Evil Dead: The Musical Friday-Nov. 2 The Pollard Theatre 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie
Will Rogers
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Alive again
Editor’s note: Oklahoma Gazette is featuring Norman Music Festival performers each week leading up to its 2018 event April 26-28 in Norman. Beau Jennings is certainly no stranger to Norman Music Festival. He has played the free local music gathering several times, be it on the wide-open main stage or the tight shoulder-to-shoulder confines of […]
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Guests can take a step back in time while attending Oklahoma Historical Society’s ’20s-themed gala
Planned historical reenactments will include a drop-in from humorist Will Rogers and a “stick up” by gangster Pretty Boy Floyd.
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Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s Or, humorously tells the tale of pioneering playwright Aphra Behn
The play runs through July 23 in OSP’s Paseo Arts District indoor theater.
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Cover Story: Chicken-Fried News year in review and predictions for 2017
CFN looks back on 2016 and makes predictions about what Okies will get up to in 2017.
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The Blue Door’s annual tribute to Woody Guthrie confronts perceived fascism
Blue Door owner Greg Johnson has been organizing a Woody Guthrie tribute every year since 1991.
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Oklahoma Heritage Museum nurtures state pride with events for children, parents
The event kicks of this Thursday at 10 a.m. when museum staff members will read Will Rogers: An American Legend by Gov. Frank Keating to an expected crowd of about 50 children and parents.
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Seeking C-Town
Alex Van Halen’s drums In the late 1990s and early 2000s, funny man and Cleveland native Drew Carey opened his eponymous television sitcom running through the streets of his hometown as he and his co-stars sang along to the tune “Cleveland Rocks.” Visit there and you might realize he was onto something. The city boasts […]
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Thinkin’ about Woody
Photo: Robin Carson / Woody Guthrie Archives No one disputes that Woody Guthrie is the most significant Anglo-American folksinger, period. He merged the British ballad musical and storytelling tradition with African-American blues; added the incisive and humorous sociopolitical commentary of Will Rogers; and became the emblematic folk-music spokesperson for the downtrodden, beat-up, misused and abused […]
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Local gem
Brandon Bales While most DJs work alone — think Skrillex, Deadmau5, Fatboy Slim — two heads have proven better than one for Oklahoma City electro act Crystal Vision. “It definitely helps when one of us is stuck. The other one always has an idea,” said Katie Wicks. “The joys of being a duo are that […]