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Wanna bet?

Superintendent Karl Springer has made a friendly wager with his Miami counterpart, Alberto Carvalho, over the outcome of the NBA Finals pitting the OKC Thunder against the Miami Heat. If the Heat prevail, Springer has agreed that, once school resumes, he would wear a Heat T-shirt for a day, as well as teach a class […]

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Scatological divide

Credit: Brad Gregg Officials said the spike was probably because of heavy rains causing runoff from land, such as pet waste, commercial farming activity and other contaminants flowing into the river and its tributaries, The Oklahoman reported. Translation: All of the butt mud on land near the river gets washed into it by rain, causing […]

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Tweet tweet

Credit: Brad Gregg One such faux Twitter account appeared shortly after Mustang-based Tate Publishing inadvertently found itself a viral sensation when an audio recording surfaced of its CEO, Ryan Tate, firing 25 employees — but not before calling them “stupid” and “morons.” Like a snarky phoenix rising from the ashes, @TaintPublishing emerged to unleash such […]

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Extending dominion

Credit: Brad Gregg Bobby Gruenewald, the innovation leader for lifechurch.tv (no, we’re not making that title up), told USA Today that the church paid the fee to purchase rights to .church, not for the purpose of making money, but to provide resources to their target market, a network of 100,000 pastors. In its application for […]

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You’ve got male

Credit: Brad Gregg That’s right, ladies and juiced up He-Men, Oklahoma City was named the manliest city in all ’Merica by Combos — “everyone’s favorite cheese-filled pretzels, crackers and tortillas made with real cheese” — along with the undoubtedly delectable, yet unfortunately inedible, Bert Sperling, who you may know from his previous roles as “research […]

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Super-sized

Credit: Brad Gregg Attempt that feat this fall after the city gets a twostory McDonald’s, slated for the corner of N.W. 23rd Street and Penn Avenue. It’s expected to be around 5,600 square feet and will be one of the three two-story chains built in the nation this year. We doubt our city’s dismal standing […]

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Wayne’s whiny world

“Again I was treated like sh!t by the Thunder arena staff…dam..I hope da Heat beat da dog sh!t out em!!” he wrote about his time at the Chesapeake Energy Arena. The tweet marks Lil Wayne’s latest grousing about the Thunder. The hip-hop star tried unsuccessfully to sit courtside in Oklahoma City for Game 3 of […]

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SimCity comes to life

Credit: Brad Gregg OK, so it’s not that covert. But you really do have the opportunity to give developers your recommendations as to what the structure should become. The laundromat’s owners recently sold the building to Sweet Sixteenth LLC, which teamed up with Popularise, an innovative online platform that lets people submit and vote on […]

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