Life food & drink The next in a long line of headliners at St. Anthony’s annual Celebrity Chef series is one who, if you call yourself a foodie, will have you salivating in no time. Food Network star and New York Times best-selling author Anne Burrell is renowned for her easy-to-master home cooking techniques. Burrell […]
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Hoop It
Hoop it So there’s this basketball team here in OKC called the Thunder. You may have heard of them? Well, they’re kind of good at sports and stuff (like, really good), and their games are as electric in person as the team’s name would suggest. See them play the Brooklyn Nets 7 p.m. Thursday at […]
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The Call
Halle Berry (Cloud Atlas) leads the show as Jordan Turner, a veteran 911 operator in Los Angeles. (If anything, she should dial 911 for help with her distracting hairdo.) In the prologue, she’s giving questionable advice to a girl who calls about a prowler, resulting in the teen’s death. Six months later, Jordan is still […]
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Compliance
In a role that should have earned her an Academy Award nomination (but I suspect the old-fart contingent couldn’t make it through the film, if it tried at all), Ann Dowd (Side Effects) gets the role of her long character-actress career as Sandra, manager of a fictional fast-food restaurant. Her shift at ChickWich starts as […]
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For a Good Time, Call …
If you bet that means a lot of one-liners about penises and vaginas, and maybe some sight gags involving zeppelin-sized dildos, I congratulate you on your clairvoyance. But there are surprises here, too, particularly how sweet-natured this film actually is, and how winning are its two stars. Lauren (Lauren Anne Miller, 50/50), the straitlaced product […]
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The Workweek — Promises, Promises
The highlights of the album are mature, thoughtful songs that fit comfortably into the listener’s ear. The simplest songs here are the strongest, as in the plaintive acoustic ballad “What You Wanted” and the lazy-Sunday vibe and great pedal steel of “Can You Hear Me Now.” That number and “Ain’t So” call up comparisons to […]
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Hey! Do this
Sing this Having just released her fourth album, “A Token of the Wreckage,” indie songstress Megan Slankard performs 8 p.m. Saturday at Othello’s, 434 Buchanan in Norman. The singer-songwriter has received rave reviews for her impressive vocals, commanding stage presence and memorable melodies. Admission is free. Call 360-2353 or visit meganslankard.com. Saturday Wrestle this Catch […]
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Hey! Do this
snap this We all know that caterpillars become butterflies, but what happens after that? Windle Turley, author of “The Amazing Monarch,” a photographic chronicle of the monarch butterfly’s migration patterns, answers that question with his new exhibit, now on display through March 18 at Oklahoma City University’s Norick Art Center, 2501 N. Blackwelder. Admission is […]
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Hey! Do this
Read this Judging a book by its cover may be your best bet at the 32nd annual Friends of the Library book sale Saturday and Sunday at the Oklahoma Expo Hall in State Fair Park, 3000 General Pershing. With more than 600,000 books, videos and magazines on sale (most for $1 or less), the possibilities […]