More Perfect Union plays tonight with love, sex & death shorts at 7:30 p.m. (IAO Gallery) and also thecomedy shorts Sunday at 7 p.m. (IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave.) In Matt Porter’s More Perfect Union 30 minute short a heartbroken architect visits a bed and breakfast run by an elderly Indian couple. The [...]
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deadCENTER Blog (Night one): Hometown Heroes, Work and Leisure, The Film Guys Descend, City Pride on Parade
deadCENTER festival runs through Sunday. See a full schedule here. The deadCENTER film festival is about film, but it’s also about civic pride, a high minded effort by the city’s business and arts classes to rebrand our frontier town into something more urban and more livable. On the main drag of Broadway (which OKC.NET opts [...]
Funny Men, Sex Machines, Students: A Closer Look at S&M Lawn Care and Single Tree Productions
S&M LAWN CARE PREMIERS 7 PM SATURDAY AT HARKINS BRICKTOWN, SCREEN 2 After having a heyday at last year’s deadCENTER the Enid and Norman raised filmmaker Mark Potts and the Singletree gang keep running with ideas. This year’s entry S & M lawn care is brimming with them. For one, it’s a movie with S&M in [...]
deadCENTER Blitz: A Journey Through the Past Rockumentary to Enid with local filmmaker Nathan Poppe and Black Canyon
Black Canyon premiers 6 p.m. Friday at the IAO Gallery (706 West Sheridan). Tix are $10-ish A lot of love can happen between moonshine and dancing… Plenty of brief experiences add up to prime local filmmaker Nathan Poppe for nailing the right tone for a rockumentary that blends the rock and roll [...]
Morning at the Council…A City Notebook (May 24)
Editor’s Note: As part of our ever growing desire to find out “what it means” to live in OKC, we’ve started going to more public meetings and things. Enjoy citizenry. It’s out there, waiting for you. At Oklahoma City council meetings one can look around and see the people who may be there for [...]
Hear Local! The Nghiems release “The Pine Tree, The Mushroom & The End of the World”
Editor’s Note: You can hear each of these tracks as you read by visiting The Nghiems Band Camp page: http://thenghiems.bandcamp.com/ People who don’t know The Nghiem Brothers (David, James, Andy) will think this is a pretty good record. People who know the Nghiems will think this is a great record. The debut [...]
Voices and Vistas: Blue Moon Lady
Voices and Vistas: The Blue Moon Lady Editor’s Note: “Voices and Vistas” is a recurring column about the people I meet and the books I read. Some of the topics discussed here will branch off into other stories or columns. Some will exist for their own sake. The “voices” refers to the [...]
Where The Story Finds You, A Talk with John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice plays Opolis (113 N. Crawford) in Norman Sunday night with Stillwater’s Sherree Chamberlain. Doors open early at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Visit Opolis.org for more information. Sometimes a cowboy is just a man in a cowboy suit….. But sometimes a damn good [...]
On Youth and Young Manhood (With Avi Buffalo)
Arguably, one of the best things about listening to indie rock is finding fresh talent. Oklahomans will remember such pleasures as watching Arcade Fire rock for the sake of their own heart fire at the Conservatory. Though she’s still very approachable, I enjoyed super pro Samantha Crain’s early sets at Galileo’s … What I have [...]
A Love Story For Our Times
Director Derek Cianfrance soars in a relationship drama that could very well be considered this generation’s “Annie Hall.” Let me explain: “Blue Valentine” traces the beginning and end of the relationship between Dean and Cindy– played flawlessly by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. In 112 minutes we witness the the inception of their relationship and [...]
