Action
Phil Bacharach
Just because you don’t have Jason Bourne, Matt Damon or a Robert Ludlum novel to crib from doesn’t mean you can’t still wring some thrills out of the Bourne franchise. With the dog days of the summer box-office season comes The Bourne Legacy, a respectable spy actioner, even if it falls short of the standard set by its predecessors.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Five Finger Death Punch is just one of many metal bands with scary-sounding names at Friday’s Kattfest: Battlecross, Killswitch Engage, Pop Evil, Trivium, God Forbid — see what we mean? Gates open at 3:30 p.m. at OKC Zoo Amphitheatre, 2011 N.E. 50th. Tickets are $36.25- $75.25. Call 364-3700 or visit zooamp.com.

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CFN
Gazette staff
We at CFN have always figured that one reason Sen. Jim Inhofe enjoys such strong voter support is that a hefty chunk of the electorate shares his views that manmade climate change is rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish.

Television series
Rod Lott
Marrying Hollywood's current fairy-tale craze to the ever popular crime procedural is Grimm. While it works on both levels, that it blends the two into a unified whole gives the concept so much fizz, as the 22 episodes of its five-disc first season indicate. This one's perfect for marathoning.