Brewery Guide
Today, there are 20 breweries with taprooms in the Oklahoma City Area; 4 more are under construction, and many more in the planning stages. This is your comprehensive guide of the breweries and taprooms in the metro area.
Year in Review: Lindsay Harkness
OKG: Tell Us a little bit about yourself and your year in review? Lindsay Harkness: My name is Lindsay Harkness and I am the owner of DNA Galleries in the magical Plaza District. At this very moment, I am not sure that I have digested everything that has happened this year. My mom passed away…
Year in Review: Amy Potter
OKG: Tell Us a little bit about yourself and your year in review? Amy Potter: I am from Roanoke Virginia and moved away from home at the age of 15 to pursue ballet. I continued my education online and trained at a conservatory called Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts in Torrington Connecticut. From there, I…
Year in Review: Jabee Williams
OKG: Tell Us a little bit about yourself and your year in review? (Have you gotten covid or anyone near you been affected?) Jabee Williams: No, I haven’t had covid. Despite Covid and so many deaths, 2020 was good for me. Blessed. OKG: You had your new album come out in the middle of the…
Year in Review: Carlos Barboza
OKG: Tell Us a little bit about yourself? Carlos Barboza: My name is Carlos Barboza. I’m a muralist, a painter, and a 2020 survivor. OKG: You have been busy painting large murals across the city. What has been your favorite project this year? Carlos Barboza: The Stonecloud Brewing mural. It is easily my favorite project…
Year in Review: Shaun Murray
OKG: Tell us a little bit about yourself and your year compared to normal years? Shaun Murray: I grew up in NE OKC and have lived in OKC for most all of my life. I own a consulting business and I’m married to Kris Balaban who owns A Date with Iris floral studio at 4201…
Year in Review: James Cooper
OKG: Tell us a little bit about yourself and your year compared to normal years? James Cooper: I serve as OKC’s Ward 2 Councilperson. I also teach as an adjunct professor in Philosophy and Film Studies at Oklahoma City University and as an adjunct professor in English at University of Central Oklahoma. Before I took…
Year in Review: Halley Reeves
Halley Reeves is a community health strategist and a 2019 OKG’s Forty Under 40 recipient. Reeves earned a master’s degree in public health from University of Washington and a master’s degree in city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of American Public Health Association and American Planning Association. OKG: Tell Us…
Year in Review: Jerry Bennett
OKG: Tell Us a little bit about yourself and your year in review? (Have you gotten covid or anyone near you been affected?) Jerry Bennett: I’m a full-time freelance illustrator, and have been working from home along with my wife, a home baker (@countrygilrkitchen), which made the pandemic much more manageable not having to leave…
Year in Review: Jessie Morrow
OKG: Being a first-time mother and having 2 beautiful kids that were premature, how difficult has this year been? Jessie Morrow: This year has been challenging in so many different ways. Without a doubt, the most tears I’ve ever shed. OKG: The stress of your children being born prematurely during a normal year would be…
Top 10: Mickey Reece
Top 10 Songs of 2020 Mouth Dreams, Neil Cicierega Blessings of the Highest Order, Thou Legends Never Die, Juice Wrld A Hero’s Death, Fontaines DC Inlet, Hum Changes, Justin Bieber We are Chaos, Marilyn Manson Evermore, Taylor Swift Shame, Uniform Phoenix: Flames are Dew Upon My Skin, Eartheater Top Movies of 2020 TBH I do…
Year in Review: Mickey Reece
OKG: Tell Us a little bit about yourself and your year in review? (Have you gotten covid or has anyone near you been affected?) Mickey Reece: Mickey Reece – filmmaker This year I was able to shoot a new movie called Agnes right before the pandemic hit so I spent a lot of the year…
Year in Review: Lesley Duffie, DO
Dr. Lesley Duffie graciously talks about the struggles of her last year and her duties as a health care worker. OKG: Tell Us a little bit about yourself and your year compared to normal years? Dr. Lesley Duffie: I was born and raised in a small town in South Carolina. I moved to Oklahoma City…
Year in Review: Nicole Poole
Nicole Poole is a creative changemaker specializing in multidisciplinary collaborative performance and live composition. She has stayed busy during the pandemic using her artistic talents to create moments of joy for the community by creating whimsical chalk drawings. You can see her most recent creations during Arts Council OKC’s New Year’s Eve virtual celebration, Opening…
Chicken-Fried News: Lankford almost does the right thing
For just one brief moment, U.S. Senator James Lankford remembered that he was an American and not just a Republican. While Trump, Giuliani and the gang were busy wasting the country’s time pretending they didn’t get their asses handed to them at the ballot box earlier in the month, Lankford told a Tulsa public radio…
Free Will Astrology: week of December 10
ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to Taoist scholar Chad Hansen, “Western philosophers have endlessly analyzed and dissected a cluster of terms thought to be central to our thinking,” such as truth, beauty, reason, knowledge, belief, mind, and goodness. But he reports that they’ve never turned their attention to a central concept of Chinese philosophy: the…
Cookies enters the local market
The arrival of one of America’s most popular cannabis companies had been hinted at for months before Cookies first Oklahoma City location made its grand opening announcement — two days in advance. The short turnaround didn’t prevent a blowout opening day, with lines wrapped around the building. Its parking lot was full before doors opened,…
Chicken-Fried News: Jesus take the wheel
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections rapidly approached 5 percent of the state’s population, its leaders are hard at work avoiding dealing with it. Gov. Kevin Stitt has completely taken his hands off the wheel, preferring Jesus to take it instead. Diana K. Davies, a minister at Oklahoma City’s First Unitarian Church shared on…
New York Times crossword December 6
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Virtually Local Vitality
As we all dance our way through the jig that is the coronavirus pandemic, several local retailers are crafting a waltz out of the ever-changing guidelines. From adjusting cleaning practices to limiting in-store customers, several shop owners have gracefully, and often tearfully, been making day-to-day tweaks to standard operating procedures. This holiday season, it’s more…
Comprehensive brewery and taproom guide
When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved State Question 792 in November 2016 – a ballot initiative commonly characterized as an opportunity to modernize the state’s oppressive liquor laws – it set in motion a chain of events that, among other things, has resulted in two dozen breweries and taprooms in Central Oklahoma, almost all having been…
