Starlight Mints

Today’s featured event:

NORMAN – Help a great cause and hear great music when Starlight Mints and Feel Spectres play a Holiday Toy Drive Show at 9 tonight at The Opolis, 113 N Crawford. 

People are encouraged to bring unwrapped toys to the show, and a portion of proceeds will go to the Norman charity Food For Friends.

For more information, go to www.starlightmints.com/opolis.html.

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

-BAM

Read more What to do in Oklahoma on Dec. 23, 2009 at BAM's Blog

Today’s featured event:

Celebrate the season when Celebrity Attractions presents Mannheim Steamroller at 7:30 p.m. today and Wednesday at the Civic Center, 201 N Walker.

For more information, go to www.celebrityattractions.com.

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

-BAM

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Mary Nhin slides down the slope earlier this year at Chesapeake Snow Tubing inside the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark, part of Downtown in December. (Photo by Nate Billings/The Oklahoman)

Today’s featured event:

Experience Chesapeake Snow Tubing at the Brick from noon to 8 p.m. today at the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark, where the nation’s largest manmade snow tubing slope has been erected.

Admission is $10 for each 1 1/2-hour session. First come, first served. Private parties and groups sales are available by calling 218-1000.

Along with the slope, the Brick is now equipped with The Lodge, a ski lodge-style hangout…

Read more What to do in Oklahoma on Dec. 21, 2009 at BAM's Blog

Paul O’Neill of Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Today’s featured event:

Celebrate the season when Trans-Siberian Orchestra plays at 3 and 7:30 p.m. today at the Ford Center, 100 W Reno. 

For more information, call (800) 745-3000 or go to www.okfordcenter.com.

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

-BAM

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Psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have teamed up with their Oklahoma City brethren Stardeath and White Dwarfs to record their own unique take of Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic album “The Dark Side of the Moon,” which will become available online only beginning Tuesday.

The full title of the recording will be ”The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing the Dark Side of the Moon,” according to a news release.

The collaborative project was recorded after several weeks of both bands touring the world together and mutually citing…

Read more Flaming Lips releasing “Dark Side of the Moon” next week at BAM's Blog

Today’s featured event:

Hear Oklahoma music icon Leon Russell at 9 p.m. today 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

Read more What to do in Oklahoma on Dec. 19, 2009 at BAM's Blog

Cross Canadian Ragweed

Here is a list of events happening around Oklahoma for this weekend (Dec. 18-20). For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

- NORMAN — Listen to Oklahoma-Texas red dirt band Cross Canadian Ragweed at 8 tonight at Riverwind Casino, 1544 W State Highway 9. Information: www.riverwind.com.

- Hear Oklahoma music icon Leon Russell at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E Sheridan. Information: 601-6276 or www.wormydog.com.

- Celebrate the season when Trans-Siberian Orchestra plays at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ford Center, 100 W Reno. Information: (800) 745-3000 or www.okfordcenter.com.

Red Dirt…

Read more Weekend Warmup for Dec. 18-20, 2009 at BAM's Blog

From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Joey + Rory equals a tuneful, charitable combination for Christmas

For country music twosome Joey + Rory, Christmastime and charity just belong together.

The husband-and-wife duo this year has two tuneful holiday projects: Their new single “It’s Christmas Time” has part of the proceeds going to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, while the children’s album “Merry Kidsmas” benefits the United Service Organization.

“It’s a time when you just sort of have this renewed heart, and you seem to get back the things that…

Read more Country duo Joey + Rory celebrating Christmas with charity, playing Oklahoma tonight at BAM's Blog

Michael Martin Murphey

Murphey and wife Karen lead a dance at his Cowboy Christmas Ball at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Cowboy Christmas Ball deeply rooted
Musician says annual event reminds him of livestock herders who were first to hear of Christ’s birth

Singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey believes cowboys are as much a part of Christmas as evergreen trees, twinkling lights and holly boughs.

The connection, he thinks, is practically biblical.

“The original Christmas story seems to indicate that people who were watching livestock out in their fields were…

Read more Michael Martin Murphey brings 15th Cowboy Christmas Ball to National Cowboy Museum at BAM's Blog

Today’s featured event:

Mark the grand opening of Oklahoma City’s first IMAX Theater at the AMC Quail Springs Mall 24 IMAX from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Quail Springs Mall, directly in front of the theater box office.

The event will benefit the Blue Star Mothers of America. Attendees are asked to bring an item to donate to care packages for U.S. service men and women stationed overseas. Blue Star Mothers of America will be on-hand to collect all donated items.

Suggested donation items include:

- Individually wrapped food items such as pudding cups, pouch drink mixes,…

Read more What to do in Oklahoma on Dec. 18, 2009 at BAM's Blog