Best of OKC 2019: Arts, Culture & Entertainment
By Gazette staff
Tags: Best of Arts, Culture & Entertainment, My So Called Band, Nicnos, Superfreak, Uncle Zep, Weekend Allstars, Mike Hosty, Jabee, Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road, Sophia Massad, The Dirty Little Betty’s, Joey and Heather, 98.9 KYIS, Lisa and Kent, 92.5 KOMA, Rick and Brad, 100.5 KATT, Shawn Carey, 96.1 KXY, TJ, Janet and JRod, 102.7 KJ103, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Carpenter Square Theatre, Oklahoma City Ballet, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Terre Rouge Burlesque, Greg Burns, David Bricquet, Denise Duong, Dylan Bradway, Jason Pawley, Festival of the Arts, Arts Council Oklahoma City, Heard on Hurd, Norman Music Festival, Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, Paseo Arts Festival, Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, Boots & Ball Gowns, Infant Crisis Services; Crown of Beauty Gala, The Dragonfly Home; Hero Awards, Oklahoma Humane Society; Red Tie Night, Paseo Arts Festival, Dust Bowl Dolls, Festival of the Arts, Heard on Hurd, Sonic Summer Movies, VZD’s Restaurant & Bar, 51st Street Speakeasy, Blue Note Lounge, JJ’s Alley Bricktown Pub, Saints, Chesapeake Energy Arena, The Criterion, The Jones Assembly, The Zoo Amphitheatre, Tower Theatre, Plaza Walls, Flamenco by Jonathan Hills, The Paseo Arts District; Life in the Light by Denise Duong, Film Row; New Zealand OKC Thunder player Steven Adams by Graham Hoete, Film Row; The OKC Ring, City Center, The Paseo Arts District, 16th Street Plaza District; Artspace at Untitled; DNA Galleries; Festival of the Arts, Arts Council Oklahoma City, DNA Galleries, Artspace at Untitled, Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO), JRB Art at the Elms, Little D Gallery, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, Sam Noble Museum, Science Museum Oklahoma, 16th Street Plaza District, Bricktown, Midtown, The Paseo Arts District, Uptown 23rd District, Riverwind Casino, Grand Casino Hotel & Resort, Newcastle Casino, Remington Park Racing & Casino, WinStar World Casino and Resort, The Boom!, HiLo Club, Partners, The Copa, Tramps
Breaks tradition
Josh Ritter hopes to expand the boundaries of Americana music.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Tower Theatre, Josh Ritter, Fever Breaks, Rolling Stone, Brittney McKenna, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, The 400 Unit, Joan Baez, Dead & Company, Bob Weir, Gathering, Independent, The Torch Committee, All Some Kind of Dream, Bright’s Passage, Americana
Studio music
Prolific musician Jim James brings his 2018 albums and the band whose album he produced to Tower Theatre.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Jim James, My Morning Jacket, Tower Theatre, Uniform Distortion, Uniform Clarity, rock n roll, acoustic, folk, The Order of Nature: A Song Cycle, Teddy Abrams, Louisville Orchestra, Amp Amp, LoveFemme, Omar Velasco, Os Mutantes, psychedelic dream pop, funk
Cover: Nationally endangered
Black Milk and Soccer Mommy work to be authentic in the internet-driven, cookie-cutter music economy.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Black Milk and Nat Turner, Black Milk, Nat Turner, Soccer Mommy, Curtis Cross, Norman Music Festival, J Dilla, Slum Village, Sophie Allison
Cover: Local heroes
Area musicians offer some of the best reasons to attend Norman Music Festival.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Norman Music Festival, NMF, Beau Jennings & the Tigers, Flock of Pigs, Sativa Prophets, The Annie Oakley, Mt. Terror, Teflo $, Naturalist, Maddie Razook, Brennan Barnes, Deerpeople, Opolis, Pigments, Lust, Joseph Tassinari, Ashton Prescott, Nathan Schatzer, Daniel Acuna, Rodrick Malone, Benzo El Toro, Methotrexate, Purple Mouth Bandits
That jazz
The era of jazz, flappers and Prohibition will be celebrated at a Roaring Twenties party benefiting Norman Arts Council.
By Matthew Price
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
ALCOHOLMANAC To the streets
Festival organizations prepare for updated alcohol laws.
By Nikita Lewchuk
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, State Question 792 OKlahoma implementation, SQ 792 oklahoma implementation, street festivals oklahoma, Paseo Arts District, Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, ABLE Commission, Alcoholmanac, Norman Music Festival, Paseo Arts Festival, Alcoholmanac
Norman Music Festival announces 2019 lineup
NMF 2019 is April 25-27.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Norman Music Festival, NMF, NMF 2019, Beach Fossils, Black Milk, Nat Turner, Omar Apollo, Soccer Mommy, The Garden, Night Beats, Mega Ran, Skating Polly, Jabee, Flock of Pigs, Helen Kelter Skelter, Rainbows Are Free, LCG & the X, WoRm, Josh Sallee, Big Business, Sailor Poon
Deliberate Words
Annie Oakley celebrates the upcoming release of its first full-length album, Words We Mean, at The Blue Door.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Annie Oakley, Words We Mean, Sophia Babb, Grace Babb, Nia Personette, folk, Thought of You a God, Lunar Manor Sessions, John Calvin Abney, Kyle Reid, Cody Brewer, Oklahoma City University, University of Oklahoma, Girls Rock Camp
Slay farewell
Legendary metal band Slayer stops at The Zoo Amphitheatre on its farewell tour.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Slayer, Reign in Blood, metal, Keeno, Dischordia, Binge/Purge, South of Heaven, Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman, Dave Lombardo, The Zoo Amphitheatre, Tom Araya, Randy Blythe, Lamb of God, Mich’ela Creel, Saint Monroe, Charles Gafford, Via the Verge, Repentless, Paul Bostaph, Gary Holt, Bradley Nance, Turbo Wizard, Seasons in the Abyss, Show No Mercy, Legion: XX, VZD’s Restaurant & Bar, Anthrax, Napalm Death, Testament
Achieving resonance
Resonator Institute’s new downtown Norman location furthers the nonprofit’s artistic goals.
By Daniel Bokemper
Tags: Arts, Norman, Dope Chapel, Resonator Institute, art, visual art, Norman Music Festival, 2nd Friday Norman Art Walk, Jacob Sargent, Resonator, Curtis Jones
Sun tones
Saint Loretto’s Summer Bummer Beach Party beats the heat inside 51st Street Speakeasy.
By Ben Luschen
Tags: Music Features, emo, goth, summer, Austin, Evan Crowley, Saint Lotetto, 51st Street Speakeasy, Swim Fan, Cavern Company, divorce, Paperscissor, Norman Music Festival, Uptown Getdown, Clay Vaughn, Reed Hoppe, Marcus Jackson, Matt Novesky, Blue October, Orb Recording Studios, Star Skate
Art and commerce
Jonathan Fowler leveraged his love of culture and his family’s car business to make his work life fun and Oklahoma’s arts scene work.
By George Lang
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Jonathan Fowler, Fowler Holding Company, Norman Music Festival, Bill Fowler, Fowler Automotive, Live! on the Plaza, Leadership Norman, Marta Burcham, Norman Arts Council, NMF, Mike Fowler, National Automobile Dealers Association’s Automotive Academy, Fowler Volkswagen, Mary Ann Osko, Zach Osko, Nathan Poppe, Ferris O’Brien, The Spy FM, Center City Vision, Plan Norman, Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce