In 2005 the Super Bowl halftime show was performed by The Rolling Stones, whose ages one can detect only via carbon-dating methods. This year the featured band was The Who, who are so old they looked and sounded like pterodactyls on Lipitor.
In 2007, Dr. David Dosa wrote an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine about a cat at the Steere House nursing home in Providence, R.I., who apparently had the ability to sense when a patient was going to die. The media picked up the story and almost overnight, Oscar the cat became an international phenomenon.
Shawnee Little Theatre will continue its ongoing capital improvements drive by joining with Oklahoma Baptist University to present the Stephen Sondheim musical “Into the Woods” Feb. 9-20.
It feels like a bit of undead overload to be reviewing “Zombieland” so soon after writing about the zombie flick “Pontypool” in this space, but while “Pontypool” is a nasty little thriller, “Zombieland” — despite the occasional burst of violence — is definitely a comedy.
Thought, scribbles and stolen text-message jokes regarding Super Bowl XXVLXVIXCSI, which ended in a satisfying win for an iconic American city that has endured unfathomable hardships.
A class act from beginning to end, “The Last Station” chronicles a late-in-life period of Leo Tolstoy, most of it taking place in and around the vast country estate of the then “most celebrated writer in the world.”
Can you imagine being stuck 50 feet up on a chairlift? Now imagine that everyone but you and your two friends have gone home and won’t return for four days at the earliest. Oh, and there’s a blizzard bearing down and hungry wolves licking their chops in hopes that you’re foolish enough to jump.
It was easy to get swept away in the pure romance of “Dear John” until the wheels fell off in the last act.
When a guy in the audience threw up, Adam Green knew his movie was a success.
Dana Underwood’s day job is a mechanic. But on occasion, that job requires a bit of animal wrangling. On Thursday, Underwood was given the job of removing a kitten from the dashboard of a van owned by an animal shelter.
Police search through bowel movements, thief accidentally sets fire and more in this week's edition.
To soothe what ails his aching psyche, Barry Kerch needs no antidepressant pill or psychiatrist's couch - just a drum kit and concert stage. The prescription of live rock also aids other members of Shinedown. Their emotion-roiling songs not only please fans but serve as a catharsis for the quartet, whose personal foibles often serve as inspiration for lyrics. For them, a live concert functions as a massive support group that helps Shinedown shed angst.
Maybe it’s because I’m a dad myself, but flicks with vengeful fathers have been added to my list of not-so-guilty popcorn-movie pleasures.
Taylor Swift is talented (more so for her songwriting), but c’mon people. She is not very good live. In fact, her Grammy performance Sunday was anything but swift. I was embarrassed for Stevie Nicks. Swift ruined “Rhiannon” by singing off-key.
Oscar nominees Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren chew the scenery at will in "The Last Station," an account of the final year in the life of “War and Peace” author Leo Tolstoy.
Police obtained search warrants for the bowel movements of a suspected drug dealer in Weymouth, Mass., on Monday. They came away with 20 bags of what they say is heroin and cocaine that he allegedly swallowed.
While Hollywood pats itself on its bloated, vainglorious back for a year of “cinematic achievement,” the equally snobby and self-righteous Golden Raspberry awards sneak in the servants’ entrance and try to crash the party.
Leading up to Tuesday’s Season 6 premiere of the uber-popular drama “Lost,” it seemed the only way you could avoid all the hype was to be lost on a desert island. At the very least you had to de-activate your Facebook and Twitter accounts and blow off work for the day.
Daniel Menaker, author and editor, has been thinking a lot about the qualities of good conversation. His new book, “A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation,” is an entertaining, thought-provoking, at times irritating compendium that considers the history, the structure, the process, the value of conversation.
Oklahoma-based and nationally distributed record label Tate Music Group (TMG) is sponsoring their second annual Artist of the Year contest to take place on Friday, February 26, at 7 p.m. in Oklahoma City.
