Oklahoma City’s controversial and beloved Stage Center is coming down, likely this month. However, many local artists will receive parts of the building to help its memory live on.
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Waste not
“We just didn’t have any recycling options out at the festival,” said Angela Cozby, the festival’s director. For the past six years, festival officials have worked to create a completely trash-free event. This year, that goal will be reached. “The carbon footprint at [the Festival of the Arts] is pretty large and negative, so we […]
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Premiere league
Rapper Gregory Jerome performs at February’s Premiere on Film Row. (Randy Alvarado) As Batman said in The Dark Knight Rises, “A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a small boy’s shoulder to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.” Premiere on Film […]
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Booze clues
Sipping on low-point (3.2 percent) beers while strolling around the city is legit. But festivals have special permits, and you can’t bring your own beer within the zone in which these events are held, although some will offer drinks to buy. As usual, any place (including restaurants and indoor performance venues) selling beverages won’t let […]
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Love Triangle?
From tragedy comes art, so Lyric Theatre presents the new musical Triangle at the Plaza Theatre, inspired by the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The show’s creators — Curtis Moore (music), Thomas Mizer (lyrics) and Joshua Scher (book with Moore and Mizer) — also link the story tenuously to the World Trade Center attack of […]
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LIFE FOOD & DRINK
LIFE FOOD & DRINK Allied Art’s young professionals group, Catalyst, will host ARTini, an Art Decothemed fundraiser to benefit Allied Arts and the nonprofit arts organizations it supports. Twelve participating central Oklahoma restaurants will serve approximately 800 guests original martinis and appetizers. Live entertainment will be provided by the band Grand Marquis, along with raffle […]
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Handle with care
Robbie Kienzie Photo: Shannon Cornman Art pieces and sculptures often require specialized service when being repaired, installed or moved, and the Oklahoma City Council agreed last week to accept bids for an on-call art handler. “There is a care that needs to be used with fine objects,” said Robbie Kienzle, the city’s liaison for art […]
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State movie rebate program in jeopardy
The bill would have extended the rebate program through July 2024. It now may expire in July 2014. The incentive has been critical to bringing films and related industry revenue into Oklahoma, including Pearl, The Cherokee Word for Water, Bringing Up Bobby, Rudderless and August: Osage County. The Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate reimburses up to 37 […]
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UPDATE: Arts consolidation bill approved in committee
+++ A state House committee will conduct a hearing Thursday morning on a measure that could consolidate three agencies into the Tourism, History and Cultural Department. Those agencies are the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, the Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Arts Council. The House Government Modernization panel will discuss the issue at 10:30 […]
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Bill pulled that would have defunded Oklahoma Arts Council
House Bill 2850, which proposed a 25 percent reduction in funding over the next four years, was pulled by its author. In a to Oklahoma Gazette, his administrative assistant, Lindsay Gasaway, confirmed that pulled the bill “rather than run a bill that was going to fail” and would not get the necessary votes needed to […]