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Having made a name for themselves in Fort Worth, Texas — first as a duo and now as a five-piece — blues rockers Foxtrot Uniform are all set for their Oklahoma debut, Friday at Blue Note Lounge, followed by Saturday at Grady’s 66 Pub. According to lead guitarist Kenny Uptain, the short trip north has […]
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Something brewin’
A recent change to Oklahoma’s liquor laws is being hailed as a big victory for the state’s growing craft brewing industry. Gov. Mary Fallin last month signed House Bill 1341, which lets Oklahoma breweries offer customers free samples of beer in their premises. “This is a major baby step for the brewing industry,” said JD […]
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Lovely bones
Or, rather, he sees a life that should be celebrated. The retail arm of Oklahoma City’s celebrated Museum of Osteology (the only skeleton museum in the nation, natch), Skulls Unlimited has tapped a new market: preserving the family pet by cleaning and posing its skeleton. Sound morbid? Villemarette believes it’s actually a touching tribute. “The […]
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Wrong again
Claiming authority from a long-dead scientist is nonsense. Louis Pasteur was a great scientist in large part because of his commitment to methodological naturalism. He rejected religious supernatural explanations for natural phenomena. Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation, the idea that organisms appear fully formed. What he disproved was special creationism, not evolution. Furthermore, there is no […]
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Exploring ‘The Unexplored’
Amy Coldren’s Inkblot 1-a For Vincent van Gogh to receive any adulation for his now-classic works of art, it took death. Luckily, these days our culture does a much better job giving accolades to artists while they’re still alive. Still, it’s our job to seek them out and discover them. Mainsite Contemporary Art’s latest exhibit, […]
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Frndz forever
The guys behind indie rock’s Boyfrndz cut their teeth in a half dozen other bands before finally finding a groove. The three have the tense competition in their home base of Austin, Texas — aka the Live Music Capital of the World — to thank for that. “Playing in Austin separates the men from the […]
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Looper
But then something remarkable happens: Looper plays fair with its own mind-bending construct. Balancing muscular action with the intellectual approximation of an M.C. Escher drawing, Johnson delivers on the considerable promise of his previous films, Brick and The Brothers Bloom. We start in 2044, where time travel is about 30 years away, but still figures […]
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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; […]
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Hostess with the mostess
I’m not talking about the lampshade-on-the-head sort of throwdown, but simply gathering friends under my roof and sharing my latest cocktail concoction to the sounds of classy Christmas tunes. But, what does it take to ensure your party doesn’t fall squarely into the fruitcake category? Real Simple magazine advises hosts to be gracious: greet each […]