With all the hoopla about Team America World Police star Matt Damon making his rounds around Oklahoma last week, it’s easy to forget that we just passed the ten-year anniversary of another weird...
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...
Another failed Oklahoman experiment is being put out to pasture. Yesterday morning, while its few remaining print subscriptions were being delivered to grandparents and bagel shops all over the...
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...
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...
In 1938, a group of American citizens were hoping to help make America great once again through a complete refocusing of this countries deadening morals; calling themselves the Moral Re-Armament, led...
This weekend, I’m going to see Rain, a nationally touring Beatles tribute act that is making a stop at the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall. While this may not be a big deal for you, due to...
Ten short months after the fine voters of this great state legalized medical marijuana, Oklahomans get to enjoy their first official 4/20 holiday on Saturday. To help you celebrate in proper form...
The world looked a lot differently in 2010. Mary Fallin had not yet begun her reign of terror over the state of Oklahoma. Gary England was still on the TV. And The Lost Ogle still ranked hot girls...
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...
Like most Xennials – the microgeneration caught between jaded Gen-Xers and chirpy Millennials – my first exposure to Queen came in the early 1990s, when after being featured in the greatest...
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...
