LIFE
As the city of Moore continues to rebuild in the wake of May’s devastating storms, area residents have an opportunity to give back to their community and have a little fun at the same time. The Moore War Run — a race benefitting the Southmoore Student Fund and the alumni associations of Moore and Westmoore…
Bead adieu
Without delving too deeply into the history and belief structures behind them, malas are basically used as an aide in meditation. As I’m an avid yogini, one aspect of my practice includes not bending, balancing or moving. In fact, a big part of yoga is staying perfectly still. For an extroverted over-committer like myself, that’s…
Best of OKC 2013 – People
Best radio personality or team JACK & RON 98.9 KISS FM In this ever-changing world, there are a few constants on which you can rely. Among them is the morning show duo of Jack Elliott and Ron Williams, Gazette readers’ favorite radio personalities for a dozen years now. Their combination of laughs, compelling interviews and…
OKG7 sunny stops
Cafe do Brasil/Bossa Nova at the Top440 N.W. 11thcafedobrazilokc.com525-9779 Even if it’s still warm out, the rooftop terrace, Bossa Nova at the Top, catches all the cool breezes before they flutter down to the rest of the city. Here, you’ll find authentic Brazilian cocktails, delicious snacks and usually a live music performance. Flip’s Wine Bar…
LIFE Food & Drink
LIFE Food & Drink The sixth annual Tour de Palate, 7 p.m. Saturday, will support the Go Mitch Go Foundation. The organization strives to find a cure for blood cancer and lymphoma. Tickets for the event are $65 apiece or $120 for a pair. At the door, the ticket price will be $80. Guests must…
Hot date
Before this season winds down, it’s important to squeeze in some summer romance. For such occasions, you might consider The Vine Italian Cafe in Nicoma Park. Located in a nondescript building, it feels as if you’ve been transported to the old country — provided Italy is that country in question. Strands of white lights twinkle…
We are the Champion
It didn’t have anything to do with an earthquake. It had to do with a mobile food truck that officially got its license. “I just kind of had a knack for cooking,” said Todd Woodruff, owner and general manager of Waffle Champion. He had been the sous chef at Cheever’s Cafe when the mobile truck…
Fo’ rich o’ fo’ po’ boy
It got them thinking. “We talked about doing a po’ boy truck for a while,” said Bryan Neel, co-owner of S&B’s. “The truck ended up being an S&B’s truck, but we kept playing with the idea.” That tinkering eventually evolved into Hillbilly Po’ boys and Oysters, 1 N.W. Ninth, one of the metro’s newest restaurants.…
Wanna get lucky?
Credit: Brad Gregg Purportedly the digits for the lottery commission, the toll-free number turned out to be a sex line. The mix-up proved to be a real boner for state lottery officials, who quickly owned up to the mistake. The office discontinued the phone number in 2010 but inadvertently had left it on the website.…
The smell of collusion?
Credit: Brad Gregg Specifically, Inhofe smells collusion between the White House, federal agencies and Organizing for Action (OFA), an advocacy group — all to promote the Obama administration’s initiative on climate change. On Aug. 14, the senator fired off a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). He groused…
CFN Quote of the Week
“I know I have a face like a model. But I’m actually just a goofy drama nerd underneath.” —Actor and Oklahoma City native James Marsden, in the Aug. 13 issue of Out magazine.
News of the weird
Roach motel — At age 20, Kyle Kandilian of Dearborn, Mich., has created a start-up business to fund his college expenses, but it involves a roomful (in the family home) of nearly 200,000 cockroaches. The environmental science major at University of Michigan-Dearborn breeds species ranging from the familiar household pests, which he sells on the…
The sporting life
Credit: Brad Gregg He retired in 1999, a few years after undergoing quintuple heart-bypass surgery. At the time of his departure, Park told The Oklahoman that surviving a heart attack had prompted a review of priorities. “After the heart attack, those things that were seemingly important to me were no longer important at all…
Injunction junction
Credit: Brad Gregg Um, at least that’s the takeaway of state Sen. Anthony Sykes, R-Moore, a key supporter of an Oklahoma constitutional amendment to ban the use of Sharia law in state courts. On Aug. 15, a federal judge issued a permanent injunction against the amendment, which voters overwhelmingly approved in a 2010 statewide vote…
Class act
Mary Kate Henson Credit: Mark Hancock “Childhood obesity in Oklahoma is on the rise in all areas, but in zip codes with lower incomes, lower accessibility to grocery stores and low walkability, poor health trends are even higher,” said Mary Kate Henson, health promotion specialist at the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, which established the “Wellness…
Dedicated follower of fashion
Credit: Brad Gregg The Thunder’s point guard is already renowned for his unique fashion sense, but he might have topped himself earlier this month when he rocked the brave choice of drop-crotch pants. At Nickelodeon’s Teen Choice Awards earlier this month, the NBA star paired his white capris with giant, gray-schemed Converse-style kicks and a…
Thunder rolls
Credit: Brad Gregg The proposed address is 208 Thunder Drive — sorta symbolic of the year (2008) the team relocated from Seattle to the 405. First, Thunder officials must jump through a few bureaucratic hoops before the Oklahoma City Council gets the final say-so. With the issue a likely slam-dunk at the council level, motorists…
Best of OKC 2013 – Food & Drink
Best coffee or tea house CUPPIES & JOE 727 N.W. 23rd More cozy living room than coffee shop, Cuppies & Joe scores with Gazette readers for combining two of the most irresistible things we know: cupcakes and coffee (as if the name of the place wasn’t clear). As delicious as the sweets are, Cuppies &…
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Rallying the troops
A crowd of about 700 turned out for the campaign kickoff of Ed Shadid. Credit: Shannon Cornman A spinal surgeon and self-described “man of the people,” 45-year-old Shadid made his way through the throng of supporters and onto the stage Aug. 15 as Pink Floyd’s “Run Like Hell” blared throughout the OKC Farmers Public Market…
Stone cold country
Stoney LaRue isn’t much of a studio junkie. The Red Dirt pioneer has only produced two studio albums since he began playing bars around Stillwater and Norman more than a decade ago, and there was a six-year gap between his debut The Red Dirt Album and 2011 hit Velvet. Yet the Oklahoma native routinely sells out many of the…
Advancing Medicaid reform
The consultants recommended accepting federal Medicaid-expansion funding but using it to underwrite private insurance purchases for poor Oklahomans. SB 640 would have given these citizens a choice of private insurance or the present SoonerCare insurance plan. The Leavitt Partners wanted to push eligible clients to use the ACA’s health-insurance exchange and Indian Health Services. SB…
CONCERTS
Cold War Kids/Papa, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. AUG. 21 Lil Wayne/T.I./2 Chainz, Chesapeake Energy Arena. AUG. 21 Red Dirt at the Zoo featuring Stoney LaRue, Wade Bowen, Aaron Watson and more, Zoo Amphitheatre. AUG. 24 Seether/10 Years/Eye Empire, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. AUG. 25 Ted Nugent/Shotgun Rebellion, Diamond Ballroom. AUG. 25 Hank Williams III, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa.…
Letters
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette. com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact…
My name is ____
Cosmostanza “We didn’t know what to call our band. We had a few ideas — although nothing was really sticking — but we both had a common love for Seinfeld. Then it hit me, and I envisioned George Costanza’s head in space. The name came from there, Cosmostanza. I called Raney (Aboud, bandmate) on the…
The write stuff
Young readers will be introduced to Oklahoma’s beauty and culture through the pages of a new ABC alphabet book. O is for Oklahoma: Written by Kids for Kids is a participatory children’s project. A portion of sales will benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County. Celebrating the Sooner State, the book features color…
Joint celebration
Many of us take our arms and legs for granted until we injure one. We ache and moan — inconvenienced and frustrated — until it heals, and then we promptly forget again how much we rely on our extremities. Amputees don’t have that luxury. Life without a limb requires effort and equipment and, not infrequently,…
Best of OKC 2013 – Places
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Best place to volunteer REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA 3355 S. Purdue Its motto is “Fighting hunger … feeding hope.” Volunteers help the largest private hunger-relief organization in the state do this by sorting and distributing enough food to feed 90,000 people every week. That’s vitally important in a state…
Happenings the week of Aug. 20, 2013
A Fresh Take: William S. and Ann Atherton Art of the American West Gallery, showcasing the Museum’s permanent art collection in 10 newly reinstalled exhibition spaces. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 N.E. 63rd, 478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. A Vivid Paradox, exhibit featuring new works by local artists JUURI and Amanda Bradway. DNA Galleries, 1709 N.W.…
FILM
The Goonies, (U.S., 1985, dir. Richard Donner) a group of kids embark on a wild adventure after finding a treasure map, 9 p.m., Aug.21. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno, 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. WED Dirty Wars, (U.S., 2013, dir. Rick Rowley) an investigative journalist explores the truth behind America’s covert wars, 7:30 p.m., Aug.22. Oklahoma City…
Young Lyons — Crash Course EP
Just as things started to get really good, “Buddy Holly” came on the radio. I paused to turn it up, killing the moment and any chance of advancing my quest any further. After dropping my date off, I went to Wal-Mart, purchased The Blue Album and that, as they say, was that. The experience filled me with…
Blue Jasmine
Opening Friday exclusively at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial, Blue Jasmine tells two stories. The first is about a rich socialite wife living more than comfortably in New York with her business-savvy husband. The second involves a distraught woman who sustains herself with alcohol, antidepressants and more alcohol. She’s always short of…
A Boy and His Dog
One would think that a film — boasting source material from a writer with an especially rabid following — that established the visual template for the now ubiquitous post-apocalyptic wasteland and stars Don Johnson would have caught on at some point over the past 38 years. Yet, not even when there was such a shortage…
Ishtar
Derided before it even premiered in the spring of 1987, the last stand (directorial, at least) of Elaine May cast Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty against type: Hoffman is Chuck, the P-magnet; Beatty, Lyle the dolt. Both are struggling songwriters stuck in the New York City supper circuit. The joke is that they’re struggling because…
Drinking Games / From the Head
Not the psychological thriller it pegs itself as being, Drinking Games takes place largely in a college dorm room the night of Snowmageddon, the big party before winter break. Richard (Blake Merriman, who wrote it) is writing a paper and dealing with a family tragedy, whereas his roommate, Shawn (Nick Vergara), wants to use their…
Magic Magic
While you’re at it, give Magic Magic credit for being something different, even if it ultimately proves a disappointment. Written and directed by one Sebastián Silva, the Chilean-set chiller sends Alicia (Juno Temple, Killer Joe) on her first trip outside the United States. She joins cousin Sarah (Emily Browning, Sucker Punch) and a few of…
Not our war
The Assad government is ruthless and has killed thousands of civilians, but the Obama administration said poison gas used by government forces would be the “red line” for action. A United Nations finding published by Reuters showed that poison gas was used by rebel forces, not government forces, so that line has yet to be…
Allergy sufferers give thanks
This requirement would have necessitated a doctor’s co-pay for each appointment, ultimately leading to a massive increase in the cost of these safe, common, vital medicines. It also would have increased the number of doctor visits and thereby strained the demands on Oklahoma’s medical system. As someone who depends on cold and allergy medicine to…
