Over 80 years ago, cyclopean aviator Wiley Post brought fame and glory to Dust Bowl ravaged Oklahoma by being the first person to fly solo around the world. After all of that toil on the ground and...
Living in the deserted wastelands of rural Oklahoma, most of the time, if you want a warm slice of moderately fresh pizza, you’re more than likely not gonna find a Domino’s or Pizza Hut, let...
Formerly a deserted Japanese (?) Steak (??) House (???) along a more upscale area of Strip-Club Row, the massive missive that is Seafood Island, 4700 W. Reno Ave., is an extravagant piece of Las...
Since leaving the hospital after my big to-do, the way some people lose their sex drive, well, I’ve lost my food drive. Being on a liquid diet for so long, you pretty much learn to stop eating...
Even though I’ve forgotten much of my more recent life leading up to and during my stroke, there’s one thing I clearly do remember and will never forget: that I had a pretty darn good hamburguesa...
Gerardo Santillan has got to be the hardest working restaurateur in Oklahoma City. Santillan owns and operates La Queretana Bakery in the morning, delivering fresh-out-the-oven pan dulce, among other...
Opa, mis amigos! With America currently in the grips of a spanakopita night fever thanks to Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again currently (probably?) burning up the box-office, the big fat love affair with...
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, “I ain’t gonna work at Maguire’s Farm Store no more…but I’ll definitely purchase their fine sandwiches!” Truth be told, I never have worked there and never want...
I think I can see why hospital food gets the reputation that it does. While I’m sure the cooks down in the kitchen are doing their absolute best to prepare meals that are healthy and nourishing to...
If there are two things we millennials love, it’s ridiculously unsustainable fads and Instagram-worthy food. For that reason, it seems like everyone and their broke roommate are dabbling in the...
Here’s some breaking news for you. TLO readers apparently have a heart! Last week, we informed you that Louis Fowler – our restaurant reviewer and general critic-at-large – suffered a...
To quote Tom Keifer, “You don’t know what you got ‘till it’s gone…” It takes a few years of living outside Oklahoma (or, of course, Texas) to fully appreciate the gratuitous nuances the...
Norman seems pretty laid-back, I guess. The few times I’ve been, I’ve definitely admired the “sun’s out, guns out” vibe the city does a decent job of playing up, a developmentally arrested...
What’s up, TLO readers? It’s me. Marisa. I’m coming out of retirement while Patrick is at home learning to tell terrible puns while fiddling with the lawnmower on the back porch...
Tacoville seems a little too cool to be in Oklahoma City, doesn’t it? Ran out of a crumbling strip-mall in a bleak part of town where S.W. 29th crosses with Newcastle Road, this mostly modest...
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...
Yes, I know I’m the pendejo that’s late to the Abel’s game. Buried deep within the sprawling buffets, apartment complexes and recycled Wal-Marts that make up the flat beige enigma that is Warr...
As the weather is getting warmer (and colder) and warmer again, Oklahomans from across the metro are preparing for the upcoming season of cookouts, family reunions, and, in my case, 2nd degree...
True to their name, the reason why Fat Guy’s Burger Bar, 140 N. Greenwood in Tulsa, is so popular is they honestly don’t give a big fat… well… you know. We are continually inundated...
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...