Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Here are some events going on around Oklahoma during New Year’s weekend. For more events, click here or go to www.wimgo.com:

1. Take advantage of the final days of the Downtown in December festivities, including the Devon Ice Rink, Chesapeake Snow Tubing, OK Cityscape and more. Information: www.downtownindecember.com.

2. See “Another Hot Oklahoma Night: A Rock & Roll Exhibit” before it closes today at Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zhudi Drive. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information:…

Cody Canada & The Departed

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A version of this story appears in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Cody Canada & The Departed debuting to close 2010
Following this year’s split of Cross Canadian Ragweed, the singer/songwriter/guitarist and his new band are playing the Wormy Dog’s New Year’s Eve show tonight.

With his venerable…

Randy Rogers Band

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From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Randy Rogers Band makes Oklahoma City home for New Year’s Eve

From a new album that topped the charts to the arrival of three babies, the Randy Rogers Band continued to celebrate big milestones in 2010.

The Texas country rockers will cap the year with another…

"The Puzzle" by Michele Mikesell

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From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Artistic “Games” planned for New Year’s Day
Painter Michele Mikesell will open a new exhibit Saturday at JRB Art at the Elms.

Art lovers are invited to celebrate the dawn…

Crowds watch as the lighted ball begin its ascent during Opening Night 2009 in downtow Oklahoma City. Opening Night 2011 will celebrate the end of 2010 and the start of the New Year from 7 to midnight tonight.

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From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Grand Opening Night planned for New Year’s Eve in downtown…

Eboni Bernatd, 8, waits for a balloon during Opening Night 2010 New Year's Eve activities in downtown Oklahoma City. Opening Night 2011 is tonight. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman Archives

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OPENING NIGHT 2011

Activities: Celebrate New Year’s Eve with live music, improv, roller derby, magic shows, children’s area, strolling performers, fireworks display and lighted ball ascension at…

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips (Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman Archives)

Today’s featured event:

Celebrate the end of 2010 and the start of 2011 at The Flaming Lips New Year’s Eve Freakout #4, featuring Stardeath and White Dwarfs, at 8:30 tonight at the Cox Convention Center in downtown.

After the Lips perform their full set – costumed dancers, balloon drop, mirror ball and all – and count down to midnight, they will play live their seminal 1999 album “The Soft Bulletin.”

“You…

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Today’s featured event:

See “Another Hot Oklahoma Night: A Rock & Roll Exhibit” before it closes Friday at Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zhudi Drive. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information: 522-0765 or www.okhistorycenter.org.

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

-BAM

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As The Flaming Lips ramp up to play their annual New Year’s Eve Freakout Friday night right here in their hometown of Oklahoma City, frontman Wayne Coyne tells Rolling Stone that the experimental rockers plan to go into the studio in January, release new songs every month in 2011 and document on film the entire recording process.

Coyne told the magazine…

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Oklahoma experimental rockers Stardeath and White Dwarfs, who will open for The Flaming Lips Friday night during the Lips’ New Year’s Freakout #4, are working…