Ben Folds has been at this so long that the first release of his second band was 10 years ago. “That’s my old shit now. That’s fucked up,” he said, laughing. But even if “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” his first album of piano pop under his own name after the dissolution of ’90s indie critical darling […]
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Wolf men
There’s a hypothesized critical period to language acquisition that ranges from about 5 years old to puberty, in which humans develop their ability to communicate verbally and after which, find it difficult, if not almost impossible, to foster. Peter Pisano, a former private school teacher and vocally active half of the Minneapolis folk duo Peter […]
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Everything matters when it comes to charity stripe
Did the player wait the right amount of time before running off his screener? Was the pump fake convincing enough? Could the Thunder Girls’ outfits distract the defender for a split second? Everything matters. When it comes to the outcome of a game, the margin of error is even smaller. In games where teams regularly […]
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Random thoughts on the Oklahoma City Thunder
And not in any kind of actual order, but more just an “I put a number in front of something” kind of thing. It’s not complicated, really. So here’s a set of random things I’m organizing as “Power Rankings” because they seriously have so much power. 1. What got me thinking about this was after […]
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Roast with the most
It’s “big,” with tastes of blackberry and chocolate and an incredible mouthfeel. A fine wine, maybe? How about an aromatic Southern Ethiopian coffee from the highaltitude Sidama region and the Michicha village? “I love coffee. It’s my love. It’s my passion,” said Chris Holliday of Elemental Coffee Roasters. The small company has been roasting some […]
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Just Joshin’
Josh Sallee with The Cool Kids, Roosh Williams and Jabee6 p.m. Friday Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Kleinwww.okcfarmersmarket.com232-6506 $18 advance, $22 door “My dad keeps asking if I’ve put in any applications yet, and I keep telling him ‘no,’” Sallee said with a laugh. “I’ve been in school for like 17, 18 years straight through, […]
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Grand Canyon
Black Canyon with The Dead Armadillos9 p.m. Friday VZD’s Restaurant & Club 4200 N. Western www.vzds.com 524-4203 Southern fun is at the heart of what Jordan Herrera and Jake Morisse are doing with their upstart indie-roots band Black Canyon, and in just a brief time, they’ve made huge strides in bringing that back into the […]
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Letters
home,” namely “politics and policies that serve corporate profiteering and America’s wealthy minority.” Yet the two wealthiest Americans, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, and billionaires Oprah Winfrey and George Soros, all supported Obama. Surveys by Prince & Associates show that individuals worth more than $30 million favored Obama 2-to-1 over McCain, while in 2004, 59 […]
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The Fighter
Mark Wahlberg (“The Other Guys”) has gone the route of the inspirational, true-story sports picture before, in 2006’s “Invincible.” Director David O. Russell, however, has not. He’s spent his entire career straying as far as he can from the main streets of convention. That’s what happens when your feature debut (1994’s “Spanking the Monkey”) mines […]
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The year in theater
Oklahoma City theater hibernates from Christmas until about the ides of January, so as we turn our attention to bowl games and ringing in 2011 — which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee — let’s look back on some of the city’s more noteworthy dramatic […]