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Oklahomans Andrew and Cody Bass crossed the finish line in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on a flatbed truck. Travel on the mind The Mongol Rally It wasn’t the way they’d envisioned completing the seventh annual Mongol Rally when they’d set off from London in a 1-liter Nissan Micra more than a month earlier, but it was still […]

Confronting relocation temptation, fighting the magnetic pull of higher foot-traffic and big-city positioning, the Toy & Action Figure Museum has unveiled its superpower: not moving. Despite Magneto-like efforts by the Bricktown Association to pull the museum from Pauls Valley to Oklahoma City, the fortress of figurines will stay put ” permanently. In a statement, curator […]

The summer has come. Now is the time to hop in the car and take off across Oklahoma to find its obscure, dirty little secrets. First up, take Route 66 north to Catoosa and the Blue Whale. This notable icon of Oklahoma is 80 feet long and nearly 40 years old. “The whale itself was […]

OKC PrideBlock Party7-11 p.m. Friday“The Strip,” N.W. 39th Street and N. Pennsylvania Avenue Festival 10 a.m. Saturday-SundayMemorial ParkN.W. 36th Street and N. Classen Boulevard Street Dance and Show4 p.m. Sunday “The Strip” Pride Parade 6 p.m. Sunday From Memorial Park to “The Strip” Ginger Lamar was there when the first Oklahoma City Pride parade stepped […]

Kathy Kelly 7 p.m. 376-3077Church of the Open Arms3131 N. Pennsylvania In 2003, Kathy Kelly found herself an eyewitness to history as she and her companions sat through the “shock and awe” bombing campaign in Baghdad. On Tuesday, Church of the Open Arms, 3131 N. Pennsylvania, will open its doors to Kelly, a peace activist […]

As the curtains part, a silver phone on the stage’s lone table rings. Rev. Kitty Bob Aimes, a drag queen dressed in a blue choir robe and makeup worthy of a televangelist, answers. “Softly and Tenderly” blares from the speakers. Church at The Boom is beginning. For the next hour-and-a-half, Aimes and Rev. Norma Jean […]

Locals describe Medicine Park as a mix of Mayberry, “The Twilight Zone” and “Northern Exposure.” Intrigued yet? Budget Travel magazine was. Medicine Park recently ranked No. 9 on the mag’s list of “America’s Coolest Small Towns.” Out of the 147 towns nominated, 21 were selected as finalists, profiles of which will run in the magazine’s […]

Row upon row of the busy plant ” spiking up with spears of flowers that range from dark purple to hot pink to white ” create a scent on the Oklahoma winds that remind you more of France than Middle America. For fans of “u-pick” farms and farmers’ markets, state lavender farms offer not only […]

After Jim Thorpe captured gold medals at the 1912 Olympics, Sweden’s King Gustav V proclaimed the Oklahoman as the greatest athlete in the world. Chronicling the sports legend’s athletic career from school days to his sports’ highest accolades, the Jim Thorpe Museum & Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, 4040 N. Lincoln, honors him and other […]

“The Uncanny Adventures of Okie Cartoonists”Oklahoma History Center2401 N. Laird10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday $5,  free in costume 522-0765, www.okiecartoonists.org  Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. They come from other planets, big cities and small towns alike. But what about the creators of such characters? For Chester Gould, the father of everyone’s favorite […]