Based on factual events, it unfolds during World War II in the Polish town of Lvov, now part of Ukraine. Mass executions in the Warsaw Ghetto have driven about a dozen Jewish Poles to escape the Nazis by fleeing into the sewer system. They hide in the dank, dark confines of the underground, sharing their […]
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The Salt of Life
What a drag it is getting old. Mick Jagger surely didn’t realize his own prescience when he wrote those words back in his 20s. In The Salt of Life, aging is certainly a drag for Gianni, a 60-year-old Italian forced into early retirement and who now spends his days walking his dog and watching helplessly […]
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Perdida
As a boy, I would’ve loved to have grown up with a family of naked women, robot monsters, Aztec mummies and masked wrestlers. But I’m not Viviana García-Besné. In Perdida, whose title translates to “lost,” the filmmaker documents three years of learning about — and then coming to grips with — her grandfather and great […]
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Green screen
A day of community celebration to usher in the newly renovated Myriad Gardens will include the release of thousands of monarch butterflies. Saturday’s Festival on the Green begins at 8:30 a.m. with Zumba on the lawn, a 10 a.m. dedication ceremony, and various other activities until 7:30 p.m., when Grammy-nominated red-dirt musician Pat Green kicks […]
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Platt my plate, please
Platt College is partnering with Oklahoma Fit Kids Coalition to host a free event designed to give families an opportunity to learn just how to cook a healthy meal based on the USDA “My Plate” guidelines. The cooking class, which is no charge, is planned for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Platt College, […]
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Mansion party!
Gov. Mary Fallin will be the first governor to open all the doors in the governor’s mansion, during this year’s Septemberfest, held on the grounds of the home. The governor and her husband will welcome families from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday for a variety of free, family-friendly activities, including mansion tours. “This year, […]
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Glossy Mag
7:30 p.m. Sunday Lions Park, 400 S. Flood, Norman PASNorman.org, 307-9320 free The sweet, sincere Maggie McClure might not seem too imposing in person, but she’s huge in Japan. “I was sent a picture of the display in one of the record stores over in Tokyo — a life-size cutout of me. That was a […]
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Pet the trumpet
From the flute to the tuba, kids will be able to take their pick Tuesday at Oklahoma City University Wind Philharmonic’s 10th annual Children’s Concerts and Instrumental Petting Zoo. Three free concerts will take place in OCU’s Wanda L. Bass Music Center, 2501 N. Blackwelder, followed by instrumental “petting zoos” after the first two, which […]
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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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Big in Japan
Sunday Jazz guitarist Issei Aoyama will pick, pluck and strum in a free concert 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Performing Arts Studio, 200 S. Jones in Norman. He will be accompanied by Cory Gavito on piano, Michael Geib on double bass and Justin Walke on drums. The quartet will play original pieces by Aoyama, as […]