Owner Sammy Khader smokes hookah at Hubbly Bubbly. BY: Mark Hancock His fond and authentic memories were dampened when he was of age to hang out in the American versions of the popular smoking bars. “Since I’ve been smoking for so long, when I hit 18, I was looking for a place to smoke hookah […]
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Seattle’s best
The Seattle-based band Pickwick has played some of the biggest venues in its hometown of Seattle — including opening day for the local professional baseball team, the Mariners — but they’ve never played a museum. It was an unexpected shock to frontman Galen Disston when the band was booked to play the Fred Jones Jr. […]
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I love this par
For the past few years, she has become a golf enthusiast, combining her passion for the sport with her need to help children with cancer by creating the Schooner Fall Classic, a women’s collegiate golf tournament with a purpose. “One of Tricia’s goals is to help support women’s golf,” said Juliet Nees-Bright, executive director of […]
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Reading Rambo
David Morell There are few American icons as beloved as John Rambo, the PTSD-affected Vietnam vet who returns to America to take on the system in a one-man war. Created by author David Morrell in his 1972 novel First Blood, the character has become a true symbol of America. But when he created Rambo, Morrell […]
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Gettin’ Dirty
Formed in the Texas border town of El Paso, The Dirty River Boys are an anomaly. Going against a rising tide of heavy metal acts, singer and guitarist Marco Gutierrez said the band didn’t find its home until it relocated to Austin. While he believes it was a “change that needed to happen,” the band […]
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Rush
Instead, it’s a rather drab biopic about 1970s-era Formula One jerks that compete against each other in a high-speed pissing contest that totally leaves the audience out of the argument. In capable hands, this might have been an exciting, daring look inside this world, with the competitive nature of the drivers giving the viewer an […]
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Read it
For over 30 years, musical satirist Weird Al Yankovic has entertained generations of goofy teenagers and dorky adults with accordion-driven song parodies such as “Eat It,” “Smells Like Nirvana” and “My Bologna.” However, with the release of his second children’s book, My New Teacher and Me!, he has started a second career pursuing a completely […]
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Mo’ funny
Keenan Wayans For many years, the only television sketch-comedy was the long-running Saturday Night Live. That changed in 1990, when former stand-up and director of the Blaxploitation spoof I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenan Ivory Wayans, created In Living Color, a groundbreaking weekly halfhour collection of skits that transformed the face of comedy. Since then, […]
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OK canal
Moonlight Ford The summer season might be winding down, but that doesn’t mean outdoor music in Oklahoma is following suit. If anything, the Live Music on the Canal festival — now in its fourth year — just might eclipse this recent summer’s musical offerings Saturday, with more than 200 Oklahoma bands and musicians in 70 […]
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Barling — Barling With a “B”
Whether it was cheap truck-stop cassette tapes of Freddy Fender or just turning up Ricky Skaggs’ “Honey Won’t You Open That Door” just a little bit louder, it was what I learned to dig, mostly because it was all I had and it was better than nothing. That said, I used to think most new […]