Subject: Norman (Oklahoma)

• Boozeday's Moved

  September 26, 2006

• Your Weekend Won't Suck

  April 7, 2006

• School Board Now Says It'll Auction Off Schools

  August 20, 2008

• Starlight Mints

  June 4, 2009

• Letters

  September 21, 2000

• Letters

  March 15, 2001

• Norman

  April 17, 2003

• Saddle Ranch Chop House rides into the sunset

  I'm sorry to say this, mechanical bull fans, but one your own passed away this week. Saddle Ranch Chop House of the Legends hung up its hat on Monday.Yes, the restaurant did offer big chunks of prime rib served on huge stainless steel platters and it did offer breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as the drunk's delight (breakfast until close). But the meat of the restaurant was that bull, and getting to watch other patrons get thrown around like sacks of cornmeal. Now the only bucking bull in

  February 5, 2009

• Concert Review: Starlight Mints and Evangelicals at the Record Bar

  REVIEW BY IAN HRABE While the Flaming Lips may have cornered the market on progressive Oklahoman music, on Thursday night, Norman, Oklahoma's Evangelicals and the Starlight Mints set out to prove that there is more going on in that pan-handled state to the south. Ian HrabeEvangelicals evangelize I entered the Record Bar with a battle of the bands mindset, equally excited to see both bands, but more excited to see whose show it would be. Would the Starlight Mints hold their ground and prove t

  June 5, 2009

• Incoming: Jonathan Richman to the Record Bar (no Vic)

  Brooklyn Vegan is reporting that ex-Modern Lover Jonathan Richman and sidekick Tommy Larkins will be coming to the Record Bar on June 29. Fellow sardonic singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt will be joining Richman for part of the tour, but, unfortunately not the part that comes to KC. Unless Vic's eight loyal local fans want to stand up and demand he be drafted for one more show. Come on, guys! Dates are as follows: Jun 5 - Tucson, AZ Club Congress Lemon Drop Gang Jun 8 - Norman, OK Da Opolis Jun 1

  March 25, 2009

• El Paso Hot Button

  January 1, 2009

• Easy Living

  Ghosty shows relaxed maturity on its new album, Answers.

  January 10, 2008

• Private Defective

  Alan Rudolph's Trixie is happily stuck between a rock and the deep blue sea.

  December 7, 2000

• Comedy of Errors

  Minds Eye takes a Vacation to hell.

  May 23, 2002

• Checkered Past

  November 23, 2006

• Shrink Wrap

  October 26, 2006

• Pax Romana

  September 14, 2006

• He don’t need no education

  December 1, 2005

• Story of a Ghosty

  The course of true rock never did run smooth for Ghosty.

  September 1, 2005

• Fuji-rama

  Westport’s Fuji Steak And Sushi Restaurant keeps us plenty entertained — for a weeknight, anyway.

  May 12, 2005

• Southern Exposure

  Lawrence's Ghosty and Koufax are poised to represent Midwestern virtue at South by Southwest.

  March 17, 2005

• Been There, Got the T-Shirt

  Roger Shimomura weighs in on Abercrombie & Fitch.

  December 25, 2003

• The Starlight Mints

  Thursday, November 13, at the Bottleneck.

  November 13, 2003

• Rosie the Riveting

  Late Night Theatre conquers the Far East.

  March 6, 2003

• Dream Weaver

  Spider-Man slings pop mythology for the masses.

  May 2, 2002

• Bite Me

  Fishing on the cheap can still cost an arm.

  August 23, 2001

• A Grim Fairy Tale

  Gay men suffer an identity crisis in the New Theatre Restaurant's Norman, Is That You?

  March 1, 2001

• Minty Fresh

  With these Mints on the pillow, a sweet Dream is guaranteed.

  November 9, 2000

• Pig Out

  Merriam's Seaboard Corporation thought it could really bring home the bacon -- if it could just find a place to process its hogs.

  September 7, 2000

• I See Dull People!

  Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfiffer unravel the sketchy mystery of What Lies Beneath.

  July 20, 2000

• Love, fever, and one woman's take on the oblique spheroid

  Big, sweaty, and determined best describe these gladiators from the minor league Kansas Plainsmen football team.

  June 15, 2000

• Video: U2 360° Tour Preview

  U2 starts their 360° Tour today in Barcelona, in front of a sold-out crowd of 90,000 fans. Here's how the band and their crew created a way to make the stadium setting intimate for both performers and audience, courtesy of Wired. You can check out further details on the tour page. Sadly, the nearest this is coming is Norman, OK on October 18.

  June 30, 2009

• Tonight: Over Stars & Gutters at the Replay

  In what seems to be yet another punk show tonight, Norman, Oklahoma's Over Stars & Gutters will hit the Replay as part of a short midwestern jaunt in support of their self-released debut, Consider This Your Curse. Wes, myspace.com/overstarsandgutters​Over Stars & Gutters plays punk in the vein of Dillinger Four, Off With Their Heads, and Banner Pilot. It's that gruffly emotional style of punk rock that seems to be in vogue right now amongst OrgCore punkers. Check the show out. It'll be c

  August 3, 2009

• Throwback MP3 of the Week: Shocks of Mighty, "Everyday Is A Holiday"

  By all rights, you shouldn't be able to punch in a URL from a ten year-old press release from a local ska band and still expect it to work. Still, when I typed in the web address for Manhattan's Shocks of Mighty, their site was still in existence. ​Shocks of Mighty didn't last very long. When I first saw them play in August of 1998, they'd only been around six months, and they were done for good in January of 2000, meaning they weren't even a band a full two years. Now, they managed to re

  October 14, 2009