Music
Joshua Boydston
It took blood, sweat, tears and years for Randy Rogers Band to become a red-dirt favorite ... and it’s not resting on those laurels.
Monday 20 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: texas
Rogers’ will
Music
Joshua Boydston
It took blood, sweat, tears and years for Randy Rogers Band to become a red-dirt favorite ... and it’s not resting on those laurels.
Ray’s way
Free of drugs and drink, Ray Wylie Hubbard now keeps his creative fires stoked by giving back to the music community
Music
Chris Parker
Born in the tiny Oklahoma town of Soper, singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard moved to Texas as a kid and became one of its deans of songwriters, if by a rather circuitous route.
Where’s the beef?
Local, grass-fed beef makes for a healthy meat option
Food and Drink Features
Vivian Boroff
When I first started shopping at farmers’ markets and with local purveyors, it was simply a way of supporting local farmers and ranchers. But as I connected with those involved in raising food locally, I became increasingly aware of how much better grass-fed meats actually are for you.
Whittington wit
Austin-based folk artist comes to Norman
Music
Gazette staff
Texas, meet Italy. Italy, meet Texas. Austin-based singer/ songwriter Daniel Whittington will showcase his tunes at 8 p.m. Saturday at “Norman’s Little Italy,” aka Othello’s, 434 Buchanan in Campus Corner.
OKC Chamber CEO’S chronology is incorrect
Letters to the Editor
None
Williams is simply incorrect on his chronology. He stated current Oklahoma alcohol laws date to statehood 103 years ago. Oklahoma came to statehood absolutely prohibiting possession, sale, consumption, manufacture (and I think transportation) of alcohol: complete and total prohibition.
Quality control
Letters to the Editor
Brett Grimes
The idea that Texas liquor laws have a negative impact on selection and price in that state is an outright fallacy. Most major cities in Texas have robust selections in grocery and chain stores, and have thriving niche liquor stores with items the bigger stores rarely stock.
Juice is loose
UCO’s production of the dark comedy ‘Mr. Marmalade’ will stage two encore performances before hitting the road.
Performing Arts
Eric Webb
Mr. Marmalade
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Pegasus Theater
University of Central Oklahoma
974-5511
$4
Oklahoma to showcase film, music and interactive business at SXSW
All three industries to be housed in The Buffalo Lounge
News
Gazette staff
The Oklahoma Film & Music Office announced its plans for the 2011 South by Southwest Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas.
Getting Kinky
Kinky Friedman humorously weaves religion and politics in his first Oklahoma show in decades.
Music
Rob Collins
Kinky Friedman
8 p.m. Saturday
The Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley
BlueDoorOKC.com, 524-0738
$30-$35
