Bloody Homecoming
Three years ago, the Winston Wildcats were looking forward to the homecoming dance. Putting a damper on their fun was the young man who died after being trapped in a room on fire. Now that the school is set to revive the shindig — the dance, not the death — for the first time since that tragedy,…
An American Hippie in Israel
The title refers to Mike (Asher Tzarfati, Double Team), a Vietnam vet who has spent the last two years traveling across Europe while barefoot, chased from country to country by two mute goons with snappy suits and silver-painted faces, because why not? “I think they want my life,” explains Mike, as if that explains anything.…
Wish You Were Here
Jeremy’s girlfriend, Steph (Teresa Palmer, Warm Bodies), is the younger sister of Alice (Felicity Price), who also went on the trip with her husband, Dave (Joel Edgerton, Zero Dark Thirty). One of those three knows more than he/she lets on; furthermore, two of the three hold an additional secret from the other. Price co-wrote the…
Targets
Fearing he’s an anachronism, aging horror star Byron Orlok (the legendary Boris Karloff in one of his final roles) announces his retirement, effective immediately. He doesn’t even want to make the next night’s scheduled promo appearance at the local drive-in theater. After all, “no one’s afraid of a painted monster” when the headlines scream of…
The Bling Ring
Even my children’s worst moments are still above the best moments of the snotty, self-absorbed, home-schooled brats of The Bling Ring, Oscar winner Sofia Coppola’s follow-up to 2010’s snooze-worthy Somewhere. A dramatization of a real-life California teen crime spree (previously made into a 2011 Lifetime movie of the same name), the film follows several high…
The Lords of Salem
The story is pretty slight. One third of a popular radio team in Salem, Mass., Heidi Hawthorne (Sheri Moon Zombie) becomes affected by strange visions and mysterious ailments after listening to a song that is delivered anonymously to her radio station by a group called the Lords. As these things turn out, the song is…
Seconds
Seconds tells the story of Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph), a terminally unsatisfied and bored executive whose familiar life has grown stale. Lately, he has been in communication with a supposedly deceased friend who promises him a chance at a new life. Taking the plunge, Hamilton wanders into a shadowy corporate world of identity transplantation in…
Seconds
Seconds tells the story of Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph), a terminally unsatisfied and bored executive whose familiar life has grown stale. Lately, he has been in communication with a supposedly deceased friend who promises him a chance at a new life. Taking the plunge, Hamilton wanders into a shadowy corporate world of identity transplantation in…
The Fugitive: 20th Anniversary Edition
Even people who have never seen it — shame on you — tend to know what it’s about: Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford, never better) is accused of murdering his wife. The cops don’t believe his story of the real culprit being a one-armed man … and neither does the jury that sentences him to…
Vince Gill looks hate in the face
In a video of the encounter, an unidentified female church member (the videographer) confronted Gill about his 13-year marriage to Christian singer-songwriter Amy Grant. “Vince Gill, what in the world are you doing out here?” she asked. “I just came to see what hate looked like,” he replied. “Well, more importantly, what are you doing…
TELEVISION
The Goldbergs wallows in a decade’s worth of shame and guilt. BY DEAN ROBBINS The 1980s take a beating in The Goldbergs (8 p.m. Tuesday, ABC). An adult narrator looks back on his childhood in the days when REO Speedwagon seemed profound and even middle-aged moms wore a Madonna hairdo. The Goldbergs are a hostile-yet-loving…
Uhhhh, might he be right this time?
Worry not! In another striking moment of sanity, U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Muskogee) questioned the legitimacy of assigning nonprofit status to several tax-exempt, profit-making professional sports organizations, including the National Football League, National Hockey League and Professional Golf Association. The NFL? It raked in a cool $9.5 billion in 2012. Ho-hum. Like so many big…
Fashion, turn to the left!
His thick-framed glasses caught glasses caught our attention initially. In fact, it was such a craze that people went straight out and bought prescription-less frames just to be part of the fad. Now, just like any fashion savant who has topped the judge-y mountain that is high fashion, clout comes to the true sartorialist who…
Center stage
Although the property’s new owner, Kestrel Investments Management Corporation, has plans to seek a demolition permit in November, hope still exists to somehow save the building described last year in Architectural Record as a “love-it-or-hate-it” structure. For decades, the now-defunct theater — complete with its concrete forms, brightly colored steel ramps and large corrugated metal…
Read it
For over 30 years, musical satirist Weird Al Yankovic has entertained generations of goofy teenagers and dorky adults with accordion-driven song parodies such as “Eat It,” “Smells Like Nirvana” and “My Bologna.” However, with the release of his second children’s book, My New Teacher and Me!, he has started a second career pursuing a completely…
Abortion doctors not trimmed from tort reform
During the Legislature’s recent special session, almost two dozen measures dealing with tort reform were approved by the House and Senate and signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin. However, one didn’t make it. Reynolds wanted legislative leaders to support a pro-life amendment exempting abortion providers from the lawsuit reform protections when something goes wrong…
‘It’s a fairness issue’
Photo courtesy Tulsa World / Michael Wyke / file Wheels in the suit are again grinding as state and federal laws continue to collide. Recently, all four, with their attorney, Don Holladay, filed paperwork with U.S. District Judge Terence Kern requesting he rule in their favor. They also said the Oklahoma law violates their constitutional…
Moving along
Mayor Mick Cornett The council meets Tuesday to discuss the route, already approved by two MAPS 3 citizen panels. It includes Bricktown, the downtown business district, Automobile Alley and Midtown. It will come within a block of the proposed 70-acre downtown public park with a possible extension to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.…
Bright future
Photo by Mark Hancock “Today, we think of billboards as this rectangle thing on a pole,” said Kathy Anderson of the the Bethany Improvement Foundation. But in the heyday of Route 66, billboards were often lower to the ground, displayed hand-painted art or art deco design and sometimes even were three-dimensional structures with people inside…
LETTERS
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Resilient repetition
From our elected officials and our local celebrities to those survivors affected directly by the most current crisis, some version of these words gushes out each time: “You can replace things, not lives. We’re going to rebuild. Oklahomans are a resilient people.” The adjective “resilient,” in particular, has become the word du jour following a…
Bricktown boogie
Here are the keys to enjoying a burger: 1. Don’t put too much crap on it. 2. Eat it. That’s it. I mean, yes, there are burgers piled high with fixings that will blow your mind. But generally, less is more. Which is part of why Bricktown Burgers (300 E. Main St.) is so good.…
LIFE FOOD & DRINK
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Round about
Gourmet Gallery BY: Shannon Cornman As they set up that first day, it never occurred to either of them what the future would entail. Now, they own and operate two gourmet and specialty stores in the metro. “We got corporate orders for Christmas baskets that year, and people actively encouraged us to open a store,”…
Spirits of the season
Territorial Reserve Rye Wine AleThe crew at COOP Ale Works, 1124 NW 51st St., always seem to have something up its sleeve — in its barrel, if you will. This season is no different. Get ready for the six-month-bourbon-barreled Territorial Reserve Rye Wine Ale. If the name alone doesn’t have you panting, maybe the tidbit…
OKG7 places to shake it up
WSKY Lounge228 NE Second St.wskylounge.com606-7171It’s so much more than a place to toss back an old fashioned or smoke a cigar. There’s a menu boasting some tasty treats that accompanies the lounge. Opt for the hummus tray, caramelized onion dip or ahi tuna lettuce wraps dressed with a wasabi mayo. Watch for chef Ryan Parrott’s…
LIFE
The University of Oklahoma University Theatre and School of Dance will perform a mixed-repertoire ballet featuring a suite of several unique works. The production includes choreography by School of Dance faculty Clara Cravey Stanley, Mary Margaret Holt, Ilya Kozadeyev and Jeremy Lindberg. Performances are at 8 p.m. Sept. 20-21, 26-28 and 3 p.m. Sept. 22…
A joyful vision
Photo: Mark Hancock “I certainly want to do all I can to advance John’s vision. He was a community-builder,” Belt said of her husband, who died in March. That’s a vision tied up in John Belt’s desire to provide Oklahoma City with an arts district, being an anchor for the Paseo Arts District, promoting artists…
Inch by inch
Suzanne Peck A decade ago, the Oklahoma City arts landscape resembled a blank white canvas, according to local artist Bryan Boone. “I don’t think there was much to it, but now I think we have a thriving arts scene,” Boone said. “It’s really taken off and kind of arrived.” Oklahoma City’s artistic success is due…
Alma matters
One of my pet peeves has always been when a person begins a sentence with, “When I was your age…” But that was because I was 22, and I largely felt left out of that sort of conversation due to lacking life experience. In my juvenile ineptitude, I’d brashly proclaim things like, “I’ll never use…
Mo’ funny
Keenan Wayans For many years, the only television sketch-comedy was the long-running Saturday Night Live. That changed in 1990, when former stand-up and director of the Blaxploitation spoof I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenan Ivory Wayans, created In Living Color, a groundbreaking weekly halfhour collection of skits that transformed the face of comedy. Since then,…
Serious play
The rules were simple: kick the ball and run fast. Games ended when the recess bell rang, and final scores were often debated with little, if any, resolution. Many of those same kids have grown up and are reliving their youth in Oklahoma City’s World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA). With competitive and social leagues, there’s…
Doubting Pokes
T. Boone Pickens OSU uber-booster T. Boone Pickens, who was not implicated, said he was “disappointed” in the magazine’s reporting, which details allegations of players and recruits receiving improper payments, academic misconduct, drug abuse and inappropriate sexual conduct between football recruits and members of OSU’s hostess program, Orange Pride. “Many of the sensational allegations go…
Kick asana
In every community — whether fitness, literature, food or sports — a figurehead and esteemed leader emerges. Among those who practice yoga, one such person is Sri BNS Iyengar, hailing from India, the country in which yoga originated in ancient days. “I had no intention of becoming a teacher,” lyengar said with a smile. Even…
OK canal
Moonlight Ford The summer season might be winding down, but that doesn’t mean outdoor music in Oklahoma is following suit. If anything, the Live Music on the Canal festival — now in its fourth year — just might eclipse this recent summer’s musical offerings Saturday, with more than 200 Oklahoma bands and musicians in 70…
Golden path
Five years ago, he debuted pop-leaning alternative rock tunes that delved into his own identity and religious struggles. Largely unaware that he was even working on an album, he debuted in a stoic, sold-out show at Opolis in Norman, wearing an unassuming gray shirt. These days, Abello often wears little more onstage than a sparkling…
Grooms — Infinity Caller
Through these changes, Johnson remained steadfast in his approach, hammering away at a sound that pays homage to his roots and influences while, at the same time, retaining a distinct individualism. Now, with two albums released on two separate labels behind them, Grooms sound rejuvenated on their third proper full-length, Infinity Caller, their most intricately…
Music Made Me: Mike Hosty
Photo: Mark Hancock Leon Redbone, Double Time (1977) I stayed up late and watched Saturday Night Live and saw Leon Redbone sing “Ain’t Misbehavin’.” At first, I thought it was a joke, but there was something about the song and the delivery. His finger-style playing technique led me to discover Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers and…
Heart-shaped rock
Chris Harris has listened to a lot of albums in the past 20 years, but Nirvana’s grunge-rock masterpiece In Utero is one the local musician (Depth & Current) and producer (Hook Echo Sound in Norman) hasn’t been able to shake. When he and friend Mickey Reese (El Paso Hot Button) first discussed collaborating on a…
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Make no mistake; Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is not as ambiguous as its title suggests. While it is indeed a work shrouded in murky atmosphere and high-minded poetry, at its core, David Lowery’s directorial breakthrough remains a classic tale of love, bondage and promises kept. Lowery tells his story with a lens so creatively visionary…
FILM
Movie Night at the Downtown Library, enjoy a film at the downtown library, 6-8 p.m., Sept. 18. Downtown Library, 300 Park, 231-8650, metrolibrary.org. WED, WED Third Friday Premiere on Film Row, featuring musicians, artists, food trucks and more, Sept. 20. Film Row, 700 W. Sheridan. FRI 8 1/2, (Italy, 1963, dir. Federico Fellini) a harried…
Silent no more
It’s amazing that it was ever made in the first place. The film, rediscovered by the Oklahoma Historical Society, tells a four-way love story but also shows the lost way of life of its actors — about 300 Kiowas and Comanches. Those traditions were discouraged when the film was shot in July 1920 in the…
Video: Danny DeVito proves ‘It’s Always Sunny’ with Kings of Leon
Had enough of the shenanigans? Too bad! Because the band recently enlisted the kings of shenanigans — the gang from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia — for their latest clip. The promotional video — in which the band is absent, but stars Danny DeVito, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day — features a deranged Howerton on…
FOP endorses Shadid for OKC Mayor
Ed Shadid Oklahoma Gazette file More than 100 officers attended the meeting to hear Shadid and current Mayor Mick Cornett talk about law enforcement issues, including the controversial manpower issue and how each candidate would address the officer shortage problem. John George, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 123, said the endorsement of Shadid…
OCU’s Kelsey Griswold to compete for Miss America crown on Sunday
Just before the strutting, dancing and question-answering, Griswold will do a spot on ABC’s 20/20 at 7 p.m. for Pageant Confidential: The Road to Miss America. Griswold, a senior majoring in acting, is active in the community and has performed in productions of Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, as well as held leadership positions in…
