Oklahoma City University’s American Spirit Dance Company will present its 33rd annual spring show this weekend. This year’s show, titled Footloose, Frankenstein and Fedoras will feature 24 dance numbers performed by a cast of 158 dancers. The show will feature fast-tempo tap numbers, chorus and kick lines, dancers dressed as Champagne bottles, big hair from […]
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Tapping tradition
Wayne Cantwell Photo: Mark Hancock An Irish jam session, known as a seisiún in Irish Gaelic, includes an array of musical instruments. Most often, one would find a combination of fiddle; button accordion; flute; tin whistle; guitar; tenor banjo; piano; uilleann (elbow) pipes; and a bodhrán, a goatskin Irish drum. The bouzouki, a Greek stringed […]
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Oklahoma City University is partnering with the Oklahoma Humanities Council to present Ellison at 100: A Centennial Symposium to celebrate author Ralph Ellison’s 100th birthday. Ellison is the author of the novel Invisible Man, many short stories and essays on jazz, literature and American culture as seen in Shadow and Act and Going to the […]
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Sooners are the best
Real estate website Movoto pitted the state’s cities and towns over 10,000 population with census data, and the college town ranked high for its low tax rate, temperate weather, overall quality of life and other amenities. Sorry (We’re not sorry.), Edmond, but you were only No. 2. Don’t cry. (OK, cry.) The upside, though, is […]
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Oklahoma State University’s Oklahoma City campus is hosting Organic Oklahoma, its first sustainable and organic production conference. The program will educate beginning and advanced growers in hands-on growing techniques, season extension, varietal selections and farm management practices. Guests will have the opportunity to tour the farmers market, green houses and high tunnel facilities and visit […]
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Late folk legend Pete Seeger influenced Woody Guthrie as much as Guthrie did him, and he will receive a posthumous award acknowledging just that. BY SHANNON HELTON “It’s because of Pete Seeger that I know the chorus of every folk song,” said Nora Guthrie, daughter of the late Woody Guthrie. Millions more exposed to his […]
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The University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s wine-tasting fundraiser, Toast to the Arts, raises money for student activities and special programming. Tasters receive a souvenir engraved wine glass, a cocktail of Cupcake Prosecco with St. Germain and a flight of white wines including Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc, Sofia Riesling, Eberle Muscato, Franciscan […]
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Harkins Theatres’ Tuesday Night Classics series includes timeless film collections, poignant love stories and Oscar winners every Tuesday night. This week’s selection is rom-com royalty: Sleepless in Seattle. The 1993 love story, directed by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, will show at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Harkins Bricktown Cinema 16, 150 […]
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Why fund the Oklahoma Arts Council?
I’ve watched state policymakers and legislators ask this question and inexplicably seem unable to come to a fairly simple conclusion. The Oklahoma Arts Council (OAC) is one of the leanest-operating state agencies in Oklahoma, improving the lives of Oklahomans from Frederick to Miami and Broken Bow to Black Mesa, seeding the success of hundreds of […]
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Dog’s life
OKC Theatre Company continues its season with the production of A.R. Gurney’s romantic comedy Sylvia. The play follows the story of a middle-aged, recently empty-nested couple whose already-strained marriage is put to the test when husband Greg takes in a stray dog. Yes, its name is Sylvia. The conceit of the play is that Sylvia, […]