Magnolia Bistro 722 N. Broadway Ave., Suite 100 magnoliabistro405.com 405-673-7550 What works: The étouffée and gumbo have depth of flavor, and the jalapeño cornbread is unique and tasty. What needs work: The shrimp and grits need more acidity. Tip: It’s only open for lunch Monday-Friday. In a corner restaurant in Automobile Alley that’s only open […]
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Equal-opportunity nourisher
Throughout her more than three-decade career in the food industry, Alicia Gomez-Grayson has literally worked with food from seed to table. It wasn’t until the domino effect after an accident led her to open a restaurant that provides both healthy and indulgent choices in downtown Oklahoma City. Cafe 110, located at 110 N. Robinson Ave. […]
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Island delights
Hector Lopez and Wenddys Rios could not locate Oklahoma on a map until Hurricane Maria brought devastation to their native Puerto Rico in 2017. They had no plans to open a bakery either, but their love of desserts and pastry from their home led them to open Oklahoma’s only Puerto Rican bakery, D Taino Bakery, […]
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Nature’s classroom
John Rex Middle School has no loud alarm that rings letting students know that it’s lunchtime and no locker doors slamming shut and echoing throughout the hallways. The 75 sixth-graders who belong to the new middle school do their learning in the spacious and modern interior of the lower-level Crystal Bridge Conservatory at Myriad Botanical […]
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Development on OKC condos begins with a focus on high-end units
The Broadway Condominiums is expected to open in Automobile Alley sometime in early 2019.
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Downtown Oklahoma City Initiative’s Third Artist Invitational delivers two new public art installations to downtown
Downtown Oklahoma City Initiative’s Third Artist Invitational delivers two new public art installations to downtown
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Downtown OKC Inc. expands its call for proposals in annual public arts program
This year’s Artist Invitational program has a budget of $25,000.
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The art of eating
Cupcakes from the Sugar Shack Sweets and Treats Photo by Shannon Cornman The Arts Council of Oklahoma City’s Festival of the Arts is OKC’s paramount celebration of all things art. The festival has been an annual downtown event since 1967, the year the arts council was granted its nonprofit status. Since then, the festival has […]
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Street heat
Two features of the street creating discussion are a western portion that will be above grade at the level of the old I-40 and a section that will go under the north-south railway. A third issue, however, has received little public attention: the undecided route to Bricktown from the future major thoroughfare. Although current maps […]