Iliza Shlesinger will bring her kinetic, elastic comedy to Oklahoma City as part of her Elder Millennial Tour. In the Elder Millennial Netflix special, Shlesinger reflects on a time before social media, on relationship complexities in the 2010s, and the differences between men and women. The 35-year-old comic, originally from Dallas, is the only female […]
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Primate primacy
Arctic Monkeys 8 p.m. Oct. 10 The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. criterionokc.com 405-840-5500 $68 Through a desire and willingness to upend its sound and confound expectations, Arctic Monkeys transcended its mid-2000s beginnings as a next-step post-punk band drafting in the slipstream of Franz Ferdinand and The Libertines. That fearlessness launched Arctic Monkeys and its […]
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Arts-focused
Opus X: Club Cabaret 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12 The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. alliedartsokc.com 405-278-8944 $250 If life is a cabaret, old chum, there might be less to love without the arts. “Without the arts,” said April Gonzalez, marketing and public relations manager at Allied Arts, “the community culture would be very dry and […]
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Pleasant paradise
Harsh polarization and general unrest have infiltrated many aspects of the modern world, but for at least one night, David Byrne will bring a piece of utopia to Oklahoma City. The musician and renaissance man’s one-of-a-kind American Utopia World Tour has already dazzled over a dozen eager audiences across North and South America, and soon, […]
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Letting loose
Nick Swardson’s new stand-up special is about bowel movements, which is not a euphemism for an acrid modern news cycle or the politically correct internet call-out culture that works so many other comedians into a tizzy. Nope; this is just good, old-fashioned potty humor — nothing on stage but a mic and a stool. “It’s […]
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Jason Isbell gets political with Oklahoma Gazette in the wake of Roy Moore’s Alabama defeat
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit plays 8 p.m. Jan. 4 at The Criterion.
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Teen ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer hosts a four-part weekend spectacular at The Criterion
Darci Lynne hosts four shows in two days Saturday-Sunday at The Criterion.
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“Usually when people are too cool, it’s because they’re trying to seem standoffish or cold and unemotional, which is boring to me.”
“Usually when people are too cool, it’s because they’re trying to seem standoffish or cold and unemotional, which is boring to me.”
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American Cancer Society Cattle Baron’s Ball returns for a 15th year
The gala is set for 7 p.m. Friday at The Criterion.
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Turnpike Troubadours celebrates five years of Medicine Stone Music Festival ahead of a new album release
The band will host an album release show Oct. 20 at The Criterion.