Forged In Fire
Years in the making, the three core businesses at the development project at NW 2nd and Klein Avenue — Beer City Music Hall, Fair-Weather Friend and Flycatcher Club — will all open for business this spring.
Cover Stories
Welcome to Beer City
While the original Beer City was a lawless and short-lived pre-statehood Panhandle town from which Beer City Music Hall took its name, the collective force behind the venue intends to bring the spirit of the town back to life in the form of a new 500-person music venue and survive much longer than the two…
Grease trap
It’s going to be hard to keep a low profile when the centerpiece of your dive bar has been dubbed “the best double cheeseburger in America” by a celebrity chef. But that’s the plan for Flycatcher Club, a “high dive” that will open late April. The concept was designed by co-owners Riley Marshall and Dustin…
Wild tales
Oklahoma City Repertory Theater (OKCRep) continues its spring reboot season with Piano Tales. Following the success of their first new work of the season, An Evening with an Immigrant, Artistic Director Kelly Kerwin and company present another original work for Oklahoma City audiences. Piano Tales is a devised piece of theatre, meaning there is no…
Drinking buddy
Adrienne Jaskula isn’t your Fair-Weather Friend, but her brewery is. Adrienne and her husband, Reed, moved to Oklahoma from Ohio several years ago. She managed the new Stonecloud taproom while he brewed beer at Prairie OKC. A craft beer fan since high school, Jaskula took a wine-tasting class in college where she met an intern…
Serendipitous Songs
When S. Reidy released “Abstract Gravity” as a single in the pre-COVID days of 2020, the longhaired, beanie-wearing Norman rapper didn’t know it would become the opening track to his new album. It was intended for a project called Open: Honesty, which he scrapped during the pandemic. The next year, following his well-regarded I Started…
Soundcheck: Beau Jennings and The Tigers – Heavy Light
There is so much life in Heavy Light. Musically, Beau Jennings’ band brings layers of bustling energy and bright tones, but it isn’t just that. Life at its fullest is colored with hardship and hope, trial and triumph. Jennings’ songwriting is at the crossroads of these opposing forces. While he sometimes uses these juxtapositions to…
I don’t think we’re in Oklahoma anymore, Toto…
The social landscape has shifted so quickly in the state that it’s almost unrecognizable and even some of the decision-making at the capitol is reflecting that. Enter House Bill 3414, which provides for research into the medicinal and therapeutic value of psilocybin mushrooms, also known as “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms.” “Universities, institutions of higher education…
Five years later…
In March 2017, my business partner Stephen Tyler and I had a dream to make Tower Theatre a world-class concert venue in the heart of our beloved Uptown 23rd entertainment district. We also had no money, an unfinished building, and an empty calendar. We were under intense pressure to open as soon as possible and…
Strain Review: Mint Sherbert
Strain name: Mint Sherbert Grown by: Dreamline Cannabis Acquired from: Packwoods (Packs) Date acquired: March 10 Physical traits: multiple shades of green Bouquet: pungently earthy Review: Packwoods brings that West Coast hip-hop ethos to their shop and the flower selection mirrors that branding. Words like “loud” and “gas” come to mind, as most of the…
Citizen Spotlight: Mark and Shelly Braisher
Paying it forward can be beautiful in a multitude of ways. The Moore Faith Medical Clinic was formed in 2015 by a group of volunteers after tornadoes devastated the area in 2013. The small clinic is open part-time, offering free primary care, urgent care, diagnostic testing, disease management, and other medical care. Now in its…
What goes up, must come down, right? Right?!
The second Russian dictator Vladimir Putin fired the first volleys into the Ukraine, gas prices shot up because there’s nothing that energy speculators like more than taking advantage of people who are beholden to their products (which is everyone). Unsurprisingly, the first to complain were the monster truck drivers whose pickup beds have nary a…
Strain Review: Fruit Flambe
Strain name: Fruit Flambe Grown by: Classen Farms Acquired from: Classen Collective Date acquired: March 10 Physical traits: light green and frosted with trichomes Bouquet: sweet and sour Review: This one was love at first whiff. It has everything that sets off bells and lights in the olfactory bulb, with strong citrus backed by sweet…
Green snapper
It’s officially spring in Oklahoma and can go from freezing cold to blazing hot overnight, so a nutritious but light meal can help your body adjust to the temperature shifts. Each month, the chefs at Guyutes — Jarrod Friedel and Matt Pryor — team up with Oklahoma Gazette for an infused recipe off the beaten…
Gazedibles: Avocado Toast
It may be 2022, but the avocado toast craze has yet to subside. We’ve seen a variety of food fads over the last several years but this one looks like it’s here to stay. Here are seven places around OKC and Tulsa where you can find a delicious slice of avocado toast and much more.…
YOLO with Yola
Stories abound of how musicians navigated the full-stop nature of the pandemic. For English singer-songwriter Yola, the extended COVID-19 pause gave her a chance to do a deep dive into herself with Stand For Myself, the follow-up album to her critically-acclaimed 2019 debut Walk Through Fire. While her introduction to the public came as a…
