News
Clifton Adcock
When Tate Publishing CEO Ryan Tate walked into the staff meeting on May 31, he had no idea the words he was about to say soon would be posted online for all to hear.
Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: book
One for the books
The corporate culture of Mustang-based Tate Publishing is questioned after an audio file of internal hostility goes viral.
News
Clifton Adcock
When Tate Publishing CEO Ryan Tate walked into the staff meeting on May 31, he had no idea the words he was about to say soon would be posted online for all to hear.
The Lowbrow Reader Reader
Deals a royal flush of smart humor.
Nonfiction
Rod Lott
Zines were the blogs of their day, but you could read them in the bathroom. In the early 1990s, I was heavily plugged into the zine culture, sending stamps and dollar bills away in exchange for these indie pubs. Soon, during a short period of boredom and unemployment, I started one of my own.
Everything’s Jake
Jake Germany escaped his hometown to play music and see the world — and he’s still on the adventure.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Jake Germany with Theatre Breaks Loose, Poema, The Wake Up Call and Almost Legendary
6 p.m. Tuesday
The Parish
1757 N.W. 16th
theparishokc.com
633-0454
$8-$10
Gander at Guthrie
The making of 'Woody at 100.'
With all the Woody Guthrie coverage in today’s Gazette to commemorate the Okie folkie’s centennial, you may wish to take a peek at the mini-documentary The Making of Woody at 100.
It details Smithsonian Folkways’ efforts at compiling the new, three-disc box set, Woody at 100, which:
• came out yesterday;
• features 57 songs in total, 21 of them previously unreleased performances and six never-before-heard; and
• includes a 154-page book with essays and art galore.
Take a gander at the label’s restoration process and behind-the-scenes work:
Hey! Read This:
• Know your Woody!
• Woody Guthrie's legacy
'Time' bandit
Fantasy novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon sets OKC visit to sign her latest surefire best-seller.
Book of love
Roy Book Binder plays blues, country, bluegrass, folk and even pop. Most of all, he just plays; it what he lives for.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Roy Book Binder
8 p.m. Saturday
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com
524-0738
$20
Headhunters
Oslo can you go? To the depths of man’s darkest and deadliest desires, according to a fun foreign crime thriller.
Full Metal Jacket: 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Book
More than just the movie that made ‘me so horny’ a household phrase.
Drama
Rod Lott
When Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam film, Full Metal Jacket, hit theaters in the summer of 1987, I was all of 16 years old. Even I could tell it was far better than Oliver Stone’s Platoon, which by then had won four Academy Awards; by comparison, Jacket would be nominated for one, Best Adapted Screenplay, and lose it to The Last Emperor.
