Personally, the morbid-curiosity draw isn’t seeing the giant hairy beast, but watching The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams square off against The Partridge Family’s Danny Bonaduce. Not since ’80s pop tarts Tiffany and Debbie Gibson matched wits in Mega Python vs. Gatoroid has The Asylum’s casting been this interesting. Williams plays a former rock star turned […]
2012
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Piranha 3DD
It is there in the prologue where two former Okies (Gary Busey and Clu Gulager) and a farting dead cow get the party started, sending hatched baby piranha to Merkin County, Ariz. — a joke that should calibrate you with the movie’s wavelength … as if the bra-size title didn’t do that already. (I’d like […]
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Hell
In the bleak thriller, director/co-writer Tim Fehlbaum imagines that our world of 2016 has ceased to exist — at least as we know it. Solar storms have raised the temperature by 50? Fahrenheit — something Oklahomans currently can sympathize with — and with resources bare, society has collapsed. Sisters Marie (Hannah Herzsprung, The Reader) and […]
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People
Best radio personality or teamJACK & RON, 98.9 KISS FMFor most Gazette readers, waking up without a shot of Jack & Ron would be like waking up without that morning coffee. The duo of Jack Elliott and Ron Williams has dominated this category for 11 years running. The reason: shows jam-packed with humor, interviews, pop […]
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Jazz hands
The Bert Dalton Brazil Project Santa Fe, N.M.-based pianist Bert Dalton may not look like your prototypical Latin jazz musician, but he’s as experienced and talented as they come. Growing up in Chicago, he was exposed to the Windy City’s lively Latin jazz scene at any early age. It hooked him almost immediately, and he’s […]
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Don’t Go in the Woods
The first feature as director for longtime fine actor Vincent D’Onofrio (Kill the Irishman), Woods is as ambling as the five young musicians — one of whom is blind — who drive their van to a forest for a songwriting retreat, where the following things are not allowed: booze, drugs, girls, phones and common sense. That […]
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Powwow highway
Spotted Bird PowwowApril 6-8Elk City Convention Center Symposium of the American Indian Powwow April 13-14Northeastern State University Tahlequah Azalea Powwow April 14 Muskogee Convention Center Talihina Indian Festival PowwowApril 14 Talihina Public School Gym Miami Nation Tribal Powwow June 1-2Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College Arena Miami Red Earth Native American Cultural FestivalJune 8-10 Cox Convention Center […]
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12 in ’12
Here are a few must-dos for the new year. Hope this gets you started on your year of culinary delight! 1. A juicy onion burger made with premium, local ingredients awaits you at Tucker’s, 324 N.W. 23rd. 2. Cashew baklava: buttered layers of phyllo dough from NuNu’s Mediterranean Cafe & Market, 3131 W. Memorial, is […]
Posted inFood & Drink
12 in ’12
Here are a few must-dos for the new year. Hope this gets you started on your year of culinary delight! 1. A juicy onion burger made with premium, local ingredients awaits you at Tucker’s, 324 N.W. 23rd. 2. Cashew baklava: buttered layers of phyllo dough from NuNu’s Mediterranean Cafe & Market, 3131 W. Memorial, is […]
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What’s the 131?
’Tis the season to give loved ones daily reminders of the beauty of American Indian art. Tribes 131 is hosting its annual Native American Art Calendar signing, which includes two days for customers to meet the 13 creators of the 2012 edition, including Benjamin Harjo Jr. and Harvey Pratt, no strangers to the full-color calendar. […]