Music
Mia Cantu
During college, PJ Bond and his band, Outsmarting Simon, spent school breaks touring. Eventually, the group signed a record deal, but the bandmates decided to answer the calls of day jobs.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
"Let's do it," says Arnold in the opening minutes of Total Recall. "Let's go to Mars."

Comedy
Rod Lott
Hopefully, the new-to-DVD Three Stooges movie — which is actually pretty decent, unless you're a humorless mother-nyuk-er — spurs more viewers to try the real thing. For those wanting to sample their black-and-white brand of slapstick with minimal investment, many bargain-DVD collections exist containing only their material that has fallen into the public domain.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
We’re three months away from the start of a new NBA season, but you can get a preview of sorts when the Thunder Girls hold their final auditions at 7 p.m. Thursday at Riverwind Casino, 1544 State Highway 9 in Norman. The public is invited to witness just who will be shaking her pompoms while grown men play with balls. Admission is free. Visit thunder.nba.com.

Thursday

Documentary
Rod Lott
I can't believe — just. cannot. believe. — that Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory lost the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature this past spring. And to a football movie, no less! It's another case of the jocks running ragged over the outcasts, except these outcasts were able to effect something few docs achieve: change.

Rock
Joshua Boydston
After an uneven presence following 2008’s hard rock-leaning Season of Poison, Shiny Toy Guns is back with its third release, appropriately titled III.

Documentary
Rod Lott
Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album, So, found the former Genesis vocalist at his commercial and critical peak. Now, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, it’s not only been reissued in a three-disc box set, but is the subject of the Classic Albums documentary series.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
I'm not of the opinion that remakes are automatically a bad thing. Without them, we wouldn't have David Cronenberg's The Fly or John Carpenter's The Thing. The difference is that examples like those had a different way of telling the established story.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Triple your reality as three of the year’s most acclaimed documentaries screen at Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch. On Thursday and Sunday, it’s the freshly Oscar-nominated Chasing Ice; and on Friday and Saturday, The Waiting Room and The House I Live In. The films respectively tackle climate change, public health and the war on drugs. Tickets are $5-$8. Call 236-3100 or visit okcmoa.com.

Thursday-Sunday

Television series
Rod Lott
On the basis of Eastbound & Down’s first two seasons, if Kenny Powers were a real person, I’d advise readers to lock up their daughters. After watching the third season, I’d add infants and toddlers to that list.