Archives from 2019

Mike Montgomery has become a YouTube sensation with his woodworking, carpentry and maker videos.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Mike Montgomery, modern builds, modernbuilds, YouTube, ACM@UCO, Academy of Contemporary Music at University of Central Oklahoma, UCO, do it yourself, DIY, woodworking, carpentry

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum explores the story of America’s official mammal.

Tags: Arts, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Eric Singleton, buffalo, bison, National Buffalo Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Oklahoma City Thunder, Rumble the Bison, Rumble, Robert Macfie Scriver, John Ford Clymer, Karl Ferdinand Wimar, Frederic Remington, Natalie Shirley, American West, Native Americans, National Bison Legacy Act, Great Plains, Oklahoma City Thunder

An Edmond builder banks on shipping containers as a new housing trend.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Greg Roberts, shipping container homes Edmond, shipping container home, edmond downtown development, Malcolm McLean, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century, Hurd Street

The era of jazz, flappers and Prohibition will be celebrated at a Roaring Twenties party benefiting Norman Arts Council.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Norman Arts Council, ONE fundraiser, Erinn Gavaghan, NAC, Roaring Twenties: The Age of ONEderful Nonsense, 1920s, women’s suffrage, Her Flag, Marilyn Artus, Jazz in June, Guestroom Records, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Walker Arts District, Public Art is smART, Robert Kidd III Arts Programs Scholarship Fund, Norman Music Festival, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Jazz in June

A new fitness club in Norman aims to help patrons get healthy.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Crunch, gym, John Armatas, Crunch Norman, Brian Hubbard, Joshua Guerrero, fitness

Molly Ringwald speaks at a Junior League of Oklahoma City fundraiser, and her films are part of an ’80s celebration at Tower Theatre.

Tags: Arts, Molly Ringwald, Junior League of Oklahoma City, Speaker in the City, John Hughes, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Riverdale, Sarah Frank, Farmers Public Market, When It Happens to You, Tower Theatre, Chad Whitehead

Theater company Celtic Nights shares a musical story of Irish immigrants.

Tags: Arts, Celtic Nights, Irish potato famine, Armstrong Auditorium, Irish-American Heritage Month, Oceans of Hope, GFD Promotions, Great Hunger, Great Famine, Ciarán Olohan, Rebekah Shearer, Emily O'Dwyer, Amber Sylvia Edwards, Kevin C. Olohan

This year, OKCMOA’s annual benefit, Omelette Party, has an enchanting theme.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Omelette Party, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA, Dan Arries, Jason Campbell, The Skirvin Hilton Oklahoma City, Park Avenue Grill, Mary Eddy’s Kitchen x Lounge, Union Wood Fired Grill, Jonas Favela, Bill Leib, Francis Tuttle Culinary Arts, Jimmy Mays, The Hamilton Event Center, Larry J. McNeal, McNeal’s Catering, Bruce Rinehart, Rococo, The Manhattan OKC, Beau Stephenson, Bin 73, James Vu, Tiare Keahi, La Brasa, Kong's Tavern, Belle Kitchen, Bricktown Catering LLC, Culinary Miracles/Chef’s Requested Foods, Kam’s Kookery, Kwan’s Kitchen, La Oaxaqueña Bakery, The Melting Pot, Museum Cafe, Paseo Grill, The Winston, Yokozuna Chisholm Creek

The musical Girlfriend uses a classic alt-rock album to examine young, gay romance in the early 1990s.

Tags: Arts, Girlfriend, Matthew Sweet, Lyric at the Plaza, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Todd Almond, Ian Marcontell, Jimmy Mavrikes, Signature Theatre, Matthew Gardiner, Michael Baron, LGBTQ+, Britt Bonney, Misha Kachman, Frank Labovitz. Colin K. Bills, Ryan Hickey

Lettuce brings its cosmic funk to Tower Theatre.

Tags: Music Features, Lettuce, Witches Stew, Miles Davis, Bitches Brew, Adam Ditch, Adam Smirnoff, Erick “Jesus” Coomes, Erick Coomes, Nigal Hall, Ryan Zoidis, Eric “Benny” Bloom, Eric Bloom, Tower Theatre, Berklee College of Music, Outta Here, Rage!, Fly!, Crush, Mt. Crushmore, Wiz Khalifa, Britney Spears, Dr. Dre, Eminem

Urban Land Institute Oklahoma’s fifth annual Impact Awards honors responsible land use.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, 8th Street Market, Impact Awards, ULI Oklahoma, Urban Land Institute Oklahoma, Ashley Terry, Large Scale Rehabilitation and Restoration, Small Scale Rehabilitation and Restoration, Douglass High School, Page Woodson apartments, Mallory O’Neill, Ride OKC, Outstanding Community Building Effort, Kerr Park, Red Andrews Park, Cleveland County Complex Master Plan, OKC Streetcar, Pete White Health & Wellness Center, Heart of the Community Initiative, 8th Street Church, Classen29, Rodeo Cinema, 701 N. Hudson, The Seven at Page Woodson, Garner Crossing, John Rex Middle School, Elevator Annex, BOK Park Plaza, Steelyard Apartments, Tower Theatre, Todd Glass, Tulsa, Jim Couch

Internationally known burlesque performers showcase all sides of love and romance at Adèle Wolf’s Valentine’s Affair.

Tags: Arts, Adèle Wolf, Adèle Wolf’s Burlesque and Variety Show, Valentine’s Affair, burlesque, Sweetpea, Emma D’Lemma, Ayperi Al Jawahir, Aalim Dance Academy, Raven Rose, Oklahoma School of Burlesque, Jo Weldon, The Burlesque Handbook, Oklahoma City Burlesque Festival

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger brings her Elder Millennial Tour to The Criterion.

Tags: Arts, Iliza Shlesinger, Elder Millennial, comedy, The Criterion

Tom Segura brings his dark, sarcastic comedy stylings to Tower Theatre.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Tom Segura, Tom Segura oklahoma city, tom segura tower theatre, tower theatre comedy, your mom's house podcast, chad whitehead

Justin Timberlake brings his Man of the Woods Tour to OKC.

Tags: Music Features, Justin Timberlake, Justin Timberlake Chesapeake Energy Arena, Justin Timberlake oklahoma city, Man of the Woods Tour, Hindsight & All the Things I Can’t See in Front of Me, ryan drake