Archive for March 2011
March 31st, 2011 | Bams Blog, CDs, Entertainment, Music, Wimgo | 0 Comments

Today’s featured event:
TULSA – Listen to Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll, along with the duo Shovels and Rope, at 8 tonight at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main. Doors will open at 7 p.m.
For more information, go to www.cainsballroom.com.
Carll also will play at 8 p.m. Friday at the Wormy Dog Saloon in Bricktown. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
For more information,…
March 30th, 2011 | Awards, Bams Blog, Entertainment, Music, Wimgo | 0 Comments
Taylor Swift performs on the last night of her European Tour at London's O2 Arena on Wednesday. Swift will play Oct. 15 at the Oklahoma City Arena on the North American leg of her "Speak Now World Tour." (AP Photo)

Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. April 8 for country music sensation Taylor Swift’s fall Oklahoma City concert, the venue announced this afternoon.
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, who is in the final week of the European leg of her blockbuster “Taylor Swift Speak…
March 30th, 2011 | Awards, Bams Blog, Entertainment, Music, Wimgo | 0 Comments

From the March 30-April 16 edition of Look at OKC.
Still hot
Things just keep rolling along for Miranda Lambert
In the past 18 months, Miranda Lambert has turned from country music’s rabble-rouser into the genre’s Grammy-winning golden girl.
The Tishomingo resident made good on her bold album title, truly inciting a “Revolution” with the fall 2009 release of her third album. Designated…
March 30th, 2011 | Bams Blog, CDs, Entertainment, Music, Wimgo | 0 Comments

A version of this story appears in Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.
Songwriter Hayes Carll shoots toward stardom
Hayes Carll spins an array of twangy tall tales on his latest album, “KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories),” but none get higher than the rapid-fire narrative of a hapless soldier who takes a drug-induced rocket trip to the moon.
The celebrated Texas…
March 30th, 2011 | Arts, Bams Blog, Entertainment, Theater, Wimgo | 0 Comments
Lyric Theatre is staging the '60s sex comedy "Boeing, Boeing," about Bernard (Matthew Montelongo), a womanizer keeping company with three flight attendants, from left, Gabriellla (Kristi Forsch), Gloria (Kristy Cates) and Gretchen (Lexi Windsor). (Photo by Wendy Mutz)

Today’s featured event:
Revisit the 1960s with Lyric Theatre’s production of the sex comedy “Boeing, Boeing,” opening at 7:30 tonight at Lyric at the Plaza, 1725 NW 16. The outrageous comedy follows the antics of an American architect who is based in Paris and keeping company…
March 29th, 2011 | Awards, Bams Blog, Entertainment, Music, TV, Wimgo | 0 Comments
Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton (AP file photo)
Country music superstars and Tishomingo residents Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert will be getting married in Lambert’s home state of Texas.
Oklahoma City radio station 93.3 Jake FM got the information first hand from Lambert during a Monday interview.
Lambert recently revealed that she and Shelton are getting married on May…
March 29th, 2011 | Arts, Bams Blog, Entertainment, Wimgo | 0 Comments

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has announced plans to temporarily close “Dale Chihuly: The Collection” for nearly a year. Sunday will be the last day the exhibit will be open.
Consisting of more than 1,500 pieces of glass, the collection will reopen in 2012 to celebrate the museum’s 10th anniversary in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center in downtown Oklahoma City.…
March 29th, 2011 | Bams Blog, Entertainment, Music, Wimgo | 0 Comments
Red Dirt Rangers
Great American Taxi
Today’s featured event:
Catch the Red Dirt Rangers and Great American Taxi in concert at 8 tonight at the Blue Door, 2805 N McKinley.
For more information, go to www.bluedoorokc.com.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
-BAM
March 28th, 2011 | Bams Blog, Entertainment, Music, Wimgo | 0 Comments
Edgar Cruz
Steven King
Today’s featured event:
EDMOND – Hear guitar master Steven King with special guest Edgar Cruz, a fleet-fingered state favorite, play at 8 tonight at the UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E 5.
For more information on King, go to www.guitarbystevenking.net. For more on Cruz, go to www.edgarcruz.com.
For more on the venue, go to www.ucojazzlab.com
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
-BAM
March 27th, 2011 | Bams Blog, Entertainment, Sports, Wimgo | 0 Comments
Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka (9) dunks the ball in front of Michael Beasley (8) of Minnesota during the NBA basketball game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Oklahoma City Thunder Friday at the OKC Arena in Oklahoma City. (Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman)
Today’s featured event:
Watch the Oklahoma City Thunder play the Portland Trail Blazers at 7 tonight at the Oklahoma City Arena, 100 W Reno.
For more information, go to www.nba.com/thunder.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
-BAM