Visual Arts
Sara Custer
The permanent collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua in Norman, has been raided to create the largest ever public showing of 100 objects dating back more than 2,000 years.
Thursday 23 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: years
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Visual Arts
Sara Custer
The permanent collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua in Norman, has been raided to create the largest ever public showing of 100 objects dating back more than 2,000 years.
All in the family
Using recipes collected from a lifetime in the kitchen with her Italian family, Cathy Cummings turns out traditional, homemade favorites in her Vito’s Ristorante.
Restaurant Reviews
Jenny Coon Peterson
There’s nothing like a bowl of pasta and some fresh bread to warm you up on a bitter winter night. Throw in an intimate dining room and a bottle of wine, and you’ll forget it’s blowing like mad outside.
Crown heights
The reigning Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson puts on a ‘Party’ locally to celebrate her new album with The White Stripes’ leader
Music
Joshua Boydston
Wanda Jackson with Green Corn Revival
7 p.m. Friday
ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 323 E. Sheridan
974-4700, free
Nondescript knockouts
And we mean it in the best possible way.
Food and Drink Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
Unassuming on the outside, and yummy on the inside, here are your fave hole-in-the-wall joints suggested by readers via Twitter and Facebook.
Liberty’s Bell
Oklahoma ACLU director Joann Bell retires after 20-plus years.
News
Phil Bacharach
As executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Oklahoma affiliate, Bell has been on the front lines of some of the most divisive controversies in arguably the most culturally conservative state in the country.
Fight club
Thirteen years after an injury left him in a coma, Travis Hoffman took over a boxing gym to restart his pro combat career.
Sports
Charles Martin
In 1994, mixed martial arts was not the heavily regulated sport it is today, and when Travis Hoffman entered the ring, he had no idea that more than a decade would pass before he would be able to fight professionally again.
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.
‘Dawn’ of the dread
Letters to the Editor
Jason Bell
It was 20 years before Odysseus saw his home again after the first “Odyssey Dawn,” by Homer.
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.
Christian music
Ex-Oklahoman Christian Kane has a sweet gig on the TV series ‘Leverage,’ so why would he clutter his schedule pursuing country?
Music
Joshua Boydston
About 2,000 miles exist between Hollywood and Nashville, but that doesn’t mean country singer and actor Christian Kane won’t do his best to be in two places at once. Being both is a dream he’s had for most of his life, so he’s not about to let distance interfere.
