ACM@UCO is not quite 2 years old, but it’s already paying dividends for its students. See The Rockettops, an indie-rock quartet taking what its players have learned and packaging it into a model for other students to follow. Singer Jordan Smith, bassist Michael Bewley and guitarist Earl Moreno met at the school and formed the […]
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Barney’s Version
Opening Friday at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, it’s a Canadian film based on Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel, detailing the entire adulthood of Barney Panofsky (Giamatti, TV’s “John Adams”), who, despite being wildly successful as a soap-opera producer, fails spectacularly in his personal life. It takes him three marriages to get it right, and even […]
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Be their guest
The year 1991 was good for yellow dresses. That was when Disney released the film “Beauty and the Beast,” and little girls everywhere began asking not to be a princess, but to be Belle — this once-little girl included. The Academy Award-winning movie spawned the Tony Award-winning Broadway production, one that played for more than […]
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Land of Oz
above Waitress Linda Hendrix delivers all-you-can-eat breakfasts to Tony Sampson right and T. Valencia at Ozzie’s Diner at Norman’s Max Westheimer Airport terminal. Going to the airport is always a hectic experience, from check-in to takeoff. It’s a rush of security checks, flight delays and claiming baggage all while carting around carry-ons, IDs and boarding […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
It’s just a texture more than anything else and it celebrates being intangible. Maybe the trick to editing an alt weekly is to treat it like the slow-food locavore dish: well made, homegrown, hand crafted. “Look at what people will do for vinyl records. Look at all those indie bands that have discovered the washboard […]
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On the move
So, friends, here are four shops that have moved in the last couple of months, or are moving. Some have even expanded, changed names, and maybe even broken up with boyfriends and dyed their hair. Try to keep up. In late 2010, Dulaney’s (7660 N. Western; 607-8880) moved out of Nichols Hills Plaza. The new […]
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That new car smell
Audi reported sales of 7,812 cars and SUVs in January, up 20 percent from the previous January. It also surpassed that month’s sales record, set in 2010 with 6,510 vehicles sold. This month’s results continue Audi’s strongest sales year in the U.S., grabbing 8.6 percent of the market at the close of 2010. Chrysler’s January […]
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The Illusionist
Don’t get me wrong: I liked “Toy Story 3.” I just feel like I had seen it before (it is a sequel, after all). All too often, I think good animated films like Pixar’s are overhyped, because when one considers the other crap our children drag us to — i.e. “Yogi Bear” — something like […]
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Short stuff
ANIMATED “The Gruffalo” concerns a mouse saving his skin by outwitting a fox, an owl and a snake via a tale about the titular fabled monster in order to save his own skin. Crisp-looking and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, it’s one joke too long at 27 minutes. France’s “Madagascar, A Journey Diary” plays like […]
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Monkey see
Oklahoma Children’s Theatre and TheatreOCU join forces to stage “Inherit the Wind,” an American classic dealing with the battle between religion and science over evolution. The play was inspired by the events of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in science teacher John T. Scopes was convicted of breaking Tennessee law for teaching Darwin’s theory of […]