Juneteenth has always been a family holiday for Jabee Williams, but this year it’s a holiday for all of northeast Oklahoma City. “It’s something that my parents would tell us about as a kid growing up, and we always celebrated Juneteenth. A lot of my family is from Texas,” Williams said. Juneteenth, a combination of […]
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Strain Review: Divine Gelato
Strain name: Divine Gelato Grown by: Medicine Man Acquired from: High Society Date acquired: May 27 THC/CBD percentages: 14.37 percent/0 percent (per Highgrade Labs) Physical traits: purple and light green with densely frosted trichomes Bouquet: sweet and gassy Review: After smoking this, I’ve decided that this will be the last review I write with THC […]
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Green Grow Goes Wild
Green Grow is getting out from beneath the fluorescent lights and into the sunshine this year with the inaugural Green Grow FEST. Scheduled for June 25-27 at the Route 66 Event Center in Depew, which is between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, GreenGrow FEST will be a three-day outdoor festival that promises to break the mold […]
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Buy deadCenter a drink this summer because it’s finally of legal age.
For its 21st year, a hybrid deadCenter Film Festival will begin June 10 and run through June 20 at various Oklahoma City locations with many screenings available online. “We did the virtual festival last year and that really gave us a great groundwork for what we wanted to do this year. So we knew at […]
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Alien on Stage Dir. Danielle Kummer and Lucy Harvey This oddball documentary captures an amateur British stage production of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi masterpiece “Alien” which makes it from their small community theater to Leicester Square Theatre in London. Yes, you read that correctly. To make things weirder, the director, the writer, the actress playing Ellen […]
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Block Rocking
Record Store Day is going to be a lot different this year. Guestroom Records, 3701 N. Western Ave., is teaming up with Mosaic and Cock-O-The-Walk to turn the day into a block party. From 9 a.m. to noon on June 12, the record store will be doing 15-minute appointments so that people may shop safely. […]
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Love wins
Pride Month is here and numerous events are being held around the city before the main Pride weekend festivities and parade scheduled for June 25 and 26. See our cover story in the next Oklahoma Gazette for details about that, but in the meantime, check these out. Toke ‘n Drag Benefit June 19, Relax Park, […]
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Living history
The Black Wall Street Legacy Festival begins with the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre May 28-30. This year’s event is headlined by the last known massacre survivors: 106-year-old Lessie Benningfield “Mother” Randle; 107-year-old Viola “Mother” Fletcher; and 100-year-old Hughes Van Ellis. “The series of community-led events will take place in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood […]
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Canna after hours
The fourth CannaCon South will be May 27 and 28 at the Oklahoma City Convention Center, 500 S. Robinson Ave. With hundreds of exhibitors and more than 20 speakers, the business-to-business convention is among the largest in the nation for cannabis operators. The night lights up with two official afterparties for additional networking and decompression. […]
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What can we say about the COVID-19 pandemic that hasn’t been said before?
On May 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fully vaccinated adults can resume indoor and outdoor activities without a mask or social distancing. After 15 months of closures, restrictions and mask mandates, Oklahoma City is already barreling towards what is hoped to be post-pandemic life. One of the first things to […]