Monthly Archives: September 2010

Pixies- Sell out the Brady Theater

Angie Pyle

Hope you got your tickets for this event because the latest news on the street is that this show at the Brady Theater is sold out!

The Pixies are an alternative indie-rock band that formed in 1986 and the band still has all of its original members which consists of; Black Francis (lead vocals and electric guitar and acoustic guitar), Joey Santiago (electric guitar), Kim Deal (bass guitar and backing vocals), and David Lovering (drums).

The group disbanded over rancorous circumstances in 1993 but reunited in 2004. Although they only had modest success in the States, their popularity really took off in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. The Pixies are known for having songs that are written about offbeat subjects like UFO’s, surrealism, mental instability and violent Biblical imagery. Black Francis has a sound all his own with his howling vocals which makes him very memorable.

The Pixies are one of the leading bands that birthed alternative rock in the early 90’s. Bands like Nirvana and many others have said that they were heavily influenced by the Pixies and thus caused the bands fan base to substantially grow. Due to the groups’ disbandment in 1993, they never reaped the full benefits of their legacy. Luckily, the band has come back to life with quite the cult-following. They are on tour now with the continuation of their 20th Anniversary of “Doolittle”, their 1989 album release.

This tour kicked off in Philadelphia on September 7th and will be making their stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday September 18th to a sold-out Brady Theater. The Pixies once again are following in their own groundbreaking footsteps by offering “instant” live disc sets available immediately after each show. The band will play the entire Doolittle record from start to finish, and will also include special “B” sides and other favorites. Each show will be brilliantly captured and mixed on-the-fly, and will be packaged in a commemorative two-disc Doolittle Live DigiPak.

The consumer price of each collectible disc set is $25 USD, available online at www.doolittlelive.com and also $25 at each show. Discs may either be picked up at the end of the show, or shipped home. The Pixies are sure to leave their mark on Tulsa and this is for sure one show not to miss!

WHEN: Saturday September 18th
WHERE: Brady Theater 105 West Brady Street
TIME: Doors open at 7:30pm
TICKETS: Sold Out (As of 9/15/10 only seats available are obstructed view seats 1-866-977-6849)
Dinner Recommendations: Dilly Deli, Elote Café, McNellies and Spaghetti Warehouse.
 

Lewis Black Coming to Osage Event Center

Ernie Osborn

altWho is Lewis Black?  Define that and you will have done something that few can.  My take on him, he is truly an everyman that defies tradition and reverence when it comes to America today.  Allow me to expound on that statement.  I was first introduced to Lewis Black on Comedy Central and remember thinking, “This guy is so high strung he may stroke out right here on stage.”  He was so ticked at the establishment which is the US government and a lot of what he had to say struck a chord with me.  His take on it was, as if to say, how can we Americans have put such simple minded, boneheads in charge?  I have long thought, “Why is it that we get 51 contestants to be Miss America and yet only 2 choices for President?”  I can’t help but think he may ask himself the same question.

The late George Carlin, Larry King and Jules Feiffer love Lewis Black. They love him because his insights and love/hate relationship with America are brilliantly expressed in his concerts and TV appearances worldwide. How can you not love a man who says, “Republicans are a party with bad ideas and Democrats are a party with no ideas.” Will Rogers would have been proud.

Lewis is one of the most prolific and popular performers working today. Lewis’ live performances provide a cathartic release of anger and disillusionment for his audience. Lewis yells so they don’t have to. A passionate performer who is more pissed-off optimist than mean-spirited curmudgeon. Lewis is the rare comic who can cause an audience to laugh themselves into incontinence while making compelling points about the absurdity of our world.

He has made a name for himself not only through his comedy but, also as an actor, and playwright.  He can be seen regularly on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart doing his Back in Black segment.  His popular appearances on Comedy Central helped to win him Best Male Stand-Up at the American Comedy Awards in 2001.

He is a comedic rarity that begs to be seen and heard.  This is a show that will not only entertain, but make you think.  A great way to cap off your work week after giving your time to “The Man.”

Lewis Black “In God We Rust” Tour

Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino | 951 W 36th St. N.

Friday, September 17, 2010 7:00 pm

Ticket Info  call 918-699-7667

Tickets $40

Watermelon Slim – CANCELLED!

Ernie Osborn

One of the most amazing and talented bluesmen makes his way back to Tulsa, Wednesday, September 15. A night of the blues altcomes to the Flytrap Music Hall (514 E. Second St.)

Watermelon Slim and the Workers will light up the small music hall stage with some of the areas best blues.  These cats can flat get down.  If you have an itch for blues music, they will supply the scratch.

Slim was born in Boston and raised in North Carolina listening to his maid sing John Lee Hooker and other blues songs around the house. His father was a progressive attorney and ex-freedom rider and his brother is now a classical musician.

Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans is a truly unique man with an amazing story behind how he came to be a musician and bluesman.  While laid up in a Vietnam hospital bed he taught himself upside-down left-handed slide guitar on a $5 balsawood model using a triangle pick cut from a rusty coffee can top and his Army issued Zippo lighter as the slide. 

 In 2002 Slim suffered a near fatal heart attack. His brush with death gave him a new perspective on mortality, direction and life ambitions. He says, "Everything I do now has a sharper pleasure to it. I’ve lived a fuller life than most people could in two. If I go now, I’ve got a good education, I’ve lived on three continents, and I’ve played music with a bunch of immortal blues players. I’ve fought in a war and against a war. I’ve seen an awful lot and I’ve done an awful lot. If my plane went down tomorrow, I’d go out on top."

In December 2006 Watermelon Slim garnered a record-tying six 2007 Blues Music Award nominations for Artist, Entertainer, Album, Band, Song, and Traditional Album of the Year. Only the likes of B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray have ever landed six. His 2006 self-titled release was ranked #1 in MOJO Magazine’s 2006 Top Blues CDs, won the 2006 Independent Music Award for Blues Album of the Year, hit #1 on the Living Blues Radio Chart, debuted at #13 on the Billboard Blues Radio Chart ahead of both Robert Cray and North Mississippi Allstars, and won the Blues Critic Award for 2006 Album of the Year.

He has great stories, fabulous music and stage antics that will have you laughing as well as leaning in to hear more.  Check out his wide array of guitar slides also.   From a Zippo lighter to a small bottle of whiskey.  Nothing is off limits to the one-of-a-kind man.

Watermelon Slim and The Workers with opener Dustin Pittsley

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Flytrap Music Hall  (514 E 2nd St)

Doors open 7:00

Ticket Info

 

Golden Hurricane shoot down Falcons 33-20

G.J. Kinne connected on 27 passes for 356 yards and two touchdowns as the University of Tulsa claimed a 33-20 win over Bowling Green in front of 19,565 fans Saturday at H.A. Chapman Stadium. Thealt Golden Hurricane racked up 546 yards of total offense as they rebounded from a heartbreaking loss to East Carolina a week ago. "We definitely got better as a football team," said TU Head Coach Todd Graham.

For the second straight week, Tulsa coughed up the football on their opening drive. Bowling Green capitalized on a Trey Watts fumble just 33-seconds into the opening quarter, driving 44-yards on 11 plays that ended with a one-yard touchdown run by quarterback Matt Schilz. 

The Hurricane answered back 13 play, 74-yard drive that was capped with a 23-yard field goal by Kevin Fitzpatrick. Freshman Marco Nelson, making his first start at safety, then picked off Schilz’s first pass of the following drive and Tulsa wasted little time taking the lead. Kinne found Charles Clay for a 42-yard touchdown strike just two-seconds into the ensuing drive to give the Golden Hurricane a 10-7 lead.

Tulsa carried a 27-14 lead into the locker room at the half after adding two more touchdowns and a field goal in the second quarter. A 27-yard field goal from Fitzpatrick capped off Tulsa’s third-straight scoring drive with 7:39 remaining before Alex Singleton, who finished the night with 74 ground yards, punched across the goal line from three yards out to complete a 10 play, 75-yard scoring drive.

Willie Geter reached the end zone for Bowling Green on a one yard run with 1:24 remaining in the half after Dwayne Woods intercepted a Kinne pass at Tulsa’s one-yard line. Tulsa answered with an impressive six play, 74-yard drive that took just 47-seconds off of the clock. Kinne fired a 25 yard highlight reel pass into the back corner of the end zone that was hauled in by Trae Johnson to put Tulsa on top by 13 points.

Fitzpatrick completed an outstanding evening connecting on second-half field goals from 34 and 46 yards. The two field goals, both in the third quarter, would be the only time Tulsa would get on the scoreboard in the second half. 

Bowling Green capped an eight play, 56 yard fourth-quarter drive with a two yard touchdown run from Schilz to close out the scoring. The Falcons threatened to pull back into the game as they mounted a drive late in the fourth quarter that consumed 47 yards before Charles Davis picked off a Schilz pass, enabling Tulsa to run out the clock.

 Tulsa out-gained Bowling Green 546-303 total yards, including 356-262 yards through the air. The Golden Hurricane defense shut down the Falcons’ running game, allowing only 41 yards on the ground while ran the ball 40 times for 190 yards. 

Tulsa (1-1) will now prepare for a showdown with Oklahoma State (2-0) in Stillwater on Saturday. The Cowboys narrowly escaped Troy yesterday at Boone Pickens Stadium as they claimed a 41-38 win over the Trojans. 

SCORING SUMMARY

Qtr. Time Team Play

1 10:20 BGSU Schilz 1 yd run (Wright kick)

1 5:38 TU Fitzpatrick 23 yd FG

1 4:39 TU Kinne 42 yd pass to Clay (Fitzpatrick kick)

2 7:39 TU Fitzpatrick 27 yd FG

2 3:09 TU Singleton 3 yd run (Fitzpatrick kick)

2 1:24 BGSU Geter 1 yd run (Wright kick)

2 0:32 TU Kinne 25 yd pass to Trae Johnson  (Fitzpatrick kick)

3 6:25 TU Fitzpatrick 34 yd FG

3 0:56 TU Fitzpatrick 46 yd FG

4 9:54 BGSU Schilz 2 yd run (Schilz pass failed)

C-USA SCOREBOARD

East Carolina 49, Memphis 27

SMU 28, UAB 7

Southern Miss 34, Prairie View 7

Rice 32, North Texas 31

NC State 28, UCF 21

Ole Miss 27, Tulane 13

 

 

Worldwide Memories of 9/11

David Arnett, Publisher

From the Wall Street Journal to Deutsche Welle in Germany, the world remembers the Islamic Radical attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.  We remember it all.

We remember images and sounds. We remember the first civilian heroes that arose spontaneously to defeat the organized Muslim Death Squad on Flight 93 and the first responding heroes in New York and Washington.  We remember where we were and who we were with that day.  As we remember, we pray; for the families who lost love ones, for all hurt in heart or mind including our enemies who planned and financed the cowardly mass murder of innocent lives.

There will be many events of formal remembrance in New York, Washington, and First Lady Michelle Obama will join Mrs. Laura W. Bush as keynote speaker at the National Memorial for Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.

International news organizations suggest that this year, America is more divided, but Tulsa Today suggests American Patriots are growing more united.  The war is not over, but the Leftists Marxist Communist Anti-American Administration of President Barack Hussein Obama is daily demonstrating what Americans do not want in Government.  

More Americans in increasing numbers dispute Islamic Radical advances – domestic and foreign.  This is a war of civilization.  The civil world (including Muslims of peace) verses Radical Islamic barbarians that by their own oft declared choice must be killed to end the civilian mass murders they plan and commit.

Two significant analytical stories follow:

From the Wall Street Journal:

A More Divided 9/11 Anniversary

From the beginning, there were disagreements over how to memorialize victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. How to compensate the families. How and where to try the responsible parties.

But always, family members of Sept. 11 victims say, the anniversary of the attacks brought a moment of unity.

Not this year.

The plan to build an Islamic community center with a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero has heightened emotions and created discord. A Florida pastor’s threats to burn multiple copies of the Quran Saturday, since rescinded, has further inflamed tensions.

As the city and nation brace to remember the moment when two planes flew into the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon and one crashed in a Pennsylvania field, killing thousands of people, those most affected say they feel more isolated and frustrated than ever.

"One of the nice things about 9/11 had always been the sense of unity that you felt with the rest of the country," said Mary-Ellen Salamone, an Essex County, N.J., mother of three who lost her husband on 9/11. "You could look back and see that out of the ashes of all the trauma and the horror there were some good things that were coming out of it. Unfortunately, this year that is not the case."

"This year, the tenor of the day is very volatile and actually almost harder to take because of that," she added.

To read the remainder of the Wall Street Journal story, click here.

From Deutsche Welle in Germany:

Bitter debate over ‘ground zero mosque’ marks 9/11 anniversary

A plan to build an Islamic cultural center and prayer room in the shadow of "ground zero" has set off a virulent debate between advocates of religious freedom and those who decry the move as incendiary.

The uproar centers around a project known as Park51, named for the address at 51 Park Place in Manhattan where a moderate imam, Faisal Abdul Rauf, plans to erect an Islamic community center and mosque.
 
The plan has been in discussion since 2009, and Muslims have already been using the space for prayer since the fall of that year. But what was originally a local Manhattan zoning question quickly flared into a national controversy after conservative bloggers zeroed in on the cause earlier this year and brought it to the mainstream media’s attention.

And the rhetoric has only gotten stronger as the ninth anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center approached.

Rauf has repeatedly billed the center – which would replace one of one of the buildings that was damaged in the September 11, 2001 suicide attacks – as a multi-faith initiative "intended to cultivate understanding among all religions and cultures."

Religious freedom meets cultural sensitivity

But opponents have said that the choice of a site so close to "ground zero" is insensitive, at best – and that at worst it is a ploy by Muslims to exploit US First Amendment freedoms to further their own agenda.

Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke for many of those who oppose the cultural center when he said that, while the builders should be allowed to erect a mosque wherever they like, the plan was more likely to "create anger and hatred" than mutual understanding.

"The reality is that right now, if you are a healer, you do not go forward with this project," Giuliani told US morning news program "Today" in mid-August. "If you are a warrior, you do."

Anti-Islam activists in Europe – where public debates over the building of mosques and minarets are commonplace – echoed that statement.

"We think it is a calculated provocation," said Anders Gravers, a spokesman for the group Stop the Islamization of Europe. "Often when (Muslims) have conquered something, they put a mosque on that place. This happened in Jerusalem, it happened in Cordoba (Spain), and now it is happening in Manhattan."

To read the remainder of the Deutsche Welle story, click here.