Saturday 18 May
OKG Newsletter
Phil Bacharach
Junk it
OKC makes spring cleaning easier for residents Saturday.
News
Phil Bacharach
For Oklahoma City residents, Free Landfiill Day will be held from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at participating landfills:
Anger management
Social Distortion leader Mike Ness may have grown up, but his legendary punk band remains 'Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell.'
Music
Phil Bacharach
Social Distortion with Toadies and Lindi Ortega
6:30 p.m. Tuesday
Diamond Ballroom
8991 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$25-$29
Bully pulpit
Oklahoma gets a starring role in a controversial documentary.
News
Phil Bacharach
Ty Field-Smalley had had enough of being bullied at his school in Perkins. Slammed into lockers. Shoved into a garbage can. Chocolate milk dumped on his head in the cafeteria.
Crime time
Private eyes, policemen and public citizens navigate the shadow of film noir in a festival of the hardest boiled in Hollywood history.
Features
Phil Bacharach
Film Preservation Festival
Thursday-Sunday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch
okcmoa.com
236-3100
$5-$8
Wills' way
The Bob Wills archives make its way to Oklahoma
Off the air
Longtime KTOK newsman Jerry Bohnen let go after more than 30 years.
News
Phil Bacharach
In Oklahoma City radio news, KTOK-AM 1000's Jerry Bohnen has been nothing short of an institution, having worked in the station's newsroom for more than 30 years — much of that period as its news director.
The Salt of Life
Comedy
Phil Bacharach
The Salt of Life
5:30 and 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch
okcmoa.com
236-3100
$5-$8
In Darkness
Drama
Phil Bacharach
It’s not as if there’s been a grievous shortage of movies detailing the horrors of the Holocaust. Even so, Poland’s In Darkness, which is scheduled to open Friday at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, adds something to the cinematic discussion, chiefly in the form of its unlikely hero.
Pigging out
Animal-rights activists go to the Oklahoma Pork Congress to decry how pigs are treated in the state’s farms.
News
Phil Bacharach
A 10-foot inflatable caged pig and a handful of protesters greeted participants today at the annual Oklahoma Pork Congress outside the Reed Conference Center in Midwest City.
Testing, testing
A new requirement for high school graduation is meeting resistance.
News
Phil Bacharach
Seven years ago, Gov. Brad Henry signed into law a set of education reforms that included a requirement for high school students to pass at least four of seven end-of-instruction exams as a condition for graduation. Now that mandate finally is slated to take effect this year, and some opponents of the measure want it scrapped.
Travelin’ man
Rick Steves comes to OKC with a simple message: See the world.
Features
Phil Bacharach
Rick Steves
7 p.m. Saturday
Hardemann Auditorium, Oklahoma Christian University
2501 E. Memorial Rd.
oc.edu/events
Fact and fiction
Novelist Tracy Daugherty honed his nonfiction skills in the wake of the 1995 federal building bombing.
Features
Phil Bacharach
Tracy Daugherty
7 p.m. Tuesday
Pegasus Theatre, Liberal Arts Building
University of Central Oklahoma
100 N. University Dr., Edmond
uco.edu
Annie Hall
Love is too weak a word.
Comedy
Phil Bacharach
What’s there to say about Annie Hall? It’s an American classic, arguably Woody Allen’s finest film and perhaps one of the best romantic comedies of all time. The fact that it served as a turning point for Allen from full-bore comedies to more ambitious (if just as funny) stuff can make it easy to take for granted.
Honoring Shadid
A public memorial service will be held Saturday for foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid.
News
Phil Bacharach
The public is invited to a memorial service Saturday afternoon honoring the life of Anthony Shadid, an Oklahoma City native and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent who died Feb. 16 while on assignment in Syria.
A Separation
The Oscar-winning film is a harrowing test in an exercise of how things can get worse.
Drama
Phil Bacharach
Most global news surrounding Iran concerns its nuclear capabilities and its nutjob leader, but fans of international cinema know there is much more to the Asian republic.
