Entertainment

Comically Serious You know what I like? Movies. You know what is something I enjoy? Collecting.

Late in the Hulu murder mystery “Death and Other Details,” a lawyer who acts as a fixer for a wealthy family describes his career. “At first it’s fantastic — a bunch of people spinning around like the world just came unglued and they’re all looking at you like you’re the only person that can stick it back together again.” But then, he says, you blink and you’re 60. “And they all have families and big, messy, beautiful lives. And you’re the guy with a file full of someone else’s secrets no one wants to sit with at a party.”

Throughout the weekend of Jan. 19 through 21, the Evans Children’s Academy of Performing Arts will be presenting their rendition of the musical by Irving Berlin, Annie Get Your Gun, to the people of Ponca City.

Early in “I.S.S.,” the new International Space Station-set thriller directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, three Russian cosmonauts croon along to “Wind of Change” by the German band Scorpions. The 1991 power ballad was widely associated with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. As the cosmonauts sing along, filled with nostalgia and emotion, they are gently ribbed by their American counterparts, a trio of astronauts, but the mood is jovial.

Comically Serious By Calley Lamar After making her debut in the Disney+ “Hawkeye” series back in 2021, it was known for a while that the character of Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) would be receiving her own series in “Echo”, which debuted earlier this week with all the episodes dropping at once. The show is also the first under the Marvel Spotlight banner, which is meant to be focused on more grounded stories with less impact on the overall Marvel universe.

The Ponca City Federated Music Club cordially invites the public to attend a concert given by past scholarship winners as well as outstanding musicians from the area. This program is a fund raiser for the PCF Music Club scholarship fund. It will take place at 2 pm on Sunday Jan. 21 in the Sanctuary at First Presbyterian church, 1505 E Grand Ave, Ponca City. Following the concert, there will be an elaborate reception in the Fellowship Hall. This will be an opportunity to meet the performers and enjoy the social time.

When do you truly rest? When your body is physically tired? Your mind? Your heart? Or is it when you sprinkle on the ground of your heart and mind a bed of promises and purposes that leave you with sigh of peace upon your Savior’s chest?