Music
Joshua Boydston
This one goes out to the ones they love, as local acts join forces to pay tribute to The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smiths and R.E.M.
Thursday 20 Jun
OKG Newsletter
Topic: going
They love the ’80s
Music
Joshua Boydston
This one goes out to the ones they love, as local acts join forces to pay tribute to The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smiths and R.E.M.
‘Radical’ retooling
The Oklahoma City Council and Oklahoma City Public Schools embrace bold measures to improve the school district
News
Clifton Adcock
On a cold January night in a crowded conference room on the third floor of the Oklahoma History Center, a radical plan intended to fundamentally change Oklahoma City Public Schools was unveiled to city leaders.
Roping in ears
With a debut album as fresh as morning dew, Braids entangle ears nationwide with their purposeful patterns of experimental rock
Music
Joshua Boydston
Braids with Native Lights and Gentle Ghost
9 p.m. Wednesday Opolis
113 N. Crawford, Norman
www.opolis.org, 820-0951
$8
Inside and online
How do you get a shopping fix in a snowpocalypse?
Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
So here’s a hypothetical: Say there’s a huge snowstorm — like massive and “The Day After Tomorrow”-sized — but you really, really feel like shopping. And all the local stores are closed.
Ground floor
Going up? The Burning Hotels were when they changed their sex-punk sound. Now dancier, the act aims straight for the penthouse suite.
Music
Joshua Boydston
The Burning Hotels with the Pretty Black Chains
7 p.m. Friday
Warpaint Clothing Co., 1710 N.w. 16th
www.warpaintstore.com, 602-1581
free
Offtrack
Letters to the Editor
Randy Burghart
Blair Humphreys (Commentary, “Streetcar for the car-free,” Feb. 16, Gazette) is using bait-and-switch tactics! He is trying to get support of the rail system by saying it is going to serve the poor and impoverished.
Hang in there
How to fashionably beat a hangover
Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
OK, so I’m a pretty responsible drinker. Glass (or two) of wine with dinner, cocktails with friends — those are my M.O., not Jägerbombs and keggers.
Low show
Punk pop’s All Time Low gets ready to do all the ‘Dirty Work.’
Music
Chris Parker
All Time Low with Hey Monday and Summer Set
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 6
Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net, 677-9169
$19 advance, $24 door
Jesus, take the shirts
So, he's a guy, huh?
CFN
Gazette staff
This can’t be good. We at CFN wish Checotah-hailing cutie/country superstar Carrie Underwood no ill will, but her marriage to hockey player Mike Fisher is still too fresh for airing its dirty laundry — some literal — on the airwaves.
