Not to ruin everyone’s fun this holiday season, but AAA Oklahoma reports that 30 percent of all state automobile crashes are caused by alcohol. This number rises as high as 40 percent during the holidays (cue Debbie Downer trumpet — wah waaahh). It’s a season fraught with celebration and — if your family has just […]
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Destination Japan
Review of Tokyo Japanese Restaurant 7516 N. Western 848-6733 General Manager: Koji Omori Sushi chef: Akihiro Ishimaru Food style: Japanese Average check: $12 I was a little late to the sushi party. When the only entry into the Asian culinary scene growing up is that canned chop suey kit popular with ’80s moms throughout the […]
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Do you hear what we hear?
“Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album”WHAT’D’YA BRING ME?: Sick of those “Glee” kids yet? Don’t answer yet! Let them present their peculiarly popular brand of glossy karaoke on holiday classics first, with the strangely titled “Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album,” because “Glee: The Christmas Album” just wasn’t descriptive enough. CANDY CANES: A stomp-rap version […]
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True Grit
When you dare open your film with a biblical quote about revenge, as “True Grit” does, you better deliver a story about revenge, and it better be epic. Rest assured, writing/directing siblings Joel and Ethan Coen (“No Country for Old Men”) have done that with their latest foray into the sinister side of the American […]
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Thirty for ’10
ROD LOTT’S PICKS If you haven’t noticed, 2010 has proven volatile for our country, and the same goes for cinema. It’s been an off year. Need proof? My list of the 10 best from the last 12 months has two — count ’em, two — movies starring Mark Wahlberg! (Could that be real or is […]
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Bite Size
The line was long and several people waited for hours, but Emeril — the BAM! man who is the chef/ proprietor of a dozen restaurants — performed his chores right on time, just like on TV. He then autographed books for the hundreds who came to see the popular chef in person. His latest book […]
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Better off Fred
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey8 p.m. Friday Cain’s Ballroom 423 N. Main, Tulsa www.cainsballroom.com 918-584-2306 $19 advance, $25 door Brian Haas does not subscribe to your ideas of music. “It’s hard to have a conversation about music genres, because I simply don’t believe in them,” said Haas, pianist and founding member of Tulsabased Jacob Fred Jazz […]
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Buy backs
While that odd gift was memorable for many reasons — and, in fact, it still sits proudly on my desk, its weird, pink mouth smiling — I am happy to report that my favorite finds of 2010 are less peculiar. While still not exactly bursting with wads of cash and high-paying jobs, the year saw […]
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Counterpoint: A matter of perspective
They say that as if it’s a bad thing. It’s not. As the Nov. 2 shellacking made perfectly clear, people want less government and more freedom. As one wag observed, that wasn’t an election — it was a restraining order. From Nov. 5 to 11, telephone interviewers for SoonerPoll asked likely voters: “Which would you […]
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Hey! Do This
Climb this Had to cancel your Mount Everest expedition last week because Auntie and Paw-Paw dropped by unexpectedly? Yeah, me, too. Perhaps you’ll join me at the next best thing as Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 N.E. 52nd, screens the documentary “Everest” daily in its Dome Theater. Liam Neeson narrates, so close your eyes and imagine […]