“I still eat The Hoagie,” she said. “My dad requests them all the time. I took them to his 92nd birthday not long ago.”
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One of Norman’s oldest bars offers live music seven days a week.
One of Norman’s oldest bars offers live music seven days a week.
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The Deli in Norman will host Jammin’ For Jack 2, a fundraising concert for The Children’s Center, Sunset Therapeutic Riding Center and the local Reaves family. Last year, the Reaves held a fundraiser to help pay medical bills for their son Jack. This year, they are giving back to organizations that have helped their son […]
Sammich time
BY: Mark Hancock There is great promise in grocery stores. Especially unfamiliar ones When you walk down the aisles, youre bound to find something you havent seen before a new brand, perhaps, or some new flavor youve yet to encounter elsewhere. And in your mind, there is a hope that this time, this time, […]
Juggin’ out
The Great American Jug Band Photo: John Thomas For calling itself The Great American Jug Band, the Norman-grown group is conspicuously light on the jug part. We own a jug, front man Will Gardner said. We just dont have anyone to blow into it. But really, the jug always was meant to be more than […]
They’re gonna rock you, sucka
Peter Anthony Seay II, front man for Oklahoma City garage rockers Junebug Spade, has a million cool points for you if you catch the movie their name references. Take a minute to think about it, if you need to Times up. Its from Im Gonna Git You Sucka, Seay said. We were debating a […]
Parker Millsap can’t lose
Parker Millsap is a classic case of a voice not fitting the person from whom it emerges. Slight, squeaky-clean and still somewhat baby-faced, Millsap is a sharp dresser often sporting a bow tie, button-down shirt and cardigan and near-constantly shadowed by his rambunctious, black-and-white mutt, Mavis. Its the sort of dapper wholesomeness of […]
You go, girls
The Chloes are no strangers to Oklahoma. The Dallas-based quartet recorded much of their debut LP, Vanish, at Bell Labs Recording in Norman, and have made numerous trips up Interstate 35 for live shows in the metro, including a spot at last springs Norman Music Festival. The all-woman indie pop-rockers will rekindle their fledgling Sooner […]
Reid all about it
Lots of guys get in trouble with their girlfriends for eating in bed. Norman singer-songwriter Kyle Reid was in the doghouse for building cigar-box guitars there. Sawdust would get everywhere, including in my bed, he said. It didnt bother me very much, because the sawdust reminded me of the work I had done that day, […]
Calvinist theory
Photo: Samantha Lamb Album titles can mean anything, really, be it an inside joke, a catchy turn of phrase or nothing in particular. In the case of Norman singer-songwriter John Calvins latest EP, Without Wax, the title reveals everything. The name came from a conversation I had with a very wise acquaintance at a bar […]
