Summers growing up in small town Texas, usually in the mornings you attended some form of Vacation Bible School at one of the 100 Baptist churches in the area and then, if you were lucky, spent the...
Even with all of the new live music venues opening up around the Metro en masse, few of them seem to understand those little things that make live music truly great, those tender mercies such as...
When I left home shortly after graduating high school, going (North) west young man, I spent many of the best years of my early days of forced manhood in a piecemeal duplex that was filled with...
There are two ways I would like my cold, lifeless corpse to be found in the morning: sitting on the toilet, hand clutching my heart, greasy bloodstream full of homemade barbiturates or, much more...
Sometimes, when I’m cruising down Adventure Road in search of cool restaurants or high-risk sexual encounters, I’ll often see a sign for a town and think, “Huh, Altus would make a great name...
A new steak house recently opened up in the self-appointed elitist stretch of Oklahoma City proper, a beautifully self-effacing joint that proudly offers up various highly premium cuts of beef and a...
As dangerous gangs of frothing alt-leftists and angry minorities continue to gather and erase so much precious Caucasian history by destroying the bronze and concrete testaments to this comically...
After the sheer physical, moral and downright psychological breakdowns that were incited by my recent trip to WinCo foods in Moore, an afternoon stop by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s FireLake...
Hope you packed your SPF 1,000,000 sunscreen because it looks like this might be the hottest summer on record since, at the very least, 1945. With blustering blowhards who carry nuclear launch codes...
Forget the bright lights and Vegas-style gaming…the real jackpot at Thunderbird Casino is in their dining area! Driving east down Highway 9, past Norman and into rural oblivion, the eats are pretty...
Considering that it’s probably the one state dish that all of us, Native American or otherwise, collectively and continually crave, it seems as though the Indian Taco is the Brigadoon of local...
This week, apparently Oklahoma City Public Schools have opened their impoverished and failing doors to the Metro’s insufferable lot of tots, tweens and teens for another school year of uncertainty...
For some unexplained reason, North May Avenue, from about N.W. 36th to around N.W. 63rd, has become the Metro’s absolute Mecca for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern eats, with, at last count, at...
I spend most of these warm summer days indoors, writing frightening verse to a bucktooth girl in Luxembourg. But on those occasions when I feel the need to leave the creature comforts of recirculated...
One of the many things that, now in tearful retrospect, I took for granted during my time in Fort Collins, Colorado, was all of the, for lack of a better word, hippie food joints that seemed to dot...
Like the living embodiment of a Land Run chuckwagon mowing over a tribe of Native Americans before the starting shots were even fired, all around fraudulent pop icon Ree Drummond, a.k.a. the Pioneer...
With the imminent razing of the Donnay Building and all its accoutrements to make room for a new Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Store, I guess now is as good a time as ever to pay a visit (last...
Whether you’re a really active supporter of our schools or just a good ol’ fashioned degenerate gambler, the State of Oklahoma’s revamped lottery scratchers have finally hit the streets...
I have to give my father credit for one thing: when he wasn’t on a brutal rampage of terror, abusing his family both physically and mentally, he was a damn good cook. Growing up in Depression Era...
If you’ve ever wondered what a Biblically-based triptych by 16th century Finnish painter Jheronimus Bosch, like the one above, would look like come to actual life, then go no further than the...
With this year’s Independence Day falling on a very unlikable Tuesday, Oklahoma City and her surrounding neighbors will be celebrating America’s birthday in damn-near the middle of the week...
It’s easy to give out Twitter accolades and Instagram bravos to the same series of easy-to-reach food trucks that are all located in the same oil-stained spots day after day and are written about...
A couple of years ago, TLO editor Patrick gave me $20 and sent me to the outskirts of town to write an article about fireworks. When I did, it was met with resounding jeers, leading many readers to...
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ― Marcel Proust In honor of their 30 years in Oklahoma City, all City Bites restaurants are going totally...
In my other job as a film critic, I sometimes see up to three, maybe four movies a week in the theater. Many of these are free preview screenings that often seal-off a small section for press and...