Around OKC EAT Café do Brasil WATCH Broad City (Comedy Central, Hulu) LISTEN This American Life podcast/radio show READ Lumberjanes by Shannon Watters, Grace Elise, Brooklyn A. Allen and Noelle Stevenson LOVE Mutt Misfits EXPERIENCE Rodeo Cinema Outside OKC EAT Omega Chocolate in Bartesville WATCH Veronica Mars (Hulu) LISTEN Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast and radio show […]
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Wizurdz compromise
Limp Wizurdz is getting serious — sort of. “It definitely did start off as a joke,” said guitarist Jeffrey Simmons, who founded the band with vocalist Taylor Young. “Taylor hates when I say this, but when we started the band, we were listening to Limp Bizkit.” At this point in the interview, Young interrupted to […]
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Best of OKC 2019
When Oklahoma Gazette declares that this is the Best of OKC, we do it with confidence because we’ve got the statistics to prove it. Over 1 million votes get cast in this annual celebration of what makes our city amazing, inventive, adventurous or delicious, and it takes some powerful computing and tolerance of paper cuts […]
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Fire festival?
This is a tale of two festivals. One was disastrous and the other was a well-oiled machine, depending on the day you attended. On Saturday, Oklahomans arrived at their first High Times Cannabis Cup. By mid-afternoon, memes comparing the event to infamous Fyre Festival were popping up on social media. But by the time the […]
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Peak altitude
When The Peak opened its doors last fall, it made sure to distinguish itself as a cannabis dispensary for those who are not inclined toward cannabis dispensaries. “We passed [State Question] 788 on June 26, 2018, and I kind of just thought to myself, ‘Man, somebody needs to come in and they need to do […]
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Summer sounds
To completely misquote Alice Cooper, school’s in. Summer Daze 2.0 7 p.m. Aug. 30-31 Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman
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Our time
For actress and producer Michaelene Stephenson, being a filmmaker is exactly what it sounds like. “My main goal would be to help movies get made, and if that means I’m the right person for a role and I need to act in the film, awesome. I really love doing that,” said Stephenson. “But if that […]
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Giant leap
Science Museum Oklahoma (SMO) officials are hoping to raise $3.5 million to relocate Kirkpatrick Planetarium and outfit it with improved infrastructure. SMO recently launched One Giant Leap, a fundraising campaign to help convert the dormant OmniDome Theater into a world-class planetarium. “Our history as a museum began on the fairgrounds as the Kirkpatrick Plan-etarium, and […]
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Communal culinary
Since opening Social Deck + Dining in the former Chae Modern Korean space, 1933 NW 23rd St., last December, owners Jordan and Jamie Winteroth are still very much in the perilous first year of a restaurant. Under the headline “No, most restaurants don’t fail in the first year,” Forbes did its best in a 2017 […]
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Box-office poison
Arsenic and Old Lace Aug. 22-Sept. 15 Jewel Box Theatre 3700 N. Walker Ave. fccokc.org/jewel-box-theatre 405-521-1786 $20-$30 When she first saw the film version of Arsenic and Old Lace, Denise Hughes did not expect a movie about insanity and murder to be funny — mostly because it was released in 1944. “As a general rule, […]