Long before Toby Keith or Blake Shelton ever darkened this state’s dining doorways with overpriced fried bologna sandwiches and Slim Jim-heavy margaritas, throughout most of the sixties and...
In the crimson and cream city of Norman—a college town through and through—they absolutely love their pizza pies, with two longtime faves often causing a ruckus as epic as Bedlam itself whenever...
I carry the past couple of years around like an unwieldy albatross that hangs morbidly from my neck. When I describe the frayed emotions I have with life and death and life again to most people, they...
When I was in the hospital recovering from my hemorrhagic stroke, I was informed by a doctor that I’m not allowed to drive an automobile again, mostly for fear of a sudden reoccurrence while I’m...
Whenever I stop by a restaurant with a popular musician’s name slapped above the title, there are a few famous touches that I’ve come to expect, like neon-embellished guitars and pun-strewn...
While my corazon continually aches with the unbearable pain of a strained love that just wasn’t meant to be, after a few days of forced fasting under a couple of thin blankets, I decided it was...
I grew up listening to country tunes about the Nashville scene and what a lonely place it was to be a musician there; maybe that was true in the 70s, but, as I walked by a line of drunk dudes waiting...
When it originally opened in 1982, the Yukon 5 Cinema was the biggest thing to happen to the rural outskirt, at least until they unveiled Garth Brooks Boulevard years later; that’s the street...
I was sitting in my office chair late Saturday night, a grin on my face having just finished this week’s restaurant review somewhat early. As I was getting ready to file it, however, I got a...
In the beginning, there was…Ken Ham. Known to many believers as a fierce Aussie fundamentalist with a strong creationist streak, Ham is also the founder of Answers in Genesis, the organization that...
If you’re ever down in Kentucky—and really, why would you be?—you’ll hear prideful stories about a mythical dish that is as popular as their bourbon and baseball bats, the Hot Brown. Not to...
It’s a new year and if I’m being totally honest with you in this Hellish futurescape—and I usually am—I’m typically not a fan of many of the metro’s varied fusion restaurants. In my...
2019 was mostly a decent year for me. I didn’t have a stroke again, so that’s something, right? Last year, I continued to explore much of Oklahoma and its cantankerous festivals, find some...
Though it has become an oft-told tale—usually relayed by cruel stepmothers trying to impart life-lessons to their very chubby children—the week I had my now-legendary stroke, my dog of so many...
Most mornings, I catch the tail end of Freedom 43’s disturbingly ramshackle view into all things Oklahoman, Rise and Shine. And, during the commercial break, I’m reminded that this morning...
The jig is up and the news is out! Progressive rockers Styx have been in the music business since 1975, taking America on a stylistically cacophonous grand illusion, playing the largest New York...
The worst thing about losing weight is the almost constant need for new clothes. Having lost somewhere around 200 pounds over the past year and a half, many of my old clothes resemble that of a...
Growing up in servile poverty, my parents raised me with an absolute dislike and, even more so, distrust of any eatery that they considered to be out of their hardship-strewn social strata. Those...
Norman’s Sooner Theatre, 101 E. Main Street, continues to be my favorite live theatre spot in Oklahoma, churning out the best movie-to-stage adaptations that Broadway has to offer. And even though...
Comedian Cristela Alonzo is not only one of my comedic heroes, but one of my personal heroes as well, a hilarious human that I can truly identify with: we’re both Latinos from Texas that grew up in...
In the long gone remnants of what I believe was once a moderately successful pizza franchise, Fung’s Kitchen, 3321 N. Classen, reigns supreme among the numerous Asian restaurants that run along the...
For many years, I have had a recurring sugarplum-infested holiday dream that I’ve held very close to my enlarged heart: to hear Mannheim Steamroller’s yuletide declaration of holiday thunder...
I usually try to avoid Campus Corner most days, its effervescent youthfulness strangling me silently as I stare into the dank depths of my own offensive middle age. Still, it’s the only place in...
The American tradition of the dysfunctional family fighting and crying during the holiday season has become a quintessential comedic stereotype in TV and movies, one that plays out, usually, with a...
Many eateries in Oklahoma City pretentiously claim they have the “best” burgers in town but, if you ask me, that really seems like an inordinate amount of pressure to put on yourself...
