When Tallows’ two-song demo surfaced on their Bandcamp site last November, expectations mounted in anticipation for a proper full-length. This was understandable, given the promise exhibited by these four fresh-faced locals on both “Soft Water” and “Small Talk” (the aforementioned demo), songs that were staggering in their conceptual ambition. Nine months later, we have Memory […]
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Inside the Octo-gon
When Austin’s The Octopus Project takes the stage, it’s more than a concert — an immersive and organized chaos ensues. Thickly layered instrumentals, colorful projections and a conscious commitment to putting on a show come across clear as day. It’s frenetic, to be sure, but it’s also accessible in a way unique to this quartet. […]
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Little Italy
A touring art exhibition that condenses 500 years of Italian art through 40 paintings is open to visitors of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Museum curator Alison Amick has worked more than two years organizing Of Heaven and Earth, a collection of Italian paintings from the Glasgow Museum in Scotland. The show presents five […]
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Bonded by art
Elise Gordon, Windows Buckling Down “My daughter has been an artist from a very young age and became quite accomplished in high school,” Mathews-Gordon said. “During her high school years, I was a professional artist, and we would bounce ideas back and forth off of each other on our various projects. We would share techniques […]
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Urban education
“If we’re going to operate as a fully functional 24-hour downtown, we need more than an elementary school. We need a middle school and a high school,” said Russell Claus, city planning director, about John W. Rex Elementary School, under construction at Sheridan and Walker avenues. The $14 million charter school is the result of […]
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Sound excavation
You might expect Enid outfit The Fossil Youth to hit the road with fellow pop-punk groups when touring time comes. It has, occasionally. But just as often, it has trekked across the country with hardcore bands. Believe it or not, the band has yet to be death-glared off the stage. “It gives us a chance […]
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Legal challenge threatened over MAPS 3
Oklahoma City attorney David Slane contended that passage of the 2009 MAPS 3 package was unconstitutional based on a state law that restricts voters from approving multiple projects with a single-ballot question. Slane, known for taking often-unpopular stances on controversial issues, claims the ballot language violated the state’s so-called “single subject” law since it provided […]
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‘Gazette’ welcomes new editor
She moved back after 14 years at the Tulsa World, where she worked in a variety of capacities over the years, most recently as music journalist, reviewer and blogger for the area’s burgeoning concert industry. Her journalistic work experience includes news, breaking news, feature and news feature reporting, investigative journalism, news photography, videography, blogging, page […]
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Taking the bus one stop too far
And especially when you’re rapper 2 Chainz, huddled on your post-concert bus with 10 others and possibly using narcotics after being pulled over by Oklahoma City police for a broken bus taillight. The rapper, real name Tauheed Epps, was arrested early morning Aug. 22 after an almost nine-hour standoff, multiple news sources reported. NewsOK reported […]
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Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Alley?
Credit: Brad Gregg Instead of calling it Brady Street, it will be called Brady Street. That’s because the council had come under fire since 2011 after This Land Press published a story detailing the background of the street’s namesake – city founder, politician, businessman and alleged Ku Klux Klan member Wyatt Tate Brady. Now, the […]