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The Soundtrak of Our Lives: Linda Soundtrak’s Enduring Okie Appeal

June 6, 2019
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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...

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Costco Wholesale: OKC’s Newest Megalopolis for the Big-Buy Consumer

May 30, 2019
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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...

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Musician & Filmmaker Luke Dick Discusses His New Film – Red Dog

May 23, 2019
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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...

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Rattlesnake Shake: A Visit to the OKC Rattlesnake and Venom Museum

May 20, 2019
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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...

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AMC Memorial Square 8 Theatres: The Best Job I Ever Deserved to Lose

May 16, 2019
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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...

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TLO Grocery Store Review: Public Wholesale Supermercado

May 9, 2019
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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...

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Return to the 36th Stall: The Legendary Replica Weapons Dealers of OKC’s Flea Markets

April 1, 2019
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Once upon a time in Oklahoma City—and, quite possibly, the rest of this infernal country—it wasn’t such a strange sight to see teenagers of all sorts carting around cheap replicas of dangerous...

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Mazzio’s Has a New Cauliflower Crust…

March 28, 2019
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Although they’re a shell of what they once were, Mazzio’s seems to be just about everyone’s favorite homegrown pizza buffet—I’m guessing it’s the ranch dressing—but I’ve never...

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Get Your Rocks Off: Noble’s Timberlake Rose Rock Museum

March 25, 2019
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No offense to the good people who live there, but after a couple of hours, there really ain’t that much to do in Noble. Once you eat at most of the restaurants and visit the Super Wal-Mart for the...

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TLO Travel Center Review: Love’s on 89th Street

March 21, 2019
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Recently, the Oklahoma City Thunder selected legendary Love’s Country Stores to be their first-ever uniform-destroying sponsor. Patrick and Hayley mocked it here. Having never been to one of these...

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A Sort of Homecoming: Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Oklahoma City

March 18, 2019
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With discount DNA tests all the rage online these days, I recently took a 23 and Me and, jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, found out that my grandmother was an Irish princess! I’m kidding, for the most part...

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Days of Food Courts Past: Remembering the Penn Square Mall Food Court

March 14, 2019
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I was recently at Quail Springs Mall attending a movie screening when, entering through the food court, I noticed a new restaurant—well I guess you could call it a restaurant—called Dragon’s...

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Oklahoma desperately needs an H-E-B…

March 13, 2019
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As good as some of our grocery stores are here in Oklahoma City—and, for the most part, they are pretty good, I guess—I recently had the stark realization that none of them will ever be as...

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Botánica San Cipriano and the Curse of an Angry Former Lover

March 7, 2019
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Sometime ago, I found out that a person I had dated for a short period was not only claiming to now be a bruja, but that there was also the possibility of a maldición put on my head soon after we...

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Sympathy for the Devout Reader: The 2019 Friends of the Library Booksale

February 28, 2019
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Having seen pictures online throughout the day of the various treasures that were being scored at the annual Friends of the Library Booksale, I decided to brave the fearsome Okie winds and head out...

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Guestroom Records: A Love Story, Sadly

February 14, 2019
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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...

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Live. Laugh. Loathe. – The 2019 Affair of the Heart

February 11, 2019
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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...

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Things Oklahoma Doesn’t Need: In-N-Out Burger

February 4, 2019
52 Comments

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...

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The Quiet Resiliency of Bricktown’s Hot Dog OKC

December 13, 2018
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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...

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A Cold Day in Hell: Brigadoon Army Surplus vs. The Oklahoma Winter

December 6, 2018
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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...

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TLO Food Review: Pioneer Woman’s “Heat and Eat” Microwavable Meals

November 29, 2018
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Imagine if, for one night only, Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman, were to come over to your unsightly urban hovel and cook an amazing dinner of country favorites, all deeply-fried and cheese-riddled...

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War of Gas Station Pizza: Capital City vs. Godfather’s

November 1, 2018
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A few weeks ago, I profiled two rural pizza chains—Hunt Brothers and Simple Simon’s—learning more about both franchises than really I needed to. But, still, many people commented and sent...

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6 Things We’ll Probably See on the New Sonic/Arby’s Menu

September 26, 2018
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Yesterday, news came out that Sonic – the Oklahoma-based corporation known for its roller skate scootin’ carhops and supplying enough Route 44s to make every Oklahoman’s blood type...

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The Pioneer Woman releases a new Instant Pot! Must! Buy! Now!

September 24, 2018
19 Comments

As a lifelong fan of the seminal Crock-Pot, I’ve only became recently aware of the existence of the Instant Pot, a cooking utensil that is, well, practically instantaneous in cooking its meals...

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How To Fix Oklahoma’s 5 Big Fast-Food Restaurants

May 3, 2018
43 Comments

Perhaps more than most other flyover states, Oklahoma is home to quite a few successful homegrown fast-food chains that, while many of us proudly frequent on a daily basis, we tend to do so while...

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