OKG Lifestyle: Alex Bliss
Around OKC EAT soup dumplings at Yummy Noodles WATCH Pasta Grannies (YouTube) LISTEN Over My Dead Body: Joe Exotic podcast READ Into Captivity They Will Go by by Noah Milligan LOVE Paseo Farmers Market EXPERIENCE Crudoolandia Outside OKC EAT Kilkenny’s Irish Pub in Tulsa WATCH The Irishman (Netflix) LISTEN: The Dream podcast READ Normal People bySally…
Protecting employees
Oklahoma City Council voted to update the city’s personnel policies to extend nondiscrimination protections for gender identity and expression. Ward 2 councilman James Cooper introduced the amendment at Tuesday’s Oklahoma City Council meeting where it passed 7-2. “What this resolution does is it shows where The City of Oklahoma City recognizes and supports policy of…
Improving health
A potential Healthy Neighborhood Overlay for the 73111 ZIP code is among the first things Oklahoma City Council will decide in 2020. The ordinance to establish the zoning overlay has made its way through the Planning Commission and is set for public hearing Dec. 17 and final hearing Jan. 7. The new zoning would provide…
New Moon
LoneMoon 11 p.m. Dec. 20 The Forge 11609 N. Blackwelder Ave. facebook.com/officiallonemoon $5 LoneMoon estimates her 2018 single “Naw Naw” has been streamed about 3 million times — as she described it, an “uncomfortable amount of attention.” “All of a sudden last year, it went from my normal amount of views to, like, ‘Oh wow!…
Continuing Tales
Season two of Scandalous Tales might have taken longer than fans wanted, but creator Alexandria Carr said it almost didn’t happen at all. “I know that people have been waiting for two years, and so I got to the point where I felt like I was rushing it,” said Carr, who writes, directs and plays…
Cover: Growing pains
If Oklahoma City’s arrival on the national scene started in 2018 as Bon Appétit recognized Nonesuch as the best new restaurant in the country, 2019 is the year local restaurateurs jumped to strengthen the metro’s destination-dining status. Both anecdotally and according to data, the Oklahoma City metro area has seen an influx of new restaurant…
Park milestone
The rebirth of Manuel Perez Park has officially begun. Last week, city leaders hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the 27-acre park, which will span several blocks east from S. Robinson Avenue along the Oklahoma River. “The community has been behind this to get this recognition but also to work with the city to get funding,…
Scary monsters
Kinsey Charles 7 p.m. Dec. 19 The Paseo Plunge 3010 Paseo St. paseoplunge.com 405-882-7032 Free It was important to Kinsey Charles that the pictures in her new children’s book were frightening. “I was like, ‘I want the monsters to still look scary,’” Charles recalled telling illustrator Natasha Alterici. “I don’t want them to be like,…
Her story
Until We Organize: The Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment Through November Oklahoma History Center 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive okhistory.org 405-521-2491 Free-$7 In the 1970s and even into the 1980s, two dozen words conceived in the 1920s caused a national controversy. “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the…
OKG Lifestyle: Christina Kirk
Around OKC EAT pad thai at Sala Thai WATCH The Politician (Netflix) LISTEN “Harder Dreams” by John Moreland READ The Aislings by Brandy Williams LOVE Full Circle Bookstore EXPERIENCE Threshold Climbing + Fitness Outside OKC EAT Lovera’s Grocers in Krebs WATCH The Mandalorian (Disney+) LISTEN The Moth Radio Hour podcast READ Grand Union by Zadie Smith…
Gazedibles: Warm up
December is when the cold really starts to set in, and the idea of facing a few months of the cold can be tough, but luckily we’ve got food to give you company. These seven restaurants have dishes that will fill you up and warm your soul. By Jacob Threadgill with provided and Gazette /…
Chicken-Fried News: Less money, less problems?
In 1990, Oklahoma ranked 32nd nationally in overall health, according to a report by America’s Health Rankings. Today, it is nearly at the bottom, coming in at 47th. In fact, obesity has increased 17 percent in the last six years alone. So what’s a reasonable way to help improve Oklahomans’ health? Oklahoma State Department of…
Running the jail
(This story was updated Dec. 11 to include new information on the sheriff’s deadline and budget requests.) A jail administrator has been selected to run the Oklahoma County jail. Greg Williams, who has worked at Department of Corrections for nearly four decades, was selected unanimously by the jail trust in early November. However, he has…
Unwavering Wall Street
A strange whistle pierced the Tulsa night at 5 a.m. June 1, 1921. A white mob poured into the Greenwood District, home of one of the nation’s most affluent African American communities. By noon of the same day, the homes, businesses and churches dubbed “Black Wall Street” by Booker T. Washington were reduced to rubble…
Flower Review: Purple Punch
Strain name: Purple Punch Grown by: Braveheart Acquired from: Greenleaf Organics Date acquired: Nov. 27 THC/CBD percentages: no testing available Physical traits: dense, purple-and-green nugs sandy with dense trichomes Bouquet: sweet and peppery Review: Purple Punch is becoming one of those strains that almost everyone is trying their hand at growing and whose quality is apparent…
Thai expansion
Lotus Thai 1133 NW 25th St. facebook.com/lotusthairest 405-225-1287 What works: The Thai basil sauce is superb and service is speedy. What needs work: There is too much raw red onion in the garden salad. Tip: The lunch menu includes an entree, drink and spring roll for under $10, tax included. There are about 20 restaurants…
Chicken-Fried News: Chief Milkshake Duck
The day after Thanksgiving, a story began circulating that was like catnip for the Blue Lives Matter crowd. A Kiefer Police Department officer stopped in uniform at the Starbucks in Glenpool to provide a holiday pick-me-up for dispatcher workers, but instead of misspelling his name, an employee wrote “Pig” on the order. Police chief Johnny…
Scorched dreams
To say the weekend before Thanksgiving was a rough one for Steve’s Greens Cannabis + Wellness would be one hell of an understatement. Early Nov. 24, owners Stephanie and Dustin Mathis were awakened by their alarm company about a burglary at their cannabis dispensary, 6715 N. May Ave. Stephanie Mathis said one of the accused…
Chicken-Fried News: Barely legal
Remember your first job out of high school and how bad you probably sucked at it? With that in mind, let’s take a look at this Nov. 30 Oklahoma Watch story about Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ latest idea to recruit more officers for its understaffed prisons. “In a little-noticed action, the Oklahoma Board of Corrections…
