In the latest episode of Anything That Costs the Government Money is Bad, Oklahoma GOPers are stifling the development of the OKPOP museum — a 75,000-square-foot art and culture museum slated to be built in Tulsa — by withholding the necessary appropriations from the state’s 2015 fiscal budget. Clearly, they can’t comprehend the facility’s potential […]
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Blues that rocks
Butterfield was a Chicago bluesman and harmonica player who broke out with several albums in the late 1960s. Pryor still plays rockin’ blues across the state and often in our fair city. (Check his gigs at stevepryorband.net.) Other rockers nominated for this prestigious induction include … rappers LL Cool J and N.W.A., disco icon Chic, […]
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Brian Haas / Matt Chamberlain — Frames
That an artist would become enamored with divination after moving to the sprawling, mountain-laden countryside on the outskirts of Santa Fe, N.M., makes perfect sense. So, too, does Frames. While not improvised, per se, the album does toe the line between boundlessness and structure. A methodically composed exercise through the tempered scale, Frames clocks in […]
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Cultish comedy
The film, about a goofy slacker who starts his own indie television station, should have been just another cultural oddity, but Hollywood completely underestimated the collective power of Yankovic’s fans. Twenty-five years later, UHF is more popular than ever, continuing to make generations of geeky kids and their even geekier parents laugh uncontrollably with its […]
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Frame of mind
Brian Haas wasn’t always a jazz musician. The Tulsa native and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey ringleader was instead trained from a young age to play classical piano. Even within the more structured confines of classical music, though, Haas has always been an improviser at heart. “I would always get super nervous before competitions or recitals,” […]
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CONCERTS
Ill Nino, The Chameleon Room. Oct. 2 chris tomlin, Chesapeake Energy Arena. Oct. 3 Jimmy Eat World, Diamond Ballroom. Oct. 3 the Lumineers/Dr. Dog/Nathaniel Radcliff, OKC Downtown Airpark. Oct. 3 Blake Shelton, BOK Center, Tulsa. Oct. 4 Martina McBride, Lucky Star Casino, Concho. Oct. 4 D’Angelo, WinStar World Casino, Thackerville. Oct. 4 Vampire Weekend, Brady […]
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CONCERTS
Ill Nino, The Chameleon Room. Oct. 2 chris tomlin, Chesapeake Energy Arena. Oct. 3 Jimmy Eat World, Diamond Ballroom. Oct. 3 the Lumineers/Dr. Dog/Nathaniel Radcliff, OKC Downtown Airpark. Oct. 3 Blake Shelton, BOK Center, Tulsa. Oct. 4 Martina McBride, Lucky Star Casino, Concho. Oct. 4 D’Angelo, WinStar World Casino, Thackerville. Oct. 4 Vampire Weekend, Brady […]
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Mayor Cornett wins top honor
Cornett is the first Oklahoma City mayor to ever receive the honor. The award was presented by the Mayor’s Council of Oklahoma during the annual Oklahoma Municipal League conference. Cornett was elected as OKC’s mayor in February 2004 and then won re-election in 2006 and 2010. He is seeking a fourth term against Ward […]
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‘It’s a fairness issue’
Photo courtesy Tulsa World / Michael Wyke / file Wheels in the suit are again grinding as state and federal laws continue to collide. Recently, all four, with their attorney, Don Holladay, filed paperwork with U.S. District Judge Terence Kern requesting he rule in their favor. They also said the Oklahoma law violates their constitutional […]
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Barling — Barling With a “B”
Whether it was cheap truck-stop cassette tapes of Freddy Fender or just turning up Ricky Skaggs’ “Honey Won’t You Open That Door” just a little bit louder, it was what I learned to dig, mostly because it was all I had and it was better than nothing. That said, I used to think most new […]