Deathtrap
Here, Caine stars as Sidney Bruhl, a playwright who has just suffered his fourth straight Broadway flop. Much to the dismay of his wife, Myra (Dyan Cannon, who appeared in an equally keep-’em-guessing film in 1973’s The Last of Sheila), his solution is to kill Clifford Anderson (Christopher Reeve), the former seminar student who has…
Rejuvenating the strip
A snapshot of the area shows a somewhat rundown collection of buildings with lively nightlife on weekends but little activity during the day. To thrive, the neighborhood needs public and private investment. “A mixture of businesses that bring daytime and nighttime business to this area is going to be key,” Crites said. “If you look…
Citizen wane
Those two findings were part of the 2012 Oklahoma Civic Health Index, which was developed by a team of faculty and student researchers at the University of Central Oklahoma in partnership with the National Conference on Citizenship. The research team presented its report Dec. 4 to Oklahoma Secretary of State Glenn Coffee. According to the…
If I were Santa ….
The biggest plus, of course, is the unbridled joy you’d be able to spread with a special sack of presents. In that giving spirit of Christmas, we asked a host of notable Oklahomans, from elected leaders to burlesque performers, sports superstars to drag queens, what they would do if they were Santa. Responses ranged from…
Medi-can’t
However, with Gov. Mary Fallin’s announcement last month that the state would not expand Medicaid, George will have to stick with her current plan for a while longer. That plan: Don’t get sick. “I tried with DHS (Oklahoma Department of Human Services) to get some kind of medical (insurance), but they turned me down because…
OKG7 fresh places to feast
Tropical Smoothie Cafe3131 W. Memorial tropicalsmoothie.com 753-5454 “Smoothie” might be in the name, but it also serves wraps, sandwiches, flatbreads and salads. As far as smoothies, it’s got low-fat, supercharged, indulgent and supplement-rich options. Choose from energizers, protein supplements and “stress defense” add-ins. Flavors include Blimey Limey, Rockin’ Raspberry and Chocolate Chiller. Saturn Grill1012 N.…
LETTERS
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LETTERS
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to pbacharach@okgazette. com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact…
Still swinging, swinging
Tyson Ritter Ten years ago, The All-American Rejects were wide-eyed kids fresh out of Stillwater, just inking a deal to rerelease their self-titled debut album with DreamWorks Records after a limited release through an indie label. The humble pop-rock act had a standout single in “Swing, Swing” on its hands, and the rest is history.…
Pho fever
The spacious dining room has vaguely Asian decor. Paper lanterns hang over each table and there’s a big bamboo plant in a vase on the front counter. Modern adult rock was playing on the sound system, and a smoothie machine buzzed periodically. Bottles of hoisin, the ubiquitous Sriracha, hot chili, soy sauce and vinegar stand…
What would J.C. do?
Credit: Brad Gregg It might make sense for Republicans to be pondering a change in light of the party’s unpopularity among African- Americans and Hispanics. In the Nov. 6 election, President Barack Obama won 93 percent of the African-American vote and more than 70 percent of the Hispanic vote. Watts, who is African-American and long…
Boss broths
Bone-chillingly cold. White-walker-from-beyond-the-Wall cold, to put it in a Game of Thrones perspective. If your hands are shaking and you can see your breath, how about some soup? That’s right: soup. Poor, oft-maligned soup. Relegated to the margins as “food for when you’re sick” or “what churches serve to the homeless,” soup is actually magical.…
A novel idea
There’s no better way to kick off winter shopping and celebrate the dip in temps than with a holiday party. Am I right? From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Northpark Mall, 12100 N. May, Holiday Girls’ Night Out: Books & Boutiques gives you the perfect excuse for an evening of progressive shopping and fun…
Hey, Legislature, nothing’s happening here!
In 1971, the Legislature enacted laws authorizing public school district employees to collectively bargain. The power of employee unions in the district has grown incrementally ever since, including a teachers’ strike that shut down the district in 1979. Although the American Federation of Teachers recently has acknowledged the need for more teacher training and accountability,…
Don’t drop the communion wafer
Credit: Brad Gregg We’d say that depends on the church. If it’s, say, Westboro Baptist, please direct us to the nearest detention facility. Muskogee County District Judge Mike Norman did not sentence 17-yearold Tyler Alred to attend a specific church. Alred is free to choose whichever place of worship he’d like, so long as he…
Oklahoma to corporations: We love you!
Credit: Brad Gregg And as failed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney taught us, “Corporations are people, my friend.” According to The New York Times, the Sooner State spends around $2.19 billion annually on corporate incentive programs. That translates to $584 for every Oklahoman going toward paying for business incentives — or 37 cents for every…
Cryptozoology
Credit: Brad Gregg But there was howling of a different nature Nov. 25, when Animal Planet unveiled an episode of Finding Bigfoot in which the crew goes in search of the mythical beast within OKC city limits. For you highfalutin types who limit your TV to Mad Men and Frontline, Finding Bigfoot is a weekly…
Mouthing off
Photo: Michael Raiden Wiley Merrell is a man of many names. The Moore rapper is billed as Wildcat, but he used another as the title to his solo debut, MTLMTH. “MTLMTH is one of my many nicknames. I used to have braces. Like, it looked crazy,” Merrell said, laughing. “When I got them off, we…
Hitchcock
Hitchcock, which opens Friday, isn’t a bad movie; it’s just a baffling one. Purportedly about the making of 1960’s Psycho, it winds up a hodgepodge of old-fashioned biopic, bogus psychological thriller and simplistic domestic melodrama. The film, however, is hardly the work of incompetents. Director Sacha Gervasi has an absorbing rockumentary (Anvil: The Story of…
Frosting the snowman
Cookies and milk are old hat. Cupcakes and crafts are what’s in! If the kids are begging for a glimpse of Saint Nick, consider this alternative to the quick photo op at the mall. Get creative with “Cupcakes with Santa” at the Oklahoma City Zoo. “We have everything pre-baked. The kids get to create their…
A Destructive Manner
Last seen this summer in the romantic comedy Mickey and Me, local filmmaker Mickey Reece and his Fall Films repertory company return with a dramatic thriller in A Destructive Manner. This time, however, directorial duties have ceded to the hands of two of his players, James Paulsgrove and Dallos Paz, and Reece takes center stage…
Blues brothers
One would think that Eric McDaniel, leader of Dirty Red & the Soulshakers, would be content with promoting the local blues band’s debut album around town. Instead, he’s also put together a supergroup of fellow Okie blues talents — including members of Miss Blues and Watermelon Slim & the Workers — to back blues progeny…
Okc to millennials: We love you!
Oklahoma City is no longer known merely as the capital of that state north of Texas. Between the skyrocketing success of the Thunder and periodic national attention paid to Mayor Mick Cornett, OKC is garnering the right kind of publicity. Just last week, the city commandeered the front page of USA Today, earning praise for…
Various artists — A Blackwatch Christmas Vol. II
A Blackwatch Christmas Vol. II sports some of the biggest local artists yet, with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Graham Colton and more onboard. The former’s “Santa’s Magic Beard” is gentler than you might expect; well-crafted and tightly arranged, it has all the makings of a holiday classic. Colton’s “Holiday Season” is also a bit of…
’Shroom zoom
The Edmond-based company bought the equipment this past spring from OM Mushrooms of Norman, which was going out of business. Heather Popowsky, owner of Oklahoma Mushrooms, launched the business in October with the “very aggressive-growing” oyster mushrooms blooming on her land in southeast Edmond. A newly hired, full-time manager will help Popowsky grow Lion’s Mane,…
‘Marley’ and me
Unable to resist the temptation to do something Yuletide-related, Oklahoma City Theatre Company has revived Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. In it, playwright Tom Mula has adapted Charles Dickens’ tale from the perspective of Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner, Jacob Marley. Already dead when A Christmas Carol begins, Marley finds himself in a kind of purgatory. Much…
Exploring ‘The Unexplored’
Amy Coldren’s Inkblot 1-a For Vincent van Gogh to receive any adulation for his now-classic works of art, it took death. Luckily, these days our culture does a much better job giving accolades to artists while they’re still alive. Still, it’s our job to seek them out and discover them. Mainsite Contemporary Art’s latest exhibit,…
The Ice House
The corpse is located in the titular locale on the grounds of an opulent estate occupied by three women whom the townspeople refer to as “the butch beauties of Streech Grange.” The home is owned by Phoebe Maybury (Penny Downie, Invictus), whose husband disappeared a decade earlier — a case that remains unsolved. She lives…
Osombie
So there’s that. Utah doubles for Afghanistan as the flick follows an American Special Forces unit picking off “Class D hostiles” — that’s code for undead Middle Easterns — as it searches for the enemy camp. They pick up a extra help when they run across a Colorado woman (Eva Mauro, Miss March) searching for…
Doomsday Book
Doomsday begins with the most fun of the bunch, “A Brave New World,” in which a nerdy, horny young man is upset that his family embarks on a fabulous getaway vacation without him, leaving a long list of chores. Many of them deal, unsettling enough, with food waste. He gets ill, and I’ll leave the…
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Mega Movie Marathon
Spanning nearly three decades of release, the movies included are Night of the Living Dead, I Eat Your Skin, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Werewolf of Washington, The Terror, Eegah!, Scared to Death, Tormented, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The Manster, Lady Frankenstein and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter. All reside in the public…
V/H/S
The wraparound story gives this indie effort a loose framework to let multiple directors in on the fun: Camcorder-toting youths up to no damn good break into a house in order to steal some mysterious VHS tape for blackmail. In the place, they find a dead man lounging in front of a bank of TV…
No more Coffee
Coffee, who has served in the position since January 2011, is the former president pro tempore of the state Senate, and will step down no later than Jan. 31, 2013. His plans for the future were not immediately made clear in the announcement by Fallin’s office, other than that Coffee is leaving “to pursue opportunities…
Silent Night / Silent Night, Deadly Night / Silent Night, Deadly Night Part II
In her third horror remake within as many years, Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine 3D, Mother’s Day) stars as Aubrey Bradimore, a crossword-loving sheriff’s deputy forced to work on Christmas Eve — in particular, the annual Santa parade. She lives in a dreary small town where nothing really happens, but she’s in luck: There’s a…
Perry Mason Mysteries: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection
But curiosity is curiosity, and interest is interest, so when Warner Archive issued an MOD DVD set of them in Perry Mason Mysteries: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection, I just had to check it out, your honor. Warren William (who also played another famous detective, Philo Vance, for the big screen) stars as the…
