“Having food be accessible benefits all of us.” This statement, seemingly simple and inarguable, comes from Bridget Burns, co-founder of the group UNR, or Uprooted & Rising: Indian Territory, and one of the leaders of a band of local activists that set up and maintain a free, accessible pantry and refrigerator in Norman. Along with […]
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TULSA: Multi-Tracker
Tulsa’s music scene is famous for being sprawling and ever-changing, with thriving communities built around punk, metal, folk, hip-hop, and more all across the city. But if you look closely at each flavor of all those musical pies, you’ll find one guy with his fingers in them all. “There was a lot of different music […]
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The Music at Your Feet
Think of Jimi Hendrix re-conceiving the National Anthem at Woodstock with screeching feedback and blistering fuzz. Eddie Van Halen shredding a forty- minute solo soaked in saturated distortion, the sound whipping and phasing around you in an arena. You can see the guitars in their hands and the amplifiers at their backs, but what you […]
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A Hundred Years in the Making
The story behind OKC’s Film Row is well-known: In the 1920s, the biggest movie studios built facilities along a stretch of Sheridan Avenue to house development labs, screening rooms, and distribution centers for their films. As the industry eventually evolved, so too did Film Row. Transitioning from Hollywood hub to heyday holdover to hipster hotspot, […]
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Local Roots, Global Heart
Vice President Kamala Harris’s words to the staggering numbers fleeing Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras have rung a dissonant chord in the ears of the people charged with coordinating aid to the crisis. Organizations like USAID are designed for “international development,” a difficult-to-define objective that amounts primarily to addressing the root causes of the same […]
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Grapes, Grains, and the ‘Gram
Not every small corner liquor store advertises with fake British rock stars, monkey costumes, and straight-fire raps about Dustin Hoffman’s 1974 Lenny Bruce biopic “Lenny,” but that’s only because no other liquor store has infinitely-acclaimed local filmmaker Mickey Reece handling their social media. The Instagram for George’s Liquors in OKC may be, as a certain […]
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51st Street Speakeasy remains open with eyes on future
Three bar employees step in to guide 51st Street Speakeasy with a renewed focus on community.
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It is difficult to pin Pérez’ work down to a single style, but he will give it a name when he has to.
It is difficult to pin Pérez’ work down to a single style, but he will give it a name when he has to.
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This once-modest scare house helped bring a forlorn warehouse district back to life
“We had to advertise it being located three blocks east of the Myriad [now Cox Convention Center] since at the time, very few people even knew that the Bricktown district existed,” Brewer said. “We drew 18,000 people the first year.”
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Pagan Pride Day celebrated Saturday
Pagan Pride Day features entertainment and children’s activities at its annual cultural celebration.