A new public artwork is bringing color to the recently opened Lake Hefner Golf Club clubhouse. Encuentro, a glass installation by artists Malina Cipleu and Ana Maria Nava, was installed Sept. 9 along the stairway leading to Maxwell’s on the Lake, the clubhouse’s second-floor restaurant. The work features layers of concentric glass forms that intersect […]
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Animal Conference 2026: We All Have a Role in Animal Welfare
The fifth Animal Conference will be bookended by two notable speakers, both of whom have dedicated their lives to the protection of animals: biologist Jeff Corwin, whose shows have appeared on Disney, ABC, and Animal Planet, and Dr. Temple Grandin, professor, activist, advisor to the ranching industry, and subject of the eponymous film starring Claire […]
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Tap Takes OKC
The OKC Tap Dance Festival returns Sept. 18-20, bringing more than 150 dancers and nationally recognized tap artists to Oklahoma City for three days of classes, performances and events. Hosted by the Metropolitan School of Dance, the festival includes 42 classes for beginning through advanced dancers at The Douglass at Page Woodson. Featured artists include […]
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RestoreOKC celebrates 10 years with free neighborhood festival Oct. 3
RestoreOKC will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a free neighborhood festival Saturday, Oct. 3, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at its headquarters, 2222 NE 27th St. in northeast Oklahoma City. Called TEN(d), the celebration will feature food, vendors, interactive art and mural projects, a kids zone, farm tours and opportunities to learn more about […]
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90 Years of Zoo Amp
If you haven’t been to the Zoo Amphitheatre in a while, you may not recognize everything.The terraced lawn can now accommodate thousands of additional reserved seats. There are new concessions, paved walkways, improved lighting and climate-controlled restrooms. Backstage, artists now have renovated green rooms, production offices, a new catering kitchen and even a basketball court. […]
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Screen Time
Never Stop Chasing If there’s one thing synonymous with Oklahoma, it’s earth-shattering tornadoes. The extreme phobia for most became a lifelong passion for another man: Reed Timmer. Timmer is a world-renowned storm chaser, a former OU graduate and the primary subject of Director Ken Cole’s pulse-pounding documentary. Cole (also an OU alum) and Timmer are […]
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Spin, Wheel!
Step right up and take a spin of the amazing zoetrope that simulates actual human and animal locomotion. That was a huge deal in 1834 and set pulses racing. Without these novel spinning wheels filled with small sequential images (think galloping horse), our species wouldn’t have invented animation or the movies. Unthinkable. Here we are, […]
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OG Picks – September
Here are our September picks! There’s plenty to choose from.
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Oklahoma Shakespeare brings Julius Caesar outdoors in September
Oklahoma Shakespeare will present William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Sept. 10-27 in an outdoor production at The Shakespeare Gardens in Oklahoma City. Directed and designed by Oklahoma Shakespeare Executive Artistic Director Tyler Woods, the production explores ambition, loyalty and political power as Rome celebrates Caesar’s triumphant return and a group of conspirators wrestles with whether to […]