Punk band Bad Sports started eight years ago. Bassist Daniel Friend and guitarist Orville Neeley had been in a band together previously, but one day, Neeley showed up with demos of new songs. “It was way better than the band we were in,” Friend said, “so we decided to do that instead.” Bad Sports met […]
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The Wolf of Wall Street
(2013) Leaving the recent Academy Awards empty-handed, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street nonetheless is one of the few 2013 Best Picture nominees we’ll still be watching decades later. As he did with 1990’s Goodfellas and with 1995’s Casino, Scorsese again grants us an epic peek at another world’s process; in this case, Wall […]
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What happens in Washington stays in Washington
Coburn told The New York Times that being a lawmaker on the national level provides plenty of temptations to be corrupt, just like hitting the slots and roulettes in Vegas. He said both cities can take advantage of one’s weaknesses and admits he hasn’t always been immune. With his departure set for January, Coburn said […]
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21 Grahams
Graham Colton has a smile on his face most of the time. You wouldn’t know it from listening to his soulful, introspective music, but life has been pretty great for the Oklahoma native. The past two years have been about change — both professional and personal — that culminated in his new album, Lonely Ones. […]
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Sense of ‘Selfie’
Brendan Williams Selfies are, indeed, an art form. From the self-portraiture by Rembrandt and Raphael during the Renaissance to the age of perpetual social media feeds and disappearing Snapchats, selfies have been a thing — a beautiful, culture-enriching thing at that. In Selfies: An Exploration on Identity, curators Mary Kathryn Moeller and Krystle Brewer — […]
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Words of a feather
Photo: Caitlin Lindsey Feathered Rabbit’s sound hits you in waves. There’s the sultry lounge essence and smoky jazz groove, both wafting with a natural ease. That’s met with a wallop of punchy, gravelly blues and swampy psychedelia that swirl together in a patchwork of sound swatches belonging to a forgone era of American music. Complex […]
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New ear’s day
Ask Broken Arrow’s J.D. McPherson if he has made any New Year’s resolutions and a list of abandoned promises from years prior comes out. He has “halfway mastered longbow archery” and is just about finished reading The Grapes of Wrath. “As stalwart an Okie as I claim to be, I’d never read it,” McPherson said. […]
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Most drab
Surely you’ve read about the uproar from some quarters over OKC Theatre Company’s production of Paul Rudnick’s glib comedy The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. A state legislator, who also happens to be a Baptist preacher, began an effort to shame officials into barring the show from CitySpace in city-owned Civic Center Music Hall. City […]
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Sharing is caring
HiLo bartender Topher Sauceda Photo: Mark Hancock One such event is Saturday’s annual chili cook-off at HiLo Club, 1221 NW 50th St., to benefit Other Options Inc. “[It] was originally put together by longtime patrons and friends of the HiLo, Kendall Simpkins and Tracy Lansing,” said bartender Topher Sauceda. “For four years now, we have […]
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The Flaming Lips — Peace Sword
For those who have been clamoring for a return to the more optimistic, life-affirming version of The Lips (or, as some would call them, “songs”), Peace Sword ought to appease — albeit subtly. The six-song EP was conceived after being asked to write music for the end credits of the recently released sci-fi flick Ender’s […]