The Great Indoors.
Hide from the heat and enjoy some of the City’s bookstores, art museums and movie theaters.
Cover Stories
Read it local
Here are four recently published books that come from Oklahoma writers or have the Sooner State as their setting. Oklahoma Beer: A Handcrafted History by Brian Welzbacher This little tome is short but stout, beginning with a brief history of pre-statehood brewing and continuing into the craft beer boom that we’re currently experiencing. Of course…
Reading rooms
Deer Clan Books, 3905 N. College Ave. (Bethany) Boasting a huge collection of Oklahoma and Native writers of both fiction and non-fiction, owner Claudette Robertson is a Muscogee citizen of the eponymous Deer Clan. A former high school social studies teacher and college history professor, her advanced degrees have informed the selection at this unassuming…
All the Right Moves
We tend to think of art existing in certain intended spaces. Paintings are meant to hang in art galleries and museums, films are meant to be seen inside specialized theaters and live music is meant to take place on a stage inside of a bar or music venue. But why can’t any space be an…
Step outside the border
When you’re craving flavors that Tex Mex can’t fix, Oklahoma City is home to a number of locally and nationally beloved Latin-American establishments that offer a variety of authentic dishes from areas across the map. Here are seven places serving a myriad of dishes from countries south (and east) of the border. Cafe Kacao 405-602-2883…
Strain Review: Smoked Out
Strain name: Smoked Out Grown by: Nature’s Cure Acquired from: Nature’s Cure (Northwest Expressway) Date acquired: Aug. 5 Physical traits: dark green and orange Bouquet: sweet, woody and lemony Review: Learned about this upcoming strain while eating at Smoked Out BBQ for the summer barbecue issue. Grown in honor of Jacque Lucas, the late founder…
The party that wants to keep politics out of the classroom sure is funneling its politics into the state’s education board.
The party that wants to keep politics out of the classroom sure is funneling its politics into the state’s education board. Tulsa Public Schools — the largest school district in the state — had its accreditation downgraded to “accredited with warning” after a “teacher from Memorial High School in Tulsa complained to the Oklahoma Department…
Is the heat keeping everyone home or is it the air conditioning?
Is the heat keeping everyone home or is it the air conditioning? Given, everyone is exhausted from the unrelenting heat and the scheduling chaos that comes as summer starts to wind down. Factoring in the extra costs associated with back-to-school season even in the most temperate of years makes it worse, but this year is…
Beeting the heat
You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream. But the screaming is certain to stop once the infusion kicks in. Combining two favorites — chocolate cake and ice cream — the chefs at Guyutes have prepared a summer dessert to get everyone through the remaining dog days. “It’s kind of a take on…
Violent delights
The continually exploding guitar effects pedal industry – which has something of a surprising epicenter in Oklahoma City with some of the world’s biggest and most respected manufacturers based here – has a long and lucrative history of major artist collaborations. Superstar guitarists and aficionado heroes alike regularly partner with pedal builders to create loads…
Dear Oklahoma weathercasters: Please tell us the truth.
Most of us watch the local news for the weather, so to say that meteorology has come a long way would be an understatement. We have corporately-sponsored helicopters whose pilots are heroes, storm chasers with household names and gazillion-watt radar systems dueling with other stations to be the most precise, powerful and fantastic. In Oklahoma,…
As the Crowes fly
When Chris and Rich Robinson made the November 2019 announcement that The Black Crowes were reuniting, it represented a reconciliation between the siblings after the band was blown up in 2015. The plan was to launch a lengthy reunion tour in 2020 commemorating the 30th anniversary of the group’s 1990 debut album Shake Your Money…
Sounding off
While the lineup is comprised primarily of women for the Bans Off Our Bodies fundraiser show, it wasn’t by design. “We were like, ‘Is it weird that it’s all women? It’s fine. Let’s just do it,’” co-organizer Kris Dahlgren said. “That was not intentional, but it is all kind of very accessible, nice, fun, kind…
Strain Review: Bickett OG
Strain name: Bickett OG Grown by: The Territory Cannabis Co. Acquired from: Goodies Ganja Express Date acquired: Aug. 4 Physical traits: light green with wiry stigmas and frosted trichomes Bouquet: earthy, gassy, sweet and salty Review: Having never heard of the Bickett OG strain, it took one whiff to know definitively that this one definitely…
Not the first rodeo
Rodeo Cinema is going above and beyond normal screenings, with added elements to create a more immersive moviegoing experience. Cat Video Fest This year’s Cat Video Fest will not take place at Myriad Gardens but inside Rodeo Cinema’s Stockyards location. If two hours of adorable cats and kittens is your thing, then drop by one…
