Dec 17-23, 2014

Dec 17-23, 2014 / Vol. 36 / No. 50

In Your Eye Studio celebrates glass artist, acrylic painters

Paseo Arts District’s In Your Eye Studio & Gallery hosts Celebrations, works by glass artist Nicki Albright and acrylic painters Sue Hale, Dana Powell and Mary Howard, noon-5 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. “We’re equal-opportunity artists,” Hale, a founding member of the gallery, said about the exhibit’s theme. “[The holiday season] is a great time…

Travis Linville is modest, modern Oklahoma folk icon

The scope of Oklahoma folk looks drastically different now than it did even five years ago, a veritable oil boom compared to the slow trickle that had preceded in the years — even decades — prior. Artists like John Fullbright and Parker Millsap are hogging the Americana spotlight on a national scope, nabbing Grammy nods…

Clifton Adcock, staff reporter with Oklahoma Watch, and Sean Wallace, executive director of Oklahoma Corrections Professionals, discuss the overcrowding of the state’s prison system and early release programs designed to relieve some of that pressure.

Clifton Adcock, staff reporter with Oklahoma Watch, and Sean Wallace, executive director of Oklahoma Corrections Professionals, discuss the overcrowding of the state’s prison system and early release programs designed to relieve some of that pressure.

Creating safer bike, pedestrian crossings a top priority

Many of Oklahoma City’s urban neighborhoods have stepped up their efforts in recent years when it comes to biking and pedestrian infrastructure. However, moving from one community to the next by bike or foot remains challenging, especially when having to cross Classen Boulevard. “How do we start rethinking Classen?” said Jon Dodson, who lives near…

Metro Briefs: Capitol Hill in search of new mascot

Capitol Hill High School is in search of a new mascot. The Oklahoma City School Board voted 8-0 to dismiss the Redskins mascot after hearing from several students and community members who said the name was offensive to Native Americans. Board chair Lynne Hardin said she was among many who grew up in OKC without…

Red Dirt Rangers plays annual kids holiday show Sunday

That red on Santa’s suit is going to be a little bit darker this year as local Americana legends the Red Dirt Rangers drop by the Blue Door once again with their annual kid’s Christmas concert, a venerable Oklahoma City holiday musical tradition that has been going on so long even the band has lost…

Eastern antidote to Western animation at museum of art

Moviegoers raised on the shrillness of American cartoons might not know what to think at first about the comparative calm of Japan’s Studio Ghibli. It was founded in the mid-1980s by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and its anime offerings are a blissful antidote to the mania of Westernized family flicks. That contrast is particularly…

Tilt to spill over into party mode near you

Politics isn’t of the highest concern for Tilts. The St. Louis-bred rock-in-all-caps band is mindful of those things offstage and passionate about them off-record, sure, but on the stage and on the record, it’s pure party ragers out of Van Halen’s book of dedicated, devious debauchery. But like so many before them, Tilts became embroiled…


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