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...
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...
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...
Over the past year or so, I’ve been to many small towns all across Oklahoma, sampling the diverse cultural pleasures (and cultish plagues) that each rural municipality of this state has chosen to...
As the Hellish holiday of Halloween quickly approaches, this past weekend I needed a Heavenly break from the goblins and ghouls by taking in a Friday night showing of the Broadway musical Sister Act...
Oklahoma City, in case you didn’t know, has got a whole Hell of a lot of ghosts. Jeff Provine, a Professor of English at Oklahoma City Community College, moonlights as Oklahoma’s premier spectral...
It seems like most of Guthrie is a ghost-town by the early evening. As an old steel sign swayed unsettlingly in the wind as the shadows grew longer on the walls with each passing light, a lone couple...
On the way back from a middle school band trip a very long time ago, we unexpectedly stopped at Penn Square Mall for lunch. While most kids were blowing their cash on food court eats, I instead...
We entered Watonga around 10 a.m. on a Friday morning. It was a strange time to stage the 42nd Annual Cheese Festival, but, in Oklahoma, anything goes at these small-town celebrations, including a...
If you had to rank the top 500 television shows of the 21st-century, there’s a good chance Parks and Recreation would make the top 20. It has everything you look for in a hit show – zany...
You would think that, in a state that houses the spirits and souls of the thousands of Indigenous people that were murdered by the U.S. Government on the Trail of Tears, Oklahoma would have far more...
Prost Maulwürfe! This weekend, our friends at Fassler Hall are back with their huge Oktoberfest-themed party in Midtown. It’s creatively called Midtown Oktoberfest. The FREE – yes, FREE...
Last week, small-r mayor David Holt put his moderately-priced smartphone camera down for a few minutes to sign a proclamation that designates September 15th through October 15th as Hispanic Heritage...
In the not-too-distant past, whenever I had written about the usually beloved Great State Fair of Oklahoma, it had always been about, primarily, the infamous fair food and how much of it could I...
America is in an absolute state of turmoil. Undocumented immigrants are being indefinitely detained, it’s punishable with jail time to protest pipelines, and heavy-duty guns are killing our...
Oklahoma has many filmmakers; let me rephrase that: Oklahoma has many people that talk about making a film, but never do. Al Mertens, however…he was never one of those guys. I originally met him a...
What’s shakin,’ eggs and bacon? This week, much like my love life, has been painful and is finally coming to a screeching halt. How’s that for upbeat? Oh! Something worth waking up...
We are right on the heels of what is easily my favorite thing since cannabis — the Blue Whale Comedy Festival — where I am lucky enough to be performing this weekend in Tulsa! Not everyone is...
Hello, and welcome back to the slowest trafficked article this side of the Mississippi. Together we will journey through the happenings our economically disadvantaged asses can afford to get into...
If you’re an Oklahoman, chances are at least once in your life you’ve made the short jaunt to the town of Rush Springs for their world-famous Watermelon Festival; it’s an Okie rite-of-passage...
Your most trusted-trusted source for all-things Oklahoma City is back with its weekly feature, TLO Weekend Radar, highlighting a few of the most promising happenings in the metro. We are...
Welcome back to another edition of the monthly Metro Music Showcase, where we highlight some of the best live music and concerts in and around Oklahoma City to check out over the next month! The...
It seems, as of late, Oklahoma has had a pretty bad run of pop-culture conventions; either they’re too cheap, too last-minute or too unsure of exactly what it is that they’re supposed to be...
Did anyone else lose power for like four hours on Wednesday? Because that shit was awful. After a long day at work and a long night at class, I come home to a house devoid of air conditioning and...
