helen Opper hadn’t seen anything like Nonney Oddlokken’s artwork. “I saw it very up close, in person in a gallery environment,” said Opper, curator of The Art Hall. “I was able to get so close to it. Its […]