Flogging Molly will play Tulsa’s Timeless Honky Tonk (since 1924) Cain’s Ballroom June 6. Tickets for the show go on sale this Friday, February 13. Wildly popular in Northeastern Oklahoma, tickets are expected to sell out.

In a bit of background, Flogging Molly is an American seven-piece Irish punk band from Los Angeles led by Irish vocalist Dave King, known for his work with Fastway. They work from their own record label, Borstal Beat Records, with the latest offering titled “Speed of Darkness.”

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Theatre Pops Rick Harrelson & Heather Sams

Venus in Fur, the smash Broadway hit, dubbed “90 minutes of good, kinky fun” by The New York Times, makes its Oklahoma debut at IDL Ballroom February 19th-22nd, 2015. Theatre Pops presents this delicious play that weaves sex and theatre together for one weekend only.

When Vanda arrives several hours late to her audition for a play based on a nineteenth-century erotic novel, the director, Thomas, is less than impressed. But Vanda’s masterful performance flips the script on Thomas’ expectations and turns the session into a tango for dominance between actress and director, woman and man. Hailed as “seriously smart and very funny” by The New York Times, Venus in Fur is a laugh-out-loud study of the politics of sex and power that’s guaranteed to charm and mesmerize.

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“You can tell when something’s real,” says the man known simply as Big Smo. “You can tell when it’s true. And I think what’s made us successful and gotten us this far is that we’re just real people, down-home country folk who really love to make music. People see that.”

And they can see that in Tulsa March 4 as Big SMO plays the IDL Ballroom. Word of mouth, charged by the Internet, meant Smo could count his YouTube views in the millions before he talked to a record label

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For a warm feeling, a smile or just to know all is right with the world, you should take a moment to watch Budweiser’s 2015 Super Bowl XLIX commercial, “Lost Dog.”

Granted, if you have ever lost a canine companion as this writer has done, it may strike close to home, but it has a great ending.

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Bradly Cooper in American Sniper. Photo Provided

Movie Review:  In the 21st Century war movies are taking on a different look. No longer are they the flag waving, Support Your Troops, God Bless the USA patriotic tones that most people knew in their youth. They now focus not so much on duty, but how duty affects the individual tasked to carry it out. Such is the case of American Sniper, the latest directorial masterpiece from Clint Eastwood starring Bradley Cooper that is a biopic of the late Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle.

The film raked in over $100 million in its first weekend, buoyed by pre-release buzz and grabbing six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Cooper’s portrayal of Kyle. It is most decidedly a different war movie in the sense that the war is only a supporting part to the movie as opposed to being the main focus.
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