Grab some corned beef and green beer this St. Patrick’s Day.
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Dublin Irish Dance brings Stepping Out to Armstrong Auditorium
The performance begins 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at Armstrong Auditorium.
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Flatfoot 56 brings Celtic punk to Yukon’s Iron Thistle Scottish Festival
Flatfoot 56 frontman Tobin Bawinkel balances substitute teaching with the jovial music of his bagpipe-assisted hardcore punk band.
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Yo ho ho and a flagon of rum
The band’s persistence resulted in a recording contract with Side One Dummy records (Irish punks Flogging Molly are label-mates) and a spot on Vans Warped Tour after a parking lot audition for Warped Tour owner Kevin Lyman. Its debut album, Forge & Flagon, came out in 2012. Band members went on to play their self-described […]
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Luck of the Irish
Punk-rock legends Dropkick Murphys will kick off their annual St. Patrick’s Day festivities with a tour of the Midwest before touching back down in their hometown of Boston for an annual gig — or gigs — on the Irish holiday. Always on the road, it seems, the band celebrates with its town and its people […]
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SHOPGIRL: A knit in time
Norman-based A-Wee-Bit-Of- Ireland.com owner Janne O’Donnell traveled all the way to the Emerald Isle to personally select traditional, all-natural Irish textiles to bring to Oklahoma. O’Donnell’s website offers handmade scarves by famous designer Edel MacBride; woolen throws from Ireland’s oldest mill, Avoca Handweavers, in County Wicklow; Branigan Weavers baby blankets from County Louth; and Aran […]
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Citadel
Infected by the syringe the hoodlums plunge into her, she ends up in hospice, but doctors are able to save the baby, a girl who’s happy and healthy — basically, everything Tommy is not. In fact, the trauma has turned him into a barely functioning agoraphobe. Not only is he afraid to leave the house, […]
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Celtic pride
When director Martin Scorsese looked for the perfect song to blast over the beginning of the Boston-set “The Departed,” he found it in Massachusetts-based Dropkick Murphys’ “I’m Shipping Up to Boston.” The group found that out the same time moviegoers did. “They never told us how they were going to use the song. We were […]
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Irish eyes are frowning
Of course, I’m not a full-fledged connoisseur, so I don’t know for sure; but doesn’t hand-temperature interfere with liquor-temperature when you hold it right in your hand like that? (I could go on with what the pictured pint says about the callused senses of a contemporary, hardworking Oklahoma Cityan; but — like I said — […]
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Sláinte!
When you’re a kid, the mid- March celebration of all things Irish was mostly tainted with memories of forgetting to wear green in the fourth grade and spending the whole day fending off that one kid who was a little too eager to pinch everyone. Maybe you were that kid. But you grew out of […]