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Growing green
Chris Brady and Cesar Herrera developed their cannabis green thumbs more than 1,500 miles from each other but rubbed digital elbows on the online forum of International Cannagraphic Magazine. Brady is now the co-owner of Redbud Soil Co. and grows his plants in organic, no-till soil. He started in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a decade ago…
Pot chef
Jeremy Cooper is a man who wears many of them, but he’s most known for donning his cannabis chef’s hat. Cooper is currently helping Fire Leaf get its medical marijuana kitchen up and running but started in the industry when he helped a friend who had fallen ill. “I started doing this seven years ago…
Twiggs, “Hometown”
Oklahoma City’s Twiggs will release its third album, Twiggs III, later this spring, but today the band is releasing two tracks from the album, “Hometown” and “Tennessee.” While “Tennessee” emphasizes the group’s facility with power-pop, “Hometown” is a more pastoral, languid affair, like a midwestern Mazzy Star. The video, which features several recognizable OKC haunts, captures life…
Hotel potential
The self-proclaimed “largest gay resort in the Southwest” is under new ownership and ready for a complete makeover. Hotel Habana, 2200 NW 40th St., was known as Habana Inn until Los Angeles-based Alternative Resorts acquired the 170-room hotel in January. Thomas Lagatta, director of the renovation project, said if all goes according to plan, the…
Triumphant Ark
The Little Ark, 6425 Avondale Drive in Nichols Hills Plaza, is a bright and airy boutique filled with gifts for all ages. About half the shop is geared toward a younger customer base with trendy clothing for kids hung on racks in eye-catching color coordination. There is a small, house-shaped reading nook at the front,…
Dinner diversion
Oklahoma City’s newest movie theater is also its trendiest full-service bar complete with shuffleboards, a pool table and a projection screen showing sporting events. Banquet Cinema Pub, 800 NW Fourth St., is the brainchild of The Bleu Garten founders Hunter Wheat and Lacey Pritchard, who turned a 12,750 square-foot retro 1930s building that featured a…
‘Mother’ Hubbard
Ray Wylie Hubbard8 p.m. March 15 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $20-$45 Hold onto your hats. The guy who wrote the unofficial Lone Star State national anthem “Screw You, We’re from Texas” is actually from Oklahoma. “I was born in Hugo, Oklahoma, and then I lived in a little town called Soper,”…
CARE for history
Two nonprofit, pro-social organizations are working to find compromise when it comes to the demolition of a historic home. The Oklahoma chapters of National Association of Colored Women’s Club (NACWC) and the Child Abuse Response and Evaluation (CARE) Center are in conversations to find a happy medium to respect a historic building. CARE Center purchased…
Historic engagement
Ain’t I a Woman 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Southern Nazarene University 6729 NW 39th Expressway, Bethany snu.edu/aint-i-a-woman 405-789-6400 Every suburban university worth its salt has at least one firebrand professor pushing big ideas to rattle the norms of its sleepy campuses. Pam Bracken is that firebrand for Southern Nazarene University (SNU), and she is reveling in…
Chicken Fried News: Well done
Oklahoma City mayor David Holt completed a “personal mission” and made national news last month when he convinced Will Rogers World Airport to stop selling shirts reading, “Nothing Tips Like a Cow.” In a pair of celebratory tweets dated Feb. 21 (you’ll have to scroll past a bunch of junk about street repair and something…
Chicken Fried News: Caffeine slinger
A man we assume was already sufficiently over-caffeinated stole an 18-wheeler Pepsi truck late last month. The soda truck thief, Steven Allen Hart, jumped into the truck and drove off with it while workers were unloading product from the back. The truck’s actual driver had to jump out as Hart made his getaway. The man’s…
Peanut Pride
Allergens be damned, we are celebrating the peanut because March is National Peanut Month, a designation in place since 1974. As a savory topping, a burger condiment or part of a sweet dessert, the mighty peanut can be used in a variety of ways. By Jacob Threadgill with photos Gazette / file and provided Stella…
Second Chance
Greyson Chance7 p.m. Saturday The Vanguard 222 N. Main, Tulsa thevanguardtulsa.com 918-561-6885 $15-$45 YouTube was four years old and Greyson Chance was 12 when his cover of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” blasted its way onto the internet zeitgeist. A student at Edmond’s Cheyenne Middle School, Chance’s performance in front of classmates was fueled by Juilliard-ready piano…
Human relations
Evan Way is an associate attorney with Crowe & Dunlevy and a member of its Cannabis Industry Practice Group. He recently took time to answer Oklahoma Gazette’s questions about State Question 788’s legalization of medical marijuana and how it pertains to employment law. Oklahoma Gazette: How did the law treat a marijuana user before SQ788?…
Grade schools
Oklahoma’s schools will have a new way to analyze their work and see how they stack up. After going without school report cards for two years, the state board of education unanimously approved a revamped system that launched Feb. 28. Previous school report cards came on a single sheet of paper, with a large, bold…
Chicken Fried News: Political detention
Two bills filed by state Sen. Mark Allen, R-Spiro, take aim at teachers for having the audacity to ask for more funding and become politically active. The bills are retribution for last year’s teacher walkout and subsequent elections that saw educators swept into office and incumbents who came out against the funding largely defeated. In…
Screen pride
Queer Film Continuum screening ofThe Incredibly True Story of Two Girls in Love 7 p.m. Saturday Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. herlandsisters.org Donations accepted I was not exposed to queer cinema until my freshman year of college. I had just moved to New York, and one of my gay floormates gathered several…
Poundstone politics
Paula Poundstone 8 p.m. Saturday Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater Oklahoma City Community College 7777 S. May Ave. tickets.occc.edu 405-682-7579 $35-$43 One of the many things altered by the contentious political atmosphere that helped put Donald Trump in the White House is Paula Poundstone’s standup act. Poundstone, whose comedy career turns 40 this year,…
Fresh take
Magasin Table 3 NE Eighth Street, Suite 120 405-212-2751 What works:The vegetarian options, presentation and pho broth are standouts. What needs work:The portion size options for pho could be better. Tip:Don’t dismiss the eggplant. There are some days when pho is the only thing that will satisfy a craving, especially when it is as cold…
