TASTE OF WESTERN After Chesapeake Energy will present its 9th annual Taste of Western from 6 to 9 p.m., Oct. 27, at Will Rogers Theatre, 4322 N. Western, hosted by the Western Avenue Association. Chairs are Keith Paul with A Good Egg Dining Group and Melissa Yohn with Cafe 501. Samples will come from restaurants […]
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Tower of cower
Crowds swelled at the OKC Farmers Public Market, waiting to enter the 2010 Carnality Ball when a handful of Bible-thumping protesters with bullhorns set up shop across the street. Hellfire-and-brimstone Scripture was volleyed at scantily clad women and drag queens, but members of the avant-garde band Of the Tower stormed out in costume, banging drums […]
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Passing the retail torch
That’s more than four years of shops opening and closing, trends coming and going (and some, like jeggings, not seeking the exit door fast enough) and an explosion of both diversity and number of local stores. From popping in to stores across the metro each and every week, I can tell you firsthand that the […]
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The Mill and the Cross
It is appropriate that Polish director Lech Majewski’s “The Mill and the Cross” is playing Saturday and Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, for two reasons: The English-language film adapts a famous painting, and in adhering to those visuals, stands as a work of art itself. It’s the very definition of “picturesque.” The […]
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Salty lemon
Gose is a beer native to Leipzig, Germany, and the style almost disappeared in the mid-20th century. Thanks to the hard work of Lothar Goldhahn, a Leipzig pub owner, Gose made a comeback in the 1980s. Zach Prichard, president of Choc Beer Co., said he encountered the style while on a day trip away from […]
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App-licable skills
Wei Shung Chung (pictured) graduated with a master’s degree in computer science more than 10 years ago, and remembers seeing a lot of people struggling to find tickets to OU football games. He decided to put his computer programming skills to good use to create a free iPhone application called umeTicket, which connects OU football […]
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Gerry Bonds invites you into ‘The Living Room’
Bonds, who anchored the nightly news broadcast on OETA for 14 years, hopes to bring intellectually stimulating conversations to the round table as she talks to Janet Barresi, state superintendent of public instruction, and two representatives from Teach for America about the state of education. “On a personal level, it’s the intellectual stimulation and the […]
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Without Thunder
But that doesn’t mean you have to lock yourself into your homemade bomb shelter until David Stern starts waving his little, white flag. Climb the stairs and click on the TV, at the very least. We promise there’s stuff to do this fall besides mourning the Thunder. —Gotta get that fix? There’s a certain, extremely […]
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South-of-the-border Bordeaux
That’s a very short life span in wine years. The brand was built on inexpensive, mass-produced wines, as Chile and Argentina both tried to use exports to help their devastated economies. The first Chilean fine wine exported to the U.S. was Concha y Toro’s Don Melchor Cabernet in 1987. Concha y Toro is much better […]
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Urban jungle
“(My roommate) came in and said, ‘You’ve got to see this.’ There was a little opossum, about 7 inches long, sitting on the ping-pong table just looking at us,” Hall said. “We figured the cats might hurt it, so we put the opossum in a carrier, and a second one started climbing down the shelves […]