Community cupboard
Those in search of their next meal now have a reliable food supply thanks to the efforts of a concerned citizen actively taking steps toward caring for her community. New to Oklahoma City, Aley Cristelli was looking for ways to connect with locals on a level that would allow her to give back. In May…
Suite perks
Oklahoma City adopted a complimentary ticket policy in 2002 that allows the mayor and members of Oklahoma City Council two free tickets per event at Chesapeake Energy Arena, Civic Center Music Hall and other venues. The ticket policy states the official must use one ticket and a guest could use the other; tickets cannot be…
Gender roles
Twelfth Night Thursday-March 2 Shakespeare on Paseo 2920 Paseo St. oklahomashakespeare.com 800-838-3006 $20-$30 Like many writers, William Shakespeare had favorite tropes he liked to revisit. “Shakespeare loves twins, and he loves dressing girls up like boys,” said Kathryn McGill, executive and artistic director of Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park (OSP). “That’s for sure.” Twelfth Night,…
Weight list
Restaurant food challenges have existed for decades. The earliest known challenge was in St. Louis at Crown Candy Kitchen, which has been in operation since 1913. In more than a century, only about 30 people have successfully finished five 24-ounce milkshakes or malts in 30 minutes. Perhaps the most famous food challenge is down Interstate…
Euphonius food
Not long ago, concert venues mostly had the same menu as high school football game concession stands: canned-cheese nachos, maybe a pickle or a soft pretzel, if you were really lucky a hamburger heated who knows how. Recently, mercifully, more local music venues are offering food you might actually want to, you know, eat. Carefully…
Green Machine
Sean O’Grady hung up his boxing gloves 35 years ago but has lived with the pain of his glory days for decades. The former lightweight champion of the world began his professional fighting career when he was 15 years old. He ended it nine years later with 86 wins, 70 of them by knockout. “There…
Chill science
Tinker ‘Bout It6-10 p.m. Tuesday Science Museum Oklahoma 2020 Remington Place sciencemuseumok.org 405-602-6664 $20 Walking through Science Museum Oklahoma (SMO) with a child with Asperger’s Syndrome is a different experience, a much more cautious experience. Thousands of people are bouncing around the exhibits like hyper-heated particles in a boiling cauldron of water, lights and sounds…
Bitter pills
After moving back to Oklahoma to care for his ailing mother, Dave became an unlikely victim of circumstance when he suffered an injury from which he would never fully recover. Despite a two decade-long track record of responsible opioid use authorized by his former physician, Dave was instructed to gradually reduce his dose if he…
Chicken-Fried News: Triggered
A Tulsa man is giving Glocks to the homeless. Don’t worry; it’s not what you think. Ray Neal — or as he’s known across social media, BiggestRayRay — isn’t actually giving away guns. By his own admission, giving firearms away to people is “likely a bad idea.” Instead, he created a grassroots movement called Glocks…
Gazedibles: Around the world
What happens when you’re hungry and you can’t exactly figure out what kind of cuisine you want? Check out these seven restaurants that have heavy influence from different cultures. By Jacob Threadgill with photos by Alexa Ace, provided and Gazette / file Kwan’s Kitchen 3031 W. Memorial Road kwans.kitchen | 405-607-8838 The fusion of flavors…
Truthful voice
Lucy Dacus9 p.m. Monday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-230-0311 $12 | 21+ Lucy Dacus creates music that’s alive. It breathes, expands and exposes itself in new ways each time you listen to it. So what might first seem like a straightforward, angry song about evading an ex like “Night Shift” will eventually…
Darkness visible
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Feb. 15-March 9 Carpenter Square Theatre 800 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $5-$25 Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tests whether audiences can ever get enough of a bad thing. The play, scheduled to run Feb. 15-March 9 at Carpenter Square Theatre, 800 W. Main St.,…
Immersive catering
In six years working at a host of venues across the metro area with Cosabella Catering, restaurant veteran Erica Hogan never found a venue where she could fully prepare meals on-site. Tired of always having to prepare meals in other people’s kitchens, Hogan has opened Cosabella Kitchen, 6516 N. Olie Ave., Suite C, which aims…
Rude calls
Imagine being alone somewhere. Perhaps you’re walking down the street, taking public transit or just getting gas. You hear a voice come from behind you or maybe from a passing car. Someone is yelling at you. Maybe the shout is a provocative statement about your appearance, or maybe it’s a question about what you’re doing.…
Youth protection
Sara Cunningham is the founder of Free Mom Hugs, an organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ rights. She went viral last year after volunteering to be a stand-in mom at same-sex weddings where couples’ parents refuse to attend. But before she became an advocate, Cunningham thought being gay was an ultimate offense to God. “Our youngest…
Opportunity knocks
Nic’s Grill has many super fans, from Guy Fieri to Colin Farrell, who can attest to its status as not just one of the best burgers in Oklahoma City, but also in the country. They pale in comparison to Cameron Benson, who has parlayed his love of Nic’s into becoming part of its next generation.…
Chicken-Fried News: Running dead
It wasn’t bad enough that Facebook influenced the 2016 election by prioritizing hoax conspiracy news over fact-checking articles; a Facebook group is trying to influence the Edmond mayoral race by advocating the election of elected mayor Charles Lamb, who died in early December. Lamb passed away at age 72 a week after declaring his re-election…
Chicken-Fried News: Sleep tight
NBA players’ ghost stories about The Skirvin Hilton Oklahoma City, 1 Park Ave., are the basis of a recently announced movie starring Boston Celtic Kyrie Irving and produced by Imagine Entertainment. The hotel, opened in 1911, has been the setting for several disturbing stories in the past century. Some stories, like the mysterious death of…
Hemp hops
Oklahoma City is about to gets its first taste of hemp-infused beer thanks to two downtown business neighbors joining minds. India Pale Ale Hemptation is a collaborative venture between Stonecloud Brewing Co. and Redbud Soil Company, 1113 NW First St. “Joel [Irby] was giving us a tour of his brewery, and literally in the middle…
Chocolate city
22nd annual Chocolate Decadence 6:30 p.m. Thursday Volvo Annex 33 Broadway Circle automobilealley.org 405-706-7484 $65-$100 Roughly nine years ago, a small crew of artists climbed rickety scaffolding, stood up on their tiptoes and hefted circular saws above their heads to cut down the sagging ceiling of the top floor of the Magnolia Building in Automobile…
Forward momentum
Suzy Thompson and her husband Steve Wampus Reynolds got their start in 2002 at Opolis, the Norman music venue at 113 N. Crawford Ave., operating a small coffee shop. Thompson had long fostered an interest in cheesemongering, and around that time, a group of supportive University of Oklahoma professors urged her to start a shop.…
