Music
Stephen Carradini
Ben Folds with Street Corner Symphony
7 p.m. Tuesday
Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main, Tulsa
www.cainsballroom.com, 918-584-2306
$32-$34
Thursday 20 Jun
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Fold me now
With a new album co-written by a superstar novelist and plans for more experimentation, Ben Folds will rock the suburbs as long as they exist
Music
Stephen Carradini
Ben Folds with Street Corner Symphony
7 p.m. Tuesday
Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main, Tulsa
www.cainsballroom.com, 918-584-2306
$32-$34
Tiny Furniture
You’ll have a good time watching Lena Dunham have a hard time in her brainy, but buoyant film
Drama
Rod Lott
Warning: Those allergic to quirkiness may be sent into fits of anaphylactic shock by the DIY indie “Tiny Furniture,” but the immune among us will find something of a rough gem. The microbudget dramedy plays Friday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Munn ho!: Third in a series
Not as raved over, but still quite newsworthy
CFN
Gazette staff
Maybe it’s because her new NBC sitcom finally premiered to indifference, but the Interwebs aren’t as obsessed over former Oklahoman turned actress/model/geek icon Olivia Munn as in weeks past.
Wolf pact
Brotherly love — both literal and figurative — helps To Speak of Wolves leap over its fellow metalcore acts.
Music
Joshua Boydston
To Speak of Wolves with Harp & Lyre, Before There Was Rosalyn, Facing Giants and more
6 p.m. Friday
The Conservatory
8911 N. Western
www.conservatoryokc.com
607-4805
$8 advance, $10 door
’Ham it up
As DJ Bronzai, Jon Mooneyham isn’t your typical record-spinner. He’s on a mission to save the state from bad music. That means you, Ke$ha.
Music
Joshua Boydston
DJ Bronzai
9 p.m. Thursday
VZD’s Restaurant and Club
4200 N. Western
www.vzds.com, 524-4203
Pie chart
Ready for a slice? Pies are poised to become the breakout dessert of 2011.
Food and Drink Features
Malena Lott
They don’t call it “as American as apple pie” for nothing. Simple, cheap and quick have always been hallmarks of patriotic popularity (hot dogs and hamburgers, anyone?), and that goes double when it’s also piping hot and delicious. And popular.
Short stuff
Brief in length but long in creativity, this year’s crop of Oscar-nominated shorts fills the screen at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Features
Rod Lott
Each Oscar season, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art affords movie buffs the opportunity to see the Academy Award nominees it otherwise wouldn’t: the short films. All five animated and all five live-action shorts will be shown Friday and Saturday in separate programs, with the animated ones unspooling at 5:30 p.
Monkey see
Oklahoma Children’s Theatre tackles ‘Inherit the Wind,’ a dramatization of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial.
Performing Arts
Eric Webb
Inherit the Wind
11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Kirkpatrick Auditorium, 2501 N. Blackwelder
www.oklahomachildrenstheatre.org
951-0011
$7-$10
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Conditions are ripe for marital strife in Oklahoma, where divorce comes sweeping down the plains.
Features
Malena Lott
Love may be a many-splendored thing, but in Oklahoma, love often turns into a country song, à la Tammy Wynette’s 1968 No. 1 hit, “D-I-V-O-R-C-E.” Unfortunately for Oklahoma, as the decades roll by, the state can’t seem to get out of the top-five ranking for highest divorce rates in the U.
Tea for three
The Sooner Tea Party is supporting two new City Council candidates and an incumbent.
News
Clifton Adcock
Ward 5 Councilman Brian Walters, along with Ward 6 candidate Adrian Van Manen and Ward 8 candidate Cliff Hearron, have all received endorsements from the Sooner Tea Party, and the organization’s co-founder Al Gerhart said the group plans to aid the three candidates in their campaign.
