Reviewers’ grade: D “The Invisible” presents a gang of unappealing characters in an unbelievable situation. While the same might be said of Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed,” don’t confuse the two. David S. Goyer’s film follows the “Ghost”-ly antics of a teenager as he tries desperately to save his own life by getting those responsible for […]
NULL
Posted inArts & Culture
Norman museum holds Native American Youth Language Fair
A battle of wits and words will be waged Thursday and Friday at the fifth annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair. Held at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua in Norman, participants will demonstrate their knowledge of more than 18 different American Indian languages. Students compete in spoken […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Norman’s May Fair full of kids’ activities
A park is generally a place where kids can play. An art show is generally for adults looking to be inspired. But Friday through Sunday, art meets the park at Norman’s 33rd annual May Fair Arts Festival. May Fair’s 2007 Celebrated Artist, Bob Palmer, will let kids help him create three canvas murals honoring […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Next
Reviewers’ grade: B- “Next” is not technically a time-travel flick, but it’s close enough to be susceptible both to the genre’s kaleidoscopic joys and its lapses in logic. Loosely based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, the movie is a frothy blast of hokum that’s clever as long as you don’t scrutinize it […]
Posted inArts & Culture
OKC Zoo holding birthday party for planet Earth
When kids celebrate a birthday, there’s cake and ice cream, but hardly ever a gorilla. But from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Oklahoma City Zoo, children of all ages are invited to a birthday party for Earth that will include just that and much more. Candice Rennels, public relations technician for the […]
Posted inMusic
Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
Saddle Creek Get your diaries, plastic framed glasses and ratty Converse sneakers ready, kids’ it’s time for a new Bright Eyes album. A few tracks on “Cassadaga” are fresh and fun. “Four Winds” is upbeat and twangy, contrasting nicely with front man/loner icon Conor Oberst’s shaky and often feminine voice. “Soul Singer in a […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Kids can keep fossil finds at Norman museum dig
Kids attending the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History this weekend are going to dig this ” literally: The museum is playing host to a family fossil-hunting field trip Friday and Saturday, and whatever participants unearth, they get to keep. So, Mom, prepare to make room for a life-size trilobite display in the den. […]
Posted inArts & Culture
OKC Theatre Co. does classic ‘Cat’ right
Before women had found and owned their power, there was Tennessee Williams’ South. There, gentlemen still practiced a patriarchal dismissal of women, even as they regularly succumbed to their wily manipulation. Williams used this dynamic social contradiction to help weave “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” now a production of Oklahoma City Theatre Company. […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Inland Empire
Reviewers’ grade: A Part amateur art film and surreal nightmare, David Lynch’s “Inland Empire” is guaranteed to upset the most jaded of moviegoers. Lynch familiars Laura Dern and Justin Theroux are movie stars Nikki Grace and Devon Berk, who win roles in a movie to be directed by Kingsley Stewart (Jeremy Irons). Problem is, […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Masters of Horror: Right to Die
2006 Despite a quite slim resume in horror “? 2003’s limp backwoods chiller “Wrong Turn” “? director Rob Schmidt nonetheless delivers one of the best “Masters of Horror” episodes yet with “Right to Die.” Hal Hartley film vet Martin Donovan stars as Dr. Addison, a dentist who’s having an argument with his wife (fetching […]