Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne performs at last year’s New Year’s Eve Freakout. (Photo by John Clanton/The Oklahoman Archives)

Happy New Year! It’s New Year’s Eve, and there are many festivities planned around the state for today and throughout the weekend. Here is the special New Year’s 2009-10 edition of the Weekend Warmup (for Dec. 31, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010). For more events, go to www.wimgo.com:

- Celebrate the start of 2010 with psychedelic music, confetti cannons and a giant balloon drop at The Flaming Lips New Year’s Eve #3, featuring Stardeath and White Dwarfs, at…

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Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne poses for a photo in the NewsOK studios. (Photo by Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman)

Today’s featured event:

Celebrate the end of 2009 and start of 2010 at The Flaming Lips New Year’s Eve Freakout #3 at 8:30 tonight at the Cox Convention Center in downtown. The opening act will be another Oklahoma City psychedelic rock band, Stardeath and White Dwarfs.

After the confetti cannons have fired, thousands of balloons have dropped and the countdown to midnight has been completed, the Lips and Stardeath will again take the stage to perform…

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Oklahoma City music luminary Wayne Coyne recently visited the NewsOK studios to talk about The Flaming Lips New Year’s Eve Freakout #3. The show, featuring Stardeath and White Dwarfs, will ring in 2010 starting at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Cox Convention Center.

The Lips frontman talked with Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett at length about the concert. Check out the NewsOK video posted above.

The event is sure to bring 2009 to a stunning close, with otherworldly music, confetti cannons and what Coyne believes will be the world’s largest balloon drop.

Following the countdown to midnight,…

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Today’s featured event:

NORMAN - Hear Travis Linville at 10:30 tonight at The Deli, 309 White Street.

For more information, go to www.thedeli.us.

For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

-BAM

Read more What to do in Oklahoma on Dec. 30, 2009 at BAM's Blog

Today’s featured event:

See the work of mixed-media artist E.K. Jeong, who uses a diverse assortment of art materials and techniques to create the works included in her exhibit “Esquisse,” at the state Captiol.

 The exhibit will be on display though Jan. 31 in the Governor’s Gallery, on the second floor of the state Capitol. The gallery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free and exhibits are curated by the Oklahoma Arts Council.

Translated from French, “Esquisse” means the first sketch of a picture or model of a statue. Now living…

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Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Photo by Steve Sisney/The Oklahoman Archives)

Today’s featured event:

Get free admission to the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, American Banjo Museum, Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum and Oklahoma City Museum of Art from 1 to 6 p.m. today during the Oklahoma City Community Foundation Free Museum Sundays.

The event is part of Downtown in December. For more information, go to www.downtownindecember.com.

For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

-BAM

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Aranda

Today’s featured event:

Hear Aranda with Taddy Porter at 9 tonight at the Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E Sheridan.

For more information, call 601-6276 or go to www.wormydog.com.

For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

-BAM

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Camille Harp

Merry Christmas! Here is today’s featured event:

- NORMAN – Listen to Aron Holt (of Mama Sweet) and Camille Harp at 10 tonight at The Deli, 309 White Street.

For more information, go to www.thedeli.us.

For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

-BAM

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Vanessa Chandler and Brandon McCaskill ice skate last month at the Devon Ice Rink in downtown Oklahoma City. (Photo by Steve Gooch/The Oklahoman)

In light of today’s wintry weather, it probably would be best to spend Christmas Eve in front of a roaring fire with a cup of hot cocoa rather than trying to get out and find an activity. Merry Christmas! -BAM

Today’s featured event:

Take a Christmas Eve skate at the Devon Ice Rink outside the Civic Center, 201 N Walker. The rink is open from noon to 10 p.m. through…

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Rodin’s “The Kiss” is now on view at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman.

NORMAN –The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is offering a gift for art lovers during the holiday season: free admission for all visitors Saturday through Dec. 30.

“Our visitors are the museum’s greatest blessings,” said Ghislain d’Humières, museum director, in a news release. “We would like to thank our visitors for a wonderful year of activities and events at the museum. Free admission is a small way to show our great appreciation.”

In addition, the Museum…

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