Fishin’ When Sulphur native Skip Thompson began painting in 1980, she had no idea that 34 years later, her artwork would be exhibited in the Governor’s Gallery at the Oklahoma State Capitol. At the beginning of her instruction with her first teacher, Maude Landsford, there were some testy times because Landsford was a tough teacher. […]
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Hoop It
Hoop it So there’s this basketball team here in OKC called the Thunder. You may have heard of them? Well, they’re kind of good at sports and stuff (like, really good), and their games are as electric in person as the team’s name would suggest. See them play the Brooklyn Nets 7 p.m. Thursday at […]
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Nine it
Nine it If you’re looking for generic sketch-comedy, do not go see Take 9. If you’re looking for sketch-comedy unlike anything else, go see Take 9’s New Year’s Eve Bash, an interactive variety production featuring live music, giveaways and lots of laughs. The fastpaced show starts at 9 p.m. Tuesday at Red Room Event Center, […]
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Jingle Bell Rockabilly
His big band is back again, ready for another sold-out night of big-band jingle jangle as only guitar rocker Brian Setzer can deliver. He’s done so from the late-’70s rebirth of rockabilly with him at the wheel — The Stray Cats — to the 10th anniversary of his Brian Setzer Orchestra’s Christmas Rocks tour. “I […]
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Southern comfort
A critically acclaimed new film is headed to Oklahoma City, tackling sensitive topics as religion, homosexuality and suicide. In spite of the somber tone, Southern Baptist Sissies is billed as a dark comedy, and writer-producer Del Shores said Oklahoma is one of the states that needs to see the film the most. “After talking to […]
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Now You See Me
In this summer’s sleeper hit, four magicians of varying specialties and egos are brought together by a mysterious, hoodied benefactor. Played by Jesse Eisenberg (30 Minutes or Less), Woody Harrelson (Seven Psychopaths), Isla Fisher (The Great Gatsby) and Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), they perform a live trick to end all tricks: robbing a bank […]
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Blancanieves
Once upon a time, the idea of a film being silent, foreign and — steee-rike three! — black and white equated to box-office poison. Then 2011’s The Artist won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture; earned $133 million worldwide; and lived happily ever after. Hoping for the same storybook ending is Spain’s Blancanieves. While every […]
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Puttin’ on the Ritts
Madonna — True Blue Profile (Hollywood, 1986) Photo: Herb Ritts Foundation Herb Ritts was a celebrity photographer in both senses of the term: a photographer of celebrities and, rarer still, a photographer who became a celebrity. His status was built upon his shots of fashion models and entertainment icons in stark black and white — […]
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The Cabin in the Woods
Without spoiling anything you don’t already see in the trailer — or the film’s first scene — Cabin has two settings: the title site, which is a staple of so many slashers, and … an “office,” let’s say. The former allows Whedon and his co-writer/director Drew Goddard to set up a chessboard of fright-flick clichés; […]