“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” Darlene Love (1963) OK, the Phil Spector-produced classic is hardly obscure, but a song so rich, soulful and downright stirring can’t be excluded. Plus, it features Oklahoma’s own Leon Russell on piano (back in his studio session days) with a performance that was good enough for Spector to toss him […]
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Jingle spurs
Donna Howell Sickles Christmas comes early this year to the Adelante! Gallery. There are a few slight changes, however: the reindeers are being replaced with horses and the Santa suits with cowboy hats, and the toys are being left behind in favor of handmade saddles, bronze statues and Southwestern landscapes. It’s all part of Adelante!’s […]
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FOOD
First Wednesday Wine Tastings, four glasses of wine and specially paired food, reservations required, 7 p.m., Dec. 4. Bin73, 7312 N. Western Ave., 843-0073, bin73.com. WED Paint N’ Cheers, creative social art classes, 6:30 p.m., Dec. 5-6; 1, 6 p.m., Dec. 7; 2 p.m., Dec. 8. Paint N Cheers, 1614 N. Gatewood, 524-4155, paintncheers.com. THU–SUN […]
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Colourmusic — A Very Special Colourmusic Christmas: Vol. 1
The band calls A Very Special Colourmusic Christmas: Vol. 1 “the indie reponse to Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s ‘Wizards in Winter.’” And while that’s most certainly an apt description, it feels even more like the soundtrack to a lost How The Grinch Stole Christmas! sequel — a whimsical, colorful collection of songs whose quirks are only matched […]
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A family affair
Marie Osmond is filled with the Christmas spirit, and she wants to share it with you. Along with her brother, Donny, Marie will bring Christmas cheer to all of Oklahoma with their newest touring show, Donny & Marie Christmas. It’s hard to imagine a holiday in an Osmond home without sparkly outfits and microphones. After all, […]
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LIFE
The holidays just wouldn’t be the same without A Christmas Carol. Thankfully, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma presents their own version of the timeless classic each year, and the 2013 production features a new face: nationally acclaimed actor Chris Bloch in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. See A Christmas Carol at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 2 and […]
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Find your sparkle
And staring into your closet, trying to come up with a different outfit for each event can get exhausting. Luckily, OKC is full of cute little boutiques with everything you need to update your wardrobe, add something new to spruce up pieces you already have and add a little twinkle with some jewelry. On A […]
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Musically rich New Orleans series Treme goes out swinging
bY Dean Robbins Treme’s final run (Sunday, 8 p.m., HBO) begins with Barack Obama’s election in 2008. We see a clip of Obama alluding to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” in his acceptance speech, and that song becomes a leitmotif in the episode. The New Orleans neighborhood of Treme has certainly seen its […]
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Caesar and Otto’s Deadly Xmas
Caesar (Dave Campfield, also the writer/director/producer/editor) is an anal-retentive wannabe actor who lives with his slob of a half-brother, Otto (Paul Chomicki), a guy still bearing a torch for a girl from school. She sells used shaving cream — a line that sums up everything that is wrong about this movie. In order to impress […]
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Another Hobby Lobby question
If Hobby Lobby is successful, will a Jewish-owned company still have to honor Christmas and Easter as holidays? Just asking. —John Buckley, Norman