People often ask me how I come across many of the wholly unique places I write about and, to be honest, I’m quite not sure…I’m mostly lucky, I guess. Like the other day, a preternatural drive...
Bypassing the tenderloin, the t-bone and even the flank, Oklahoma lawmakers recently made the ribeye the official steak of our constantly hungry state. In honor of this useless resolution, I decided...
The first time I met an Asian person—Vietnamese, to be exact—it was in 1990, when I transferred to the Classen Fifth Year Center for the last month of the school year. Having grown up in a small...
The warm Oklahoma wind blew across the gravel parking lot at the rustic roadside dirt mall, located somewhere outside Okmulgee. Filled with a cadre of likeminded garbage pickers, trash humpers and...
Located off the main trail in the lone town of Weleetka, Oklahoma, sits a moderately busy roadside diner called the Cowpokes Café, 109017 N. 3870 Rd. On the way back to Oklahoma City after a recent...
In honor of this state’s most reverential nut, this past Saturday was a blissfully warm afternoon for the annual tradition of the Okmulgee Pecan Festival to take place; among all the famous treats...
During the 1980s and 1990s, OKC was deluged with numerous memorable commercials—many of which are still unparalleled today—from Tall Paul Auto Insurance to the Credit Jewelers cowboy. When I...
Around this time last year, God and the Devil decided to have a cinematic battle for my soul, as I lay in a hospital bed, near to death and clinging to life. The worst part of it all, however, is...
The last time I reviewed a barbeque joint—the Godforsaken Maples in the Plaza District—I received plenty of hate mail, a handful of death threats, and a whole lot of racist indignation from...
Aside from the recent spate of deadly weather currently plaguing this land, the biggest news in Oklahoma City this month has to be that, after so many years of wishing, hoping and praying, we finally...
Back in the day, Mike G. had a slick look that reminded me a bit of Morris Day, from the funk band the Time. Whenever I was around him when we were working at the Penn Square Hollywood Theaters, I...
This year’s most charming family film has pasty-clad breasts, head-thumping bouncers and a wide enough variety of booze and drugs to subdue even the rowdiest motorcycle gang—it’s called Red Dog...
On the edge of a rapidly gentrifying Classen Ten-Penn sits one of the mejor taquerias in town, Taqueria Rafita’s, 1222 N. Penn. Holding on tight for a few years now, Rafita’s has steadfastly...
I received a text a couple of days ago from a friend asking if I heard about the new python that the Oklahoma City Rattlesnake Museum recently acquired. My answer was, of course, no, followed by an...
Most of us have been lucky enough to have had that one magically clichéd summer job that, looking back on it now, probably could’ve been the basis for a coming-of-age teen comedy some years later...
I’ve painted up my lips and rolled and curled my tinted hair; there’s no contemplating it, I am going somewhere…to Ruby’s Restaurant, 1737 S. Green Street, in Purcell. As I’ve steadily...
Built on the well-refrigerated tomb of the old El Mariachi Supermercado, 3020 NW 16th, this positively post-apocalyptic center of commerce, now renamed Public Wholesale Supermercado, has opened its...
It was the middle of the 31st Annual El Reno Day Burger Festival and I still hadn’t had anything to drink or eat, patiently waiting hours for the famous giant onion burger to make its riotous...
The edible piece of history that is the spiritually Oklahoma-owned Onion Burger dates back to the Great Depression, with many conflicting accounts as to who did what and where it was done still in...
In 1938, a group of American citizens were hoping to help make America great once again through a complete refocusing of this countries deadening morals; calling themselves the Moral Re-Armament, led...
Avengers of trivia…assemble! Chances are you’ve seen the latest and greatest Marvel blockbuster–the behemoth Avengers: Endgame–and are now ready to spread the word throughout...
I have never been to the Caribbean, sadly, but have always dreamt about, probably more than I should, spending a tumultuous week on the golden beaches there, possibly with a spindrift lover who...
Many years ago, the mighty buffalo roamed the plains of Oklahoma. Hunted to near extinction by colonizers, it seems these days the closest place to find a herd anymore are the en masse paintings...
This weekend, I’m going to see Rain, a nationally touring Beatles tribute act that is making a stop at the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall. While this may not be a big deal for you, due to...
I received an email from an old high school crush a few weeks ago, not wondering how I’m doing or if I ever get lonely, but instead asking if I had reviewed Sheesh Mahal, 4621 N. May, yet. In her...
