Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
Boris Rodriguez’s low-key Canadian comedy concerns Lars (Thure Lindhardt, TV’s The Borgias), who moves to a small town to become an art teacher at a tiny, underfunded school. Once was a gifted painter himself, Lars has been stuck in a 10-year creative rut. One of his students is Eddie (Dylan Scott Smith, 2012’s Total Recall),…
Just chill
Air conditioners work overtime just to keep a manageable temperature indoors, so the last thing you want to do is turn on the oven to bake a meal. Yet through the heat, one still has to eat. See what these local chefs cook up during the summer months without turning the kitchen into a sweat…
Ghost writer
A local author will detail mysterious graves, ransacking outlaws and a religious cult in his latest nonfiction work, disclosing the little-known history of two Oklahoma towns. David A. Farris, resident of Oklahoma City, reached back as far as 127 years in the state’s history to write Edmond and Guthrie, a Little Off the Tracks, his…
Fit for a ‘King’
Being skittish about the hot weather, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park has moved indoors for a while with The Life and Death of King John. It’s part of OSP’s “Bare Bard” series, in which plays are staged with minimal sets, costumes and lighting. It gives the company a chance to present lesser-known works, such as…
‘Paper’ chase
You and Me by Marilyn Artus A joint exhibition featuring two dozen pieces of paper-based art soon will begin touring throughout Oklahoma for more than a year. Currently, 24 Works on Paper can be seen at the Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, where an opening reception is scheduled for Friday. IAO and the Oklahoma Visual…
Dazed and consumed
Possibly a tiny, historic downtown area full of shopping and places to eat, plus a 1960s beach-themed party, prizes, sales and an ice cream truck! Enter Downtown Edmond Krazy Daze, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. A cherished annual tradition, the family-friendly event is celebrating its 50th year. Krazy Daze…
Beast master
Max Ogan — or Maximus, as he likes to be called — is surrounded by giant monsters and giant robots in his Plaza District studio, Bomb Shelter, but he’s not running for cover or summoning twin fairies for help. It’s all part of his latest exhibition, Machines vs. Monsters: Final Wars, his tribute to kaiju,…
Crouching pose, Hidden Dragon
Specializing in hot yoga, Hidden Dragon, owned by Vicki Bryant and Desirae Penton, officially opened June 10 in a massive warehouse space at 26 N.E. 10th. “We love what Oklahoma City has become, and we wanted to be a part of that,” said Penton. “Yoga is for everyone. In our studio, I’m going to push…
OKG7 iced coffee and tea stops
Coffee Commission309 S. Bryant, Edmondcoffeecommissionedmond.com285-8566 Try its iced coffee for those hot summer days. In-house, enjoy a Chemex brew, an infusion method similar to drip coffee, or a refreshing iced black tea. Elemental Coffee Roasters815 N. Hudsonelementalcoffeeroasters.com604-9766 Come and study, bask in the delicious and always fresh-roasted aroma permeating the space or simply enjoy an…
Peruse Peru
Sunday marks the official Peruanos en Oklahoma Friendship Day, but you can celebrate a day early at Saturday’s Peruvian Independence Day Festival at the Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads, previously known as Crossroads Mall. The festivities have been organized by Peruanos en Oklahoma (Peruvians in Oklahoma), which has been connecting Oklahomans to local Peruvian culture…
Nash bash
When it comes to the latter, it’s hard not to put the Sooner State in the top spot. Just visit Nashville, Tenn., where our country celebs are royalty. Nashville coined the term “Music City, USA,” but you’ll also find “Nash Vegas” on the T-shirts. No matter what they call it, Oklahoma country music fans will…
PR BS
Credit: Brad Gregg —“Powerocks Portable Power Banks Expand into Canada” —“Bing Crosby Enterprises and HLC Properties, Ltd. Announce New SiriusXM Satellite Radio Series” —“AmeriBid LLC to Conduct Owner Ordered Auction of 260+/- Acres Selling in 16 Tracts” —“Michael Jackson’s Niece Endorses New Agency As A Leader In The Music Industry At Finding Great New Talent”…
All aboard!
BY: Heather Brown Back in the day, Interurban was the popular streetcar people-mover between Oklahoma City and Norman. The system eventually went away as cars and highways took over transportation needs. Norman’s Interurban station survived and was transformed into a restaurant in 1976. Since then, the locally owned and operated eatery has grown to three…
Cheapskate states
Credit: Brad Gregg In a recently released report, data collected from the Council for Community and Economic Research C2ER Cost of Living Index, Oklahoma is the cheapest among these United States. Here in the Sooner State, half a gallon of milk costs approximately $2.33, the average doctor’s office visit totals to about $78.33, and a…
I spy with my little eye …
Credit: Brad Gregg A report by that most trusted of news sources, “elite sugar daddy dating site” SeekingArrangement.com, suggests that a whopping 46.3 percent of Oklahoma City residents spy on their significant other. Nationally, an average 55 percent admit to doing so; topping the list are the suspicious souls of Richmond, Va., at 68.1 percent.…
PR BS
Credit: Brad Gregg —“Powerocks Portable Power Banks Expand into Canada” —“Bing Crosby Enterprises and HLC Properties, Ltd. Announce New SiriusXM Satellite Radio Series” —“AmeriBid LLC to Conduct Owner Ordered Auction of 260+/- Acres Selling in 16 Tracts” —“Michael Jackson’s Niece Endorses New Agency As A Leader In The Music Industry At Finding Great New Talent”…
Meow mixxx
Credit: Brad Gregg According to The Smoking Gun website, 72-year-old neighbor Elmer Morrison repeatedly was threatened by an angry, pocketknife-wielding Brown after he allegedly spilled the beans about Brown’s alleged sexual encounters with her cat. He denies the allegations of letting the cat out of the bag, but that has not dissuaded the furious feline-lover…
Soap and glory
Hope for Soap, a nonprofit based in Oklahoma City, gives Oklahomans the chance to do just that. The organization collects unused soap and other essentials to donate primarily to OKC’s YWCA, a certified shelter and resource center for victims of domestic violence. After giving away hotel soap collected from his frequent travels, Jason Redman, founder…
Of wellness and worship
Ryan Kiesel Ryan Kiesel, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, told the Oklahoma City Council and municipal attorney Kenneth Jordan on July 16 all potential trouble spots in the offer by Putnam City Baptist Church “should be resolved” quickly in order to avoid litigation. “A partnership between the city and a…
The anti-Obama premium
I am no fan of President Obama. There are many reasons to be concerned about his administration: IRS abuse, Obamacare, domestic spying on citizens and so on. However, trying to associate our state’s infrastructure issues — such as our Capitol building or weigh stations — with something Obama would do is ridiculous. This ultimately will…
Culture wars
Sen. Kyle Loveless Credit: Shannon Cornman The money would have sealed the completion of the project, which originated 18 years ago as a concept for advancing Oklahoma’s Native American culture. Having faced numerous hurdles before, museum supporters advised legislative leaders to delay action and focus attention on the tornado victims. Bill Anoatubby, governor of the…
No toke over the line
Gov. Mary Fallin recently signed a new law that makes it illegal for drivers to have even a trace of marijuana in their blood, saliva or urine while in control of a vehicle. Technically, beginning Oct. 1, someone could smoke a joint on Saturday and then get arrested for drunken driving the following Monday morning…
Q-and-A question
The meeting’s format called for residents to write their questions on cards to be turned over to moderator Jimmy Robertson of Jacobs Engineering, the project’s consulting firm. Citizens were not allowed to ask follow-up questions or engage in dialogue with the consultants. In fact, some attendees thought their written questions might have been ignored. In…
TV guider
Bill Trash Dick Pryor, who spent 23 years working with Thrash at OETA, said the executive served as his mentor until the day he died. Pryor described Thrash as a “great director, producer, programmer and station executive. Bill’s contributions to television and public television were huge. He produced many of the great programs that define…
Comic-Coyne
The book, which debuted at last week’s San Diego Comic-Con International and is titled The Sun Is Sick, is a collection of NC-17-worthy illustrations sketched during press interviews over the phone and after music sessions. In an exclusive preview, Paste Magazine described it as “a combination of 2001: A Space Odyssey, old Heavy Metal comics,…
Caviar dreams in Oklahoma
And of course they’ll eat caviar. A lowbrow definition of that would be fish eggs. So what happens when the premier supplier country, Russia, gets a fishing ban slapped on it? According to ABC News, snobby foodsters turn to the Sooner State for the sophisticated fish larva. Brent Gordon, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation supervisor,…
As good as he once was
While “Good Girl” Carrie Underwood wasn’t quite “Blown Away,” coming in at No. 5, with $31 million, it was Toby Keith who outworked and outearned all of his fellow boot-stompers, raking in a cool $65 million – definitely enough to keep him “Chill-axin’” and out of the “Trailerhood.” No doubt the songwriter’s 18 excruciatingly loud…
Speedy delivery
Sometimes lyrics are so good, they read like poetry. That’s certainly the case with Massachusetts alt-rock act Speedy Ortiz, although it comes with a simple explanation. When lyricist and front woman Sadie Dupuis isn’t onstage, she can be found studying or in class at Amherst College, where she is finishing her master’s degree in poetry.…
Western Residents — Sunlit Nights
Western Residents are an anomaly in that their first release, the earnestly delivered and judiciously crafted Sunlit Nights, sounds like the musical equivalent of a tattered wool blazer. They wear it well. The Oklahoma City outfit has existed in some form or fashion for more than a decade, undergoing a bevy of name changes and…
Kidnapped!
On a steamy Saturday night, July 22, 1933, two married couples played bridge in the screened-in sunroom of a mansion near downtown. It was after 11:30 p.m., the game starting to wind down, when two armed men — one toting a submachine gun — burst in through the unlatched screen door. One of the women…
Hello, Darling
Playing music isn’t always the most glamorous existence, as the members of Dallas rock outfit Somebody’s Darling would attest … but that’s a price all five are more than willing to pay. “We’ll do and sacrifice anything to be a part of this band,” lead vocalist Amber Farris said. “We laugh at ourselves, because we…
Huff stuff
New Fumes isn’t technically a local act. However, one gets the feeling this is its home away from home, as the Dallas-based experimental brainchild of Daniel Huffman returns to Opolis this Friday. “I’ve lived all over the metroplex,” Huffman said. “Now I feel like half the time I live in Oklahoma City.”It started in the…
Reunited
Oklahoma City musical duo Adam and Kizzie Ledbetter’s story is like something out of a romance. Classmates at Classen School of Advanced Studies, they went their separate ways after graduation, until 2011, when fate drew them back together. “We were both going through some pretty heavy transitions in life, going through our depressions, so when…
Welcome to the Punch
James McAvoy (Trance) is all frowns and glares as Max Lewinsky (kin to Monica?), a cop still pining three years later for the One Who Got Away — not a girl, but a criminal. Fleeing from the scene of a big score on motorcycle, robber Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong, Zero Dark Thirty) managed to miss…
Gotta have friends
After her teenaged daughter suffered a car crash and traumatic brain injury, Cathe Fox saw how isolated life in a wheelchair was for the girl. As a result, Fox found other mothers of disabled young adults, and together they started gathering for craft projects, games and conversation. The group soon outgrew the First Baptist Church…
Back to class
In less than five minutes on May 20, that world was turned upside down when a tornado demolished her school as well as neighboring Plaza Towers Elementary. Between the two schools, Singleton and some 80 teachers lost most of the classroom supplies they had bought, made or borrowed during their careers. Such items either were…
Mystery train
“We’re herding a lot of cats, but I think we’re making progress,” said Wichita City Councilman Pete Meitzner. His comments follow a letter signed in early May by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer and Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Sly James in support of a plan to extend the passenger rail line…
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Nothing more than a collection of roughly two dozen unrelated sketches, The Kentucky Fried Movie succeeds most at skewering its own medium: American commercial cinema. Fake trailers mock the exploitation fads of the era with Cleopatra Schwartz (blaxploitation), That’s Armageddon (disaster movies) and Catholic High School Girls in Trouble (youth sex films); they’re so dead-on,…
The Incredible Melting Man
TIMM (for short) continues his head-ripping rampage, leaving Geiger-equipped Dr. Ted Nelson (Burr DeBenning) to follow the putrid piles of the grubby, brown-red pus he drips everywhere, not to mention the occasional ear or eyeball. Basically, TIMM looks like he is using a Little Caesars Hot-N-Ready as a face mask. The movie is one of…
Black Rock
Like a gender-reversed Deliverance, three friends (Straw Dogs’ Kate Bosworth, Childrens Hospital’s Lake Bell and Aselton) motorboat to the titular isle for a gals-only camping trip. When three hunters cross their path, Abby (Aselton) spontaneously invites them to share their campfire and liquor. The guys accept, but after the very married Abby gets very drunk…
RED 2
Its inevitable successor, RED 2 (the acronym stands for “Retired, Extremely Dangerous,” per the comic-book source material), is, instead, a caricature of a caricature, one that revels in its lack of substance to the point of phlegmatic disinterest. The film revisits retired CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis, A Good Day to Die Hard), who,…
Detention of the Dead / The Demented
Imagine if zombies invaded The Breakfast Club. That’s literally the setup experienced by your stock-character students of the nerd, the jock, the misfit, the bully, the cheerleader and, so it’s not a total copy of the 1985 John Hughes classic, a wisecracking Asian kid (Justin Chon, 21 & Over) to spout things like, “I gotta…
Evil Dead
In Sam Raimi’s wildly original, wildly influential The Evil Dead of 1981, five friends into the woods for a cabin getaway and couldn’t get away from the demons they accidentally summon from an ancient book. In his feature debut, Uruguay director Fede Alvarez retains that setup, minus the vacation. In his vision, the young men…
