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Where: [Artspace] at Untitled When: March 1 / 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. What: In-Focus lecture Untitled’s first scheduled speaker in their In-Focus lecture series is photographer Kurt Markus. Markus will talk about his work as an international assignment photographer for major magazines such as Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and GQ. Untitled will also screen [...]
“So, what the Hell is a Lizardman?” I naively asked my editor Helen. “Well, he’s like, this guy who does stand-up comedy, and he looks like a lizard or something…” So began my association with Erik Sprague, the Lizardman. So, what the Hell is a Lizardman? I don’t think I can put it better than [...]
Article by Helen Grant/Video by Kenny Madison. It is something of a spectator sport to walk into Elemental Coffee and order your favorite bean while roaster Micah Metheny is carefully crafting the next batch of Groove, Pursha, or Saucha over in the next room. In addition to providing coffee, Elemental Coffee also sells locally-produced food, [...]
A quick scan of DEERPEOPLE’s biography reveals they: “…simultaneously emerged from a sticky, moist womb and proceeded to rock.” Their interests? “optimism.” In short: they’re quirky. I love quirky. I’m always searching for music that has an element of playfulness, even if it does skew enigmatic. Extra “quirk” points are awarded if the band has [...]
Alright, the music business is hard to put your finger on sometimes. As the radio phases out and becomes less and less relevant and the internet expands to envelop people in its warm computer-y embrace, it becomes harder to find out about new bands and albums that don’t suck and are in fact awesome. But [...]
This is one of a series of short essays where our writers answered the question “what do you love/hate about the holidays and this time of year?” -OKC.NET Editorial Staff “Christmas: The time of year when adults seem more like children and children seem more like angels.” – To paraphrase some shitty commercial Mary always [...]
If your ambitions on wrapping up your Christmas shopping have yet to come into fruition, worry not. In these pages you will find a bevy of local shops where patrons do not suffer from overcrowding and high-stakes parking. Some locations will even let you schedule time to shop outside of normal business hours and, most [...]
For a long time, I was firmly in the anti-Christmas Music camp. Not by coincidence, this was a time during which I worked at a retail store, in direct contact with holiday shoppers. I have looked into the cold eyes of Black Friday and Christmas Eve shoppers alike, and I have been terrified. The closer [...]
It’s one in the morning on the weekend, and I’m walking my dog. I live in a residential area right smack dab in the middle of Hollywood, a block south of Sunset Boulevard. I’ll be honest – it’s a pretty sucky place to live. In a couple months, I’ll move to a perfect little [...]
When it comes to planning a military campaign, Patton’s got nothing on me. The war in question involves fighting the hordes of holiday shoppers that will descend upon the malls and numerous retail outlets on the day after Thanksgiving – more fondly referred to as “Black Friday”. In order to successfully accumulate the greatest amount [...]
