Dec 17-23, 2014

Chicken-Fried News: Hairy offense

It’s the holiday season, so we all feel a pang of empathy when one of our own is busted for public intox.

Chicken-Fried News: Naked sprint

Chicken-Fried News: Oil me up?

And that’s just plain lazy.

Chicken-Fried News: Dangerous shopping

Chicken-Fried News: Last objections

Chicken-Fried News: Doin’ fine

Chicken-Fried News: What’s in a name?

Chicken-Fried News: We’re No. 8!

Chicken-Fried News: Attitude

Chicken-Fried News: Trash talk

Chicken-Fried News: Tough all over

Metro Briefs: Capitol Hill in search of new mascot

Local group plans multi-generational cohousing community

Creating safer bike, pedestrian crossings a top priority

Long-awaited passenger rail line will soon be reality, as might expansion plans

Clifton Adcock, staff reporter with Oklahoma Watch, and Sean Wallace, executive director of Oklahoma Corrections Professionals, discuss the overcrowding of the state’s prison system and early release programs designed to relieve some of that pressure.

Money greases wheels of judges' campaigns, much of it comes from attorneys

News Briefs: Western Avenue streetscape redesign underway

Streetcar committee wants faster timeline for car orders

OKC public schools superintendent evaluates first 100 days

U.S. Grant High School sees boost in test scores

Sexual violence and bullying are major public health concerns for today’s society, especially among Oklahoma youth.

Commentary: Art for everyone, everywhere

Responding to Pete Lepo’s letter, “‘Liberal’ bias” (Commentary, Letters, Nov. 26, Oklahoma Gazette), I have only a few counterpoints to offer and one clarification to request.

Letters to the Editor: Dec. 24, 2014

OKG Eat: Hot, hot, hot!

We’ve pulled together a list of cool joints where you can get away from the in-laws for a bit and put the frayed nerves to rest.

Dust Bowl offers the coolness of yore: classic 1970s alleys with polished lanes and borrowed shoes. Citizens of OKC, you are now free to eat and bowl to your heart’s content.

Nuggets Food Briefs: Beers and cheers

Grand Casino brings art of Brazilian steakhouse to Oklahoma

Soul food served with heaps of TLC at Mama E’s Wings & Waffles

Several area restaurants are capitalizing on the trend by offering special lists as part of their New Year’s Eve events.

You cooked for an army, and you feasted like a battle victor. Even so, if you’re like most families, your refrigerator is now packed tight with leftover food.

Cover story: Native American artists blur lines between tradition, contemporary

In Your Eye Studio celebrates glass artist, acrylic painters

Energetic art on display in Norman

Reduxion experiments with Christmas

Nutcracker strikes new pose this year

OU keeps art looted by Nazis

OKC Energy FC's assistant coach dismissed due to U.K. murder charge

Nonprofit reopens after remodel and expansion

Now, after a 22-month gestation period, the city awaits another joyful event: the arrival of Malee’s baby sibling.

Tilt to spill over into party mode near you

OKC flush fresh with trout

Snow tubing continues downtown

Hoffman opens gym after career-ending injuries

Volunteer program gets reboot at Red Earth Museum

Swimmers to meet this weekend

Narratively, the film conveys a back-and-forth between Cheryl’s hike and her past.

It’s impossible to overstate Alan Turing’s role in shaping the world we know today.

Eastern antidote to Western animation at museum of art

Fowler, Blackwatch make naughty list

Travis Linville is modest, modern Oklahoma folk icon

Dynamic singing duo has others seeing red

Tyson Meade, a longtime local musician and Oklahoma’s “godfather of alternative rock” recently spoke to many of his friends — also fellow musicians — about their favorite moments, music and feats of 2014.

Red Dirt Rangers plays annual kids holiday show Sunday

Even as Oklahoma’s own Turnpike Troubadours watch their careers launch off into another stratosphere, their personalities remain clung to earth.