There’s just something magnetic about Oklahoma City, but one natural-born wayfarer and multidisciplinary artist didn’t realize it until she headed west three years ago. Traveler, artist and OKC native Jamie Pettis has remained connected through art since moving to Phoenix in 2010, and her work is currently exhibited for the third time in her home […]
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What have you done?
Distinguished professor and contemporary artist Michael Ray Charles from the University of Texas at Austin will judge the juried show and choose the recipient of the T.G. Mays Purchase Award. Each year, the university issues multiple cash prizes and chooses one student to receive the award and add his or her work to the permanent […]
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Louie Louie
The place was close to capacity, but it wasn’t a mob scene. The volume was lively, but not annoying. No one appeared to be three sheets to the wind, and there was plenty of staff to handle all aspects of the business. An overabundance of big-screen TVs all tuned to the same channel made for […]
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Skin-deep
As John Lennon so perfectly put it, life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. Oklahoma singer-songwriter Sherree Chamberlain knows this all too well. Back in late 2011, she successfully ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund what would be her second full-length album, released in the first half of 2012. Two […]
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Sleaze Dizeaze Mont Lyons/Other Lovers/Did You See Those Bats, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. ROcK John Wayne’s Bitches/Red cities/Your Mom, Opolis, Norman. ROcK Sleaze Dizeaze/Unrelenting Butchery, The Chameleon Room. ROcK The Recliners, Riverwind Casino, Norman. ROcK Uninvited Guest, Baker St. Pub & Grill. ROcK Zack Merrill, Chips ‘N Ales at Riverwind Casino, Norman. SINGeR/SONGWRITeR SuNDAY, DEC. […]
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Rule Britannia
Even if you’re not a gambler — or “gamer,” as the industry prefers — visiting is a lively experience. It’s not a James Bond-style casino with people in tuxedos and evening gowns, but on any given day, you will discover a highly diverse set of patrons. The enormous place is well-lit and clean, with well-appointed […]
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Poolboy — Soda Kids
Guitarist Michael Loveland, bassist Sean Barker and drummer John Calvin are no strangers to the local scene, nor are they, apparently, strangers to good, old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll. The band’s debut EP, Soda Kids, clocks in at less than six minutes, with four capricious and impassioned tracks that mimic a bygone golden era of punk […]
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Happenings the week of Oct. 29, 2013
Mid-Week Market, fresh, delectable local fruits, vegetables and other goods, 4-8 p.m., Oct. 30, Nov. 6. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno, 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. WED, WED Paint N’ Cheers, creative social art classes, 6:30 p.m., Oct. 30. Paint N Cheers, 1614 N. Gatewood, . 524-4155, paintncheers.com. WED Tipsy Artist, wine and paint party, 6-9 p.m., […]
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It’s a bird, it’s a ‘swinging’ UFO …
We’re not sure if it was an epic party or what, but the craft (literally) hung around all night, apparently, just, you know, blinking its colored lights “and swinging back and forth.” Might it have been hanging from an extra-long cosmic string, like in an Ed Wood movie? Even aliens couldn’t find anything else fun […]
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East meets West
Seattle’s Rose Windows cram as much into the music as they do players on stage. The seven-piece psychedelic rock outfit has concocted a wholly unique swirl of American classic rock, British prog and psychedelia with ready dabbles into Persian, Indian and Eastern European sounds, making for a worldly musical experience like few others that came […]