Marie Osmond is filled with the Christmas spirit, and she wants to share it with you. Along with her brother, Donny, Marie will bring Christmas cheer to all of Oklahoma with their newest touring show, Donny & Marie Christmas. It’s hard to imagine a holiday in an Osmond home without sparkly outfits and microphones. After all, […]
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Tripping out
Arizona artists Oliver and Spencer Hibert bring their uniquely psychedelic paintings to the Womb. BY BECKY CARMAN During the summer of 2011, the landscape of downtown OKC changed forever when a humble building on Ninth Street transformed into a brilliantly colored and vaguely offensive landmark. For the common commuter, the swath of rainbows and pink […]
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LIFE FOOD & DRINK
LIFE FOOD & DRINK Turkey and Thanksgiving are one in the same, right? It doesn’t matter what part of the turkey; it’s all delicious: breast, wing, thigh, testicle. No, really. Fried turkey testicles are a thing, and Henry Hudson’s Pub has them. The 4th annual Turkey Testical Festival features the aforementioned goodies, plus beer and […]
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Wine and dine
However, the side dishes have interesting challenges, so while Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir are certainly excellent choices, a couple variations in wine selection can make for a far better Thanksgiving dinner. South African wine is appearing more often in the state, and the Neil Ellis Sincerely Sauvignon Blanc is an excellent introduction to this […]
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Cultural diversity — “For Japanese boys, the train driver sits alongside footballer, doctor and policeman as a dream job,” according to a September Agence France-Presse dispatch, and consequently, the system for the Tokyo metro area (covering 35 million people) runs with the “precision of a finely crafted Swiss watch,” where delays, even for as long […]
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Get free
Steve McQueen’s emotionally jarring biopic, 12 Years a Slave, depicts slavery in a way that few, if any, have ever dared. BY ZACH HALE Slavery was a dark and shameful time in American history — unequivocally the darkest. Yet while the era has been portrayed on the silver screen in countless films, director Steve McQueen […]
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Music Made Me: Chase Kerby
Photo: Doug Schwarz Jeff Buckley, Grace (1994) As cliché as it has become to say that you’re a Buckley fan, I’ll never stop admitting it. This was one of those records I got at the perfect time in my life. His lyrics are poetry, and his melodies are undeniably brilliant. He’s also the one who […]
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She’s country
Libby’s Cafe is a steak-and-catfish restaurant named for co-owner Libby Adkins. It’s just south of Interstate 35’s Goldsby exit on State Highway 74. The evening we bopped down, a middle-aged group of obviously affluent riders on enormous motorcycles had just arrived. That cemented the notion that it’s a destination restaurant for the greater metro area. […]
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American Experience offers warts-and-all portrait of controversial president JFK
bY Dean robbins I’m powerless to resist a documentary about John F. Kennedy. Though I’m well aware of the late president’s faults, I’m drawn in by his charisma every time. I cheer his triumphs and bemoan his tragedies. And I always respond to images of the assassination as if I’m seeing them for the first […]
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
The entrepreneurial spirit Extract of cockroach is a delicacy among some Chinese, believed able to miraculously reduce inflammation, defy aging and cure tuberculosis, cancer and cirrhosis. Quartz reported in August that Yunnan province is a Silicon Valley-type business center, where pulverized roaches can sell for the equivalent of about $89 a pound, and five pharmaceutical […]