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Food Issue: Building community
In honor of Black History Month, OKC Black Eats has organized a selection of black-owned restaurants in the Oklahoma City metro area together for a monthlong celebration designed to build community and study economic development. Apollo Woods founded OKC Black Eats in 2017 and has watched the marketing organization grow in the intervening years so…
Food Issue: Soul food
First We Dance, Then We Greet, Then We Eat 2-4:30 p.m. Feb. 15, March 21 and April 18 SixTwelve 612 NW 29th St. sixtwelve.org 405-208-8291 $20-$75 Growing up in New York City suburb Rockland County, Marie Casimir belonged to a community of open doors. “I had access to lots of different cultures, but within that…
Food Issue: Breaking the mold
Black Walnut 100 NE Fourth St. 405-445-6273 blackwalnutokc.com 405-228-8386 What works: The branzino has cripsy skin and delicate balance of flavor between saffron couscous and lobster broth. What needs work: The pappardelle was overcooked and drowning in sauce. Tip: The pappardelle was overcooked and drowning in sauce. Sandwiched between his two other restaurants, Chef Andrew…
Food Issue: Boundless choices
When the Oklahoma medical cannabis market opened for business in fall 2018, choices of edibles were few and far between. In the months since, it seems like a new producer or product has hit the shelves every week, if not more frequently. Here are some of the most popular products available in the state. Nature’s…
Food Issue: Tasty licks
In last year’s Food Issue, we highlighted several concert venues — Chesapeake Energy Arena, The Jones Assembly, Opolis — where you can see a nationally touring act and also eat a better than decent meal. This year, we’d like to offer a variation on the theme and serve up a menu of restaurants where, in…
Food Issue: In good spirits
It wasn’t so long ago when Oklahoma bartenders had to go to great lengths to tap into the nation’s ever-expanding array of specialty bitters, mixers and bar tools while also being stifled by the state’s strict and confusing blue laws. Barkeep Supply has stepped in to allow the metro’s more ambitious mixologists to explore more…
Food Issue: Food yard
Food and drink tenants: Hott Wings a concept from the owners of Eddie’s Bar & Grill Oak City Pizza formerly the Smoke N Oak Pizza food truck Gogi Go a Korean barbecue restaurant with another location in Midtown Cities Ice Cream an extension of the Capitals brand, which has a location in Midtown Taqueria El…
Gazedibles: Cocoa craving
We are less than two weeks away from Valentine’s Day, which means chocolate season is in high gear. Fulfill your chocolate craving at these seven locations. Ganache Patisserie 13230 Pawnee Drive, Suite 114 ganacheokc.com | 405-286-4068 Sometimes a name says it all. There is no finer stop for imported European chocolate than this true patisserie…
Wedding rainbows
Oklahoma Rainbow Collective Gay-La 16:30-11 p.m. Feb.20 Verbode 415 N. Broadway Ave., Suite 101 okrainbowcollective.com $15 A couple weeks after getting engaged, Irissa Baxter and her fiancée started looking for wedding venues. Their first serious inquiry was with a Stillwater venue that they liked and would have met their needs. But once the owners found…
Chicken-Fried News: Clean canal
The Bricktown Canal is drained and cleaned every few years, revealing a slew of lost items almost like a slimy, accidental underwater time capsule. It was properly cleaned for the first time in three years recently, and thankfully no (human) bodies were found. Officials found common items like cell phones, wallets and skateboards, but having…
Sweet sorrow
Romeo & Juliet 1Feb. 13-March 1 Oklahoma Shakespeare 2920 Paseo St. okshakes.org 405-235-3700 $16-$30 For approximately the 10th time in Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s nearly 35-year history, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. Romeo & Juliet runs Feb. 13-March 1 at Oklahoma Shakespeare, 2920 Paseo St. William Shakespeare’s tragic romance, in which…
Food Issue: Market move
Crows Farm Markets has been a vendor at OSU-OKC Farmers Market since before it was even known by that name. Claudia Crow said her family started selling various items in 1987 at Pottawattamie County Farmers Market and then at the farmers market at Penn Square Mall, which eventually became the OSU-OKC Farmers Market in 1996.…
Chicken-Fried News: Golden State ban
With all of the energy of a younger sibling upset that their older brother ate the last pork chop at the dinner table, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed an executive order banning all nonessential state travel to California. Stitt’s decision is in retaliation of the city of San Francisco banning travel to 22 states, including…
Chicken-Fried News: Book learnin’
Hey, you. Yeah, you. Thank you for reading. Not just Chicken-Fried News or even Oklahoma Gazette, but just, you know, reading, like, in general. Despite ample opportunities to fill your head with misinformation and garbage in the internet age, reading continues to be an excellent gateway drug to actually knowing stuff, and despite what the…
Flower Review: Ragnarok #2
Strain name: Ragnarok #2 Grown by: The Inner Circle Grows Acquired from: Planet Hollyweed Date acquired: Jan. 31 THC/CBD percentages: 20.7 percent/.1 percent Physical traits: Light green and covered with wiry light orange stigmas Bouquet: earthy and herbal Review: While Ragnarok #3 with its reported 31.8 percent THC is what most people ran toward…
Reasonable doubt
aporia – noun 1. An irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument, or theory 2. The expression of doubt “Anybody that’s out here working, trying to pursue your goals or chasing after success, sometimes you don’t know what comes with that until you get there, and then once you get there, you…
Sandwich artistry
If you are going to make a sandwich, you might as well have some fun with it. Each month, the chefs at Guyutes team up with Oklahoma Gazette to bring readers a fresh take on cannabis-infused dishes. “We’re gonna do a bacon, arugula, cucumber and egg sandwich, a play on a BLT,” Matt Pryor said.…
