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- Q & A with Hersel Self - Nine Nights in Norman - Culture of Fear review

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THE DISH by

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Duty to pay it forward

Editor’s note: I would just like to say thank you to the community for the incredible outpouring of support over my column in the 9/23 POP, titled ‘Fat Girl and Fat Norman.’ It was the most feedback I have received over a written piece of mine thus far in my career, and I’m so happy to know it resonated so deeply within the community. Fat, skinny or somewhere inbetween...you’re beautiful, Norman.

I can remember the moment that I had my first real, memorable encounter with art. I was a third grader, a chubby ball of extra energy that couldn’t sit still to save my life and who placed completing a worksheet on a list of torture techniques somewhere between waterboarding and pulling my toenails out with a plier. That year, I was placed in the gifted and talented kinesthetic learning program and suddenly, *poof !* my world was transformed outside of the confines of an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper — suddenly, I was really learning, really engaged.

That was where I met my first art teacher. Let me clarify what I mean by ‘art teacher’. They might be someone that has been certified by the state to teach art.

Then again, they might not.

An art teacher, by my definition, is someone who truly understands how to use creativity to reach a child on their level. Certification doesn’t guarantee that skill, nor does the lack of a certificate negate it.

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My first art teacher didn’t help me create life-changing pieces of art. I don’t think even my mother, in the dustiest corners of her attic, has kept any of my messy third grade creations. But she did drastically change how I viewed the world.

Suddenly, my world, previously built of boxes that I didn’t quite fit in, opened up and I’d found ways to express myself.

It’s a feel-good story, right? But what if I’d never had that teacher? Or worse, what if she’d given me a negative experience and taught me that art wasn’t something I could do, something that I deserved to even try?

Every artist has that moment. That ‘aha!’ time in their life where they’re first shown art, when someone helps the idea of creativity to really click with them.

Some, like me, have that moment in school. As art education budgets drop, however, more and more have that moment outside of school, out in the community. That means that every artist, now, when working in the community, must accept the responsibility that they may, at some point, be providing some child their first experience with art.

Unfortunately, not every artist seems to be aware of this. This weekend, while in attendance of a community art event, I witnessed a local artist yelling at a young child that couldn’t have been more than six or seven years old. The child’s crime? He wanted to participate in the

particular piece of art the artist was working on. He was enthralled with it, and as any young child would, kept attempting to join in.

The event was publically funded, the community (children included) were invited to join in. But this child, rather than being encouraged to express himself, received a yelling that made even me, as an adult, cringe.

Now, don’t get me wrong.

I’m not saying that just because an artist is working in the public means they should allow any child to come up and start mucking with their work. What I am saying is that artists must be aware of the effect their actions are taking on the community around them, particularly it’s youngest members.

It terrifies me to think that this young boy, so eager in his desire to join in on the community art, might forever remember the day that this artist discouraged at him. That memory may very well guarantee that he grows up not an artist, or a patron of the arts, but as someone (not unlike a few of our so-called ‘representatives’) that finds no value in the arts, someone that instead votes for art budgets to be cut.

So the next time you’re out in the community, artists, remember. You owe someone in your past for that ‘aha!’ moment. And you never know when might be your chance to pay that forward.

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Forward Foods This week, several people, including Rebecca Bean and Zakk Flash nominated Forward Foods, 123 E. Main St. as their favorite place to grab a sandwich in Norman. Said Flash about the eatery, “Forward Foods makes your mama’s grilled cheese cry like a little girl. Nothing kills my hunger like their Cubano on Ferrel Family Farm bread. Them’s good eats.”

Forward Foods is owned by Suzy Thompson (formerly of the cafe at the Opolis) and Steve “Wampus” Reynolds.

The combination speciality grocery and restaurant is well known in Norman for their speciality sandwiches, soups and quiches served daily for lunch. Each day, Forward Foods features a different special, which they post on their website at www.forwardfoods.com. Most recently, they featured cream of tomato basil soup, sweet pepper and fiscallini cheddar quiche and a sandwich made with fresh figs, prosciutto piccante, local arugala and taleggio cheese.

For anyone looking for a sandwich with a little something extra, Forward Foods may be the place for you.

The Dish is a weekly feature dedicated to reader suggestions on Norman’s culinary highlights. Next week’s category: pasta — who makes your favorite? To nominate, email pop@normantranscript.com.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Music Reviews, 4 Of Special Interest, 5 When Vampires Bite, 6-7 Q&A with Hersel Self, 8 Movies, 9 Nine Nights in Norman, 10 Book Reviews, 11

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Fighting this culture of fear

Thievery Corporation “Culture of Fear” ESL Music (2011)

“Don’t succumb to this culture of fear,” raps Mr. Lif, a hip-hop emcee and guest of Eric Hilton and Rob Garza, the two men behind Washington, D.C.’s Thievery Corporation on the title track to their newly-released “Culture of Fear.”

Those “visions of Armageddon” that Mr. Lif raps about seem increasingly real in 2011. Uncertainty about one’s economic future is an all-consuming concern for many Americans and Thievery Corporation has been bringing those issues to the forefront for some time. Note their recent “Radio Retaliation.” Garza and Hilton are hyper-aware and it comes through.

And now, more than 15 years after starting out in the Nation’s Capital, Garza and Hilton’s musical vision – mixing deep grooves, trip-hop vibes and a world-beat mixing bowl of music – has stood the test of time. Frankly,

Hanni El Khatib “Will The Guns Come Out” Innovative Leisure Records (2011)

Khatib wins, with guns blazing What kind of music would you expect from someone named Hanni El Khatib? Rap or hip hop was my guess.

I was wrong. Khatib’s parents are Palestinian and Filipino immigrants whose kid made one of the most American rock albums of the year. Raised in San Francisco, his music owes more to LA’s The Standells circa 1966 and Detroit’s White Stripes in 2001 than anyone from the city by the

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Track four “Dead Wrong” is about that very genre misplacing mistake: judging the artist and his story by the way he looks or how his name is spelled.

Khatib is a one-man band with a massive compelling sound that varies from soft ballad “Wait Wait Wait” to the electric guitar freak-out on “Garbage City.”

His cover of “Heartbreak Hotel” has a soft slow creepy 1920’s gloom with distorted

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vocals and crashing cymbals.

“Loved One” showcases Khatib’s stripped-down fundamentals. It’s just vocals and low- fidelity guitar in a paean to a vampire-looking lover who’s liable to put the fangs in his neck on this particular evening. No doubt, the same irresistible blood sucker makes another appearance in “F--- it, You Win.” Khatib wins, with guns blazing.

— Doug Hill

Thievery Corporation has grown more mature and appealing since the Clinton years when I was into trip-hop platters

by Portishead and Tricky or the psychedelic mastery of Spiritualized, groups that TC can certainly appreciate.

Case in point. “Light Flares” is one such track that captures a certain feeling. Like that scene in “Apocalypse Now” where Willard and his crew arrive at the nightmarish Do Lung Bridge and the bridge wires make that eerie sound. While the track isn’t as dark as that film reference would indicate, it is dreamlike and reminiscent of something from that next plane.

With the ominous, ever-present “Big Brother” camera eye on the cover, helping set the vibe, “Culture of Fear” features real instrumentation as well as Garza and Hilton’s DJ stylings that add a smooth flair to each track (i.e.

“Stargazer” or “Where It All Starts”),

with a few even featuring sexy vocals from guest singers.

What is interesting is that looking at their song titles — “False Flag Dub,” “Tower Seven” and “Web of Deception” — one gets the impression that they take their conspiratorial suspicions further than many of their musical peers. It would seem the realities of the post-9/11 landscape are hitting close to home, particularly there in D.C., and the zeitgeist is reflected in this recording.

And it’s the groove-heavy soundscapes that provide the most impact.

With singers, rappers, Jamaican dub sounds or hopeful lyrics of freedom, you know you’re not getting a tract here. No, this is quality music that can lift your spirits, make you think or simply provide a soundtrack to your day (or night).

— Andrew W. Griffin

Of Special Interest

OU Concert Features Medley of Musical Styles POP Staff The University of Oklahoma School of Music will present a concert by the OU Wind Symphony and Symphony Band as part of the Sutton Concert Series at 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 3, in Sharp Concert Hall located in OU’s Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd. The concert, under the direction of William Wakefield, will feature a medley of musical styles.

Symphony Band will open the concert with Dana Wilson’s “Shortcut Home,” William Schuman’s “George Washington Bridge,” John

Mackey’s “Hymn for a Blue Hour” and Charles Ives’ “Circus Days.”

Wind Symphony will perform John Adams’ “A Short Ride an a Fast Machine,” H. Owen Reed’s “Michigan Morn,” Leonard Bernstein’s “Profanation from ‘Jeremiah’ Symphony No. 1,” and will close concert with Florent Schmitt’s “Dionysiaques, Op. 62.”

“The closer, ‘Dionysiaques,’ is a wild piece of impressionistic band music that captures and symbolizes the God of Wine, Dionysis,” William Wakefield, director of University Bands at the OU School of Music said.

“It is a turbulent, teasing, tempting, and tempestuous composition.”

Tickets for Sutton Series events are $9 for adults and $5 for all students, OU faculty/staff and senior adults. For tickets and call the Fine Arts Box Office at 325-4101.

Many concerts are scheduled for live stream via Internet, to see a schedule visit http://music.ou.edu/calendar.

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. For accommodations on the basis of disability, please call the Box Office at 3254101.

OU to host ‘Diva’ night POP Staff The University of Oklahoma School of Music will present the OU Jazz Bands with a ‘Diva’ themed concert at 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Sharp Concert Hall of Catlett Music Hall, 500 W. Boyd St. The concert, under the direction of Jay Wilkinson, will include music from classic swing to modern including a number from the Doc Severinsen library and feature OU studentvocalists Kate Dinsmore and Bola Ibidapo.

Ibidapo, a Freshman

Journalism student studying Public Relations, is an Alto and can be heard performing with the OU ChoralUnion under the direction of Rick Zielinski. Dinsmore is a senior majoring in Musical Theatre. She recently performed in the 2011 spring production of University Theatre’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” Dinsmore will perform “Have You Met Miss Jones” and both will perform the duet “Alright, Okay, You Win.” Tickets for concert are $9 for adults and $5 for all students, OU

faculty/staff and senior adults. For tickets and upto-date information call the Fine Arts Box Office at 325-4101.

Many concerts are scheduled for live stream via Internet, to see a schedule visit http://music.ou.edu/calendar. Please visit http://music.ou.edu/ for a full calendar of events and performances at the School of Music.

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.

For accommodations on the basis of disability, please call the Box Office at 325-4101.

Horseshoe Road Opens Winter Wind Season POP Staff 2011 International Acoustic Music Awards winner Horseshoe Road, led by world renowned fiddle sensation Kyle Dillingham, will open the Performing Arts Studio’s 2011-2012 Winter Wind Concert season Sunday, Oct. 2. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m. for the 7 pm concert at the Norman Depot, 200 S. Jones.

General admission tickets are $20. Advanced purchase is recommended.

With an eclectic musical style ranging from Blues to Bluegrass, Gypsy Jazz to Western Swing, Country, Rock and Gospel, Horseshoe Road blends them into an earthy genre of music they call Heartland Acoustic. Their performances are a high energy, uplifting musical experience that blends captivating virtuosity and heartfelt sincerity.

PBS President Paula Kerger said of Horseshoe Road, “Ken Burns and I travel all over the United States. After hearing your performance, we turned to each other and agreed that we had witnessed something amazing.”

Named Oklahoma’s Musical Ambassador by Governor Henry, fiddle sensation Kyle Dillingham heads the band and has performed his magic in over 25 countries, electrifying and energizing audiences around the world. The Enid native picked up the violin when he was nine, and eight years later, he gave two featured performances at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

To purchase tickets or for more information on Performing Arts Studio programs, visit www.pasnorman.org or call 3079320.

Go tonight to see “The Red Balloon” POP Staff Dreamer Concepts, an Art Space for Emerging artists, 324 E. Main St., will be screening the second installment of the “Films In The Alley” series. The event will feature 1973’s “Fantastic Planet”, and 1956's children's classic "The Red Balloon", The event is co-hosted by local vintage

clothing boutique, Anty Shanty.

Dreamer concepts will begin showing “The Red Balloon” at sundown with “Fantastic Planet” immediately following.

The event has a $5 admission charge, with free popcorn and beverages available for purchase.

For more information call 701-0048.

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By Johnnie-Margaret McConnell

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OU Drama ushers in All Hallows Eve month with William McNulty’s stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, “Dracula”.

For the dark rendention, OU set designers have set the scene well. Hana Goff’s dark English castle set extends into the audience.

Rectangular shaped blocks are projected on to Rupel Jone’s sidewalls. A chandelier and multiple single candles dangle from above. A sense of imprisonment is created while suspense is developed with a variety of special effects.

Director Tom Huston Orr begins the play with the feeling Count Dracula’s alter ego will only be discussed but never seen by Professor Van Helsing, Dr. Seward and the young Lucy. That feeling is smashed when Brad Brockman playing Count Dracula walks through the doors. His dark hair is greased and brushed forward into points accentuating his height. Brockman commands the stage with purpose in his knee high riding boots. His voice is loud and declarative, but eerily hollow in part to a limited inflection.

When Dracula warns Van Helsing that “good and evil

Photo by Kasey Allee-Foreman

Faturing Kevin Percival as Robert Renfield.

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are a matter of perception,” you know it is only a matter of time before his alter ego is no longer a figment of the imagination. Darkness falls and just as suddenly center stage, hopping about like a gargoyle, comes to life the vampire Dracula. Pointed ears, a dog like face, wings and almost translucent coloring makes the monster.

Norman’s Josh Bonzie and J. Collin Spring alternate the role. Orr’s direction is not for the weak-at-heart. With the self-imposed rating of PG-13, Dracula is unending with gasping moments.

Effects build up the suspense in act one as Lucy is suddenly lifted in her sleep, smoke filling the air, lightning and thunder commence as darkness takes more and more a role within the play.

Dracula is not a smooth tale to stage, but one with many starts and stops for various entrances and scene changes. At times the changes carried on a bit too long and combined with the canned interlude music broke the growing tension.

Brockman easily commands the play’s tempo allowing Stella Highfill and Kevin Percival to shine. Highfill plays the prim-and-proper virgin bride Lucy Westphal.

Beautifully dressed in the beginning by costumer Kasey Allee-Forman, Highfill is the

mpires Bite darling of her class. After Dracula’s ongoing evening attacks, however, she has transformed by act II into a woman of the night. Her hair is a mess and her voice is harsh as she tries to seduce her fiancé. The show’s program is the only way to verify Highfill indeed plays Lucy throughout.

Imagine a crazed Truman Capote and you have the lunatic Robert Renfield played by Kevin Percival. He hops about the stage in his straight-jacket while his child-like voice is accented by a sudden furry of clapping. Reinfield definitely steals the show.

You can’t help but laugh at Percival’s depiction, while cringing at the madness he portrays. At one point, Brockman lifts Percival by the neck, drags him across the examination table and once again to the floor. The fluid movement is a breathtaking moment of true artistry.

The discussion of our fascination with the vampire novel through present day to the symbolism of Baum’s own biography reminds us that Dracula is more than just a tale of fear, but one of great historical value into this history of morality.

The Vampire King is indeed killed, but Dracula leaves us

with the fear that the race of the undead may indeed still be lurking amongst us.

The OU cast consists of Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts students: Oliver Archibald, Samuel D. Boeck, Josh Bonzie, Brad Brockman, Tyler Brodess, Erika Daly, Jeremy Eoff, Sean Michael Harris, Stella Highfill, Kourtney Kae, Aly Lovelace, Brooks Meyer, Madison Niederhauser, Jennifer Pearson, Kevin Percival, Matthew Percival, Lindsay Sawyer, Laurel Sein, Marie Skubic, J. Collin Spring, Sarah Turpen, Kasey Weir.

The production team includes: Tom Huston Orr, director; Chad Anderson, assistant director; Amy Oxley, stage manager; Hana Goff, scenic designer; Kasey AlleeForeman, costume designer and theatre producer; Brad Gray, lighting designer; Sam Hughes, sound designer; Jessica Pettit, assistant stage manager and Rich Taylor, OU University Theatre executive theatre producer.

Dracula runs through Saturday at 8 p.m., with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. All performances take place in Rupel J. Jones Theatre, 563 Elm Ave. For tickets, call the Fine Arts ticket office, 3254101. Tickets are $22 adult, $18 seniors/OU faculty and staff/military and $14 for students with ID.

Photo by Wendy Mutz

Featuring Tyler Brodess as Jonathan Harker and Aly Lovelace as a Bride of Dracula.

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This week POP sat down with Norman photographer Hershel Self. Self has been creating a stir in the Oklahoma art scene over the past year with his three-part series of highly edited photographs based on the book “Brave New World.” The photographs have been shown in multiple venues, with a showing most recently at the Firehouse Art Center, 444 S. Flood Ave, as a part of the “Recourse for Discourse” show, which will be displayed until the end of October. Self displays extreme talent as both a printmaker and photographer, with his photography skills ranging from the ability to shoot quickly “from the hip” situations to highlyprocessed, studio style photography.

During the recent 2011 Banned Books Week, “Brave New World” was annoucnced as one of the ten most challenged books for the year, so POP thought it would be the perfect time to sit down with Self to discuss his work.

Q: So can you describe your ‘Brave New World’ series for us?

A: Oh man, OK well I guess I’ll just go through all of it. Visually, they’re just really, really bland deadpan portraits, over-processed and probably even over-lit for as simple as they are. Each figure is extremely pale with porcelain like skin that has essentially been smoothed over and I’ve left a little bit of color in the eyes and increased the contrast for that.

The whole concept behind it is based off of ‘Brave New World.’ The people in this book are totally drugged-over, have no personality whatsoever. At birth they have a personality, they have character and individualism, but as they get older that’s stripped from them and they become more and more drugged and doped up.

So, that’s what, like, the porcelain skin represents — no personality, no color, but the color

left in the eyes is supposed to represent that they did have something at one point.

Q: So, what made you so attracted to ‘Brave New World’ that it made you want to base an entire series of work conceptually off of it?

A: Well, for starters I just read the book and I really liked it, but on top of that I found it interesting that...well, as a high-schooler reading ‘1984’ and reading ‘Brave New World’ those were like the big, anti-government books that all the kids read.

But it was interesting in contrast to ‘1984’ because in ‘1984’ it was like big brother forcibly taking over, but in ‘Brave New World’ it’s the same with big brother taking over but it’s more like today.

We’re so caught up in our little gadgets and our phones and our computers, and it’s the same thing in ‘Brave New World.’ Everyone’s tied up in materialism, basically. And the government kind of uses that and controls that to hone society. So, I just kind of thought it was important to bring that to everyone’s attention.

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A: From start to finish the models used are just people that I find, whether online or just friends that I think would be fitting for the series. During the shoot there’s very little conversation because the actual photograph takes about one minute or even thirty seconds.

I’ve got lights set up in the studio, and the model shows up and like I said it’s just one minute to take the photo.

Depending on the figure it then takes maybe three to five hours to go and edit the photo, just removing the color, smoothing the skin over, to make it pretty much flawless.

Q: With how much photoshopping you’re doing on the faces, for the girls, do you prefer that they show up sans makeup or are they already made up?

A: Good question! That’s something that I do request for females because they’re always wearing makeup. There’s no makeup, whatsoever. None.

Absolutely none. It makes it a lot easier on me to not have to move around with messing with makeup and things like that.

Q: What do you hope people get out of the commenQ: In more general terms, tary? what made you decide to A: Well, this is really cliché choose photography as your and lame, but ‘Stop and smell medium? the roses,’ (laughs.) I don’t A: I have no idea. I went know, just pay attention to into college wanting to major what’s going on around you in drawing and minor in printand don’t get so caught up in making. One semester I had materialism and the things some extra scholarship money that you own. I know even just left over and I was like, ‘You saying that, that know, it would I’m really big on be a good idea Online my stupid smartto get a nice phone and all my Want to read the Self’s camera, photoother technology full Q&A? Want to learn graph my work, about how he became and gadgets and and as soon as I an artist? Want to see a stuff like that so got that camera slideshow featuring all of it just took off it’s also just a Self’s work? Check out reminder for and I changed http://tntne.ws/herselself. majors to phomyself. tography. I’ve Q: So, obvibeen in love with it ever since. ously with this series especially So, I don’t know what made your process is very important, me change my mind but just especially post-production. having a camera in hand kind Can you describe that process of did the trick.

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50/50 Staring: Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anna Kendrick Rated: R What Jeff says: Cancer can be funny, right? ...Right?

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Oct. 7: Real Steel Starring: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie Rated: PG-13 Special Note: This is the last Movie Geek. We came in with Wall-E and we leave with Real Steel.

Will it be a fitting end or an anti-climatic cliché?

New Releases • 50/50 — A comedic account of a 27-year-old guy's cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

R (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Courageous — When a tragedy strikes close to home, four police officers struggle with their faith and their roles as husbands and fathers; together they make a decision that will change all of their lives. PG-13. (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Dream House — Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling.

PG-13. (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • What’s Your Number — A woman looks back at the past twenty men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love. R. (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14)

Also Showing • Abduction — A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. PG-13 (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Captain America — AAfter being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals.

PG-13.

(Robinson Crossing) • Cars 2 — Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.

G. (Robinson Crossing) • Contagion — An action-

thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak. PG-13.

(Warren Theatres, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Conan the Barbarian — The tale of Conan the Cimmerian and his adventures across the continent of Hyboria on a quest to avenge the murder of his father and the slaughter of his village.

R. (Robinson Crossing) • Cowboys and Aliens — A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys are all that stand in their way. PG-13 (Robinson Crossing) • Drive — A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong. R. (Warren Theatres, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Dolphin Tale — A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

PG. (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Friends with Benefits — While trying to avoid the clichés of Hollywood romantic comedies, Dylan and Jamie soon discover however that adding the act of sex to their friendship does lead to complications. R. (Robinson Crossing) • The Help — A look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship. PG-13 (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Killer Elite — When his mentor is taken captive, a retired member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service is forced into action.

His mission: kill three assassins dispatched by their cunning leader. R. (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14)

• Lion King — Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. G. (Warren Theatres, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Moneyball — The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. PG-13. (Warren Theatre, Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Rise of the Planet of the Apes — An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. PG-13. (Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Straw Dogs — L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both. R. (Hollywood Spotlight 14) • Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon — The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.

PG-13. (Robinson Crossing) •Zookeeper — A group of zoo animals decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zoo keeper find love -- without opting to leave his current job for something more illustrious. PG. (Robinson Crossing)

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NINE NIGHTS IN NORMAN 1 SAT

2 SUN

8 p.m. — Pre-game — Jacobson House Camille Harp, The Deli Pow Wow Singers, After the game Sharp Concert Hall — The Pidgin Band, 9 p.m. — The Deli Yellow Fever and pop pick Brother Bear, Opolis, After the game $8/$10 — John Calvin with pop pick special guests, The TBA — My So Brewhouse, Free Called Band, The Deli

7 p.m. — Horseshoe Road, Performing Arts Studio, $20 TBA — Mike Hosty Solo, The Deli

6 p.m. — Art After Hours Absurdity, Humor and the Attack on Tradition: Arman & Yasumasa, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 6 p.m. — Mary Lynn Kotz, “Who Was Bob Rauschenberg”, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Free TBA — Satan’s Camaro Closing Reception, Lightwell Gallery, Free

1 p.m. — Family Day, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Free

OKC: 12 p.m.

— Plaza District Festival, Plaza District, Free pop pick

OKC: 7 p.m. — 12x12 Art Fundraiser for the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, 50 Penn Place, $30/$35

4 TUE 12 p.m. — Valerie Watts and Jeongwon Ham, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Free TBA — Caravact, The Deli

5 WED

6 THU

7 p.m. — Ashely Skyie, The Deli, Free 10 p.m. — Universe City Open Mic Night, The Deli

7 p.m. — Camille Harp, The Deli, Free 10 p.m. — Lauren Deger Jazz Quartette, The Brewhouse, $5 10 p.m. — Fatty Lumpkin, The Deli

7 FRI 10 p.m. — The Dead Armadillos with O’Fidelis, The Brewhouse, $5 11 p.m. — The The Coins, Bluebonnet Bar

8 SAT 10 p.m. — The Broke Brothers, The Brewhouse, $5 TBA — The Saucy Gentlemen’s Club, The Deli

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8 p.m. — OU Jazz Bands “Diva” night, OU Sharp Concert Hall, $5/$9

10:30 a.m. — “There Was an Old Man Who Painted the Sky” Youth Art Adventures, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Free 2 p.m. — Curtis Jones screen printing demonstration, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Free

7 p.m. — Alec Sloth public lecture and reception, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art auditorium, Free

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6:30 p.m. — Paint the Town Red: Creative Cats, Merrybelle’s Gifts, Art & Tea, $35

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FILM, LIT, PERFORM. ARTS

10 a.m. — Free Admission Tuesdays, Fred Jones J, Free 8 p.m. — Dracula, Rupel J. Jones Theatre OKC: 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. — The Last Night of Ballyhoo, OKC Civic Center CitySpace Theatre

3 p.m. — Dracula, Rupel J. Jones Theatre OKC: 1:30 p.m.

— The Last Night of Ballyhoo, OKC Civic Center CitySpace Theatre

5:30 p.m. — Opening of Wolf to Woof, a Story of Dogs, Samn Noble Oklahoma Museum OKC: 7 p.m. — Lyric Theatre’s Broadway Ball 2011, Skirvin Hilton Hotel

8 a.m. — Farmers Market, Cleveland County Fair Grounds, Free OKC: 7 p.m. — 2011 Bar Wars benefiting Team Kenya, Individual Artists of Oklahoma gallery, $20

1 p.m. — Woofstock, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Free 2 p.m. — The Evolution of Rock, Norman Public Library, Free

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7 p.m. — Travis Linville, The Deli, Free 10 p.m. — The Damn Quails, The Deli pop pick

9 a.m. — Neustadt Fesitval of International Literature and Culture, Norman Depot TBA — “Fantastic Planet” and “The Red Balloon”, Dreamer Concepts, $5 8 p.m. — Dracula, Rupel J. Jones Theatre

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8 p.m. — OU Wind Symphony and Symphony Band, OU Sharp Concert Hall, $5/$9

OFF BEAT

VISUAL ARTS

MUSIC

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Friday, Sept, 30, 2011

EVENT SUBMISSIONS To get your show or event in POP’s Nine Nights calendar, send the event name, time, date, location and admission price to pop@normantranscript.com.

Weekly deadline is noon Tuesdays.

4 p.m. — Bennett Peji Lecture, OU Joe and Jane Buskuhl Gallery, Free

literature NY Times Bestsellers

Horseshoe Road In Concert Sunday, Oct 2 7 pm

S e r i e s C o n c e r t

WINTER WIND

Admission: $20

Horseshoe Road, 2011 International Acoustic Music Awards winner led by world r e n ow n e d fiddle sensation Kyle Dillingham, opens the season.

This uplifting, high energy Oklahoma group blends styles ranging from Blues to Bl uegra s s, Gypsy Jazz to Western Swing, Country, Rock and Gospel.

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“Forging a Nation” Ramer, Roblin, Lett and Singleton University of Oklahoma Press (2011)

Forging Ahead with History “In less than 200 years, a disparate group of colonies had improbably become a country. It was a time of remarkable expansion as settlers pushed into the frontier, populations diversified, political parties emerged, and as the turn of the century approached, Americans turned inexorably from the East towards the West.”

“Forging a Nation: The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum” is the new book put together by Randy Ramer, Kimberly Robin, Amanda Lett and Eric Singleton chronicling and expanding upon the art and artifacts of American history on display at the Gilcrease Museum based in Tusla at their exhibit titled, “America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Nation.” The pieces are

laid out in the book chronologically, and each one of them tells a story of their own, from paintings depicting the Boston Massacre, and lithographs of King George the III, all the way to the hilt of a revolutionary patriots sword forged into the image of a bald eagle. It’s an absolute gem of a book for all you patriots and history buffs out there.

I believe that it’s nigh impossible for most Americans to look at the treasures of American history depicted in “Forging a Nation” and not have a sense of connection. And “Forging a Nation” takes it one step further. The book tellls a story for each piece of art, allowing the reader to see into its individual history. The artifacts work in tandem with one another, weaving a tapestry of American his-

tory that begins with early colonization and carries the reader all the way to the tumultuous end of the 19th century.

Not only is “Forging a Nation” rich in entertaining and historical content, but the book itself is absolutely gorgeous. You can tell that the designers wasted no space, packing in as much information and images as possible without making the reader feel as if they are trapped on an island of historical billboards and pop-up ads.

In short, this is an absolutely gorgeous and fascinating book that will likely be adorning the gleaming glass surface of my coffee table for some time to come. There’s more and more to learn and enjoy every time I go back.

— Levi Lee

1. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. (Penguin Group.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

2. New York to Dallas,

by J. D. Robb. (Berkley.) An escaped child molester pursues Lt. Eve Dallas 3. The Mill River Recluse, by Darcie Chan.

(Darcie Chan.) Only one man knows an abused widow, which revealed will change many lives in her small Vermont town.

4. Kill Me If You Can, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. (Little, Brown.)

When a young man finds a bag of diamonds, he gets the attention of the Ghost, a major assassin, and a rival assassin who wants the Ghost gone forever.

5. The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern. (Knopf Doubleday.) Two young rivals at a magical circus become collaborators as they fall in love.

6. The Black Ice, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown.) The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch investigates the scandalous death of a narcotics officer.

7. The Abbey by Chris Culver. (Chris Culver.)

Against orders, a former homicide detective begins an investigation into his niece's murder.

8. Blind Faith, by CJ Lyons. (Legacy.) A woman finds no closure after a man is executed for the murder of her husband and son.

9. 1105 Yakima Street,

by Debbie Macomber. (Mira.)

Bruce Peyton’s pregnant wife has left him, and he’s not the only one in town with problems.

10. A Thousand Tomorrows, by Karen Kingsbury. (Center Street.)

Two troubled young rodeo performers are unable to avoid falling in love, no matter what consequences their actions might bring.

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