University of Oklahoma Gender + Equality Center used ‘questionable’ popular lyrics in campaign against normalizing unhealthy behavior.
Adele
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Oklahoma Gazette’s 2015 music year in review
2015 was a great year for music, and 2016 might be even better.
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LIFE
Adèle Wolf’s Burlesque & Variety Show is coming to Oklahoma City for Valentine’s Day this year. The award-winning cast from around the country — which features internationally published cover model Angela Ryan and award-winning Charlie Chaplin impersonator Damian Blake — will perform burlesque, vaudeville, belly dancing and cabaret acts. Attendees are encouraged to get dolled […]
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
In his first live-action directorial outing since 2005’s Angel-A, Besson adapts the first story from Jacques Tardi’s acclaimed comics, which began in 1976. The titular heroine (played by Louise Bourgoin, Black Heaven) is a professional tomb raider in early 20th-century Paris, like Lara Croft but sporting frilly outfits and feathers. This grandiose dose of […]
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Best of Bond … James Bond: 50 Years — 50 Tracks
With Skyfall landing in theaters Nov. 9, this season is no different … except that Capitol Records’ Best of Bond … James Bond has something else to celebrate: five full decades of the screen franchise. Therefore, this set throws in another disc’s worth of music that make it worth replacing the last disc you bought. […]
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Wolf trap
Not all the games in London have to do with boxing and basketball. Some focus on the body — we’re not talking Olympic rings, but curves. On Friday, Adéle Wolf’s Burlesque and Variety Show features a dancer who recently competed in the 2012 World Burlesque Games in London. Honey Cocoa Bordeauxx, also known as the […]
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Lelia Broussard — Masquerade
Lelia Broussard’s “Masquerade” is an unassuming, bouncy, acoustic-based female singer/songwriter record that I unabashedly love — even though there’s absolutely nothing unique about it. It’s an inversion of Adele’s “21”: While Adele is working hard to take the world by storm with her gravitas and emotive power, Broussard will soon be breezing through the indie […]
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Adele — 21
One needs go no further than opener (and single) “Rolling in the Deep” to hear the power and earnestness in her voice. A single look at press photo will show a thankfully (let me repeat, thankfully!) real-sized woman with a witheringly intense gaze. One performance is all it take to be wowed by her stage […]