Our modern world was not built to support a breastfeeding mother, according to Farah Antoine-Mayberry, a Certified Lactation Counselor and Birth Doula. She is among a movement of birth workers and advocates trying to transform community understanding of and behavior towards new and expectant mothers. “For a lot of moms, the goal when it comes […]
Charles Martin
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Food Issue: In good spirits
It wasn’t so long ago when Oklahoma bartenders had to go to great lengths to tap into the nation’s ever-expanding array of specialty bitters, mixers and bar tools while also being stifled by the state’s strict and confusing blue laws. Barkeep Supply has stepped in to allow the metro’s more ambitious mixologists to explore more […]
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Unwavering Wall Street
A strange whistle pierced the Tulsa night at 5 a.m. June 1, 1921. A white mob poured into the Greenwood District, home of one of the nation’s most affluent African American communities. By noon of the same day, the homes, businesses and churches dubbed “Black Wall Street” by Booker T. Washington were reduced to rubble […]
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OKG Shop: Simply relaxing
Relaxation doesn’t come easy in the modern world where billion-dollar companies are battling for screen time on smart phones designed to listen to every word we say (though companies deny it) and respond with targeted ads, news flashes and social media updates. Tuning in has become way easier than tuning out. Add kids into that […]
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World stage
When Michael Jackson died in 2009, Norman native Max Weitzenhoffer just so happened to be chairman of Nimax Theatres, which was presenting Thriller Live at its Apollo Theatre in central London. Ticket sales exploded, leading to an eight-year run. When The Phantom of the Opera was being adapted for Broadway by Andrew Lloyd Webber in […]
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OKG Shop: Buy-in
Justin and Jenna Brooks bought in early on the idea that downtown Bethany is set to explode into the next bustling district within the Oklahoma City metro. Their shop, You and I Apparel + Gifts, has entered its second year of business nestled into a strip with good walkability and plenty of parking flanked by […]
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Fall Guide: Active public
The Musical Swings, The Musical Swings: An Exercise in Musical Cooperation, An Exercise in Musical Cooperation, Fall Guide, Bicentennial Park, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, Lord of theFlies, Daily toss les jours, Melissa Mongiat, Montreal, OCCF, Jana Steelman, Parks & Public Space Initiative, Riverfront Redevelopment Authority, Oklahoma River, trees, wildflowers, native grass, Brian Dougherty, Boathouse District, Oklahoma State University, OSU-OKC, Agriculture Technologies, John E. Kirkpatrick Horticulture Center, Nancy Anthony
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End times
Into Captivity They Will Go is about the end of the modern world — not as a reality but as a concept, a promise. It is about the intoxicating bigness of ideas like rapture, tribulation, apocalypse and prophecies that have long seemed so immediate despite one century passing uneventfully into another and another and another. […]
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Going underground
Oklahoma City’s abandoned underground catacombs built by Chinese immigrants remain the most underappreciated wonder of local urban lore, but Mary Anna Evans is taking readers down into the depths for the latest archaeological mystery novel in her Faye Longchamp-Mantooth series that follows the exploits of an archeologist crime fighter. Catacombs begins with an explosion in […]
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Standing tall
Standing Their Ground: Warrior Artists through Oct. 31 Exhibit C 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Suite 100 exhibitcgallery.com 405-767-8900 Free Charles Guerrier took his nephew to a bar in 1962 to show off the freshly minted Marine to the local cadre of combat veterans. Harvey Pratt had always looked up to his war hero uncle, a […]