Action item
On Friday, a resolution was added to the Oklahoma City Council agenda for May 7’s meeting but was then deferred to May 21. If passed, it would withdraw the application to designate First Christian Church a historic landmark overlay district. Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) voted to initiate the process April 3, which also started a…
Studio music
Jim James w/ Amo Amo 8 p.m. May 12 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $40-$50.50 Following up the fan-favorite albums he released as a solo artist and as frontman for My Morning Jacket never really worries Jim James in the recording studio. “I try not to think about it too much,” James…
Suited for leadership
A business suit cannot stop a bullet, it will not make you invisible to racial profiling and it will not grant you mystical superpowers to overcome institutional racism. Korey Eakers did not co-found the lifestyle brand and mentorship program Grand Gentlemen because he believed that fashion could extinguish centuries of institutional racism, but he hoped…
Memorial Mediterranean
Hummus Mediterranean Cafe 3000 W. Memorial Road, Suite 101 hummusmediterraneancafe.com 405-216-5468 What works: The hummus is smooth and flavorful, and the rice is the star of the platter. What needs work: The steak is slightly overcooked. Tip:Try the muhammara. Using a menu item in the name of a restaurant is either an act of extreme…
Cover: Finding identity
Whether you think Facebook is a useful tool to keep up with your friends and current events or despise it as a data-mining tool of big corporations, you have to admit they got one thing right: the “it’s complicated” relationship status. It is absurd to think the complexity of the human experience can be expressed…
Blocked signals
The former charitable organization tasked with funding Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) since 1983, OETA Foundation, has dissolved. The foundation’s lawsuit against OETA culminated last month with a settlement agreement that essentially replaces the foundation with a new entity, Friends of OETA. OETA’s board of directors last week passed a resolution and agreement to seat…
Chicken-Fried News: Bad actor
There was no indication of anything but a tragic accident, but as France’s Notre Dame cathedral burned last month, Videodrome sleazebag TV exec turned real-life right-wing Twitter tumor James Woods tweeted “Whether by design or accident, the great and glorious history of Christianity is being eradicated from the face of the new Europe. #Heartbreak.” To…
New process
Girlpool 7 p.m. May 9 89th Street – OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com $12-$14 W magazine called them “the saviors of rock music.” Fader and Grantland said they were its future. Girlpool’s Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad were not really paying much attention. “Those kinds of headlines are just kind of funny to us,”…
Text messages
Seeing Now through December 21c Museum Hotel 900 W. Main St. 21cmuseumhotels.com 405-982-6900 Free Creating illustrations out of text copied from government reports and economic treatises gave visual artist Michael Waugh a way to simplify his drawing style. “It was actually just going to be one drawing and I’d go onto other things,” Waugh said,…
Gazedibles: Fresh concepts
Can you believe we are almost halfway through 2019? Plenty of new concepts opened in Oklahoma City this year. Here are seven of the best. By Jacob Threadgill with photos Gazette / file and provided Birra Birra Craft Pizzeria 1316 W. Memorial Road, Suite 102 birrabirrapizzeria.com | 405-607-0060 This new Chisholm Creek offering is much…
OKG Shop: Curious goods
Opened in 1995, Craig’s Curious Emporium slowly became a staple in The Paseo Arts District until it moved last August. Relocating to the corner of NW 23rd Street and Classen Boulevard not only provided much more space, but it also helped introduce the unique store to people unaware it even existed. Craig Travis first opened…
Health gap
Oklahomans throughout the state are urging lawmakers to expand health care coverage before the legislative session ends. Various organizations within Coalition to Expand Coverage came together to host Rally for Coverage April 24 at the state Capitol. Oklahoma is one of 14 states that has not accepted federal funds for Medicaid expansion. Expanded coverage would…
Indelible images
Seen/Unseen: A Festival of Experimental Film May 9-11 Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. oklahomacontemporary.org 405-951-0000 $15-$40 When Kim Voynar was growing up in Oklahoma City, the chance to see a foreign film felt, well, foreign. “I distinctly remember in high school when the Will Rogers Theatre was screening Das Boot,” Voynar said,…
Hops Scot
Science is the reason Ross Harper made his way to Oklahoma by way of Scotland, and it is also one of the reasons his brewery is turning out inventive beer at its western downtown brewery and taproom. Angry Scotsman Brewing, 704 W. Reno Ave., opened its taproom last week that features 24 beer taps, plush…
Fresh faith
Inside an event center in a strip mall in northwestern Oklahoma City, more than 50 people gathered on Easter Sunday to consecrate a new church. They have dubbed it Church 4 Twenty. The mission statement, as outlined on the church’s website, is thus: “A Cannabis Church is one where Religion does NOT rule, Judgement does…
Chicken-Fried News: Modern-day Oklahoma!
After decades of being defined to outsiders by the whitewashed original Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma! is getting modern-day trappings on a new television series as a reimagined version takes its turn on Broadway. Skydance Media announced last week that it reached an agreement with Oklahoma! rights holders to produce a modern-day show with new…
Chicken-Fried News: Good poo
Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is finally selling its poo. We are not sure who asked for this, but we are glad it is here. Two years ago, the zoo’s horticultural curator Lance Swearengin “looked up at the zoo’s ever-growing mountain of organic plant and animal waste” and saw gold. Brown gold, but gold…
