Tuna, Texas is back on stage with ‘A Tuna Christmas’
A Tuna Christmas 8 p.m. Friday, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Through Dec. 12 Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker www.cityrep.com 297-2264 $25-$30, $15 groups, $8 student rush When Jonathan Beck Reed plays a role, it stays played. And in Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s production of “A…
The Sooner Theatre gets into the holiday spirit with “Scrooge”
Scrooge: The Musical 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Through Dec. 12 The Sooner Theatre 101 E. Main, Norman www.soonertheatre.org 321-9600 $15-$28 The Sooner Theatre gets into the holiday spirit with “Scrooge,” musical version of the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol.” As in Dickens’ original novella, “Scrooge” tells the story of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge,…
Certifiably Jonathan
Getting older may mean getting wiser, but that doesn’t preclude enjoying a good fart joke now and then. Or, if you’re Jonathan Winters, several times a day. The venerable comedian, now 85, is the star and subject of “Certifiably Jonathan,” a cute documentary/mockumentary showing Friday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Shot…
Warner Bros. Horror/Mystery Double Features
Collections like “Warner Bros. Horror/Mystery Double Features” hold great appeal to film buffs, because they offer multiple movies you might not buy individually, but gratefully snap up for the price of one. In this case, six flicks from the late 1930s to early 1940s come packaged on three DVDs, manufactured on demand by Warner Archive.…
Pretty Maids All in a Row
From 1971, “Pretty Maids All in a Row” is a study in contradictions. It’s a sex comedy, but written by “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry. It stars Rock Hudson as quite the ladies’ man, but, well, Rock Hudson. It’s rated R, but sports a theme song by those famous Mormon vocalists known as The Osmonds.…
Luther
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Harpoon: Whale Watching Massacre
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Eye of the Devil
Despite being told not to, Catherine Montfaucon (Deborah Kerr) takes the kids and follows hubby Philippe (David Niven) from their Paris home to the perfectly Gothic vineyard Castle Bellenac in “Eye of the Devil,” a 1966 thriller from veteran director J. Lee Thompson (“Cape Fear”). There, she finds Donald Pleasence as a man of…
Now That’s What I Call the 1990s
Ridiculously successful, EMI’s “Now That’s What I Call Music!” compilation series is up to volume 36, with some themed offshoots here and there. The latest of those is “Now That’s What I Call the 1990s” or, as I dub it, “Now That’s What I Call Officially Feeling Old.” Subtitled as “the alternative collection,” hardly any…
Sherlock: Season One
It’s tough to get too excited about the year’s best films when you compare them to the year’s best television shows. With rare exception (read: “Inception”), the boob tube kicked the big screen’s arse left and right in terms of quality all year long, with work like “Mad Men,” “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad.” Add “Sherlock”…
Airing soon on OETA, the documentary ‘Oklahoma City A to Z’ spells out what people love about our capital city.
In Jack Frank’s version of Oklahoma City, the letter A stands for Ann’s Chicken Fry House; L for Leo’s Barbecue; and H, well, that stands for hippopotamus. A documentary filmmaker from Tulsa, Frank released a film last year titled “Tulsa A to Z.” This year, he focused his lens farther down the turnpike for “Oklahoma…
Fandom was in full force at the midnight premiere of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.’
Matti Gordon tried to get in line for the Nov. 18 midnight premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1″ at 9 a.m. She was so early, the doors to Harkins Bricktown Cinemas were still locked. No worries ” she just came back 90 minutes later. She was first in line. Obviously. That’s…
Powerhouse rockers Emit issue intelligent anthems as they hone their skills through higher education
Emit with The RocketTops, Wunderjazz and Tree Farmer 7 p.m. Friday ACM@UCO Performance Lab 323 E. Sheridan www.emitrock.com $5 OK, yes, a mature understanding of the value of a college degree isn’t exactly in lockstep with the rock-‘n’-roll lifestyle, but like any career, knowledge is power. Members of Emit, Oklahoma City’s emerging powerhouse rock band,…
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin hails from Missouri, exports power pop
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin with Junebug Spade 9 p.m. Wednesday Opolis 113 N. Crawford, Norman www.starlightmints.com/opolis.html 820-0951 $8 advance, $10 door Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is certainly one of the more unwieldy band names in rock ‘n’ roll history, an especially impressive distinction in a field that’s witnessed The Voluptuous Horror…
Christopher Wray has soul … plus heart
Graham Colton’s Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive Concert with Christopher Wray, Sherree Chamberlain, Matt Stansberry and The City Lives 9 p.m. Wednesday Bricktown Brewery 1 N. Oklahoma www.bricktownbrewery.com 232-2739 $20 Those unfamiliar with Christopher Wray might be in for a shock when seeing him live for the first time. “I get surprised comments quite a bit,”…
Get nailed with Norman native Donny Vomit at the Pretty Things Peepshow
Donny Vomit with Pretty Things Peepshow 10 p.m. Wednesday HiLo Club 1221 N.W. 50th www.humanblockhead.com www.prettythingspeepshow.com 843-1722 $8 In today’s anemic job market, it is critical to make one’s résumé stand out. And few things do like being able to hammer a nail frighteningly deep into a nose canal. Although the application of that…
The Art of the Tool
OKG PICK From tools dating back to ancient Egypt to a Phillips screwdriver easily found in any toolbox today, a cache of handy items is on display at Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 N.E. 52nd. “The Art of the Tool” highlights the scientific artistry found within the many objects people use on a daily basis without…
To celebrate its first year back on the air, The Spy throws an all-star shindig and continues its mission of supporting local musicians.
Spy’s Night Out 7 p.m. Friday The 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 N.W. 51st www.51stspeakeasy.com 463-0470 The Spy crept up from the shadows and back onto the radio waves just one year ago. It’s existed in various facets since 1991, but Ferris O’Brien ” a longtime DJ for the station ” was able to relaunch The…
PR BS
Lots of press releases related to the Sooner State cross our desk. This week, these titles least screamed “Stop the presses!” “”SouthWest NanoTechnologies Featuring New Carbon Nanotube Applications at 2010 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting” “”Canopied Parking Lot Undergoes Repairs” “”Black Walnuts Score Big in Taste Tests and Popularity” “”RELM Wireless Receives Blanket Purchase Agreement…
Rev. Blair reveals range, depth of knowledge
The Rev. Paul Blair’s exceptional and excellente retort (“Counterpoint: Precedents justify SQ 755,” Nov. 17, Gazette) reveals a range and depth of knowledge of Islam, Muhammad and the attached themes like few such articles published to date ” in the Gazette or elsewhere. His summary would earn kudos from the premiere expert on the subject,…
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
An African proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” I think that sums up the choice you have before you. There is something to be said for going fast; it may be that you can get as far as you need to go by…
Holiday help
The holiday season is often a time of joy and celebration for many. But for some Oklahomans, it would be all but impossible to celebrate this time of year without a helping hand.Throughout the metro, programs and organizations have dedicated their efforts to doing just that. From domestic abuse to natural disasters to economic downturn,…
Oklahoma History Center celebrates five years of existence
The Oklahoma History Center is celebrating five years of being the premier museum of Sooner State history in the nation. Since opening its doors to the public in 2005, the museum has seen more than 330,000 adults and children enter its doors. In the next few weeks, the museum will have welcomed its 1 millionth…
Move over, Max
Did you know there is an Oklahoma state fossil? Apparently in 2000, the state Legislature crowned Saurophaganax maximus ” the “greatest predator of earth’s history” ” as our honorary archaic emblem. Was this measure swiftly followed by a resolution decrying Darwin Week at the University of Oklahoma? Well Max, your time in the limelight might…
Super’ Intentions
The state superintendent-elect considers her election a ‘mandate’ to reform the state’s school system. State Superintendent-elect Janet Barresi said serious reform of the public school system must happen now ” even if that means losing her job during the next election. Barresi was one of six participants in a panel discussion on Nov. 18 following…
Thou shalt not Super Size
If gluttony is a sin, then holy crap, Oklahoma: You’re going to hell! Utilizing statistics from the Calorie Lab and Gallup polls, “Born Atheist” author Tim Covell suggests that the more religious you are, the fatter you are. After all, he found, nine states are in the top 10 rankings for both religiousness and obesity…
Two artists collaborated with Oklahoma students in order to create public art installations in the Paseo
Two artists collaborated with Oklahoma students in order to create public art installations through the Paseo Arts Association’s latest endeavor in art education. The Paseo Creativity Project is a program that aims to inspire artists and students alike. Nick Bayer and Romy Owens worked with local schools to produce two separate projects. Bayer, arts…
Planting a Seed
The Seeds of Hope fundraiser helps provide mentoring to metro students. Seeds of Hope 6:30 p.m. tuesday national cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1700 N.E. 63rd www.whizkidsok.org $100 Collins Tuohy, the adoptive sister of “The Blind Side”‘s subject Michael Oher, will be the featured speaker at Tuesday’s annual Seeds of Hope fundraiser to provide literacy,…
Pooling resources
In the state’s current economic climate, governmental entities and not-for-profit agencies must think creatively to fund new capital-building projects and provide new services to their respective patrons, stretching tax dollars and operating funds further than ever before. An innovative partnership between three such organizations ” the city of Edmond, the YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City…
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Should you rely on hard facts or soft feelings? Would it be advisable to trust your tried-and-true medicine or else a potion brewed from the tongue of a snake, the feather of a crow, and a mandrake root? Can you get better results by mingling with staunch allies or with rebel upstarts who have a…
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
We cannot have any unmixed emotions, said poet William Butler Yeats. “There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.” I hope that’s OK with you, Taurus. In fact I hope you regard that as a peculiar blessing — as one of the half-maddening, half-inspiring perks…
Highly illogical
Regarding Clifton Adcock’s article titled “Power to the people” in the Nov. 17 Gazette: “Cathy Garger “¦ a former member of “¦ a group that DENIES (my emphasis) the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were the result of a terrorist attack” speaks out against nuclear power plants, citing “facts” with absolutely no basis in reality;…
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Louisiana porn star Stormy Daniels considered running for a U.S. Senate seat in 2010, although she eventually dropped out because it was too expensive. I admired one of her campaign strategies: She went on a “listening tour,” traveling around her state to hear what potential constituents might want to tell her. I encourage you to…
Maintaining Ward 2’s legacy
Oklahoma City is blessed with one of the best city governments in the nation On Jan. 27, the filing period opens for Oklahoma City’s primary election for City Council positions in Wards 2, 5, 6 and 8. Most of the incumbent council members are expected to seek re-election, but Ward 2 Councilman Sam Bowman has…
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
It’s Experiment with Your Self-Image Week ” a time when it would be invigorating to shift and play with your identity. During this reinvention phase, you might find you can change yourself on the inside simply by rearranging yourself on the outside. So have fun wearing clothes you’ve never donned before. Entertain yourself with a new…
Sparrow lanes’
Once again, Oklahoma City has gotten close, but not close enough. According to Clifton Adcock’s Nov. 10 “‘Sharrow’ the road” article in the Oklahoma Gazette, “sharrow lanes” were so named because of the combination of “share” and “arrow.” More accurately, they should be named “sparrow lanes.” That’s a combination of “splat” and “arrow.” With the…
Back that thing up
Your pointed biographical description of Paul Blair as a former football player at the end of his Commentary (“Counterpoint: Precedents justify SQ 755,” Nov. 17, Gazette) sums up his educational depth with simplicity: no educational background or career experience to back up what he claims to be an expert in. Blair is an advocate for…
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
British engineer John Reid wants to translate dolphins’ speech into human language. For years, he has been working on the Cymascope, a machine that will help him analyze the basic patterns of dolphin grammar and vocabulary. I encourage you to be inspired by his efforts, Libra. It is now an excellent time for you to…
Trailblazer
If there’s one thing Oklahoma politicians tell us we should be proud of as a state, it’s our innovation. When life hands us lemons, we squeeze lemon juice in life’s eyes until it gives us something better, preferably something involving football and/or deep-fried. Now, the state is putting its best foot forward and blazing new…
MAPS Movement
The MAPS 3 Citizens Advisory Board and subcommittees are fleshing out some of the $777 million program’s individual projects. Almost one year after the passage of the MAPS 3 proposal, the first physical manifestations of some of the plan’s more visible components may be in sight. The contract for the first demolition in the program…
Lingering lingerie
CFN’s scribes don’t want to be caught with our pants down, but the ongoing back-and-forth between Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and the Lingerie Football League chairman continued after press time last week. The breaking news went right down to the underwire, sports fans, with Chairman Mitchell Mortaza firing the final saucy salvo. After reportedly…
Offering ‘an alternative’
I just re-read Lauren Zuniga’s excellent “Poem to progressives plotting mass exodus” (Letters, Nov. 17, Gazette) for the fifth or sixth time. I cried the first few times I read it. Zuniga eloquently expressed the frustration and anger I am feeling and offered an alternative for those of us who are so depressed about the…
Out like a Lamb
Five Republicans have already announced their candidacy for the empty Senate District 47 seat. Filing opens Dec. 13. If there’s one thing the Nov. 2 election proved, it’s that the electoral momentum was behind Republican candidates. By the way the race for the Senate District 47 special election is shaping up, so far that rule…
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t, said physician James Gordon. “It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” That’s why you may soon appear to the casual observer, Capricorn, as someone who’s able to call on enormous reserves of willpower. According to my reading of the astrological…
The Rev. Paul ‘Blair’s religious entertainment value is priceless’
It would appear the Rev. Paul Blair blows with the wind in order to support his arguments (Commentary, “Counterpoint: Precedents justify SQ 755,” Nov. 17, Gazette). While disenfranchising gay Oklahomans with his various Sally Kern crusades, while using undefined and unexplained terms to scare people to Jesus by spreading purposeful falsehoods about gay Oklahomans, he…
Vertigo Resurrected: Shoot
Nice shot, “Shoot”! For the first in a new line of super-sized anthologies under the “Vertigo Resurrected” banner, Vertigo reaches back to the late 1990s and early 2000s with “Shoot,” so named for its lead story, a never-before-published tale of senseless schoolyard homicides. Written by Warren Ellis and featuring John Constantine, Hellblazer, it’s no wonder…
