Cover Teaser: Gazette’s Proud issue celebrates OKC Pride Week
Oklahoma City Pride Week runs through Sunday. Oklahoma Gazette’s Proud issue covers the LGBTQ+ community, news, health, special events, OKC Pride Festival and Parade and more!Read more inside. To read the full story be sure to pick up your copy at any of our 800 metro locations on Wednesday!
Commentary: An open letter condemning LGBT violence and hate
No human should inflict homophobic or transphobic hate — not slurs, not discrimination, not intimidation, not anti-LGBT legislation, not assault, not battery and not murder.
The Happily Entitled’s Preface is a good sign of things to come
The Happily Entitled combines rock, jazz and pop sounds on a project that bodes well for future efforts.
Warcraft is scattered but worth the quest for dedicated fans
Warcraft director Duncan Jones faced a tall task in appeasing many different interests.
Greyson Chance’s Somewhere Over My Head shows maturity beyond viral appeal
Opening track “Afterlife” on Greyson Chance’s new EP has the makings of a summer jam.
Catholic Charities’ new facility helps the organization run its programs more effectively
The 33,860-square-foot building has a large, colorful, comfortable lobby for those waiting to see caseworkers.
“It is so important that they learn to have fun without getting high or drunk,” Maddox said. “That’s the challenge. For so many, that’s what they did.”
“It is so important that they learn to have fun without getting high or drunk,” Maddox said. “That’s the challenge. For so many, that’s what they did.”
Local church continues bike ministry in Oklahoma
Chain Reaction Ministries refurbishes bicycles and offers dependable transportation to OKC’s homeless.
Gazedibles: Get woke
The metro has what it takes to wake you up and keep you going: coffee.
Local filmmaker’s vampire series focuses on noir storytelling
Shawn Barfield hopes to begin shooting the pilot for his series In the World of the Long Breath in late July.
Gameday Couture makes a splash outside Shark Tank
Gameday Couture offers feminine, team-spirit fashion choices.
Teacher leadership program empowers Oklahoma educators
Oklahoma Teacher of the Year Shawn Sheehan was in the initial class of the OKMath/OKSci Leadership Program.
“What we always do really well with our exhibitions — and we’ve already gotten feedback that this is the case again with Matisse — is that our exhibitions always look really good,” Whittington said.
“What we always do really well with our exhibitions — and we’ve already gotten feedback that this is the case again with Matisse — is that our exhibitions always look really good,” Whittington said.
Chicken-Fried News: Winner, winner!
Oklahoma columnist and comedian Argus Hamilton mentioned Trump’s many lawsuits in a recent syndicated newspaper column.
The OKC Cellar offers getaway and storage space for wine lovers
Local distiller Hunter Merritt opened a wine storage facility for oenophiles in Oklahoma City.
Chicken-Fried News: Cowboy queen
Oklahoma’s state song is named Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second of England’s favorite.
Chuck House Restaurant cooks a mean chicken-fried steak
Chuck House Restaurant features a menu full of chicken-fried goodness as well as sirloin and ham with all the fixings.
SoonerCon celebrates its 25th year
SoonerCon 25: The Silver Age, features games, panels, cosplay and more June 24-26.
Chicken-Fried News: Mob mentality
A trial for the Cathouse murders instigated a two-day lockdown at the Oklahoma County Jail amid concerns about gang violence.
Twister Fest storms into Chickasha with music and good vibes
Twister Fest is June 17-19 at Muscle Car Ranch in Chickasha.
Flat-track motorcycle racing rumbles into OKC for Father’s Day weekend
The first AMA flat-track racing event in Oklahoma City in 16 years is 1 p.m. June 18.
Sooner Theatre uses The Music Man to teach acting and show production
Sooner Theatre will host around 300 student campers this summer.
Cowboy Bebop art show brings different people together
A portion of each piece sold at Hardboiled Space Boogie: A Cowboy Bebop Art Show will be donated to Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.
Telstar Elementary School benefits from needed renovation project
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, Lowe’s and Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County combined efforts to renovate Telstar Elementary School.
Letters to the Editor: June 15, 2016
Not all students would be treated equally, and tax dollars should go to public facilities, not individuals.
Picasso Cafe’s renovated kitchen continues Paseo District’s culinary evolution
“The whole kitchen gained 50 percent capacity,” Fiaccone said. “We had reached critical mass.”
Commentary: Public art enhances our quality of life
Art is meant to be intellectually and emotionally provocative, and the more of that we can provide to residents and visitors in our city, the better.
Local groups hope to end violence by educating teens
Education and understanding go a long way in preventing violence.
Chicken-Fried News: Dry land
Despite being completely and utterly landlocked, Oklahoma City is getting a beach.
Chicken-Fried News: Coburn burn
Markwayne Mullin has expressed interest in a third and fourth term in office despite promising to serve no more than three terms as a U.S. Representative.
Food Briefs: The Hall’s Pizza Kitchen, Deuce Days/Jazz Nights, Whodunit Dinner Theater and Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar
The Hall’s Pizza Kitchen celebrates its third birthday; Deuce Days/Jazz Nights make Tuesdays more musical; Whodunit Dinner Theater performs at V2 at Vast, Cattlemen’s Steakhouse and Ted’s Cafe Escondido; and Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar rolls out seasonal drinks.
Chicken-Fried News: Breathless enthusiasm
A Canadian Carrie Underwood fan ended up in the hospital for having too much of a great time at a concert in Ottawa.
Bricktown Blues Festival features a variety of musical genres that span the blues tradition
Bricktown Music Festival kicks off 6 p.m. Friday.
