Pride premiere
Edmond Pride 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 20 Hafer Park 1034 S. Bryant Ave., Edmond facebook.com/lgbtqiafsa 405-974-2450 Free Oct. 20, Hafer Park plays host to Edmond’s first-ever LGBTQ Pride festival. Edmond Pride, an event orchestrated by University of Central Oklahoma’s LGBTQIA+ Faculty Staff Association (FSA) and the Student Alliance for Equality (SAFE), promises activities, performances and…
House rules
Oklahoma City council members addressed issues of home-sharing Sept. 25 amid a crowd of advocates and adversaries. Community members from historic neighborhoods Edgemere Park and Heritage Hills requested amendments to a city ordinance that, if passed, would allow for home sharing businesses throughout the city to operate with relative ease. The amendments would, in theory,…
OK law
The incumbent Mike Hunter is a serious man. That’s a description that can be expected from someone whose job tasks include handling criminal and civil prosecutions, enforcing the laws of the state, overseeing a $38.4 million budget, managing over 100 employees and proposing legislation that would protect citizens. Hunter will be the first to admit…
Staged study
Best in Ten 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13 Carpenter Square Theatre 806 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $35 The plays presented at Best in Ten are shorter than average, but that doesn’t necessarily make them any easier to write. The benefit show, which includes staged readings of the three winners of Carpenter Square Theatre’s annual 10-minute…
Primate primacy
Arctic Monkeys 8 p.m. Oct. 10 The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. criterionokc.com 405-840-5500 $68 Through a desire and willingness to upend its sound and confound expectations, Arctic Monkeys transcended its mid-2000s beginnings as a next-step post-punk band drafting in the slipstream of Franz Ferdinand and The Libertines. That fearlessness launched Arctic Monkeys and its…
Arts-focused
Opus X: Club Cabaret 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12 The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. alliedartsokc.com 405-278-8944 $250 If life is a cabaret, old chum, there might be less to love without the arts. “Without the arts,” said April Gonzalez, marketing and public relations manager at Allied Arts, “the community culture would be very dry and…
Chicken-Fried News: Beer brawling
Chicken-Fried News knows what it’s like to be deprived of a frosty one. At the close of business on Friday, the CFN News Team marches downstairs to our walk-in cooler to grab some cold comfort to celebrate another week of snarking. One can only imagine the great gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and indignant…
OKG Shop: Social shirts
Audrey and Justin Falk started with a “Free Tibet” shirt design hand-printed on used equipment in 2009. Now their brand Shop Good has grown into a large, light-filled storefront at 1007 N. Broadway Ave. in Automobile Alley. Shop Good sells responsibly sourced, ethically made home goods and gifts, along with shirts and pullovers screen-printed onsite.…
Sláinte mhaith
Once Matt McMillen retired last June after 19 years as assistant athletic director of football operations at University of Oklahoma, he decided to shift gears. Local restaurateur Hal Smith approached him with an idea for a new restaurant: an Irish pub in Oklahoma City inspired by McMillen’s Irish roots. Matty McMillen’s Irish Pub at 2201…
Welcoming Waterfalls
Waterfall Festival 9 a.m. Oct 12-9 p.m. Oct. 13 Garden Ponds & Aquariums Unlimited 310 SW First St., Moore gardenpondsunlimited.com 405-794-3323 Free There’s nothing more quintessentially Oklahoman than spending time in the outdoors — accompanied by one’s pet, of course. This year’s first-ever Waterfall Festival by Garden Ponds & Aquariums Unlimited will provide Oklahomans with…
Gazedibles: Beyond Tex-Mex
We love traditional Tex-Mex and its Okie-adjacent variants (let me bathe in complimentary cheese sauce), but there are a lot of restaurants in the metro area highlighting authentic cuisine from all over Central and South America. By Jacob Threadgill with photos by Alexa Ace and Gazette / file Café Do Brasil NW 11st St., Suite…
Queen Bishop
Bishop Briggs 8 p.m. Sunday Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $25-$75 Born in London and raised in Japan and Hong Kong, Sarah McLaughlin realized early on what she wanted to be when she grew up. She also realized she would need an alias. “Oh my gosh,” said McLaughlin, now better known as…
Chicken-Fried News: Airplane drunk
In Oklahoma City, we tend to arrest drunk people on the ground. They’ve had too much fun in Classen Curve, are out for a big night downtown or have put away too many and wandered out of the alcohol zone with a drink in their hands at a festival. They usually don’t come from the…
Chicken-Fried News: Okie limeades
Oklahoma news that almost broke the internet this week was the sale of Oklahoma headquartered company Sonic. Before Oklahomans could process the breakup, but details emerged and it was thankfully determined that while the company was, in fact, sold to Arby’s and Buffalo Wild Wings macho parent company Inspire Brands for $2.3 billion, the fast…
Penne thoughts
Victoria’s The Pasta Shop 3000 SW 104th St. 405-759-3580 What works: Chicken lasagna and marinara are good takes on a classic. What needs work: The sauce should be finished in the pan with the pasta. Tip: Try the pesto with the cheese-filled tortellini. A commitment to fresh pasta has allowed Victoria’s The Pasta Shop to…
Road trip
Truckload of Art Friday-Oct. 27 JRB Art at the Elms 2810 N. Walker Ave. jrbartgallery.com 405-528-6336 Free In the words of singer-songwriter Terry Allen, Oklahoma City will soon have the chance to see “significant piles and influential heaps of art work” hauled in from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Truckload of Art, an exhibit inspired by…
Theatrical tension
Wait Until Dark Thursday-Oct. 28 Jewel Box Theatre 3700 N. Walker Ave. jewelboxtheatre.org 405-521-1786 $25-$30 Traditionally, there’s a moment just before a play begins when the house lights have been turned off and the auditorium fills with suspenseful anticipation. In Jewel Box Theatre’s upcoming production of Wait Until Dark, that thrill pervades the entire production…
Circling back
It’s a curious structure that almost looks like someone took extreme creative license in solving a puzzle. Take a different look, and it might resemble a tiny cityscape with multiple disparate buildings crammed into one odd-shaped block on a hillside, or a pop-art favela or an architectural glacier dumping out onto Classen Circle. But the…
Sonic sale
On Sept. 25, Oklahoma City-based Sonic Corp. officials announced the sale of their company and its more than 3,600 Sonic Drive-In locations to Inspire Brands Inc., owners of Arby’s and Buffalo Wild Wings, for $2.3 billion. The amount will include any debt accrued by the company, Sonic spokeswoman Christi Woodworth said. The deal will not…
