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Canine cannabidiol
Since taking over as owner of natural pet food store Mann’s Best Friend in 2016, Lisa Jensen takes pride in the fact that she is a salesperson’s nightmare. The store at 10600 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite 15, has been open since 2006. Jensen became a frequent visitor after moving near its southside location and becoming…
Summer Guide: Day-trippin’
Heavener Runestone Park 18365 Runestone Road, Heavener facebook.com/heavenerrunestone 918-653-2241 One of the biggest mysteries in Oklahoma history is the center of a beautiful state park near the Arkansas border. A runestone is a raised stone with an ancient inscription, and for many people, the 12-foot-high sandstone atop Poteau Mountain with Scandinavian carvings is proof that…
Oklahoma Gazette wins big at 2018 Society of Professional Journalism awards
Oklahoma Gazette posted several wins, including two first-place awards for reporting and a second-place overall award in the Newspaper A bracket at the 2018 Society of Professional Journalists Oklahoma Pro Chapter awards, presented May 19 at Doubletree Warren Place in Tulsa. Laura Eastes won first place in the general news reporting category for “391 percent…
COVER: Viral disease
In early March 2015, a YouTube video emerged featuring members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist chant on a charter bus ride to Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. The Lost Ogle jumped on the story and then local and national news outlets followed suit. Oklahoma’s “Obscure Local Social…
‘Carolina’ calling
James Taylor and his All-Star Band 7:30 p.m. May 25 Chesapeake Energy Arena 100 W. Reno Ave. chesapeakearena.com 1-800-745-3000 $65-$450 The release dates of their respective debut albums are separated by nearly 50 years. One has a viral YouTube music video in which he vows to “get it on” like Marvin Gaye, and the other…
Coffee compassion
The flag hanging high in the EÔTÉ Coffee Company roasting facility, 416 NE 48th St., depicts the globe, but not in an American-centric manner that permeates classrooms across the United States. Getting inspiration from Acts 1:8, “EÔTÉ” is an acronym for Ends of the Earth. “Being Americans, we’re really good at being the centers of…
Place of solace
When survivors of human trafficking enter The Dragonfly Home — the state’s first and only state-certified human trafficking crisis center — they walk into an inviting space with pops of color and encouraging wall decor. The foyer, located inside a nondescript and unmarked building in Oklahoma City, sets the tone for those coming out of…
Concentrated effort
Third Thursday: My Life/My Movie 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily through June 30 5-9 p.m. Thursday Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive 405-236-3100 Free-$5 There are few better places to be on a warm summer evening than perched atop the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, taking in picturesque aerial views of the…
Integrity principle
Hip-hop emcees wrote rap songs about all kinds of things in the 1980s, but one subject they rarely broached was their parents’ medicine cabinets. Today, however, the most pervasive (or at least the most infamous) subsect of the youngest generation’s rap movement seems obsessed with bragging about opioid and prescription drug abuse. Andre Stubbs, also…
Solid slice
Falcone’s Pizzeria 6705 N. May Ave. 405-242-2222 bestpizzaokc.com What works: The chocolate waffle and French Bomber are irresistible. What needs work: The chicken in the chicken Parmesan sandwich is dry and didn’t soak up the sauce. Tip: Call ahead to pick up from the drive-thru window. Falcone’s Pizzeria is a case study in the pitfalls…
Chicken Fried News: Window dressing
Earlier this month, Bricktown began losing bricks as crews started carefully removing them from the six stories of bricked-up windows at 101 E. Sheridan in Bricktown. Historically, the building was the home of Oklahoma Furniture Manufacturing Company, but it is most recognizable to Bricktown pedestrians as the more recent home of The Spaghetti Warehouse Restaurant,…
Another path
This month, Emerson South principal Brad Buxton received a few phone calls from parents asking that he perform graduation checks on their students; however, Buxton doesn’t mind. In fact, he looks forward to delivering the news that their sons or daughters will walk across the stage to receive a high school diploma. “That’s why you…
Gazedibles: Meat-free
It’s starting to heat up, and we’ve got a long summer around grills ahead of us. Before stuffing our bodies with charcoal-kissed meats, check out a few of the best plant-based dishes in the city. by Jacob Threadgill | Photos Gazette / file and provided The Red Cup 3122 N. Classen Blvd. theredcupokc.com | 405-525-3430…
Roamin’ holiday
John Calvin Abney album release show 8 p.m. Saturday The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave. bluedoorokc.com 405-524-0738 $20 Whenever John Calvin Abney needed to step away from life and think, he would cross the street from his old house on Tulsa’s S. Yale Avenue and visit the historic Route 66 diner Tally’s Good Food…
Paseo party
Paseo Arts Festival 10 a.m. Saturday-5 p.m. Monday The Paseo Arts District 3022 Paseo St. thepaseo.orgthepaseo.org| 405-525-2688 Free There wasn’t much Amanda Bleakley could do in 2014 when she took over as executive director of The Paseo Arts Association, at least not right then. The Paseo Arts Festival, the association’s largest annual fundraising event, was…
Rolling nourishment
Chef Beth Ann Lyon walked out of her front door one morning, and the bright yellow food truck sitting in her neighbor’s front yard called to her. Lyon has shaped menus across the city (Provision Kitchen, The Mule, Anchor Down, The Press) since establishing an eponymous LLC two years ago, but life as a consultant…
Stemming the tide
In April 2017, as the opioid crisis continued to ravage Oklahoma, the state’s Attorney General Mike Hunter stood beside two state lawmakers — Sen. AJ Griffin and Rep. Tim Downing — to announce formation of the Oklahoma Commission on Opioid Abuse. Three months later, a federal report issued by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental…
Chicken-Fried News: Columbus circled
Oh my! Gov. Mary Fallin is in hot water again with the state’s Native American communities. This time, it has nothing to do with daughter Christina’s photos in a red Plains headdress or mimicking a war dance on the 2014 Norman Music Festival stage. In early May, Fallin vetoed House Bill 2661, proposed by Rep.…
Chicken-Fried News: Bonds. Seven bonds.
Before recently, the scientific community considered it impossible that a carbon atom could feature more than its natural four bonds. It was an accepted part of basic chemistry that Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM) chemistry teacher Fazlur Rahman taught all of his students. That is until he read a paper by a German…
Brutal acts
The Lonesome West 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m. May 24, 8 p.m. May 25-26, 2 p.m. May 27, 7:30 p.m. May 31 and 8 p.m. June 1-2 Carpenter Square Theatre 800 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $5-$25 Other than the town priest, practically no one in Leenane believes that Coleman Connor shot his father on…
Next Issue: Summer Guide
P. 19 Get your highlighters ready; Oklahoma Gazette’s annual Summer Guide is the perfect way to plan your entertainment, travel and dining during the warm months, including stories on summer camps, local parks, music festivals and perfect places to pitch a tent within 90 minutes of Oklahoma City. By Gazette Staff. Cover by Kimberly Walker.
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