University of Oklahoma resident assistant Beth Anne Underwood holds up some of her essential items in her room at Couch Tower. (Photo by Steve Sisney/The Oklahoman)

As many of you know, I’m occasionally called upon to step away briefly from the entertainment brief and contribute stories from other areas to The Oklahoman’s special sections and projects. This story is from today’s Collegebound special section for next year’s college freshmen. I’m posting it here in the hopes some of you might find it useful or interesting.

Will it stay or will it go?
College…

Jennifer Koch Wells as Elizabeth Bennett and Tyler Woods as Fitzwilliam Darcy in Reduxion Theatre Company’s “Pride and Prejudice.”

Today’s featured event:

See Reduxion Theatre Company’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” at 8 p.m. today at City Arts Center Theater at State Fair Park. It’s your last chance to see the second production of the theater company’s inaugural season in Oklahoma City. Reduxion Theatre Company’s Managing Director Erin Woods directs from her original script, and it’s the world premiere of her version of the classic Austen story.

For more information, call 651-3191 or…

“The Reader” 

The AMC Quail Springs Mall 24 theater, 2501 W Memorial Rd., is participating Saturday in AMC’s 2009 Best Picture Showcase, which offers people the chance to see in one day all five films nominated for best picture at the Oscars.

The Best Picture Showcase is set for Saturday, with the first movie starting at 10:30 a.m.

The Oscars ceremony will air live at 7 p.m. Sunday from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC. You can follow along with the awards show here during my live-blog of the events.

The best picture…

From Sunday’s Life section of The Oklahoman. 

“Salvation in Death” advances series

J.D. Robb’s series of futuristic police thrillers keeps going strong with the 27^th installment, “Salvation in Death” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $25.95, 353).

Set in 2060, the latest “In Death” book from Robb (a pen name for romance novelist Nora Roberts) has hard-nosed homicide cop Lt. Eve Dallas and her peppy partner Detective Peabody trying to solve a priest’s poisoning death at St. Cristobal’s Catholic Church in New York’s Spanish Harlem.

But the coroner’s examination yields some puzzling results: faded scars from knife wounds, signs…

I’m please to announce that today marks the one-year anniversary of BAM’s Blog!

The blog started Feb. 14, 2008, with my first post: a list of recommended Valentine’s Day movies. An updated and modified version of the post appeared in The Oklahoman and here on the blog Friday.

Since then, the blog has featured more than 2,060 posts and 1,140 comments in 65 different categories. I’ve live-blogged the Oscars, “American Idol” finale, the Golden Globes and the three major country music shows: The CMT Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country…

 The film adaptation of Greg Behrendt’s best-selling relationship guide “He’s Just Not That into You” opened Friday, conveniently timed as a date movie for Valentine’s Day.

But Behrendt, who co-wrote the book with Liz Tuccillo, just isn’t into the holiday.

“It sets up a false expectation and expectation is where we always go wrong in relationships and then people use it as a standard bearer really more to like, ‘Well, if you don’t get me this on this particular day …’Those sort of situations are what break relationships down, so I’m not…

Keith Urban (Associated Press photo)

Two-time Grammy winner and current Grammy nominee Terence Blanchard, Grammy winner and 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year Neil Diamond, current nominee M.I.A., Grammy winner Smokey Robinson, current nominee Robin Thicke, 2009 Trustees Award recipient Allen Toussaint, 25-time Grammy winner and current nominee Stevie Wonder, along with a special tribute to Bo Diddley featuring current nominees Buddy Guy, B.B. King, John Mayer and Keith Urban, have been added to the list of performances for Sunday night’s star-studded Grammy Awards.

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live…

Celine Dion (Associated Press) 

Today’s featured event:

TULSA – Hear Canadian pop star Celine Dion at last at 8 tonight at the BOK Center, 200 S Denver. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Today is the rescheduled date for the show. All tickets previously purchased for the original date will be honored. Refunds will be available at point of purchase.
Time: 8:00pm

Tulsa is one of 45 cites and the only city in Oklahoma on this tour. Throughout her career, Dion has been honored with more than 1,000 swards, including Grammys, Oscars, Golden Globes, World Music, Juno and Felix…

Ali Harter 

Today’s featured event: 

Hear Oklahoma City singer-songwriter Ali Harter with John Moreland and The Black Gold Band, Turnpike Troubadours and Camille Harp at 8 tonight at The Conservatory, 8911 N Western.

For more information, go to www.conservatoryokc.com.

For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

-BAM

Well, loyal readers, I alluded a few weeks ago to some upgrades going on here at BAM’s Blog, and as you can see, the all-new look has now officially been unveiled.

It is designed to make the entertainment news, commentary and other tidbits that I share here more attractive and easier to find, access, read, enjoy, agree with, dispute, ponder, puzzle over, giggle at, or otherwise utilize. Hopefully, you’ll find that’s the case.

Take a look around and feel free to let me know what you think of the new format. Personally, I love the…