You know it’s pronounced twenty twenty too
The new year brings with it a lot of possibilities and a lot of uncertainty.
Strain Review: Project 4516
Strain name: Project 4516 Grown by: 5th Leaf Acquired from: Gaia’s Favor Date acquired: Jan. 3 Physical traits: purple and light green Bouquet: floral and sweet Review: Hard to believe it, but we’re well into the third year of a legal cannabis market in Oklahoma. Sometimes, the best places to be are back where you…
The shape of OKC music to come
Looking ahead is terrible business these days. Pretending to know what’s coming in 2022 for the music world after the last 18 months is generally hilarious. As we head into another year marred by you-know-what hanging in the literal air, there’s a lot to be excited about in the OKC music scene. Bear in mind,…
Black and red
Oklahoma Gazette: Did this pandemic make it easier to write material or was being away from the stage where you can test out jokes hold you back? Lewis Black: I don’t really write, so it was the first time I kind of wrote stuff in part, because I kind of had to. I have to…
Chicken-Fried News: If you thought legislation passed into law in Texas last year was absurd, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Rob Standridge invites you to hold his beer.
Taking a page out of their playbook, he’s aiming this session to get books banned from public school library shelves with a $10,000 daily bounty for as long they remain accessible to impressionable minds. You heard that correctly. A cash-starved and pandemic-weary public education system is now poised to be further drained of funds because…
Strain Review: White Truffle
Strain name: White Truffle Grown by: Zenoa Cannabis Acquired from: Electraleaf Date acquired: Dec.17 Physical traits: light green and deep purple frosted white Bouquet: gassy and earthy Review: “Zenoa” had hit my ears more than a few times over the past couple of months and the soft opening of Electraleaf’s new location in midtown provided.…
Black Sky Affair
How far away is the farthest planet known? How close is the closest? Are they like ours? Simple questions with often complex answers. The questions excite a child’s wonder in us, and the answers, based on three decades of unprecedented exoplanet detection, gratify; the most satisfying fact is there will always be more to learn,…
Light and dark
COOP Ale Works — Ice Chest IPA While it’s warm most days, it’s not quite nice enough outside to go floating the rivers just yet, but COOP’s Ice Chest IPA is especially cruel on the days when the wind bites. An IPA with less sting than January gusts at 30 IBUs, it goes down easy…
Gazedibles: It’s soup season
January is National Soup Month, which is a no-brainer, ‘cause it’s perfect to kick off the year with something delicious and nutritious. Lucky for us, OKC and Tulsa offer lots of options. Here are seven spots where you can find a hearty bowl of soup in either city. Soup Soup 405-843-7095 • 7654 North Western…
Chicken-Fried News: Stitt’s up to his shenanigans again, but we don’t mean Kevin.
“Marvin Keith Stitt, 51, who goes by Keith, asked the Tulsa Municipal Court on Wednesday to dismiss a speeding ticket he received in February because he is a member of the Cherokee Nation. A copy of his Cherokee identification card is included in the court filing, showing he became an enrolled member of the tribe…
Frame by frame
Hot on the heels of the release of The Rez Detectives, artist/writer/director Steven Paul Judd is poised once again to indigenize pop culture with his take on the Marvel Universe. Marvel’s Voices: Heritage #1 is available Jan. 12. It is a continuation of the Voices series that began with Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1. The…
Citizen Spotlight: Ryan Cristelli
Some people pay it forward because they want to — Ryan Cristelli pays it forward because he needs to. He can’t leave people cold. The founder of Project Winter Watch, Ryan provides warmth to some of Oklahoma City’s most vulnerable people. When you visit the Project Winter Watch Facebook page, the incredible photography accompanied by…
Controlled crash
This is John (pictured earlier this winter), and he’d spend last Saturday night in the hospital. John exists on the south side of an abandoned Midtown church. His presence is symmetrical. He sits immobile and centered on a paved walkway that runs due north into a chain link fence. A smattering of blankets surrounds his…
