Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
It can be hard when a store moves. Even with lots of notice, many people will miss the lead-up to the big move and just assume the shop popped its clogs. It doesn’t help when old addresses keep showing up in Google.
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: old
On the move
Local stores are playing musical chairs: expanding, name-changing musical chairs. Confused?
Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
Cooper futures
At an age when most are graduating from college, red dirt’s Johnny Cooper is already an old pro.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Johnny Cooper
10 p.m. Friday Wormy Dog Saloon
311 E. Sheridan
wormydog.com, 601-6276
$10
Red Riding Hood
The freakazoid love child of Stephen King and Stephenie Meyer
Horror
Doug Bentin
You’ll have no one to blame but yourself if you become stupid because of “Red Riding Hood.”
Way out West
Head toward the sunset for an adventure in Western Oklahoma.
Features
Heide Brandes
The old man peers from under a black cowboy hat covered in mud, his face pink underneath a bushy beard as white as the clouds in the big sky over Freedom, Okla.
Bear and grin it
Raise your (jazz) hands if you agree that 2 + 2 = 6. Being unconventional is what Norman’s JonBear Fourtet is all about.
Music
Joshua Boydston
The JonBear Fourtet
7 p.m. Thursday
Coach's Brewhouse, 110 W. Main, Norman
www.CoachsBrewhouse.com, 321-2739
Fest this
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Now 44 years old, one of the city’s biggest and best festivals, the Festival of the Arts, opens 11 a.m. Tuesday in downtown at Festival Plaza, Stage Center and Myriad Botanical Gardens.
International focus
Eric Berumen, the sommelier at The Vineyard at Kamp’s 1910 Cafe, has put together a by-the-glass list drawing on the best of the Old and New World.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
Eric Berumen left Oklahoma City 14 years ago. For much of that time, the Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School graduate worked as a sommelier in Austin, Texas, where he consulted with various restaurants.
Wine on Tulsa time
Our sister city up the Turner Turnpike offers some delicious options for a weekend wine excursion.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
For some of you this will be an indefensible position, but in all fairness it needs to be said: Tulsa is a cool city. Some already know that; some will never believe it.
Art this
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Tired of viewing art by old dead guys? A collection of art by Swiss urban creative Mizzo breaks out of the visual norm and will be on display at DNA Galleries, 1705-B N.W. 16th.
Ocean Heaven / 1911
Jackie Chan and Jet Li keep their feet on the ground.
