Many times, when my Caucasian amigos go for a night out at the movies with me, I tend to slightly embarrass them by going full Latino and pulling out a spare crying baby about 15 minutes into the...
Whenever most people wistfully think back about their grandmothers and in particular, her cooking, as the angelic harps of memory play and the silvery clouds of memory part, they are usually left...
So… the Great Oklahoma Teachers Walkout of 2018 is over? I guess if you believe the Oklahoma Education Association it is. With OEA President Alicia Priest claiming a “victory,” teachers have...
Living in a state that wears its pulse-pounding corpulence like a triple-XL badge of honor, many times it seems as though starving Okies will often end up choosing quantity over quality and, in these...
Whenever I have to buy someone I barely know a present, yes, I am that jerk that usually ponies up a few dollars for a wholly unisex and mutually inoffensive tin of flavored popcorn, oftentimes...
A couple of weeks ago in this very spot, we lamented that with all Oklahoma teachers have had to deal with over the past few years—bureaucratically, financially and psychologically—seemingly the...
Cruising down historic Route 66, it’s somewhat heartwrenching to see the last architectural remnants of Oklahoma’s rollicking past slowly fade away into a distant memory, with every new year...
“Now ya’ll muthaf@#$as need to quit that f@#$in’ cussin’ or take it outside ‘cause I’m the only muthaf@#$a allowed to cuss in here…” the older man behind the counter warned a couple...
Starting tonight, Oklahoma-based pizza chain Mazzio’s will begin offering all underpaid, overworked and underfed Oklahoma educators (with a current school ID, of course) a complimentary Tuesday...
With a name that sounds like a 1973 Frank Zappa jam-session bootleg, Bob’s Fish & Seafood is just as inaccessible to the mainstream public, many of whom probably cruise by the bedraggled...
Once upon a time in the Southside of Oklahoma City, many years ago, hiding in plain sight amongst divvy, working-class businesses along SW 44th was a much-loved little drive-in named Los Tacos that...
It’s time to visit the nursing home and deliver Grandma the bad news. Yesterday afternoon, Luby’s Cafeteria on N. May – the last remaining cafeteria from Oklahoma City’s...
Not too long ago, a couple of friends from way up north came through Oklahoma for the night and asked me to take them someplace that truly represented the Oklahoma City “experience.” Being almost...
While I’m well aware that the varied many reading this here obscure local social blog are a patently irreligious and blasphemous lot, I think it’s easy to assume that, conversely, there are quite...
When it comes to romantic dining, the amorous flame of my most perfect dreams would be habitually starry-eyed and hungrily subdued with a couple of barbacoa tortas from a taco truck and a medio litro...
After closing rather abruptly amidst numerous non-food-related controversies, the former “Vegas-style” buffet Fuze has reopened under the more apropos moniker of Feast to an apparently starving...
As many of my acquaintances and colleagues dropped like flies over the past few weeks thanks to the various demonic sicknesses swarming around the city, my steel-willed immune kept system stoically...
Over the past few years, I can’t help but recognize a heartbreaking trend running throughout many of Oklahoma’s various rural communities and that’s the death of the small town restaurant. So...
While many of us were lamenting the lack of quality supermarkets and grocery stores left behind in the wake of recent closings such as the infamous Buy for Less on N.W. 23rd and Penn, it was...
The secondhand delectabilities of culinary tales twice-told finally came to an edible fruition as I crossed the threshold of Coney Island and ordered not only a couple of their famous chili dogs, but...
Hello, heathens! It is time to call your grandma to share the good news! Believe it or not, you are about to start attending church again. A new place of worship is opening in the OKC metro! As long...
As the eternal birth canal of la Madre del Tiempo opens and the fresh life that is Baby New Year slides forth, covered in amniotic confetti and crying tears of “Auld lang syne!” to whomever is...
In 2017, I wrote well over 50 essays and reviews about food in Oklahoma, thoroughly detailing all of my culinary misadventures across this city and, when you got lucky, the state. Narrowing the list...
Many people like to bring a sixer of cold specialty brews to holiday dinners and festive get-togethers, passing them around and getting their liquid courage on, a dinner table must when it comes to...
Twenty years ago, few places would cause my nerves to seize and my demeanor to sour more than a trip to the hidden hippie hideaway that was the Red Cup, 3122 N. Classen. A then-favorite after-school...