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
Corporate rebrand
Schlotzsky’s plays the hits even as it becomes “Austin Eatery” but adds sweet sliders, flatbreads and brisket.
By Jacob Threadgill
Tags: Food Reviews, Schlotzsky's Austin Eatery, Schlotzky's re-brand, Austin, sourdough bread, Focus Brands, Roark Capital, brisket, sliders, piza, flatbread
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
Saint’s Passage
Evan Crowley recorded Saint Loretto’s second album during a time of intense personal upheaval.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Saint Loretto, Evan Crowley, Depth / S, Passage / S, 51st Street Speakeasy, Austin, Texas, Matt Noveskey, Orb Recording Studios, Clay Vaughan, Reed Hoppe, Marcus Jackson
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
Reform justice
Criminal justice experts are following and supporting reform bills that could upend Oklahoma’s system and tackle the state’s biggest issues.
By Miguel Rios
Tags: State, Damion Shade, Kris Steele, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, politics, legislature, legislation, house, senate, house bills, senate bills, mass incarceration, prison reform, bail reform, prison sentences, Oklahoma policy institute, oklahomans for criminal justice reform, community impact statements, smart reform, OCJR
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
Chicken-Fried News: Walkout block-out
By Gazette staff
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, teacher walkout, teacher pay, legislative session, Oklahoma Legislature, proposed bills, Senate Bill 592, state capitol, Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority, Mark Allen, Senate Bill 574, politics, House Bill 2214, Todd Russ, House Bill 2208, House Bill 2228, coeducational housing, collective bargaining, college dorms, Jacob Rosecrants