With all the recent news of the renovations that Belle Isle Public Library with be undoubtedly put through over the next year or so, I returned there for the first time in about two decades. It...
He sat in the comfiest chair, his spectacles resting with supernatural force on the tip of his nose. Looking at his worn notebook that he always had with him; he skimmed the page, ably listening to...
Half a lifetime ago, a movie theater with eight or ten screens under one roof was an absolute overabundance of choice. Now however, everyone’s got 24 to 30 flicks to choose from, happily spending...
As I stood in the middle of the empty street, the sky became increasingly grey and the wind had much more of a chill than expected. It had been about twenty years since I was last at Carey Place—or...
If you were an Oklahoman and a music fan in the early 90s, there really wasn’t a better time to be semi-alive: alternative fans had the Nixons and the Flaming Lips, country fans had Garth Brooks...
Coming of age in Oklahoma City wasn’t always the all-out adventure I know I tend to make it seem. Actually, more days than not, I was trying to find something constructive to do with my dwindling...
Since I have so much relative free time on my hands, in-between the solemn recuperating, the constant blood tests and the extensive physical therapy, I’ve been doing a little bit of genealogy here...
Pour out a little booze from your cowboy boot. We’ve learned via KFOR that Graham’s Country Night Club – a long time staple of the metro bar scene that, if you weren’t careful...
Moving from a small redneck town in Texas to the relatively bigger and far more diverse town of Oklahoma City, it was not so much a rude awakening as it was one of those confused rousings where you...
For the first time since moving back to Oklahoma City five years ago, I recently visited my old 90s-era stomping grounds of Penn Square Mall and was both shocked and saddened to see how much it has...
The flu epidemic in Oklahoma has reached an all-time high, with over 150 people dead from the dreaded sickness and an astonishing 3,400 plus hospitalized as of September 2017. It’s a pair of...
One of the great ironies of Trump’s presidency is that most of his policies do not help the lower-income, poorly educated, probably racist supporters who helped elect him president and...
So it turns out I am not the most cat-obsessed person in the state after all. My therapist is going to be thrilled to hear that! Yesterday a Midwest City woman was discovered housing over 50...
The state of Oklahoma is getting so repeatedly schtupped by our brazen lawmakers that they might as well turn on a video camera, record it and sell it down at DW’s in Texas for drifters, lonely...
Happy Valentine’s week, everyone! Hopefully you already have your date lined out for the 14th. If not, C&R Liquor in Edmond has 10% off of wine this Wednesday. Everyone knows that dating can be...
This Tuesday, Oklahoma City residents will flock to the polls to elect our city’s new mayor, deciding which exciting course Oklahoma City will take into the next… Oh, who am I kidding...
As Cupid rosens up his arrows, ready to take aim at the lovelorn and lonely this February, many of us will be hit dead-on and find a new romance to lift us off our feet and make us believe once again...
In this week’s edition of “Racism in Oklahoma,” we take a look at the Henryetta-based “Oklahoma Wild Bunch Youth Rodeo Association.” Earlier this week, the...
Good news, everyone! My grandfather is finally proud of me! Last week I completed a women’s only concealed carry course at a metro gun range, which means I paid $70 to eat stale French fries, watch...
News 9 recently stumbled across a treasure trove of end of month sweeps material. Unfortunately, it came at the expense of Kelly Ogle’s hip! Over the weekend, Kelly Ogle announced that he...
Coming of age in Oklahoma City Public Schools, I never really understood the national debate about religion and education. Maybe things were looser back then, but in both middle and high school...
Good news, people with anxiety, glaucoma, and whatever other medical condition you can think of between now and June. Medical marijuana will soon be on the ballot in Oklahoma! Man, it is the fourth...
For a group of squares who don’t smoke weed, The Oklahoma Editorial Board – and its contributors – sure are paranoid about medical marijuana. Although 2018 is barely three weeks old, the...
Before I get to Saturday’s Women’s March, I thought it would be helpful and prudent to discuss the fat lady in the room. Last week, Ben Fielder with The Daily Oklahoman published comments I made...
The Oklahoma music scene has much more to offer than our blessed mother Reba McEntire and The Flaming Lips. Take this quiz to find out which local artist matches your personality! Who knows? You may...
