Commentary: ‘Open-carry hate’
This month, as Oklahoma City observed the 24th anniversary of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, it became clear that disinformation about this mass murder has thrived around us. As the city mourned April 19, Twitter users that we used to call fringe-dwellers until their malevolence was mainstreamed were out in full force. A…
Hate history
Oklahoma residents woke up to find racist, neo-Nazi, white nationalist graffiti twice in the last month. Additionally, posters and stickers of a “white identity” organization have been found — and removed — from various parts of the state, particularly at universities and high-traffic locations. But extreme far-right ideologies are nothing new, and they are actually…
Motion emotion
Nicole Emmons Animation Shorts 7 p.m. April 26 Little D Gallery 3003 Paseo St. facebook.com/littledgallery 720-773-1064 Free Watching Heat Miser control the weather from his volcano headquarters in The Year Without a Santa Claus, Nicole Emmons fell in love. The 1974 Rankin/Bass Christmas Productions special, along with the studio’s better-known Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, inspired…
Cover: Brunch bible
In Bonfire of the Vanities, author Tom Wolfe accurately describes waking up with a hangover as feeling like being “inside an egg with the shell peeled away and only the membranous sac holding it intact … and the yolk was as heavy as mercury.” It only makes sense that a hangover’s best cure is a…
Growing gold
One of the major issues facing dispensaries in the new Oklahoma medical cannabis market is having consistent inventory. CBD Plus USA thinks it has found the solution. It is rolling out the Lotus Gold cannabis line this week with plans to have at least 20 strains on an ongoing and constant basis as well as…
Eviction notices
Three metro dispensaries have been told that they are too close to schools and have a month to move by Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA), the same agency that approved their licenses, apparently without confirming their proof of distance from those schools. The three dispensaries in question are The Gateway CBD & Dispensary, 4 E.…
Breakfast breakout
Neighborhood JA.M. 15124 Lleytons Court thatsmyjamok.com 405-242-4161 What works: The hash browns are soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. What needs work: Be prepared to wait on the weekend. Tip: Check out the weekly pancake specials. Lines out the door on a weekend can be a common sight, especially at some of…
Gazedibles: Bold Benedicts
Eggs Benedict traces its origins to the request of a Wall Street broker at New York City’s famous Waldorf Astoria hotel in the late 19th century. A lot has changed for this traditional brunch staple, and these seven restaurants offer their take on a classic. By Jacob Threadgill with photos provided and Gazette / file…
Saint’s Passage
Saint Loretto 9 p.m. Friday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470 $3 Evan Crowley, aka Saint Loretto, recorded his debut, Depth / S in his home, but following a divorce, he began recording sophomore album Passage / S in someone else’s. “A friend lent me a place to stay, a house that…
Universal language
Lincka 10 p.m. Friday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-230-0311 $10 After having a song featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and playing Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Lincka Elizondo is going wherever she pleases. Recording the follow-up to 2017’s Para Ti — which included “Gardenias,” listed alongside tracks by Marty Stuart, Beth Ditto…
Chicken-Fried News: Scrappy Don’t
It’s a scenario worthy of The Wire, except with, you know, way more actual wires. Oklahoma City utilities officials and police officers are, according to a report by KOCO anchor Evan Onstot, “pulling their hair out” over what mayor David Holt called an “epidemic” of copper wiring theft that has disabled streetlights along sections of…
Chicken-Fried News: Icarus Exotic
In the pantheon of weird Oklahoma news, no one has flown higher than Joseph Allen Maldonando-Passage — the man most everyone knows as Joe Exotic — the openly gay Libertarian presidential and gubernatorial candidate who founded the Wynnewood zoo famous for allowing guests to play with lion-tiger hybrid cubs. Exotic’s unique persona has led to…
Bison rising
Ancient. Massive. Wild. — The Bison Exhibit through May 12 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1700 NE 63rd St. nationalcowboymuseum.org 405-478-2250 Free-$12.50 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Ancient. Massive. Wild. — The Bison Exhibit tells the story of the bison in a 7,000 square-foot exhibit that chronicles both the animal’s near-extinction and its…
Romantic subtext
Twelfth Night, or What You Will April 26-May 4 Weitzenhoffer Theatre University of Oklahoma 563 Elm Ave., Norman theatre.ou.edu 405-325-4101 $10-$35 William Shakespeare, scholars estimate, wrote Twelfth Night, or What You Will between 1601 and 1602. Drama students at University of Oklahoma will soon help him finish it. “A play as written on the page…
One OKC
One of the newest city council members is making history and giving a voice to people who have gone without representation at the city level. Ward 2 councilman James Cooper is the first openly gay member of the council, first biracial representative, first black representative outside Ward 7 and the first teacher on the council…
