The Morrison household was home to some of the rowdiest, loudest, longest and most memorable house parties in the San Francisco Bay area, but it wasn’t siblings Alex and Ben Morrison (leaders of The Brothers Comatose) behind them — it was their parents. The pair’s mom performed music professionally, and she’d invite her bandmates, friends, […]
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Sports hall inductees announced
Inductees include political icon and OU quarterback J.C. Watts, rodeo champ Roy Cooper, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and All-American footballer Leslie Claudis O’Neal, with posthumous inductions of four-time basketball All-Star Darrell Porter and Amateur Athletic Union basketballer and Olympic coach Gerald Tucker. “This year’s inductees are respected citizens and athletes; a remarkable group of […]
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Inside Llewyn Davis
There are several shots in Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest that (intentionally) offer a similar imagery, only with one very significant difference: Its protagonist, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac, Drive), is a lone wolf in the truest sense — aloof, misunderstood and tragically unsuccessful in his personal and professional endeavors. Set in 1961, the film opens […]
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Best of OKC 2013 – Places
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Best place to volunteer REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA 3355 S. Purdue Its motto is “Fighting hunger … feeding hope.” Volunteers help the largest private hunger-relief organization in the state do this by sorting and distributing enough food to feed 90,000 people every week. That’s vitally important in a state […]
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Blancanieves
Once upon a time, the idea of a film being silent, foreign and — steee-rike three! — black and white equated to box-office poison. Then 2011’s The Artist won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture; earned $133 million worldwide; and lived happily ever after. Hoping for the same storybook ending is Spain’s Blancanieves. While every […]
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Reverb brotherhood
The Fortune Tellers: Miho Kolliopoulos, Basile Kolliopoulos, Victor Goetz and Mike Newberry For many years, if you were to peruse Oklahoma Gazette’s event listings, chances are you’d see mention of at least one show that week in which Basile Kolliopoulos would be playing guitar, at now-closed metro venues like The Samurai, The Bowery and Liberty […]
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Big time
Dominic Lalli and Jeremy Salken — the two minds behind electronic duo Big Gigantic — met while playing in various jazz and funk bands around the greater Boulder, Colo., area before rooming together and deciding to collaborate. Old habits die hard. “[Lalli] said, ‘I’m making these beats, and I want to play sax over it.’ […]
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The Thompsons
Personally, I went in to The Thompsons relatively cold, having heard of its big brother, but never having caught up with it. In doing so, I felt like I had jumped onto a sitcom in its second or third week: I could immediately get into its groove without knowing the backgrounds of the players. All […]
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Crow about it
Photo: Crackerfarm The only thing Americana act Old Crow Medicine Show likes better than working the stage is working the corner. “It’s always been our heart and soul. Our performance comes out of all those years spent cutting our teeth on the street corner,” singer Ketch Secor said of the band’s humble beginnings busking on […]
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The Outlaw Brothers
Yes, it comes from the Dragon Dynasty line — release No. 57, to be precise — but it’s sillier than the bulk of Dragon Dynasty product, which largely skips this period in favor of old-school Shaw Brothers. But Frankie Chan’s The Outlaw Brothers? It’s as of-the-times as a 1990 flick can be, right down to […]