Straight outta Austin, the Honorable Rep. Gina Hinojosa filed a resolution to make tacos the official state food of Texas. If it passes, I applaud Texas for not only honoring Latino culture, but for...
I received some bad news from the doctor last week. Deep in my head and alone in my thoughts, I retreated to the one place in town where I can find the true solace that I longingly crave, my local...
I’ve been pretty feeling pretty enfermizo the past week, with my worst fear of a mild bout of la gripe attacking while still in procurement of this damn tracheotomy. Believe me—it makes...
I believe that when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was on the cross, hanging off the fresh cedar while being in the most intense pain possible, that when he cried out “Why have you forsaken...
A few weeks ago, the boss sent me a text about a local food critic that was going to eat a ten-pound taco, or some other such heavyweight nonsense. It always seems as though Oklahoma food writers...
Still trying to wake up after the utterly boring and basic performance by mom-faves Maroon 5 and Adam Levine’s nipples? Wouldn’t the Superbowl Half-Time Show been better as a tribute to...
It was a Friday night in Norman, but Main Street was eerily quiet. The record store, the art gallery, even the bars were empty. The barest of all buildings seemed to be the Opolis, 113 North...
Many years ago, back when I was living in Colorado, I was dating a woman whose roots were in California, proving that just about everyone in the Mile High State is seemingly from somewhere else. When...
With all the recent news of the renovations that Belle Isle Public Library with be undoubtedly put through over the next year or so, I returned there for the first time in about two decades. It...
I very rarely get to enjoy nice (read: expensive) restaurants, and when I do, it’s usually because someone else is paying, That’s pretty much the reason I was able to dine at the Park Avenue...
He sat in the comfiest chair, his spectacles resting with supernatural force on the tip of his nose. Looking at his worn notebook that he always had with him; he skimmed the page, ably listening to...
Pizza buffets, God love ‘em, are almost always the worst. So many of the times I’ve visited them, the stainless-steel trappings are a marinara-soaked wasteland where chefs send their worst pizzas...
So many times, I hear the usual sort consistently whine about how there is no “authentic” food in Oklahoma City. If you mean overpriced maladies in upscale districts, then no, you’re probably...
Have you tried to get a buena bowl of pozole in Oklahoma City lately? Sure, you might be able to find it at a few joints around town, devoutly microwaved with a thick layer of greasy escoria across...
It was a little after 1 a.m. or so when the screaming started. A shirtless man who I had never seen around the backyard before was holding a woman on the ground as some of the other women who lived...
When on the road in Oklahoma, small town eateries are almost always a sure-fire bet for some good old-fashioned cooking—hopefully from an elderly woman, natch—that you usually can’t find in the...
Once the sacred cathedrals of greasy hash and greasier eggs, truck stops were grimy joints where surly waitresses took your order of shit on a shingle while gruff cooks kept the flattop fryer running...
In 2017, I reviewed a full 52 or so restaurants. This year, however, with the four or five month forced-sabbatical, I don’t think that this year I exactly made that number. Still, my dire...
Last week, I drove a car for the first time in about a year, to Texas and back, no less. While this is probably not a big deal for you, to me, this was a huge achievement. To be behind the wheel of a...
Last week was my friend Jerry’s birthday, and even though I told him a “special dinner” was his gift, little did he know that, through the minor miracle of me being a mostly low-rent food...
I had just gotten out of a movie at Harkins—Creed 2, if you must know—when I stepped through the theater’s exit into the surprisingly cool outside air, thinking that even though the temperature...
The red lights were burning a harsh glow on the futurist artwork of a woman with a couple of egg-yolks in her hair, those 2-D eyes beckoning me to come and sit in her patio for a few minutes. Once...
Oklahoma winters are, to me at least, always so post-apocalyptic. It doesn’t help matters that, around this time, the local news channels begin their yearly holiday of frightening the populace with...
With the passing of George H.W. Bush this weekend, we thought we’d take the time to explore the great history of Famous Bushes for this week’s bonus questions theme. From George Bush to...
Let’s be brutally honest here: many people in Oklahoma City—myself, sadly included—look at Del City as some kind of dirty joke, seemingly worthy of nothing but caustic derision and subpar...
