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Healthy Minds, Healthy Communities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released sobering data on the nearly 30 percent increase in overdose deaths rates nationally between December 2019 and December 2020. Oklahoma was not spared; we had 753 overdose deaths in 2020 alone – nearly a 22 percent increase over the prior year. Oklahoma also has the unfortunate…
OKC-Based Video Game
Oklahoma City is not a place where you’re most likely to find a video game studio. The majority of the industry is based in cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin or Montreal, but that hasn’t stopped James Simpson, the CEO of GoldFire Studios, from setting up shop here in the Metro. Simpson has been making…
Open For Business
Library 2807 N Walker Ave #5 library.clothing 405-252-0985 If you’re looking for an affordable place to find flawless fashion, Library is the place. Jessi Murray and Ãnna Frost aspired to create a fashion-for- ward business with a focus on sustainability, and they succeeded. What started out as a passion project in Jessi’s apartment grew into…
Back-to-Burlesque
If you wander into the Bunker Club or R&J’s late one night, you might catch Merry McGinnis Monaco spraying herself with an underwear-mounted oil derrick to the tune of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma.” For the last decade and a half, Merry and her burlesque troupe, the Dust Bowl Dolls, have been a staple of OKC…
Strain Review: Topanga Wedding
Strain name: Topanga Wedding Grown by: Cvltivation Clvb Acquired from: Cvltivation Clvb Date acquired: July 20 Physical traits: light green with purpling on the exterior Bouquet: gassy and earthy Review: While labeled an indica, this one definitely gives a sativa jolt under the right temperaments that increases in pitch with consumption. Flavorful yet powerful, you…
Market at Scissortail Park
Every Saturday morning from April through October, nestled at the edge of Oklahoma City’s Scissortail Park, you’ll find the sweetest of local markets. The OSU-OKC Farmers Market brings together over 50 vendors from all over the state to share their wares, ranging from freshly grown organic vegetables, free-range organic chicken, and beef to handmade soaps,…
Unconventional ‘Cuts’
Here’s a riddle: What makes tracks but leaves no footprints? A music studio. Of course, in a figurative sense, studios and music labels do tend to leave footprints. Whether as subtle as an album’s liner note or as loud as a marketing campaign, those footprints often mark a direct path to a music company. For…
Strain Review: G13
Strain name: G13 Grown by: Gatsby Cannabis Co. Acquired from: Gatsby Cannabis Co. Date acquired: July 20 Physical traits: light to dark green Bouquet: earthy and sweet Review: This new spot might be the most unique dispensary concept experienced to date in the metro. Upon entrance, a mirror pulls away and, after providing your license,…
Into the Unknown
Throughout 2020, the performing arts industry as a whole remained largely shut down. The first to go dark, Broadway has been off-stage since March of last year, and finally returns this month. Without an audience, a live performance is nothing but a rehearsal. And when actors can’t touch, their most intimate and moving scenes may…
The Music at Your Feet
Think of Jimi Hendrix re-conceiving the National Anthem at Woodstock with screeching feedback and blistering fuzz. Eddie Van Halen shredding a forty- minute solo soaked in saturated distortion, the sound whipping and phasing around you in an arena. You can see the guitars in their hands and the amplifiers at their backs, but what you…
A Hundred Years in the Making
The story behind OKC’s Film Row is well-known: In the 1920s, the biggest movie studios built facilities along a stretch of Sheridan Avenue to house development labs, screening rooms, and distribution centers for their films. As the industry eventually evolved, so too did Film Row. Transitioning from Hollywood hub to heyday holdover to hipster hotspot,…
Gazedibles: Millions of Peaches
August is National Peach Month. As temperatures rise and the long hot summer days drag on, there may be no more quintessential summer staple than a refreshing peach beverage or dish. Here are seven delightfully peachy picks to ignite your taste buds and make your summer more flavorful. Ding Asian Fusion 6400 NW 39th Expressway,…
Brewing Opportunity
A little over a month after launching, the owner of Norman’s newest craft brewery said she can’t believe the reception they’ve received as they work to build a space for those marginalized and underrepresented through the power of beer. “It’s been unbelievable, I mean just beyond all expectations,” said Suzette Grillot, who co-owns Equity Brewing…
