Since The Weeknd is performing at the Super Bowl Halftime show, I thought it’d be nice to post a little guide to his discography for anyone interested in looking to do a deep dive into his work. I would’ve posted this the day of the event, but I assume that some people would probably like to go through it over the weekend.
This shares a direct overview of his released material, talking about his career and the background of the music, the videos, the meanings and all. I’ve written this from a pop perspective, keeping in mind that his history might be fairly new for general pop fans.
I also go into the storyline of the red suit character, if your interested in catching up on that narrative before the Halftime show (which will continue the story), I’ve listed the chronological order below followed by an explanation of that narrative.
I wanna be clear that the interpretations/theories are not conclusive. Abel rarely shares the metaphors or meanings behind his music. This is based on widely based on fan discussion/mutual interpretation. Fans can feel free to expand on anything in the comments.
It is important to know about Abel's backstory to get a certain perspective of where he’s coming from, especially when discussing the songs that deal with substance abuse. These recent articles cover his early years really well and share an up-to-date point of view of his success.
Variety 2020
Billboard 2021 - Also a good source for getting to know his team.
So, an essential TL;DR is this: Abel Tesfaye came from a broken home, he was born to Ethiopian immigrant parents who split up when Tesfaye was less than seven. He then lived with his mother and grandmother, only rarely seeing his father but having a nice impression of him. His drug addiction started as soon as he was a high schooler, he turned to shoplifting to pay for this need of various substances. Soon he dropped out of high school, leaving his home the same weekend, which would later inspire his stage name, The Weeknd. The name is reference/homage to the weekend his life changed.
Quick side note, I didn’t think this post would nearly reach the character limit. So I’ve cut out excess detail and lists of producers (with the exception of After Hours since we’re in that era).
Table of contents

1. XO.
2. House of Balloons.
3. Thursday.
4. Echoes of Silence.
5. Trilogy.
6. Kiss Land.
7. King of the Fall.
8. Beauty Behind The Madness.
9. Starboy.
10. My Dear Melancholy.
11. After Hours.

XO.

XO is the record label that The Weeknd and co. created in order to publish the first mixtape (House of Balloons) and the ones that would follow afterwards. XO has a lot of meanings that have to do with what went into the music and what still goes into it. XO is what the fans call themselves, popularly with the phrase XO Till We OD (shortened to XOTWOD); another way of saying “we’re ride or die for The Weeknd and his team.”
While some argue that it could mean anything since there isn’t clear meaning to it, fans continue to associate the abbreviation with ecstasy (X) and oxycontin (O). That definition stems from XOTWOD, fans assume it’s true because of the team’s history of drug usage. While others take it as it’s classical definition “hugs and kisses” because of the consistent lyrical nature of The Weeknd’s songs.
Overtime the definition of XO is simply known as: the fans, the crew, and the label. The Weeknd is more than just one person, he comes with XO. For the sake of clarity in this writeup, I’m going to refer to his crew as XO and the fans as “the fans.”
XO still serves as a record label, the current roster is The Weeknd, Belly, Nav, and Black Atlass. It remains The Weeknd’s record label and was his first label before becoming a subsidiary of Republic Records.
Throughout his career, The Weeknd has worked with Illangelo, a Canadian producer who’s work the fans adore. Carlo “Illangelo” Montagnese was one of main the producers on The Weeknd’s Trilogy, he’s credited on each track. The fan base claims his work to be some of the most notable artistry in The Weeknd’s discography. Their work together continued with Beauty Behind The Madness, Illangelo worked on seven tracks for that album. He then returned for After Hours working on another seven tracks.
DaHeala, another Canadian producer, is another significant factor in The Weeknd’s music. Jason “DaHeala” Quenneville worked as lead producer on Kiss Land. He returned to work on six tracks for The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind The Madness, including the hit Earned It. DaHeala returned as a writer for six of the songs on Starboy. Then DaHeala worked on nine After Hours tracks, and worked as the only producewriter alongside The Weeknd for bonus tracks Missed You and Final Lullaby.

House of Balloons.

Didn't wanna make this NSFW, so here's the super clean edited cover

This is a happy house. We’re happy here. (House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls)

One of the most iconic title tracks of all time. House of Balloons is about a lifestyle of drugs, sex, and partying; all in effort to drown out self-doubt. It comes from a place of wanting to make it big while doing what you can to survive, all while pretending everything’s alright. The mixtape describes various sorts of women, how they’ve had impacted the life of someone who’s already down on his luck.
Fans often refer to House of Balloons as The Weeknd’s best work. The mixtape was the first introduction the world got of XO, and it was one hell of a way to make an impression. It’s personal for the fans and Abel because it’s the only piece of work known to be based on his life. At the end of the day he’s a songwriter, with many of his albums he creates scenarios and world that he likes to explore through the music. But House of Balloons is known to be based entirely on his life. It remains The Weeknd’s most critically acclaimed work.
House of Balloons was crafted through the influences of Hip-Hip/Indie-Rock with the main focus on R&B. Through the genius of Ilangelo, the record was—and is—mesmerizing capturing the essence of a lifestyle that The Weeknd described as “anti-everything.”
House of Balloons assisted The Weeknd in gaining the attention of Republic Records, which would then host The Weeknd’s own label XO. Though hesitant at first, XO decided to partner with Republic after the co-founding brothers Monte and Avery Lipman kept coming back to Toronto solely for The Weeknd.
House of Balloons received three videos, The Knowing, Wicked Games and Twenty Eight. The Knowing was the very first video The Weeknd made, so of course it’d be something other-worldly; it essentially reflects the song itself but in a sci-fi setting. Twenty Eight represents Abel’s life after fame but also his remorse of letting captivating women into his life.
Fun fact— House of Balloons is an actual place in Toronto, it was where him and his crew lived after he dropped out of high school. They’d host parties, call girls, do drugs, and to make it less depressing they’d fill it with balloons.

Thursday.

Valerie on the cover

Welcome to the other side. (Life of the Party)

Thursday consists of the same themes as HoB; sex and drugs. But there’s a twist, he’s in a semi-relationship with this girl Valerie. She’s the only one on his mind, even though they meet only one day of the week, any guesses on what day that could be? Through The Weeknd’s phenomenal voice and the insane production, we’re also presented with this story of a toxic relationship where Valerie used to have the upper hand but she no longer does when she falls for The Weeknd.
While Thursday isn’t entirely about the relationship of The Weeknd and Valerie, it consists of reflections to Abel’s life after the release of House of Balloons. The song Rolling Stone notably has a double meaning, in which Abel asks his fans if they’ll stick with him when he gets mainstream appeal and decides to change his sound.
The track Valerie wasn’t on the original release of Thursday, it added when Trilogy was released. Ending the mixtape with Heaven or Las Vegas meant that The Weeknd’s actions with and without Valerie were a result of his fatherless childhood, making him push anyone away. That meaning behind Thursday doesn’t change when Valerie is added to the track list, it just means that both want the toxic relationship back.
The Zone (feat. Drake) was the first feature The Weeknd had on any of his work, the video for it was released in November of 2012. Rolling Stone had also received a video in October of 2012. Both were directed by The Weeknd and reflect the two different aspects of Thursday. The Zone has Valerie living it up in the House of Balloons. And Rolling Stone has The Weeknd doing a photoshoot for Trilogy, reflective of the song itself.
Fun Fact— the female voice heard in Lonely Star is The Weeknd’s, he pitched his voice to make it sound like a woman’s.

Echoes of Silence.

Diana on the cover

Laisse tomber les filles. Un jour c'est toi qu'on laissera. [Leave the girls alone. One day it’ll be you they will leave.] (Montreal)

Out of a dark introductory into the early life of The Weeknd, Echoes of Silence is the darkest work of his Trilogy. Let’s be honest the story here isn’t entirely ethical at times but makes for one hell of a mixtape.
Similar to Thursday, Echoes of Silence follows a storyline. After accumulating success, The Weeknd gains the attention of various women. There was this one woman (D.D.) who he liked but she initially rejected him (Montreal). The woman came back to him for his fame status and evidently fell in love with him (Outside), but now that he’s got the upper hand he treats him like a groupie (XO/The Host) and lets... bad things happen to her; she’s gotta pass a test before she can get with him. This test is either drugs or his crew (Initiation). He ultimately tells this woman that he’s not exactly longterm-relationship material, perhaps because her love is temporary (Same Old Song), because he’s Next. With the end of Echoes of Silence (originally ending on the title track) the listener is left to wonder why The Weeknd left her if he’d simply want her to stay.
As a side note— Initiation should not be condoned. It remains true that The Weeknd is a songwriter and the progression of time has changed perspectives. But a song that makes such suggestions as Initiation should not be ethically/morally claimed or celebrated.
The mixtape follows The Weeknd’s lifestyle after he’s gained all this success, he’s still the same person but now he’s gotten everything he wanted. Some tracks such as The Fall continue to emphasize his journey into stardom and his acceptance of fame being temporary. With the added Till Dawn (Here Comes The Sun), The Weeknd acknowledges the changes in his life, realizing that the old lifestyle is no longer there for him or his past lovers.
Echoes of Silence is known as an underrated gem of The Weeknd’s discography, it’s well received by fans and critically acclaimed but often brushed under the rug in discussion of his work. A lot of fans and casual listeners play the mixtapes through Trilogy rather than their respective albums. This often leads to people not playing EoS either at all or only the first few tracks, this is predominantly due to the nature of the compilation being nearly three hours long.
Fun fact— D.D. is a cover of Michael Jackson’s iconic Dirty Diana. Fans have named the woman in Echoes of Silence Diana because of this track. Various theories argue that the mixtape itself is based on the Dirty Diana itself with exaggerations of the truth, or whether or not it’s a story The Weeknd crafted based on the song.

Trilogy.

Rolling Stone video doubled as a shoot

You don’t know what’s in store. (High For This.)

Trilogy is a compilation of The Weeknd’s mixtapes, House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. These three mixtapes were released 3-4 months apart from one another for free digital download in 2011, they gained quite a lot of attention from various industry executives.
Prior to the release of Trilogy, The Weeknd featured on Drake’s Take Care with Crew Love. The song was Abel’s first exposure to a Rap crowd/Rap fans, more people began listening to his music after the release of Take Care. The Weeknd then featured on Wiz Khalifa’s Remember You, which served as the second single off Wiz Khalifa’s O.N.I.F.C. Following those two releases, The Weeknd released Wicked Games as the first single off Trilogy.
Trilogy was formed after The Weeknd came under Republic Records’ management. The compilation album reached a debut/peak position of 4 on the Billboard 200 while reaching number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It’s a well received album with the highlight said to be House of Balloons, which arguably went on to influence various sorts of R&B music of the 2010s.
Videos for Trilogy

Kiss Land.

Iconic

I went from starin' at the same four walls for 21 years. To seein' the whole world in just 12 months. (Kiss Land)

Kiss Land is based on The Weeknd’s tour life. Visiting unfamiliar places gave Abel horror movie vibes. A guy who used to own the city (Toronto) he lived in is now a small fish in the ocean of the entire world. The Weeknd’s first studio album was a great introduction into the sound he would soon get well acquainted with.
While continuing the R&B sound with the essence of Dark Wave, the album explores emptiness and regret throughout the lyrics—or what pop fans could categorize as dark pop—. The Japanese aesthetic used for various videos and the single covers/booklet reflects the themes of feeling overwhelmed by such a loud world that there’s no point in being if you don’t belong.
The album explores the real-world and the women in it as well as regrets regarding past actions, namely letting go of women who could’ve been the one in Adaptation. The Weeknd attempts to find that satisfaction in other women and past lovers, but accidentally falls for a sex worker in Belong To The World. With Wanderlust he accepts and expresses that love in the modern world isn’t entirely possible. While continuing to tour the world he enjoys these new experiences with XO (Live For feat. Drake), as well as the new women in his life (Kiss Land). And when he’s back home, he accepts the loss of the relationship he cherished.
Kiss Land debuted and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. It was fairly acclaimed but gained a massive cult following. There were four videos for made for the album, the title track, Belong To the World, Live For (feat. Drake), and Pretty. Those four songs received interesting visuals that kept up with their respective themes while Belong To the World/Kiss Land got visuals that matched the aesthetic of the album. To this day fans ask Abel for a part two to the horror-movie-inspired album after he said it’s the only album he would have a sequel for.
Videos for Kiss Land
Fun Fact— The video for Kiss Land on YouTube is an extremely edited version of the actual video shot for the song. The directors cut further explores the erotic-horror themes if the album.

King of the Fall.

King of the Fall 2020 cover (even though I talk about three other songs here)

Driving by the streets we used to walk through like a triumph. (King of the Fall)

These next few song were released between the Kiss Land and Beauty Behind the Madness era. Some fans would classify them as part of the Beauty Behind the Madness era—I’d say the same tbh—but they stand apart on the basis of success and acclaim. It’s a transition between The Weeknd being an underrated R&B musician to being a mainstream artist with massive recognition and appreciation.
The first of these four songs is King of the Fall. A fan favourite and a standout in The Weeknd’s discography. This is one of The Weeknd’s few Rap tracks, it gained a lot of attention within the Rap sphere. It was the way in which XO would announce that they’ve made it, little did they know that this was just the start.
Prior to the release of Beauty Behind the Madness (BBTM), The Weeknd gained mainstream attention. The Weeknd’s exposure to mainstream music was uphill, it wasn’t overnight. The first taste of BBTM came from Often, a song that reflected the themes of sex that Abel was known for. The track was released more than a year before BBTM’s release and had made it onto the trackless unlike King of the Fall. Slowly but surely The Weeknd gained exposure, his main sources of exposure were through a collaboration and a soundtrack.
Most pop fans heard about The Weeknd through his hit collaboration with Ariana Grande, Love Me Harder. The collab was made through Republic when The Weeknd said he wanted more than what he had gotten through Kiss Land. Ariana and Abel had formed a real bond cough The Hills cough, their bond assisted the song in becoming a memorable hit for both artists. Love Me Harder was a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Later that year, The Weeknd was featured on the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack with Earned It, as well as Where You Belong. Earned It became a massive hit peaking at 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and receiving an Oscar nomination for The Weeknd; a massive milestone for XO. Earned It kept up with Abel’s signature lyrics but the production differed heavily from the sort of R&B he was known for.
Videos from that era

Beauty Behind the Madness.

I can hear this image

I'm that ***** with the hair singin' 'bout poppin' pills, fuckin' bitches, livin' life so trill. (Tell Your Friends)

Following the success of Love Me Harder and Earned It, the Beauty Behind the Madness era began with The Hills. This was The Weeknd’s first number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Along with the video, The Hills became an addictive classic. The production and lyrics mirror a mature version of the sound that was originally found on Trilogy. It was truly in keeping with The Weeknd’s character, the only difference was his haircut.
Next came Can’t Feel My Face, a Max Martin production that differed greatly from anything The Weeknd put out in the past. In past songs, Abel had expressed his fear of losing his following if he went mainstream simultaneously asking his fans if they’d stay. He repeats that sentiment in the Can’t Feel My Face video. The sound has changed, the lyrics stay the same but now he’s a pop-star. The song became a hit as it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. With this massive bop previous fans still stayed, The Weeknd becoming a pop singer didn’t at all alter his image or sound; he mastered it.
In The Night and Acquainted were released as singles on the same day, the were the only singles to come after the release of Beauty Behind The Madness. The former received a music video treatment that followed the theme of the song itself while also starring Abel’s girlfriend at the time, Bella Hadid. Acquainted was robbed of a video even though Abel had shown off the fact that a video was in development; the song kept in the tone of The Weeknd’s work prior to BBTM.
Beauty Behind the Madness captures a Hollywood-based reality that The Weeknd came to understand: the dark aspects of your life will continue to follow you wherever you are. Real Life, Losers (feat. Labrinth), Tell Your Friends, Dark Times (feat. Ed Sheeran), and Prisoner (feat. Lana Del Rey) all capture a nihilistic view of a dream achieved.
Most of the videos of Beauty Behind The Madness have a mysterious white man. He’s featured in The Hills, Can’t Feel My Face, and Tell Your Friends. That man represents the devil. Throughout his journey in those videos, (The Hills) Abel runs into the devil after his car crash, (Can’t Feel My Face) he’s at the club then lights him on fire. The significance behind the fire could be selling his soul to the devil, BBTM is about Hollywood and a popular Hollywood myth is that celebrities sell their souls to the devil in exchange for fame. So in the Can’t Feel My Face video, Abel changes his sound to Pop (from R&B) thus leaving his signature sound in order to become famous, everyone starts enjoying his music once he’s sold his soul.
Then we see The Weeknd burying himself in Tell Your Friends, perhaps leaving the old Abel behind after the deal with the devil. However, instead of thanking the devil, Abel takes his revenge and shoots him. But wait, there’s more! The album trailer for BBTM features the devil burning a billboard with The Weeknd’s face on it, revealing Beauty Behind The Madness. HOWEVER, the final cut for the video features the devil being arrested while The Weeknd watches. This is a more realistic form of karma that the devil gets.
Videos for BBTM

Starboy.

Filled with bops

If I could, I'd trade it all, trade it for a halo. And she said that she'll pray for me, I said, "It's too late for me.” (Ordinary Life)

After the massive success of Beauty Behind the Madness, there was a lot of hype around what The Weeknd would do next; evidently he decided to explore Pop. The fandom he had gained wasn’t entirely based in the Pop sphere, his fans consisted of general Rap fans, but Starboy attracted the Pop audience.
Initially, most of his older fans couldn’t get behind Starboy, it differed greatly from the previous sound. It was crazy to think that the guy who made Trilogy managed to make such a Pop-centric album. But this was Abel expressing his versatility.
Since this is where most pop fans found out about Abel’s work and became fans I won’t talk too much about the singles, rather more about the album itself. His work with Daft Punk cemented this album in an efficient mix between Pop and R&B, where Beauty Behind the Madness was more R&B with Pop, Starboy was considered Pop with R&B.
Beyond the genres, Starboy explores two evident themes. One being his life with fame and recognition. The next being his love life in Hollywood, this aspect of the album came from his relationship with Bella Hadid which ended after the release of the album.
The cross became the symbol for that era and appeared in the album’s photoshoot as well as the videos. There was never any conclusive word on the use of the cross but there are various theories about it, something to note is that Abel was raised Christian, it could perhaps be a reflection of his past.
The cross he uses to destroy his accolades (Starboy video) is assisting him rather than something that’s holding him back. Abel’s upbringing was rough but now he’s celebrating it rather than feeling bad for himself. The cross continues to come up in the Party Monster video, this time it’s in the party house he’s making his way through. Then it shows up in the video for Reminder, this time in the form of his merch, the people wearing it are perhaps representative of his fans. Then we see it in the False Alarm video, both Abel and the girl are wearing it; the notable thing being that Abel holds his cross up before dying. Then in the brilliant video for Secrets, after giving up on the girl he’s with he leaves the building to find a giant cross. And finally in the I Feel It Coming video, The Weeknd sports a shiny cross necklace, and Daft Punk find it years and years after Abel froze.
The videos tell us that the cross is an evident piece of his story. This could mean that his past will always be with him, no matter what sort of fame he’s experiencing he’ll always be who he once was.
Also, I’m gonna take this moment to once again the genius that is the Secrets (both the song and the video). Yes it’s my favourite song/video off of Starboy but it’s so underrated.
Videos for Starboy, Secrets video bottom right
Fun Fact— Most demos of the tracks on Starboy weren’t as pop as they became, they started off R&B but became pop after production.

My Dear Melancholy.

Note the comma

They said our love is just a game, I don't care what they say. But I'ma drink the pain away, I'll be back to my old ways. (Privilege)

Oof (but in a good way, this whole thing is a bop). For this one I’m gonna talk extensively about The Weeknd’s relationships, which personally feels really invasive but it’s but it’s essential when talking about these sad boy anthems. Beyond that I’d just like to state that though they are part of the narrative both Bella Hadid and Selena Gomez deserve respect/privacy.
So when it comes to Pop music fans I think it’s safe to say that we all know a lot about this one. My Dear Melancholy (MDM) came after the very public relationship of The Weeknd and Selena Gomez. However it’s not just about Selena, some songs reflect his relationship with Bella Hadid (whom he got back with a month after MDM’s release).
My Dear Melancholy consists with The Weeknd’s exploration/mastery of merging Pop and R&B together. The EP was praised by fans for its lyrics and production, many went on to theorize that it was his most personal project since House of Balloons. The EP was the shortest album to reach number one on the Billboard 200.
My Dear Melancholy and fan conspiracies; name a better duo. The first theory being that the EP is entirely about Selena Gomez which wasn’t too much of a mystery since the lyric “I almost cut a piece of myself for your life” exists. Not only did MDM come after Abel’s relationship with Selena Gomez but also after his relationship with Bella Hadid. As far as fans were aware those two relationships were the most important relationships Abel had ever been in.
In theory, the songs about Bella and Selena can be categorized. Call Out My Name, Try Me, and Privilege are likely about Selena. Wasted Times, and Hurt You are likely about Bella. Leaving I Was Never There to act as an introspective look into The Weeknd’s life, basically making him hop back on his vices for comfort.
Another popular theory was that My Dear Melancholy was the first of another trilogy. This rumour was widely believed due to the comma at the end of the title on the album cover. But the fans soon gained a real reason to believe this theory, since the CEO of XO (the record label), Sal had liked an Instagram post that featured the cover and alleged date. Since Trilogy is a fan favourite this conspiracy spread like wild fire, so much so that fake titles and covers were made. The name of this trilogy would be: (1)My Dear Melancholy, (2)We’re Alone Together, (3)Abel.
Only one song served as a single for the EP. Call Out My Name was released nearly two months prior to the actual release of the album, it debuted/peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. The mysterious video captures The Weeknd in various atmospheric places that reflect the tone of the EP, a haunting yet unexplained reality that the listener is to reflect on.
From the cover, to the music, to the video, to lyrics, My Dear Melancholy is an introspective reflection of heartbreak.
Call out my name video

After Hours.

Talented, Brilliant, Incredible, etc.

My darkest hours. (After Hours)

After Hours comes after success but references two lows in The Weeknd’s life. The album welcomes darkness and leads the listener towards a dead-end. The Weeknd’s past two albums (Beauty Behind The Madness and Starboy) ended on hopeful notes, they left the listener with a sense of hope but all hope his lost with After Hours.
Fans compare After Hours to House of Balloons—a rare occurrence considering House of Balloons’ acclaim—arguing that both albums are on the same level. Debate continues on whether or not both albums are on the same caliber. The belief that After Hours stems from reality does a lot to help its side of the argument.
The era began with Mercedes-Benz commercial that featured Blinding Lights, that was our first taste of the everlasting bop. Heartless was premiered on an episode of Memento Mori hours before its release on the 27 of November (2019), Blinding Lights was released two days later. Both videos were as brain melting as promised and the served as the tip of the iceberg.
After Hours was released nine days after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, there was a massive risk in releasing an album that would not have a lot of promotion after it’s release (other than magazine coverage). There was no telling whether or not people would pay attention to the album during the height of the fear surrounding the pandemic, but it was a massive success. After Hours debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with singles Heartless and Blinding Lights topping the Billboard Hot 100.
The album is layered with haunting productions that remains predominantly R&B but dives deep into Pop with some of the tracks. Max Martin produced the massive hit Blinding Lights as well as In Your Eyes, Save Your Tears, Hardest to Love, and Scared to Live which samples Elton John’s Your Song. Other notable producers include Metro Boomin who worked on the hit Heartless as well as Escape from LA, Faith, and Until I Bleed Out. With Kevin Parker on the interlude Repeat After Me.
Beyond the production are the narrative driven lyrics. In theory the album references two significant events in Abel’s life, his second breakup with Bella Hadid and his arrest in Las Vegas. The latter was due to his misbehaviour; in January 2015 he punched a cop in Vegas, lmao. Which means that After Hours is a recollection of The Weeknd’s first few years in LA. He merges the concept of his breakup with the idea of being an upcoming star, feeling free in the city of lights all while diving deep into the meaninglessness of those lights.
While After Hours starts with loneliness and a second chance it leads up to Abel returning to his vices of lust. In Alone Again his loneliness caught up to him and he’s asking for a second chance. He acknowledges his mistakes and situation in Too Late/Hardest to Love, in Scared to Live his ex then returns to him for a second time. He remembers his past ways in Snowchild and the way in which it lead to better days, but where do you go after such highs? In Escape From LA he faces the superficial reality of Hollywood, glad that he got that he got back with his ex, while continuing to question if it’s worth it. But he fucks up the second chance when she pulls up to the studio.
Who is she? Much like the other mysteries surrounding The Weeknd’s music, we may never know. Is it all more of The Weeknd’s songwriting ability or is it driven by reality? Fans found a merge between the two to be more accurate, After Hours is about heartbreak and a return to the vices that held The Weeknd back.
Heartless is when The Weeknd is once again back to his ways, he may have been in a serious relationship but after throwing that away he spirals back to the way he once was. It’s sad but it’s one hell of a song. Speaking of brilliant songs, Faith is when Abel admits that he’s back on his vices, he states that he needs his ex back with him till the end; he’s back to self-loathing.
So when he says he’s blinded by the lights, there’s two meanings to it. The Faith outro tells us that he’s in a car with flashing lights, a cop car (as confirmed by Abel) to be exact. Then Blinding Lights tells us that while he’s watching the bright lights of Vegas pass him by he calls out for the girl that he regrets losing. That is the peak of the After Hours narrative. He’s behaving badly over the loss of the girl he loved and is now at the worst position trying to find her and gain her trust for a third time.
Following Blinding Lights is In Your Eyes, this is where The Weeknd vows not to judge her; he can see right through her but will never do anything to make her upset. Does this mean their back together? Not exactly. Save Your Tears details a sort of moving-on that The Weeknd isn’t ready for but tries to help her move on, blind to his own inability to move on. Does it work? Not really. Repeat After Me (Interlude) shows that he’s still trying to convince himself that he’s unfazed by the loss of a meaningful relationship.
Then you hear a true masterpiece. The title track is a spiral into true regret and an apology for his actions, he admits that his ex girlfriend is the only reason he lives. In a dark lonely city she’s the only one keeping him sane. But his pleas fail, Until I Bleed Out is when The Weeknd no longer wants her in his life so much so that he wants to erase his memory of anything related to her. The bonus tracks then echo the final sentiment.
It’s one sad ass album, ain’t it. But here’s where the Red Suit Character comes in.
Shoutout to the makeup department
The album isn’t the only narrative to follow with After Hours. The videos for the album follow their own sort of narrative. The story follows an unnamed guy that goes by “red suit character” according to The Weeknd.
There’s a lot of confusion and endless theories surrounding this character’s story, after The Weeknd confirmed that it’s about a decent into Hollywood culture it makes more sense… kind of. I’m gonna discuss the storyline without talking about the movies that have influenced it, this way the focus remains on the character.
The order of these videos is Heartless / Blinding Lights / Blinding Lights (Live on Kimmel)* / After Hours short film / In Your Eyes / Until I Bleed Out / Snowchild / Too Late / Live at AMAs* / Save Your Tears
*Though all live performances could count as part of the narrative, these one relate directly with the videos that follow.
He’s is first seen in Vegas with Metro Boomin (Heartless), intoxicated on various substances. He dives deeper into his high until he licks a frog, after that he faces the true effects of this high. He’s frightened by the result and runs far away from Vegas. (Blinding Lights) He’s then found in LA, where he’s dancing in the street, hypnotized by the singer, beat up by guards, and races past all those bright lights in his Benz. Ultimately realizing the shallowness of the Los Angeles fantasy.
(Blinding Lights Live on Kimmel) We then find him performing Blinding Lights live, while he attempts to find more reason in within the madness city; he couldn’t find it on the streets so he goes to the stage. (After Hours short film) Even then there’s no meaning to anything in the city, he mindlessly wanders into the depth of the subway where he’s dragged by the reality of it all and ends up possessed. (In Your Eyes) After being possessed he chases the woman whose boyfriend he just murdered, she runs into a club falls deeper into the After Hours fantasy, in a successful attempt to defend herself she beheads the red suit character and dances all over LA with his head, iconic behaviour.
(Until I Bleed Out) Then in an ethereal dreamscape, red suit character finds himself in a House of Balloons. He’s trying to escape, but the people there keep pulling him in; he’s getting higher while observing Glass Table Girls. He spirals into the antarctic, the other side of the world. From Heatless to this point in his story, his vices lead him back to the lowest point in Abel’s life. Is it Hell, Heaven or Las Vegas? (Snowchild) He relives his career up until the point where his story began. Considering he’s dead, his life basically flashed before his eyes.
(Too Late) LA girls find the red suit character’s head and live their best life. They wanna have sex with him so they find the best boy parts by calling up a stripper who could be the body. The stitch the head up with the body and do what they want. But now he’s brought back to life. (Live at AMAs) He’s had work done… He went in to get his nose fixed and the doctor said “you sure that’s all you want?” The red suit character’s face is healing while he tries to celebrate his life on top of a bridge.
(Save Your Tears) Surrounded by a masked cult he debut’s his new face. Do they like it? Are they impressed? Not instantly, their masks translate no expression so how’s he to know? Is any of this worth it? Nope red suit character continues to die inside. He finds a maskless girl in the crowd, she’s lively unlike the rest; but even then, nothing on the inside nothing on the outside. He wants death again, somehow a second chance with this city is still pointless. He tries to kill himself via the girl and himself but it’s all a facade; theatrics.
His story continues but that’s all we know so far.
The videos make a lot of film references. This post by explain these references very well, as well as past album references here (part one) and here (part two).
After Hours is inspired by a lot of movies, since Abel is in fact a cinephile. The main movies that inspired the aesthetic and storytelling are believed to be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Casino (1995), Joker (2019), Uncut Gems (2020), and After Hours (1985). The album tells two sad narratives but remains one of The Weeknd’s best works yet. He’s expanded his videography and enhanced the interest of people who casually enjoy his music and of course his fans.
But the era isn’t over, by the time this is posted his Super Bowl Halftime show is yet to happen. And it’ll continue the red suit character’s story.
Videos for After Hours (so far)
Fun Fact—The Heartless video features a reference to Thursday. When he’s trying to run from Vegas, a sign behind him flashes “Heartless / Heaven or Las Vegas.” This could be a reference to Abel running from his past, after all Heartless is about him returning to his vices.

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Thank you for reading this, again, I didn’t realize it would end up being this long. But I hope this this served as a nice refresher for any fans who wanted to revisit Abel’s work before the Super Bowl.
And I really hope that anyone interested in getting into his music finds this helpful. Once again, the theories/interpretations mentioned aren’t conclusive, they’re widely based on fan discussion/mutual interpretation.
Due to the character limit I couldn’t add too links to the albums, so here are some artist links.
Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube | The Weeknd’s Shop | Tidal | Genius

Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's own SON is helping police investigate his alleged sex crimes By Guy Adams Investigates For The Daily Mail
15 Jan 2021
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'He has become my arch-nemesis. I no longer regard him as my father . . . He is a monster. I am now here to serve in any way I can, to support survivors and the justice process and also to help expose the people who covered up his crimes.'
Kai Bickle's world came tumbling down one night in May 2019, when he attended a dinner party at a lavishly decorated mansion overlooking the golden sands of Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
The host was his father, Peter Nygard, a Canadian fashion tycoon famed for the hedonistic lifestyle he pursued at a global portfolio of high-end properties, including vast residences in Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal, as well as New York, and, most notoriously, a Mayan-themed 'private luxury resort' in the Bahamas.
Modelling himself on Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, the flamboyant Nygard, now 79, kept a revolving harem of girlfriends. Those caught up (often completely unwittingly) in this web had included actresses Susan Anton and Jennifer O'Neill, stripper-turned-reality star Anna Nicole Smith, and a former Wheel Of Fortune card turner by the name of Vanna White.
His Caribbean parties, meanwhile, tended to attract a better class of A-lister. Past visitors to the island property had ranged from Jane Seymour and Bo Derek to Robert De Niro, , Michael Jackson and Joan Collins, not to mention and , who were photographed there in the early 2000s on an innocuous family holiday.
The 2019 bash, during one of Peter's occasional business trips to LA, was to be a more down-to-earth affair. Roughly 20 guests, including Kai, 38, and his younger brother Jessar (one of roughly ten offspring Nygard has fathered via more than seven women) had been invited for food and drinks, followed by a late-night poker game.
That was the plan, at least. But Kai never made it to the card- table. Instead, he fled the lavish premises in a state of distress, shortly after dinner, believing that he had just witnessed his father attempting to sexually assault an eight-year-old girl.
Details of this ugly development are (it should be stressed) strongly disputed, and we shall examine them later. But the incident would kick-start an extraordinary chain of events that culminated just before Christmas, with the arrest of Peter Nygard on nine charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
Currently behind bars, with his $900 million (£660 million) business empire in tatters and the FBI poring over his computer hard-drives, the fallen tycoon has now been accused of rape or sexual assault by at least 57 women. Several of Nygard's accusers were children when the alleged crimes took place, and many claim they were drugged.
At least 57 women have accused him.
He will appear in court in Canada next week, seeking bail as he fights extradition to the USA.
It is, perhaps, the most high-profile and shocking sex case since handcuffs were slapped on Jeffrey Epstein. And in a remarkable twist, it turns out that a leading figure in the increasingly public campaign to prosecute Mr Nygard is his aforementioned son, Kai.
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Behind the scenes, I can reveal that Kai has spent the past 18 months secretly helping both the U.S. and Canadian authorities investigate his own father's alleged crimes. Keeping his role hidden from Nygard and his associates for several months, he has worked tirelessly to assist victims, and their legal teams.
On the personal front, he has changed his name (taking up his mother's surname to become Kai Zen Bickle) and used his influence over various Nygard companies to block efforts to move his assets offshore, fearing that would allow him to flee. 'We have been engaged in a brutal battle against my father and his enablers,' is how Kai summed things up when we spoke this week.
'He has become my arch-nemesis. I no longer regard him as my father . . . He is a monster. I am now here to serve in any way I can, to support survivors and the justice process and also to help expose the people who covered up his crimes.'
Perhaps most remarkably of all, Kai recently helped two of his younger siblings, one of whom remains a minor, to sue Peter Nygard over claims he 'engineered' the rape of his own sons. In an extraordinary lawsuit filed in August, the boys claimed that their leathery, multi-millionaire father instructed one of his long-standing girlfriends (who was also a sex worker) to 'make a man' out of them.
The first of these alleged attacks (which, again, are vehemently denied by Nygard) took place in the Bahamas 2004, when the son was 15 and the woman was in her mid-20s. The second occurred in Winnipeg in 2018, when the younger child was 14 and the woman was in her 40s. Court papers filed by the boys stated that the unnamed girlfriend was instructed to seduce Nygard's son by showering in his bathroom so that he 'could see her naked'. Then she raped him.
Afterwards, she allegedly told the boy he 'wasn't bad' for a 'baby.' The next morning, Nygard's girlfriend brought him breakfast in bed, kissing him on the lips and announcing: 'Mommy's got you.' Kai says he first became aware of this appalling incident last spring, and was 'sickened' to hear his brothers' claims.
He would often yell and scream at his staff.
'We all spoke and decided the best course of action was to file a lawsuit publicly in the hope that other survivors would feel safe to come forward and also file criminally against Nygard,' he says. 'We were originally going to have me in the suit as my young brother's guardian, but in the end decided not to because it would reveal to Nygard that I was working against him . . . At the time I was [secretly] doing everything I could to improve the odds that he would get arrested.'
To appreciate the extraordinary journey taken by Kai, we must wind the clock back to the mid-1980s, when his father was one of Canada's most talked-about self-made millionaires.
The son of penniless immigrants from Finland, Peter Nygard had launched his empire in the late 1960s, with an $8,000 (£6,000) investment in a struggling fashion firm. By the time he was 30, the company had become one of North America's most successful suppliers of leisure and sportswear, while his flamboyant eccentricities, which included keeping parrots in his office and filling the lobby of Nygard HQ with bronze busts of himself, turned him into an object of public fascination.
In 1987, the party-loving entrepreneur purchased a 4.5-acre patch of the island of New Providence in the Bahamas and set about turning it into a 'dream home' where he could indulge his champagne lifestyle. Over the ensuing years, he built 150,000 sq ft of Mayan-themed buildings, stretching over a dozen 'cabana-style' residences. The buildings at Nygard Cay eventually included a casino, a disco hut (with cameras beneath the dance floor, reportedly to shoot images of revellers from below), and the world's largest sauna, a 6,000 sq ft lodge made from 2ft-thick Canadian pine logs.
In the grounds were fake volcanoes that belched dry ice, a flock of peacocks, stone cobras which hissed steam at sunset, 60 ft towers festooned with hundreds of flaming torches (lit nightly by staff) and giant statues of nude women, purportedly modelled on some of Nygard's favourite girlfriends.
At weekends, he would host lavish parties, which appeared on various TV documentaries, including Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous.
The place became a magnet for freeloading celebrities and, while Kai believes they generally had the most fleeting and brief relationship with Nygard, photos of their visits were then plastered across company literature and websites.
Prince Andrew, to cite one example, was recorded for posterity wandering with the long-haired fashion magnate on the beach, wearing blue shorts and boat shoes.
Born in the 1980s, Kai spent the first three years of his life in the Bahamas until his mother, Patricia, left Nygard, with whom she'd had three children but never married.
They moved first to California and then to the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. Over subsequent years, he had almost no regular contact with the fashion tycoon aside from occasional visits during school holidays, where he met various half-siblings.
'He would have one family weekend per year at his lake cottage, and a few days set aside for Christmas,' says Kai of the somewhat unorthodox arrangement. 'During those times, the days were filled with activities like horseback riding or mini golf.
'He could be a very charismatic person when he wanted to be and the family weekends were very light and brief.'
In the very limited time he spent with his father during childhood, Kai saw nothing that gave him reason to suspect that Peter Nygard was guilty of criminality, though he did have a highly volatile personality.
'He would yell and scream at his staff often, and that always was upsetting to everyone around it, but he would describe his yelling as 'passion' because of his 'high standards',' Kai says.
Nygard's children were further told that he 'lived a consensual, non-monogamous lifestyle,' Kai says. 'He made speeches at dinner to family when we were together to talk about how he hoped everyone got a wonderful partner and wished that he could find that special someone, but that it wasn't the life for him.
'He also had girlfriends that were persistently with him, always two or three, and often they were around for years. He wasn't embarrassed about it. He flaunted it on TV, it was part of his brand, something he showed the whole world. He was proud of it.'
Be that as it may, rumours of predatory behaviour by Nygard —and worse — had occasionally reared their ugly head, only to be quickly suppressed: a relatively easy task before the internet.
In 1980, for example, he was charged with the rape of an 18-year-old, but the charge was dropped when the complainant refused to testify. In 1996, three female employees meanwhile filed sexual harassment complaints in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
It looked like his hand was on her thigh, rubbing.
One, a 39-year-old communications manager, said that, when called into Nygard's office, she would 'find him in a state of undress . . . with his hands down the front of his pants, fondling himself.' He settled by giving the women $18,500 (£13,600) and denied any wrongdoing.
Then, in 2010, a Canadian TV network put out a Panorama-style documentary about Nygard, focusing on alleged sex abuse and harassment of former employees.
It quoted a former stewardess on his private plane who alleged that on one journey — during which Nygard was accompanied by a troupe of topless women — he lost his temper with staff, shouting: 'You are nothing! You are garbage! I am God!'
The programme also alleged that Nygard had engaged in 'inappropriate sexual contact' with a young woman who had been brought to his home in 2003 from the Dominican Republic. Nygard denied that either incident had happened, and sued to stop the documentary being broadcast.
Fast forward to May 2019, however, and those ugly incidents were largely forgotten. Kai, who was by then in his late 30s, had worked for his father's companies for just over two years after leaving college, but quit to pursue a career in activism and health science.
Nygard's trip to Los Angeles afforded them a rare opportunity to catch up, so he attended the aforementioned dinner party in Venice Beach.
As the night wore on, he recalls becoming uncomfortable about his father's behaviour towards an eight-year-old girl, who was attending with her mother, one of Nygard's old girlfriends.
'He's got her sitting right next to him at dinner, which is usually his girlfriend chair. And he's a creature of routine. So I'm already thinking this is weird.
'He's trying to act like the Papa. It was just weird . . . I'm noticing things. I'm noticing that he's telling her little secrets at dinner. Putting his hand close to her ear and going all hush-hush.' At the end of dinner, most of the other 20-odd guests got up to adjourn to the card table. However, Kai adds: 'I'm still watching him. Her chair gets pushed back. He brings her round to him.
'She was on his right side. He brings her to his left side, with his arm around her waist, and I see his elbow change and start moving as if — it looked to me, I couldn't see, but it looked like his hand was on her upper thigh, and rubbing. That's what it looked like to me . . . Everything in my body told me he was doing something terrible.'
'I had a huge adrenaline rush and I immediately told the mother to get her daughter away from him,' he adds. 'I stood up next to him and looked in his eyes. At that moment, for me, it was like all the walls were crashing down around him . . . And I realised that, yeah, he's probably trying to groom that girl.'
Nygard vigorously denied wrongdoing, and even called Kai 'sick' for thinking as much. But Kai was unconvinced.
Then, in February last year, ten women filed a bombshell lawsuit in New York claiming that the fashion magnate had used wealth and status to 'entice underage girls' from 'young, impressionable and often impoverished backgrounds' into his home, where they would be 'plied with alcohol' and (some allege) date-rape drugs, before being taken to Nygard's private quarters, where he would 'assault, rape and sodomise' them. Court papers claimed they were then coerced into joining a globe-trotting harem of sex workers paid thousands of dollars from Nygard's company funds and trafficked around the world on his company's private jet, which reportedly boasts a stripper pole.
One alleged victim, who was just 14 at the time, claimed Nygard raped her and paid her $5,000 (£3,700).
Another said her encounter with Nygard began with him showing her pornography after which he raped her, 'causing her extraordinary trauma and pain', the suit states.
Three of his existing ten accusers were 14 at the time. Three more were 15.
Within days, dozens more alleged victims had come forward. By the summer, some 57 survivors were pursuing legal action — and the number of alleged victims had reached 100.
Kai again confronted his father, only to be told it was all 'lies' and asked to speak out publicly in his father's support. But days later a friend texted Kai to complain about a recent visit to Nygard's house in Los Angeles.
'He said he'd brought a female friend with him, who had one or two drinks and had started to feel very high. Nygard took her up to his room and aggressively had sex with her, not using a condom.
'When I heard that, I knew he was not only as bad as people said he was, but was a dangerous criminal and had to be stopped.' He duly alerted the authorities about the friend's message. In a podcast called Live To Walk Again, released this week, he revealed that he began helping both the police and the alleged victims' lawyers, who he regards as 'heroes'.
Over the summer, Kai also used official positions held in Nygard firms to block two apparent efforts to move assets overseas, amid concerns that the tycoon might flee to evade justice.
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'Through the course of ten months I also helped several survivors to file criminally against him, and spent countless hours on the phone with survivors, lawyers and authorities,' he says. Last month Nygard was arrested on U.S. charges at a home in the Royalwood area of Winnipeg. He spent Christmas behind bars and has consistently denied any wrongdoing, saying he 'expects to be vindicated' in court.
Kai has renounced his inheritance and is working on 'making the world a better place' by campaigning to close legal loopholes exploited by sex offenders.
'I'm very happy earning my own money, as I have all my life. We've never had a trust fund or an allowance, and since his money has been made through pain and suffering, I won't accept a potential inheritance,' he says.
His father's cash, he says, should instead go towards compensating victims. 'My focus now is to help the healing process.'

For those that don’t know, the predominant language in Montreal is French. I sit down at Casino de Montreal $1/$2 and see a flop come down A6V. Yes, V. Thought I sat at the wrong game until the guy next to me explained their cards are in french R is King, D is Queen, and V is Jack.
At one point I was dealt pocket kings and raised to $15, and heard what I thought was the dealer telling the table “kings”. Was getting fired up in my head thinking “how does the dealer know my hand? And why the hell is he telling everyone?!” Turns out he was just saying “quinze” (pronounced “keenz”), which means fifteen.
I lost $150.

Seeing as the NY underground poker posts have been so popular, I figure I can give a bit of a different perspective on the underground scene of the mid 2000s. The Boston scene wasn't nearly as big as the NY scene, but there were still some big games and wild characters involved. I started off in small college games, so if you're only interested in the big mob associated games and stuff like that, this first part will probably bore you. I'm not going to bother changing names in the story. If you knew me from that time, it'll be obvious pretty early on who I am.
Back in 2005 I headed out from California to Boston for college. I'm still not sure why I was so set on going to school in Boston over the beautiful California schools that I had been accepted to, but there I was. Facebook was a really new thing at the time, and you needed a college email address to sign up. As soon as I got my college email in about April, I signed up for Facebook and added every cute girl who was living in the same dorm as me. I also signed up for a bunch of Facebook groups, several about poker games around the campus.
The Moneymaker effect was in full swing at this point, and I had an edge. My best friend at the time's dad had taught us poker when we were 14 or so. We got started playing mixed games, I loved 7 stud variants, but over time we transitioned to NLH. When I left for college I had been a regular in a $0.50/1 NLH game at a house in a rich area that played pretty big, and I had been winning regularly. Between that game and playing online, I had turned $200 I had made from my after school job into a $1500 bankroll.
So I arrive in Boston in August and start going to various games. One was in a nook in the school library, a weekly $50 tournament with no rake, unlimited rebuys and insane players. One was in a frat house with a bunch of drunk bros. Then I found Stevo's game. I think Stevo was a senior at that point, he lived in off campus housing, and he had a professional quality poker table in a side room of his apartment. Besides the nice table and personalized "Stevo's Card Room" chips, what set the game apart for me was that it was the first private game I had played in with a dealer, Erik.
I introduced myself to the other players by my real name, but as became my trademark, people knew me better by my card protector. Bubbles She came from a cake my friends had gotten me for my 17th birthday as a joke, and since her base was perfect for sitting on cards, she became my card protector. I knew some of the guys in the Boston scene for 3 years, and many never knew my real name, they simply knew me as Bubbles.
Stevo's was $1/2 NLH with 75% stack match if I remember correctly. So if the big stack on the table had $1600, you could buy in $1200. The game played pretty deep, and with the same players most nights. Many of them had been playing together for a couple of years, so they knew each other well. The first night I went, me and this other guy Chris were the only freshmen there. It turned out we lived 1 floor apart in our dorm, and we became fast friends.
I bought in for the $300 I had brought with me (lolbankroll) and played my normal, pretty tight style. There were a few crazy bluffers on the table, but one guy Phil really stood out for how often he'd try to steal pots. I played some small pots and was up to around $400 when I looked down at AA. Phil raised $8 from EP, I 3b from late position up to $25 and Phil called. The flop came unsuited low cards and Phil bet $30, I raised to $90 and Phil called. The turn came an 8s which brought a flush draw and Phil checked, I shoved and Phil went into the tank. He flipped up KJss and said he thought I had TT or 99 and so he had lots of outs with his 2 overs and flush draw. He asked me if I wanted him to call and I said absolutely. He eventually called and nailed his flush on the river. I headed to the nearest ATM and bought back into the game. I eventually left with about $500 for a $100 loss on the night, but I was hooked. The action was crazy, I had gotten it in great for an $800 pot and lost, and still only lost $100? I was going to make so much money!
The game ran twice a week, and I was always there. I still played in some random other games, but Stevo's was my main hangout. I became pretty good friends with some of the guys, including Stevo and Chris. Chris and I would regularly skip classes to play on Full Tilt all day. Often on Sundays about 5 of us would go to Stevo's place and grind Party Poker, especially when they had their monthly Party Millions tournament. One Sunday I was playing in a huge $50 online tourney on Party, and ended up going all the way and winning it for $22k. Suddenly I had a great big bankroll! I was consistently winning at Stevo's game, and I had picked up a crazy tell on Phil, the big bluffer. When I left Boston for good 3 years later, I'd finally explain to Phil how I had made so much money off of him, picking off so many of his bluffs he'd made against me. Whenever Phil would make a big bluff with nothing, he'd ask his bet as a question. "300?" He'd say, as if asking "is 300 enough to buy this pot?". I made thousands off of this tell.
As time went on, I wanted more than just 2 nights a week of poker at Stevo's and the crappy other games around campus. Phil had mentioned that they would sometimes go to a game in Chinatown, so one day I asked if he'd take me along.
The Chinatown game ran in an apartment unit above, what else, a Chinese restaurant. It was run by a guy named Jay, who seemed pretty nice, but had a temper at times, and people said was connected to the Triad. Apparently Jay knew the game would eventually get broken up by the cops, but he figured he'd get a few years in prison, but the $500k he planned on making from the game before then would be worth it.
The Chinatown game had 5 tables if I remember correctly. They'd have a tournament at 6pm on most nights, and then a cash game would start around 7 from the people busting the tourney as well as others who came just for cash. At first you could just walk in as long as someone went and introduced you to Jay and vouched for you. They had big screen TVs all over the walls, constantly playing High Stakes Poker, they had food delivered in for the players, fridges full of beer and soft drinks, it was great. Eventually the game would get robbed (although some claimed they thought it was a setup by Jay), and a steel door with an electronic bolt and a security camera would be added.
The game itself was a $1/3nl game with $500 max buyin. It played extremely loose, and I started coming by nearly every night. The players were a mix from all walks of life. Since it was an underground room, there was no age restriction, so some rich high school kids were even in the games. There were tons of college students of course. The Harvard kids always thought they were hot shit, but they always seemed to want to be the table bullies, and I'd pick off their bluffs. The MIT kids were another story, they were nothing short of geniuses, and I tried to stay out of their way usually.
I got a reputation for hitting and running the game, because my goal was to make $1000 and then quit for the night. Often when I'd quit early, me, Jay and some of the others guys would play board games for cash or weird random poker variants. I was making a killing in this game. I went out and bought myself a BMW, I was taking girls from the dorms out to $100 a plate dinners, I thought I was the man. It was 2nd semester, early 2006, and I was also failing out of school. I managed to scrape by first semester with a 2.5, already putting me on probation for my academic scholarship, but I didn't care. I called my mom and told her I was going to make more money than her in 2006.
2nd semester, Chris and I had signed up for many of the same classes with the idea that we'd force each other to go, but instead we enabled each other to skip. One Wednesday morning we were supposed to be going to class, and I don't remember who suggested it, but we ended up instead driving up to Montreal for a 5 day weekend. I got a speeding ticket going 95 MPH through Vermont on the way there, Chris got a ticket driving back through Vermont on the way home, but overall it was a great trip. We played some poker at the casino up there, and I made a few hundred bucks which we blew at the bars and clubs.
A few months after the robbery, the Chinatown game got raided by Boston Vice Squad. Apparently having regular cops there didn't help us out any, they had their money taken along with anyone else there. Jay was arrested, but all of the dealers and players were let go after a bit of harassment. Luckily for me, despite being there about 6 nights a week, I wasn't there for the robbery or the bust. However, unluckily my favorite game and my cash cow was gone.
Now I was back to just 2 days a week at Stevo's. I had met a guy named Rich through the Chinatown game, he was often a dealer there but would also play sometimes. Rich hit me up one day and asked if I was looking for another regular game. I told him I was, and got an invite to a game called The Loft. The Loft was a game outside of Boston in Chelsea. It was in an upscale loft and run by a guy named Moon. Moon was a total character. He was probably around 30, had been an engineer for GE, but quit because he rejected the idea of paying taxes. Moon was a conspiracy nut, and as we became friends he'd tell me all kinds of crazy theories, often involving Jews. As a Jew myself, I told him I was sure upset that all of these fun Jewish conspiracies were happening without me!
The Loft was a good game, but not as juicy as the Chinatown game. There were 2 tables, but usually just 1 ran, and it was often the same people every day. Many of them sucked at poker, so I was still making a bunch of money, but some of the shine had worn off. I completely stopped going to classes around this time, but was still living in the dorms and joined a fraternity. This frat was famous for crazy parties, and we'd sell cups for $5 at the door as admission. Eventually a party got busted up by the cops, and the frat president and a few other guys got arrested for selling alcohol to minors. The mayor of Boston went on TV and made an example out of us, calling us the negative Animal House version of a fraternity and calling for harsher regulations for serving alcohol to minors. The national fraternity revoked our charter, and that was the end of that.
The school year was coming to a close, and I was supposed to go home for the summer. I was done at the university, and didn't really know what I was going to do the next year. I drove the BMW all the way home to California and then went with a bunch of friends to Europe for the World Cup. We spent 5 weeks there, went to the 3 US games, and had a great time. I played some PLO in Barcelona despite not really knowing how to play (that was the only game they had there at the time), and I won $1200 by playing no hands for hours until I hit a full house, then getting paid off by the maniac players. When we stopped in Paris I played at the Aviation Club, the swanky poker club a few blocks from the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysees. They told me I couldn't come in wearing tennis shoes, so I went across the street and bought $200 loafers at Lacoste, then proceeded to win $5000 over the course of a crazy 24 hour session. My total expenses for the trip were $5500, and I had made $6200 in poker during the trip, life was amazing!
I ended up deciding to sign up for a program where you spend a year in Israel, get some college credits and volunteer. I ended up doing more drinking and partying than volunteering and studying, and got kicked out of the program halfway through.
I came back to California and went to community college for the semester, before deciding I missed the grind and that I was going to move back to Boston for the 2007-2008 school year and go to community college there (yeah right) but mostly get back to the underground poker grind. I had just turned 20, had about $80k and the BMW, and I was ready to jump back in. I talked to Rich, the guy who had gotten me into the Loft game, and he was still dealing poker around town and was looking for a roommate. I told him I was driving out to Boston the next week from California, and that he should find a 2 bedroom for us near campus. Little did I know, Rich was not to be trusted, and I was in for a shitshow of a year...
Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/pokecomments/bfvdp3/inside_boston_underground_poker_part_2/?

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Blackstar-David Bowie
The Glowing Man-Swans
Bottomless Pit-Death Grips
Atrocity Exhibition-Danny Brown
We Got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service-A Tribe Called Quest
Plays the Music of Twin Peaks-Xiu Xiu
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8/10
Ultimate Care II-Matmos
Emotional Mugger-Ty Segall
Terminal Redux-Vektor
Paradise-Pop. 1280
Jumalten Akia-Moonsorrow
The Life of Pablo-Kanye West (Redux Review Score)
Before A Million Universes-Big Ups
Weezer (White Album)-Weezer
Ritual Spirit-Massive Attack
Feelin Kinda Free-The Drones
The Impossible Kid-Aesop Rock
Strangers-Marissa Nadler
Pleaides' Dust-Gorguts
Vroom Vroom-Charli XCX
A Sailor's Guide to Earth-Sturgili Simpson
Imperial-Denzel Curry
Nonagon Infinity-King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Spirit Phone-Lemon Demon
Teens of Denial-Car Seat Headrest
You Will Never Be One of Us-Nails
Lemonade-Beyonce
A Moon Shaped Pool-Radiohead
Black Terry Cat-Xenia Rubinos
A Weird Exits-Thee Oh Sees
Still Brazy-YG
Skeleton Tree-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
My Woman-Angel Olsen
Preoccupations-Preoccupations
Stage Four-Touche Amore
Fires Within Fires-Neurosis
Body War-Show Me The Body
Scum with Boundaries-The I.L.Y.'s
Remember Us to Life-Regina Spektor
Splendor & Misery-clipping.
Telefone-Noname
Blonde-Frank Ocean
Ruminations-Conor Oberst
End Position-Street Sects
Honor Killed the Samurai-KA
Bonito Generation-Kero Kero Bonito
E•MO•TION: Side B-Carly Rae Jepsen
Southern Family-Various Artists
WORRY.-Jeff Rosenstock
A Seat at the Table-Solange
Beyond the Fleeting Gales-Crying
The Long Dark Blue-Swain
Floss-Injury Reserve
Run the Jewels 3-Run the Jewels
Not the Actual Events-Nine Inch Nails
untitled ummastered.-Kendrick Lamar
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7/10
Moth-Chairlift
Nevermen-Nevermen
99¢-Santigold
Varahtelija-Oranssi Pazuzu
Hyperion-Krallice
Malibu-Anderson .Paak
City Sun Eater in the River Of Light-Woods
IV-Black Mountain
The Hope Six Demolition Project-PJ Harvey
Post Pop Depression-Iggy Pop
One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache-The Body, Full Of Hell
Human Performance-Parquet Courts
Made in the Manor-Kano
Useless-Bones
Hella Personal Film Festival-Open Mike Eagle & Paul White
Holy Ghost-Modern Baseball
case/lang/veirs-case/lang/veirs
Lil Boat-Lil Yachty
The Terrible Tale Of Scurvy Jones-Mr. Yote
Tempo-Olga Bell
Sleep Cycle-Deakin
Konnichiwa-Skepta
The Magic-Deerhoof
Coloring Book-Chance the Rapper
Handshakes With Snakes-Apathy
IV-BADBADNOTGOOD
32 Levels-Clam Casino
Wildflower-The Avalanches
iiiDrops-Joey Purp
Wriggle-clipping.
Dissociation-The Dillinger Escape Plan
Jeffery-Young Thug
Prima Donna-Vince Staples
Telling It Like It Is-Marching Church
Jessica Rabbit-Sleigh Bells
Negus-Kemba
Dungeon Bastards-Ghoul
Voices-Wormrot
Yes Lawd!-NxWorries
BIG BABY D.R.A.M.-DRAM
24K Magic-Bruno Mars
"Awaken, My Love"-Childish Gambino
Do What Thou Wilt.-Ab-Soul
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6/10
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon-Jesu, Sun Kil Moon
Leave Me Alone-Hinds
HYMNS-Bloc Party
Adore Life-Savages
The Ghosts of Highway 20-Lucinda Williams
Is the Is Are-DIIV
3001: A Larced Odyssey-Flatbush Zombies
The Unruly Mess I've Made-Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
I AKA I-Ash Koosha
Aa-Baauer
EVOL-Future
BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow-Babyfather
Metal Resistance-Babymetal
Nattesferd-Kvelertak
Hopelessness-ANOHNI
The Dream Is Over-PUP
SremmLife 2-Rae Sremmurd
99.9%-KAYTRANADA
Freetown Sound-Blood Orange
How to Be a Human Being-Glass Animals
Everybody Looking-Gucci Mane
Major Key-DJ Khaled
All Your Happy Life-The Wytches
Schmilco-Wilco
PaidProgramming2-Bones
Rain Temple-2814
Hardwired... To Self-Destruct-Metallica
The Sun's Tirade-Isaiah Rashad
Joanne-Lady Gaga
Sirens-Nicolas Jaar
A Fistful of Peril-CZARFACE
4 Your Eyez Only-J. Cole
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5/10
Pool-Porches
Life of Pause-Wild Nothing
Painting With-Animal Collective
I'm Up-Young Thug
Love Streams-Tim Hecker
Too High to Riot-Bas
The Bride-Bat For Lashes
Slime Season 3-Young Thug
Skin-Flume
The Getaway-Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Colour in Anything-James Blake
The Human Condition-Jon Bellion
Innocence Reaches-of Montreal
There's Alot Going On-Vic Mensa
Hypercaffium Spazzinate-Descendents
Blank Face-Schoolboy Q
Bobby Tarantino-Logic
The Bible 2-AJJ
Summer Songs 2-Lil Yachty
The Altar-Banks
22, A Million-Bon Iver
The Healing Component-Mick Jenkins
American Football-American Football
1992-The Game
Woman-Justice
Starboy-The Weeknd
Black America Again-Common
Cozy Tapes Vol.1 Friends-A$AP Mob
Stilness in Wonderland-Little Simz
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4/10
The Peach Panther-Riff Raff
Dystopia-Megadeth
I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beatiful Yet So Unaware of It-The 1975
ANTI-Rihanna
Majid Jordan-Majid Jordan
The Wilderness-Explosions in the Sky
Gore-Deftones
Mind of Mine-Zayn
Views-Drake
Genesis-Domo Genesis
Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World-Lil Uzi Vert
AMNESTY (I)-Crystal Castles
AIM-M.I.A.
The Serenity of Suffering-Korn
PARTYNEXTDOOR (P3)-PARTYNEXTDOOR
The Divine Feminine-Mac Miller
Rheia-Oathbreaker
Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'-Kid Cudi
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3/10
Not To Disappear-Daughter
Warlord-Yung Lean
Junk-M83
Future Present Past-The Strokes
Lil B.I.G. Pac-Kodak Black
Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight-Travis Scott
The Perfect Luv Tape-Lil Uzi Vert
Revolution Radio-Green Day
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2/10
Star Wars Head Space-Various Artists
Always Strive and Prosper-A$AP Ferg
Silhouette of a Sunkken City-Spark Master Tape
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1/10
n/a
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0/10
n/a
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NOT GOOD
New English-Desiigner
California-blink-182
Savage Mode-21 Savage & Metro Boomin
Unleashed-Skillet
Showtime-Trisha Paytas
Angelic 2 The Core-Corey Feldman
The Violent Sleep of Reason-Meshuggah
Lady Wood-Tove Lo
Stoney-Post Malone
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In the near future, I'd like to try to visit Canadian casinos and play some poker, with that in mind, is there any particular location that would have better than most casino(s) that I should keep in mind?

hey guys! first time posting to the sub. i'm 19 and i've recently started playing blackjack and practicing my counting. im from Montreal and we have an interesting setup at our casino. i started playing on live machines in a big room of like 100 podiums where there is a dealeentertainer at the front, with a $5 min. it had great rules and i made good cash (left a few times having won $500-$1000 with a $100 buy in) but it got boring once i got basic strategy down. also - max bet was $100.
so once i was confident enough i started moving to the real tables. got caught by 6:5 tables in my first few visits to my local casino (once i started betting >$25 the dealer told me how i shouldn't waste my time and money on the floor i was on - upstairs had $25+ games that are all 3:2).
anyways i've been 9 or 10 times now and i've fallen IN LOVE with the game. we have a few free bet tables in a nice little corner that has windows (rare in a casino) and a terrace for breaks.
last week i went with a $200 bankroll - i know this is no where near enough for proper counting but im mostly playing to learn and have fun right now. a short 2 hours later i was sitting with $4.5k in chips. i had been tipping generously and buying drinks etc so although heavy, the heat wasn't too bad. it was kind of crazy to finally feel what people were talking about on here... the pit boss kept looking over and did not look pleased as i free-split my $600 bet and then doubled going on to win both hands netting like $1800 from one hand.
ANYWAYS - i had to get back home to meet a friend around ~9, and it was about 8:30 so i told myself i'd step outside for a quick break and to finish my drink then play one more hand.
after my break i went back in, and had 4 white chips (1k), 4 blacks and 4 greens. i told myself id play with the greens and then leave. long story short, i got totally out of control, started betting table max (1k) after having lost 4 or 5 hands in a row (increasing bets on each one) and ended up walking away with my measly $200. i didn't feel that bad because i left no poorer than before and got a few drinks/tips for the dealer in, but losing 4k in 90 seconds didn't feel great. the dealer and pit poss were containing their laughter but im sure they gutted themselves once i left.
lesson learned: play conservatively, dont make crazy bets and don't assume that because you've lost 4 hands you will DEFINITELY win the next. it was a thrilling night either way :p

I've finally mustered up the confidence to give 8D games a go. I'm thinking of hitting Casino Rama, Fallsview, or perhaps somewhere else this week. Can anyone advise on conditions at $10-$15 tables, both in terms of rules, and in terms of heat?

So I've been playing a ton of online bitcoin poker, setting up live tournaments with my friends and my class schedule for college is blocked to Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I've been considering traveling to Rhode Island once table games are added to the Twin River Casino in July but until then I was thinking of traveling to Montreal on Fridays and staying for the weekend. Not often, but depending on how things go, maybe a few times. What's reddits opinion? Best places to go? Things to see? Inexpensive place to stay (considering using coachsurfing.com)? Advice or criticism?

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• WWE Ride Along
  
  • 2017
    • Team Extreme Expressway - 11/06/2017

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• WWE Shorts
  
  • 2000
    • Thanksgiving 2000 The Rock - 11/23/2000 (National Car Rental Center - Fort Lauderdale, FL)
  • 2009
    • Thanksgiving 2009 Santino - 11/23/2009 (Giant Center - Hershey, PA)
• AJ Styles: Beyond Phenomenal
  
  • 2016
    • A Phenomenal Debut - 01/24/2016 (Amway Center - Orlando, FL)
    • Instant Chemistry - 01/25/2016 (American Airlines Arena - Miami, FL)
    • In the Fastlane - 02/21/2016 (Quicken Loans Arena - Cleveland, OH)
    • A New Day for Y2AJ - 03/07/2016 (Allstate Arena - Chicago, IL)
    • Welcome to the Grand Stage - 04/03/2016 (AT T Stadium - Dallas, TX)
    • Four Men, One Opportunity - 04/04/2016 (American Airlines Center - Dallas, TX)
    • Challenging the Roman Empire - 04/18/2016 (O2 Arena - London, England)
    • THE Guy and The Phenomenal One - 05/01/2016 (Allstate Arena - Chicago, IL)
    • Join The Club - 05/02/2016 (Scottrade Center - St. Louis, MO)
    • Going to Extremes - 05/22/2016 (Prudential Center - Newark, NJ)
    • Your Time is Up! - 06/19/2016 (T-Mobile Arena - Las Vegas, NV)
    • The Chosen Battleground - 07/24/2016 (Verizon Center - Washington, DC)
    • A Clash of Styles - 08/21/2016 (Barclays Center - Brookyln, NY)
    • AJ Talks Smack - 08/30/2016 (American Airlines Center - Dallas, TX)
    • On the Fringe of Success - 09/11/2016 (Richmond Coliseum - Richmond, VA)
    • Getting Crazy - 09/27/2016 (Quicken Loans Arena - Cleveland, OH)
    • Less Than Worthy - 10/11/2016 (SAP Center - San Jose, CA)
    • A Dangerous Environment - 12/04/2016 (American Airlines Center - Dallas, TX)
    • Second Chances - 12/20/2016 (Joe Louis Arena - Detroit, MI)
    • Overcoming the Odds - 12/27/2016 (Allstate Arena - Chicago, IL)
  • 2017
    • A Matter of Respect - 01/24/2017 (Huntington Center - Toledo, OH)
    • The Champ Who Runs the Camp - 01/29/2017 (Alamodome - San Antonio, TX)
    • Ego and Vengeance - 04/02/2017 (Citrus Bowl - Orlando, FL)
    • The House that AJ Styles Built - 04/04/2017 (Amway Center - Orlando, FL)
    • A New Opportunity - 04/11/2017 (TD Garden - Boston, MA)
    • The Howl of a Lone Wolf - 04/25/2017 (Wells Fargo Arena - Des Moines, IA)
    • An American Prize - 05/21/2017 (Allstate Arena - Rosemont, IL)
    • Trying to Break the Bank - 06/18/2017 (Scottrade Center - St. Louis, MO)
    • Phenomenally Patriotic - 07/04/2017 (Talking Stick Resort Arena - Phoenix, AZ)
    • Gold and Old Friends - 07/25/2017 (Richmond Coliseum - Richmond, VA)
    • The Face of America - 08/20/2017 (Barclays Center - Brooklyn, NY)
    • Beyond Phenomenal Intro - 11/06/2017
• Bret vs Shawn: The Rivalry
  
  • 1989
    • Rocking The Foundation - 12/14/1989 (Maple Leaf Gardens - Toronto, Ontario CN)
  • 1990
    • Tempers Flare - 02/12/1990
    • Stricken From the Record - 10/30/1990 (Allen County War Memorial Coliseum - Fort Wayne, IN)
  • 1992
    • A Forgotten Favorite - 04/29/1992
    • Rampage in Ottawa - 06/03/1992
    • The Ladder of Success - 07/21/1992
    • A Heated Exchange - 11/14/1992 (Hulman Center - Terre Haute, IN)
    • The Thankful Champion - 11/25/1992 (Richfield Coliseum - Richfield Township, OH)
  • 1993
    • Surviving Heartbreak - 11/24/1993 (Boston Garden - Boston, MA)
    • Caged Rivals - 12/01/1993
  • 1996
    • Mutual Respect - 02/26/1996 (Cincinatti Gardens - Cincinnati, OH)
    • All Roads Lead to Wrestlemania - 03/11/1996
    • The Boyhood Dream Comes True! - 03/31/1996 (Honda Center - Anaheim, CA)
    • Bitter Reflections - 04/15/1996 (Orange Pavilion - San Bernardino, CA)
    • A Heros Loyalty - 10/21/1996 (War Memorial Auditorium - Fort Wayne, IN)
    • Costly Errors - 12/15/1996 (West Palm Beach Auditorium - West Palm Beach, FL)
    • A Change of Hart - 12/16/1996 (Ice Palace - Tampa, FL)
    • Martyrs and Fallen Heroes - 12/30/1996 (Knickerbocker Arena - Albany, NY)
  • 1997
    • Tensions Explode - 03/24/1997 (Rockford MetroCentre - Rockford, IL)
    • Devious Intentions - 05/05/1997 (Brown County Expo Center - Green Bay, WI)
    • Pressing the Issue - 05/12/1997 (Bob Carpenter Center - Newark, DE)
    • A Grave Mistake - 08/03/1997 (Continental Airlines Arena - East Rutherford, NJ)
    • The Grand Slam Champion - 09/20/1997 (NEC Pavilion Arena - Birmingham England)
    • The Hart Foundation Strikes Back - 09/29/1997 (Pepsi Arena - Albany, NY)
    • A Challenge for the Blue Blood - 10/06/1997 (Kemper Arena - Kansas City, MO)
    • Uh-Oh Canada! - 10/06/1997 (Kemper Arena - Kansas City MO)
    • Dx Is Born - 10/13/1997 (Landon Arena - Topeka KS)
    • A Volatile Situation - 10/20/1997 (Myriad Convention Center - Oklahoma City OK)
    • Vengeance Is Sweet Chin Music - 10/27/1997 (Tulsa Convention Center - Tulsa OK)
    • Actions Speak Louder Than Words - 10/27/1997 (Tulsa Convention Center - Tulsa OK)
    • The Showdown in Montreal - 11/09/1997 (Molson Centre - Montreal Quebec CN)
  • 2002
    • Confidentially Speaking - 05/25/2002
  • 2005
    • The Scene of the Crime - 08/15/2005 (Bell Centre - Montreal Quebec CN)
  • 2010
    • The Reconciliation - 01/04/2010 (Nutter Center - Dayton OH)
  • 2017
    • Bret vs Shawn: The Rivalry Intro - 11/06/2017
• Ric Flair: Forever The Man
  
  • 1991
    • The Best of Both Worlds - 11/30/1991 (Madison Square Garden - New York, NY)
  • 1992
    • For Gold and Glory - 01/19/1992 (Times Union Center - Albany, NY)
    • An Honorable Champion - 04/05/1992 (Hoosier Dome - Indianapolis, IN)
  • 1993
    • The Perfect Exit - 01/25/1993 (Manhattan Center - New York, NY)
    • Ravishingly Controversial - 09/19/1993 (Astro Arena - Houston, TX)
    • A Homecoming to Remember - 12/27/1993 (Independence Arena - Charlotte, NC)
  • 1994
    • Dancing with a Dragon - 04/17/1994 (Rosemont Horizon - Chicago, IL)
    • The Match of the Century - 07/17/1994 (Orlando Arena - Orlando, FL)
  • 1995
    • A Savage Day at the Beach - 07/16/1995 (Huntington Beach - Huntington Beach, CA)
    • Friends, Opponents, Horsemen - 09/17/1995 (Asheville Civic Center - Asheville, NC)
  • 1998
    • The Man and The Hitman - 01/24/1998 (Hara Arena - Dayton, OH)
  • 1999
    • An Icons Challenge - 04/12/1999 (Sun Dome - Yakima, WA)
  • 2001
    • The Nature of the Business - 11/19/2001 (Charleston Coliseum - Charlotte, NC)
  • 2002
    • Professional Animosity - 01/20/2002 (Philips Arena - Atlanta, GA)
    • Running with the Devil - 03/17/2002 (Rogers Centre - Toronto, Ontario, CN)
    • An Envious Rival - 08/25/2002 (Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum - Uniondale, NY)
  • 2003
    • The Dirtiest Player and The Game - 05/19/2003 (BiLo Center - Greenville, SC)
    • Evolution Dominates - 12/14/2003 (TD Waterhouse Centre - Orlando, FL)
  • 2004
    • An Evolving Connection - 03/14/2004 (Madison Square Garden - New York, NY)
    • Musical Chairs - 07/05/2004 (Winnipeg Arena - Winnipeg, Manitoba, CN)
    • Legends Never Die - 10/19/2004 (BMO Harris Bradley Center - Milwaukee, WI)
  • 2005
    • For the First Time Ever? - 06/27/2005 (Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim - Anaheim, CA)
    • A Naturally Cool Champion - 09/18/2005 (Chesapeake Energy Arena - Oklahoma City, OK)
    • The Bonds of Friendship - 11/01/2005 (Valley View Casino Center - San Diego, CA)
  • 2006
    • The Ultimate Opportunity - 01/16/2006 (RBC Center - Raleigh, NC)
    • A Worthy Endorsement - 01/23/2006 (Charlotte Bobcats Arena - Charlotte, NC)
  • 2007
    • I Will Never Retire - 11/26/2007 (Charlotte Bobcats Arena - Charlotte, NC)
  • 2008
    • The Heartbreaking Truth - 03/24/2008 (Colonial Center - Columbia, SC)
    • A Natural Induction - 03/29/2008 (Amway Center - Orlando, FL)
    • The Nature Boys Swan Song - 03/30/2008 (Citrus Bowl - Orlando, FL)
    • Farewell to a Legend - 03/31/2008 (Amway Center - Orlando, FL)
  • 2012
    • The Horsemen Ride into the Hall - 03/31/2012 (American Airlines Arena - Miami, FL)
  • 2014
    • Legacies Clash - 05/29/2014 (Full Sail University - Orlando, FL)
  • 2016
    • Like Father, Like Daughter - 04/03/2016 (AT&T Stadium - Dallas, TX)
  • 2017
    • Ric Flair: Forever The Man Intro - 11/06/2017

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Oklahoma City's event list.

Ongoing

• 🎨 American Indian Artists: 20th Century Masters (Western Heritage Museum - Oklahoma City) Thru Sun, May 12th September 1 – May 12, 2019 American Indian Artists: 20th Century Masters As Lakota artist Oscar Howe wrote in 1958, “There is much more to Indian art, than pretty, stylized pictures.” This exhibition highlights this depth and the 20th century American masters who shaped it. Explore early artists such as the Kiowa Six, Tonita…
• Ancient. Massive. Wild. - The Bison Exhibit (Western Heritage Museum - Oklahoma City) Thru Sun, May 12th The Ancient. Massive. Wild. - The Bison Exhibit features North American bison artwork. Head to the National Cowboy & Western…
• Art Show at DNA Galleries (Plaza District - Oklahoma City) Thru Sun, May 5th Start Time: 6:00pm Featured in our gallery for the month of April is the work of Oklahoma artists Abby Stiglets, Natalie Miller, and Trisha Thompson Adams.
• Beehive - The 60s Musical (Pollard Theatre - Guthrie) Thru Sat, May 4th Experience the ultimate celebration of 1960s nostalgia at a performance of "Beehive - the '60s Musical"…
• Cowboys in Khaki (Western Heritage Museum - Oklahoma City) Thru Sun, May 12th
• Hicks and Booneshine (Noir Bistro & Bar - Oklahoma City) Thru Mon, Nov 25th Live talk show with Spencer Hicks and Kristy Boone.…
• Horseplay (Western Heritage Museum - Oklahoma City) Thru Sun, Jul 14th See Tom Lovell's sketches and studies of horses in the latest Horseplay exhibit at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage…

Wednesday, Apr 17th

• 89er Days Celebration (Downtown - Guthrie) Thru Sat, Apr 20th The annual 89er Days Celebration commemorates the Land Run of 1889 and the birth of Guthrie. On April 22, 1889, tens of…
• 🍴 Anthem Drown Night! (HiLo Club - Oklahoma City) Our local friends at Anthem Brewing Co. have some great beers! Every Wednesday night from 9pm to close enjoy $8 Drown Night! Their Power Pils will be flowing!
• Bi-Weekly Meetup (51st st. Speakeasy - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 5:00pm
• The Borgen Project Info Session (Oklahoma City Community College - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 6:30pm Advocacy? Policy? Volunteering? Internships? Global aid work? These are all things The Borgen Project have opportunities to make sure you can have all of these. Come out to Oklahoma City Community College Rm 2F1 and learn about how you can join the work!
• 🎓 Botanical Balance FREE Yoga (Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 5:45pm Botanical Balance FREE YOGA presented by Fowler Toyota, sponsored by Tinker Federal Credit Union and Stephenson Cancer Center Tuesdays, 5:45 pm and Saturdays, 8 am Check in at the Visitor Center and find out location which changes depending on the season Instructors provided by This Land Yoga Bring a mat, water, and an “open mind”…
• Bright Star (Lyric at the Plaza - Oklahoma City) Thru Sat, Apr 20th Travel to the American South from the 1920s-40s to watch a story of love and hope as Lyric Theatre presents: Bright Star.…
• 🏆 Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Omaha Storm Chasers (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark - Oklahoma City) 1 day left Start Time: 7:05pm
• 🍴 Dope Poetry Night (ICE Event Center - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 7:30pm Every Wednesday night at the Ice Event Center Sports Bar and Grill located at the heart of Oklahoma City! Sign ups begin at 7pm and show begins at 7:30pmish. Free Admission! Free vendor set up! Bar Restaurant
• Easter Story Time (Guthrie Library - Guthrie) Start Time: 10:30am Please RSVP for this event! Join us for Story Time and an Easter Egg Hunt in the Library! RSVP Via Facebook or by Calling 405-282-0050 EXT. 3 Must RSVP...
• 🎓 Eggstravaganza (Sam Noble Museum - Norman) Start Time: 4:00pm Join us for a spring party of Jurassic proportions, complete with spring crafts, face painting, an egg hunt and more! All visitors will receive a FREE...
• ♪ Headliner: Andy Middleton (University of Central Oklahoma - Edmond) Start Time: 7:30pm
• 🎓 Job Readiness Workshops (Norman Public Library - Norman) Start Time: 10:30am Adults, join us for two workshops that will help you get ready for a job. The first workshop will cover Resume Building & Interview Preparation on...
• 🎓 OCCC Signature Series: David Grann (Oklahoma City Community College - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 1:00pm Oklahoma City Community College's Paul W. Sechrist Signature Lecture Series will feature David Grann, the New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Wednesday, April 17 at 1 p.m. in the college’s Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater. This lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and a…
• Reading Wednesdays, Ages 2-5 (Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 9:30am Reading Wednesdays Every Wednesday, 9:30 am The Garden Classroom FREE Best for ages 2 to 5 Bring your youngster for story time each Wednesday at 9:30 am. Books are nature-themed and selected based on the season. We’ll begin with an interactive song and children will enjoy creating a small craft after the story. Join us the last Wednesday of…
• Revenge of the Plants! All about Carnivorous Plants (Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 6:00pm Wednesday, April 17, 6-7pm The Garden Classroom Member $12; Nonmember $15 Best for ages 8 to 11 Register by Wednesday, April 10 REGISTER HERE Learn about some of the wackiest vegetation in the world – carnivorous plants! Kids will learn how these meat-eating plants work, why they eat meat and how to keep them alive. We’ll make a fun craft to…
• SINGO Wednesdays (Lower Bricktown - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 6:30pm Beat the midweek hump with the new bar game that everyone is talking about! SINGO is a new and exciting musical spin on the traditional game of Bingo. Instead of listening for a number, players are listening to their favorite music. Enjoy 1/2 price domestic drafts & discounted appetizers! Plus we will be giving prizes each night to the winners.…
• 😂 Tom Clark (Loony Bin Comedy Club - Oklahoma City) Thru Sat, Apr 20th
• The Wailers in Concert (Tower Theatre Studio - Oklahoma City) Jamaican reggae and ska vocal group The Wailers are headed to Oklahoma City's Tower Theatre for an evening of legendary…

Thursday, Apr 18th

• 3rd Friday Block pARTy & Redbud Festival (Downtown - Shawnee) Day 1 of 2 During the 3rd Friday Block pARTy in Shawnee, local restaurants, art galleries and merchants are open late in the downtown…
• 89er Days Celebration (Downtown - Guthrie) Thru Sat, Apr 20th The annual 89er Days Celebration commemorates the Land Run of 1889 and the birth of Guthrie. On April 22, 1889, tens of…
• Art Adventures (Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art - Norman) Start Time: 10:30am
• Bright Star (Lyric at the Plaza - Oklahoma City) Thru Sat, Apr 20th Travel to the American South from the 1920s-40s to watch a story of love and hope as Lyric Theatre presents: Bright Star.…
• 🏆 Central OK: University of Central Oklahoma Baseball vs Fort Hays State (Edmond) Day 1 of 2 Start Time: 7:00pm University of Central Oklahoma Baseball vs Fort Hays State https://www.bronchosports.com/calendar.aspx?id=6299
• 🎭 The Comedy Magic & Mentalism of Max Krause 13+ (Max's Magic Theatre - OKC - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 9:15pm 13+ Ages
• 🏆 Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Omaha Storm Chasers (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark - Oklahoma City) Last Day Start Time: 7:05pm
• Everything You Need to Know About How to Start Growing Food (Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 6:00pm Thursday, April 18, 6-8pm The Garden Classroom Member $8; Nonmember $12 Dale Spoonemore, From Seed to Spoon Register by Friday, April 12 REGISTER HERE
  Learn the basics and a whole lot more in this session with local expert Dale Spoonemore. Dale is a self-taught gardener who converted his suburban backyard into an organic farm. By utilizing…
  
• 🎓 INTERFACE (Cox Convention Center - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 8:30am This conference is a combination of Best-in-Breed hardware and software solutions, along with local experts and organizations to help educate, advise and connect you to resources that can help you meet your goals. Covering IT Infrastructure, BC/DR, IT Security, and Enterprise Communications, you'll find presentations, panel discussions and…
  
• A Night of Testimony (Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art - Norman) Start Time: 7:00pm Miriam Friedmann Morris and Lorne Richstone, Associate Professor of Music at OU, will discuss the legacy of the Holocaust through the work of Morris’s...
  
• Oil Can Classic (Lazy E Arena - Guthrie) Thru Sat, Apr 20th The Oil Can Classic at Lazy E Arena in Guthrie is an officially sanctioned American Quarter Horse Association Event. See…
  
• OKC Cannacon (Cox Convention Center - Oklahoma City) Day 1 of 2 Start Time: 10:00am CannaCon will provide an interactive gathering of like-minded professionals uniting leading pioneers and entrepreneurs with investors and experts discussing the latest industry developments. Access the next generation of cannabis technology and consumer products while discovering what trends influence the future marketplace of 2019-and beyond.…
  
• Prairie-to-Table Dining at the Cowboy (Western Heritage Museum - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 6:00pm Western States Plaza and Gardens (Rain back-up location: S.B. “Burk” Burnett Board Room) Join Museum President & CEO Natalie Shirley and experience flavors of the American West through great food and drink. The special prairie-themed menu is prepared and presented by the Petroleum Club of Oklahoma City. Cash bar. $65, $55 for Museum members.…
  
• Saints Sessions (Saints - Oklahoma City) Head to the Plaza District for an evening of Saints Sessions programming featuring 2009 Oklahoma History Society Funk &…
  
• Sensory Easter Night in the Crystal Bridge presented by Sprouts (Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 6:00pm Thursday, April 18, 6-8pm Member child $10; Nonmember child $12 Best for ages 0-12 REGISTER HERE
  Join us inside the Crystal Bridge for an Easter evening tailored for families with special needs children. This is not an Easter egg hunt, but a fun-filled evening for families and typically developing siblings. There are festive booths and…
  
• 🎨 Teen Anime Night (Guthrie Library - Guthrie) Start Time: 6:00pm We will choose between three anime and partake in snackage. The City of Guthrie, OK - Municipal Government Talk around guthrie where nobody gets...
  
• 😂 Tom Clark (Loony Bin Comedy Club - Oklahoma City) Thru Sat, Apr 20th
  
• 🎨 Verbode Urban Core Artists Exhibit 1 Opening Reception (Verbode - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 6:00pm Verbode Urban Core Artists: Local art show to benefit The Homeless Alliance opens at Verbode on April 18
  A new art show, Verbode Urban Core Artists, will feature the work of: Christie Owen, Marissa Raglin, Trevar Peterson, Tim Cooper, Katie Henderson, Kendall Schulz, and Tim Kowalczyk. The collective of professional artists are from Oklahoma…
  
• Wind Symphony in Concert (Starbucks - Edmond) Start Time: 7:30pm Join UCO for a full program of wind symphony concert tunes at Mitchell Hall at UCO in Edmond. See what rhythms await you on…
  

Friday, Apr 19th

• 3rd Friday Block pARTy & Redbud Festival (Downtown - Shawnee) Day 2 of 2 During the 3rd Friday Block pARTy in Shawnee, local restaurants, art galleries and merchants are open late in the downtown…
• 89er Days Celebration (Downtown - Guthrie) 1 day left The annual 89er Days Celebration commemorates the Land Run of 1889 and the birth of Guthrie. On April 22, 1889, tens of…
• The Annie Oakley in Concert (The Blue Door - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 8:00pm Head to The Blue Door in Oklahoma City for an intimate performance by The Annie Oakley in the venue's listening room. A…
• ♪ Boosie Badazz (The Criterion - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 7:30pm
• Bright Star (Lyric at the Plaza - Oklahoma City) 1 day left Travel to the American South from the 1920s-40s to watch a story of love and hope as Lyric Theatre presents: Bright Star.…
• 🏆 Central OK: University of Central Oklahoma Baseball vs Fort Hays State (Edmond) Day 2 of 2 Start Time: 7:00pm University of Central Oklahoma Baseball vs Fort Hays State https://www.bronchosports.com/calendar.aspx?id=6299
• 🏆 Central OK: University of Central Oklahoma Softball vs Emporia State (Tailgating Lot - Edmond) Start Time: 2:00pm University of Central Oklahoma Softball vs Emporia State Streaming Video: http://themiaanetwork.com/ucobronchos/ https://bronchosports.com/calendar.aspx?id=6238
• 🏆 Central OK: University of Central Oklahoma Softball vs Emporia State (Tailgating Lot - Edmond) Start Time: 4:00pm University of Central Oklahoma Softball vs Emporia State Streaming Video: http://themiaanetwork.com/ucobronchos/ https://bronchosports.com/calendar.aspx?id=6239
• Community Egg and Candy Hunt! (Andrews Park - Norman) Start Time: 5:30pm Activities start at 5:30 pm and the Egg Hunt begins at 6:30 pm. Activities include Easter Bunny photos, inflatables, face painting, music, sno cones,...
• Day of Remembrance (Oklahoma City National Memorial - Oklahoma City) Each year, visitors gather at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in downtown Oklahoma City to remember those…
• 🏆 Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Iowa Cubs (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark - Oklahoma City) Thru Mon, Apr 22nd Start Time: 7:05pm Come experience America's favorite pastime in downtown Oklahoma City as the Oklahoma City Dodgers take on the Iowa Cubs…
• Foreigner in Concert (Riverwind Casino - Norman) Start Time: 8:00pm Head to Riverwind Casino in Norman for an exciting performance by Foreigner. Known for Top 10 hits like "I…
• 🎓 Job Readiness Workshops (Norman Public Library - Norman) Start Time: 10:30am Adults, join us for two workshops that will help you get ready for a job. The first workshop will cover Resume Building & Interview Preparation on...
• 🎡 Looking For Something? (The Blue Door - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 8:00pm Annie Oakley is a folk band fronted by twin sisters Grace and Sophia Babb, paired with the violin and one-liners of Nia Personette. We're keen on telling stories, finding the sweetest harmonies possible, and playing shows where we meet the listeners we're playing for.
• My So Called Band in Concert (Tower Theatre Studio - Oklahoma City) Step back in time with 1990s tribute group My So Called Band as they take the Tower Theatre stage. This Oklahoma City…
• OCU 2019 Annual Easter Egg Hunt (Oklahoma City University - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 10:30am All OCU Alumni and Friends are welcome to campus for this year's annual Easter Egg Hunt on Friday, April 19th from 10:30am-Noon. Children's activities...
• Oil Can Classic (Lazy E Arena - Guthrie) 1 day left The Oil Can Classic at Lazy E Arena in Guthrie is an officially sanctioned American Quarter Horse Association Event. See…
• OKC Cannacon (Cox Convention Center - Oklahoma City) Day 2 of 2 Start Time: 10:00am CannaCon will provide an interactive gathering of like-minded professionals uniting leading pioneers and entrepreneurs with investors and experts discussing the latest industry developments. Access the next generation of cannabis technology and consumer products while discovering what trends influence the future marketplace of 2019-and beyond.…
• Norman Philharmonic Easter Concert (McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church - Norman) Start Time: 8:00am
• ♪ Skirvin Jazz Club - hosted by Christian Pearson (Skirvin Hilton - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 7:30pm Skirvin Jazz Club is an immersive live music experience at the historic Skirvin Hotel in Downtown Oklahoma City. We transform The Park Avenue Grill a swinging jazz club. We stage the band in the center of the room and seat the audience around the musicians, 360. We feature top talent, a full menu, and special featured drinks. This is the perfect…
• 🎓 Surreptitious: The After Work Social Mixer (Avenue 101 - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 5:00pm $10 Fishbowls $3 Hennessy Black $1 Beers $10 Hookah ($5 the 1st Hour) 3 Wine ::NO COVER::
• 😂 Tom Clark (Loony Bin Comedy Club - Oklahoma City) 1 day left
• Visionaries (Oklahoma City Ballet - Oklahoma City) Day 1 of 2 Visionaries, presented by the OKC Ballet, is a triple bill at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City. Get your tickets…
• West Conf. Qtrs Gm 3: Trail Blazers at Thunder Rd 1 Hm Gm 1 (Chesapeake Energy Arena - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 8:30pm *** VERY IMPORTANT !! *** Sales to the Oklahoma City Thunder 2019 Home Playoff Games at Chesapeake Energy Arena will be restricted to residents of Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Residency will be based on credit card billing address. Orders by residents outside of this area will be cancelled without notice and refunds…

Saturday, Apr 20th

• 89er Days Celebration (Downtown - Guthrie) Last Day The annual 89er Days Celebration commemorates the Land Run of 1889 and the birth of Guthrie. On April 22, 1889, tens of…
• Bar Ruck (Fassler Hall - Oklahoma City) Have you ever wanted to do a 5k but don't like running? Do you like drinking? Do you like supporting local veteran…
• 🎓 Botanical Balance FREE Yoga (Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 8:00am Botanical Balance FREE YOGA presented by Fowler Toyota, sponsored by Tinker Federal Credit Union and Stephenson Cancer Center Tuesdays, 5:45 pm and Saturdays, 8 am Check in at the Visitor Center and find out location which changes depending on the season Instructors provided by This Land Yoga Bring a mat, water, and an “open mind”…
• Bright Star (Lyric at the Plaza - Oklahoma City) Last Day Travel to the American South from the 1920s-40s to watch a story of love and hope as Lyric Theatre presents: Bright Star.…
• 🎨 Caddo Festival 2019 (Sam Noble Museum - Norman) Start Time: 10:00am Free Event!! Art Show, Symposium, Caddo Dances and everyone invited for this celebration of Caddo Culture. Plus Staged Reading of
• 🏆 Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Iowa Cubs (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark - Oklahoma City) Thru Mon, Apr 22nd Start Time: 7:05pm Come experience America's favorite pastime in downtown Oklahoma City as the Oklahoma City Dodgers take on the Iowa Cubs…
• Choctaw Easter Egg Hunt (Choctaw Creek Park - Choctaw) Grab your baskets and join the hunt for more than 15,000 candy-filled eggs at the City of Choctaw's annual Easter Egg…
• Easter Egg Hunts (Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 10:00am Details to come for both the Children’s Easter Egg Hunt and the Dogs’ Easter Egg Hunt! Stay tuned.
• Easter Eggstravaganza (Orr Family Farm Event Barn - Oklahoma City) Gather your Easter baskets and celebrate this holiday with a day of family fun at Orr Family Farm in…
• 🏃 Easter Run (Council Road Baptist Church - Bethany) Hundreds of runners participate in 10k and 5k races and a One-Mile Fun Walk. The event is at The Cube at Council Road Baptist Church and benefits House of Healing, a local organization that helps teenage girls, many with difficult pasts, find emotional and spiritual healing and discover freedom, hope and restoration.
• Edmond Farmer's Market (Festival Marketplace - Edmond) Start Time: 8:00am
• Ian Moore in Concert (Tower Theatre Studio - Oklahoma City) Texas-born singer, songwriter and guitarist Ian Moore takes the stage at Oklahoma City's Tower Theatre, performing…
• LANCO in Concert (Riverwind Casino - Norman) LANCO entered the country music scene in 2013, releasing their debut full-length album "Hallelujah Nights" in…
• 🏃 Jones Longhorn Stampede (Jones High School - Jones) The Jones Longhorn Stampede is a certified and time sanctioned 5K run and one mile fun run event sponsored by the Jones Middle School PTA. The proceeds of this event will go to benefit the Jones Middle School for any needed improvements to the school and to enhance the learning environment for our students.
• 🏃 NormanNEXT Off to the Races Zero K / 5K (Reaves Park - Norman)
• Oil Can Classic (Lazy E Arena - Guthrie) Last Day The Oil Can Classic at Lazy E Arena in Guthrie is an officially sanctioned American Quarter Horse Association Event. See…
• 🏆 OKC Energy FC vs. Orange County SC (Taft Stadium - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 7:30pm Experience the excitement of major league soccer in Oklahoma as the Oklahoma City Energy Football Club takes on the Orange…
• Purple Reign Tribute in Concert (Grand Casino Hotel & Resort - Shawnee) Step back in time to the Purple Rain era at this award-winning Prince tribute show at the Grand Casino Event Center in…
• Spring Garden Tour (Western Heritage Museum - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 10:00am Museum Gardens Museum docents offer a tour of the Museum Gardens. Enjoy the plethora of plants and flowers native to the American West. Learn about the land in which the story of the West is rooted. Leave plenty of time to check out The Museum Store! Free to Museum members or with Museum admission. Weather permitting.
• 😂 Tom Clark (Loony Bin Comedy Club - Oklahoma City) Last Day
• 🏃 UCO ROTC 7th Annual Gold Bar 5K Run (University of Central Oklahoma - Edmond) Start Time: 8:00am
• Visionaries (Oklahoma City Ballet - Oklahoma City) Day 2 of 2 Visionaries, presented by the OKC Ballet, is a triple bill at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City. Get your tickets…
• Water Lantern Festival (Route 66 Park, Lake Overholser - Yukon) Enjoy a fun day by the water filled with food trucks and fun at the annual Water Lantern Festival in Yukon. This one-day…

Sunday, Apr 21st

• 🏆 Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Iowa Cubs (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark - Oklahoma City) 1 day left Start Time: 7:05pm Come experience America's favorite pastime in downtown Oklahoma City as the Oklahoma City Dodgers take on the Iowa Cubs…
• of Montreal in Concert (Tower Theatre Studio - Oklahoma City) Get ready to dance to of Montreal's eclectic sounds and unique beats at Tower Theatre in Oklahoma City. This Georgia…
• 🏆 West Conf. Qtrs Gm 4: Trail Blazers at Thunder Rd 1 Hm Gm 2 (Chesapeake Energy Arena - Oklahoma City) Start Time: 8:30pm *** VERY IMPORTANT !! *** Sales to the Oklahoma City Thunder 2019 Home Playoff Games at Chesapeake Energy Arena will be restricted to residents of Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Residency will be based on credit card billing address. Orders by residents outside of this area will be cancelled without notice and refunds…

Monday, Apr 22nd

• 🏆 Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Iowa Cubs (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark - Oklahoma City) Last Day Start Time: 7:05pm Come experience America's favorite pastime in downtown Oklahoma City as the Oklahoma City Dodgers take on the Iowa Cubs…
• Taste of Midwest City (Reed Conference Center - Midwest City) Pair rich red wines and dry white wines with the best eats Midwest City has to offer. The Taste of Midwest City features…

Tuesday, Apr 23rd

• Festival of the Arts (Bicentennial Park - Oklahoma City) Thru Sun, Apr 28th Known as Oklahoma City's annual "rite of spring," the Festival of the Arts is a six-day community celebration…
• Wheeler Criterium (Oklahoma City) Once the weather starts warming up, gather your crew and head south of the Oklahoma River for the Wheeler Criterium each and…

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I've had to work the graveyard in Montreal all throughout over Christmas and New Year's. A couple of days before leaving, you liked my profile on OKC and sent me a message. I saw you as a fling, a one night stand, someone to stave off the cabin fever of having to work alone for 14-hour days. I wrote back stating that I would be in town and my intentions, but you said you'd try to change my mind.
You met me at my hotel on the 23rd. We hit up a vegan restaurant, walked around the city, and stopped for coffee. We went back to my hotel room, watched bad talk shows, and you cradle my head as I fall asleep in your arms. I have never felt that close to someone without being intimate with them. I had to go to work at 11pm. It was the night of the ice storm, and conditions were too bad for a commute. I offer my hotel room, a little worried that you might trash it, raid the mini-bar, or rack up a huge PPV bill. My fears were unfounded when I come back at noon, you had already left, the mini-bar intact, and no charges to my bill.
The next time I saw you was on the 26th, after I was done with work at noon and had to catch a flight home at 4pm. You brought me a sunflower, because somehow I let it slip that it was my favorite flower. We hit up another vegan restaurant for lunch and even though I profusely declined, you insist on giving me a ride to the airport, because you wanted to spend even a couple more hours with me.
I had to be back to work through the New Year's holidays as well. I call up work and change my travel plans. I drive up there a day early on the 30th so that we could spend a day on a real date. We met up for lunch, followed by a visit to the Science Center. You had to teach a class from 6-7 so I head back to check into my hotel. After we had dinner, watched a movie, and hit up the casino after, since it's the only thing that's opened after midnight on a Monday. We get back to my hotel room at 3am. Exhausted from the 5-hour drive up and spending the entire day out, I had the intention of saying goodbye and going to sleep, but you keep dawdling, insisting that you see me straight to my room.
By the time we reach my room, you grab me, start kiss me, peel off my winter clothes layer by layer and we make love that night. I wake up the next morning to your smile, and breakfast in bed from room service. We spend the rest of the day cuddling until you had to leave by 3 to teach a class, and I had to get some sleep for work. That night as the countdown began, I wish that you were there for me to kiss.
We have lunch again on New Year's Day after work and walk around Vieux-Port, I told you that I didn't have much time to spend with you because I had to sleep in order to be back at work that night. You say that you don't have much going on that day anyway. You accompany me to my hotel room again and sat beside me, chatting until I pass out. I wake up at 9pm and you were not there assuming that you were annoyed that I had fallen asleep and start freaking out. I was about to order room service for dinner, when you show up at my door, and drop off a vegan pizza that you cooked yourself and even a packed lunch for work.
We meet up the next day after work, and I drive an hour up to ski in Mont Tremblant. I try to teach you how to ski, but you fall on your bum a few times. It's 40 below, and after a couple of hours of trying to warm up in the weather, we give up, get hot cocoas, snuggle by the fire in the lodge, and talk about where things are headed. You reveal that you're a redditor too and know my username. I say it's fine as I have nothing to hide. You tell me that you never want to keep dating long distance, but you do not want to leave Montréal and hoped that I would move there in the long run. I have no answer at that point and deflect by changing the subject.
From the mountain, we head to the casino again for dinner, since that is where you parked your car. I can see that you are annoyed at me for making you ski in such cold weather, and for not being able to give you an answer. After dinner, you retreat alone to the slot machines while I play the table games. We hug goodbye and leave separately, and I go back to my hotel room thinking that it is the last time I'll see you, angry at myself for ending things on a sour note.
At 2am there's a knock on my door, and you're there as I opened it. You said that you'd miss me and apologize for not saying a proper goodbye. You say that you behaved that way because you were going to miss me, and you once again pull my face to yours and kiss me again. I make it clear that I never want to move to Montréal. You tell me at least we have tonight. We make love that night again and you fall asleep in my arms. While it is still dark outside, I stealthily check out at 6am the next morning to get a headstart on the drive back. You are still asleep and I leave instructions with the front desk not to disturb the room until the actual checkout time at noon.
I like how you're my age and looking to settle. I love how we are both vegetarians and pretty much hit up every vegetarian restaurant in the city. I love running my fingers through the tangles of your long, flowing hair. I like the slighted lilt of your voice. I love how you are so confident about your body. I love how much you care for me. I love how you pull my face up to yours when you kiss me. I love how you're ticklish and giggle when I kiss your abs. And I love how you squeal when you're writhing in ecstasy.
It has been 8 hours since I left, and I have yet to hear from you. I guess you were mad that I left without saying goodbye, but you know that you would have made it hard for me to leave. Hopefully you will read this story and understand where I'm coming from. What we had was nice, but I'm too old and too tired to waste time on a long distance relationship. I never want to move to Montréal just as you never want to leave it. I have built a life back home and I don't want to have to drive 300 miles every time I want to see you. We had a good five days together. I am glad that you want to still be in my life and that we'll still be friends. I will be back in the summer if you are still single, but I don't think someone like you would be for long. You were right, you did change my mind, but my heart will never be in Montréal .