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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Sculpting history
Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition through Sunday National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1700 NE 63rd St. nationalcowboymuseum.org 405-478-2250 Free-$12.50 This year is shaping up to be one of the most memorable years for prolific Norman-based sculptor Paul Moore. Not only is his massive, 45-piece Oklahoma Centennial Land Run Monument set to complete installation […]
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Flower Review: Norma’s Dream
Strain name: Norma’s Dream Grown by: Herblix Acquired from: Friendly Market (Norman) Date acquired: July 19 THC/CBD percentages: 16.95 percent THC/.04 percent CBD (per True Fit Medical Laboratories, LLC.) Physical traits: Light green with a large number of orange stigmas and glittering with trichomes Bouquet: Earthy and sweet Review: Norma’s Dream was a special release between […]
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Art work
Art is work. “Everybody says it’s so easy, but it’s not,” said impressionist painter Jody Ellison, recalling her time as an art student at the University of Oklahoma. “I took the life drawing; I took perspective; I took art history, art structure. It was really hard.” Ellison’s work is included in the exhibit Between the […]
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SUMMER GUIDE Hello, Oklahoma!
Not long ago, a roundup of notable concerts hitting Oklahoma in a given summer would have been depressingly Tulsa-heavy. Our neighbor to the northeast is well-represented on the list below, but at the risk of jinxing an encouraging trend, fans of music in many genres can get their concert fix without ever leaving the OKC […]
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Threatening beauty
The Skies Have It opening reception 16-10 p.m. Friday Mainsite Contemporary Art 122 E. Main St., Norman mainsitecontemporaryart.com Free Oklahoma’s unique connection to the weather is felt every time Oklahoma City-based artist David Holland puts brush to canvas. Holland takes photos of large thunderstorms after they move east past the city and turns them into […]
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Eviction notices
Three metro dispensaries have been told that they are too close to schools and have a month to move by Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA), the same agency that approved their licenses, apparently without confirming their proof of distance from those schools. The three dispensaries in question are The Gateway CBD & Dispensary, 4 E. […]
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Universal language
Lincka 10 p.m. Friday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-230-0311 $10 After having a song featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and playing Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Lincka Elizondo is going wherever she pleases. Recording the follow-up to 2017’s Para Ti — which included “Gardenias,” listed alongside tracks by Marty Stuart, Beth Ditto […]
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Beautiful collaboration
The Melrose Sessions through April 27 The Depot Gallery 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman pasnorman.org 405-307-9320 Free Norman-based artists Skip Hill and Douglas Shaw Elder started hanging out a few years ago to help foster the ever-important artistic community, but their friendship has done the near impossible and resulted in a successful collaboration between two […]
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Hello, Death
Greet Death8 p.m. Monday Resonator Institute 325 E. Main St., Norman resonator.space $5 About 20 years ago in a first-grade classroom, Greet Death began to form. Bassist Sam Boyhtari, guitarist Logan Gaval and former drummer Anthony Spak became childhood friends in Davisburg, Michigan, before they learned long division, but they wouldn’t pick up their instruments […]