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The Weeknd — Echoes of Silence

Not so fast! “Echoes of Silence” continues with the cadre of really sad characters (such as the poor girl working “for your face-lift” on “XO/The Host”) in really sad, sexually exploitive situations spelled out on The Weeknd’s first two mixtapes, without adding many new elements to that signature hazy, narcotized atmosphere of industrial beats and […]

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In the ’zona

No, it’s not a disaster of biblical proportions. It’s a New Year’s miracle. The BCS-bound Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Insight Bowl-relegated University of Oklahoma Sooners play just four days apart in Arizona suburbs, and on a holiday weekend, no less! With the sting of Bedlam behind us (I tip my cap in congratulations to […]

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Come on, Pilgrim

Since it doesn’t matter, let’s all dress up in headdresses and build tepees, then have a group of white people dressed like colonialists come and bash up crap, leaving the land wrecked and ravaged. Sounds like a party, no? Oklahoma City electro-collective Dance Robots, Dance! recently promoted a Nov. 23 “Special Pilgrims & Indians Theme […]

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Come on, Pilgrim

Since it doesn’t matter, let’s all dress up in headdresses and build tepees, then have a group of white people dressed like colonialists come and bash up crap, leaving the land wrecked and ravaged. Sounds like a party, no? Oklahoma City electro-collective Dance Robots, Dance! recently promoted a Nov. 23 “Special Pilgrims & Indians Theme […]

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These Amazing Shadows

The doc is a love letter to the moving image, using the National Film Registry as its diving board. Created by a literal act of Congress, its board has selected 25 films of cultural, historic and/or aesthetic significance annually for preservation since 1989. From a mix of “sprocket-worn classics” to “consciousness-expanding” works, these chosen few […]

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