BY: Mark Hancock There is great promise in grocery stores. Especially unfamiliar ones When you walk down the aisles, you’re bound to find something you haven’t seen before — a new brand, perhaps, or some new flavor you’ve yet to encounter elsewhere. And in your mind, there is a hope that this time, this time, […]
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Open Prairie
John McBryde at Prairie Thunder By: Shannon Cornman Artisans of a midtown bakery will participate in their first international open house Saturday with hourly bread and pastry demonstrations, as well as free tastings. As a member of the Bread Bakers Guild of America, Prairie Thunder Baking Company, 1114 Classen Drive, invites audiences to see how […]
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Marrow minded
<span style="mso-bidi- line-height:115%”><span style=" mso-bidi-line-height:115%”> Marshall Matlock By: Mark Hancock Marshall Matlock’s life was saved by a stranger. Four years later, he is now Facebook friends with her. But in late 2009, after two rounds of chemotherapy to treat his acute myelogenous leukemia, all Matlock knew was that his chance for survival depended on finding […]
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Crumbling Capitol
Oklahoma State Capitol Credit: Shannon Cornman That’s why they’ve been included on this year’s list of Oklahoma’s Most Endangered Historic Places. Preservation Oklahoma Inc., a private nonprofit, unveiled its 2013 selections April 10 during a presentation at the Capitol. Gov. Mary Fallin attended the event, thanking Preservation Oklahoma for including the Capitol on its list. […]
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Plan B’s
The restaurant will be S&B’s third in less than three years of operation. The original is at 5929 N. May, and a Midtown location opened last year at 20 N.W. Ninth. Neel said a fourth location in Norman is in the works for later this year or early 2013. In conjunction with the 7745 S. […]
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Gazette’s Halloween Parade set for Oct. 27
Gazette’s Halloween Parade began as the Gazette’s Ghouls Gone Wild Parade in 2007, with almost 20,000 spectators and 64 entries. Last year, the parade boasted more than 60,000 in attendance, with 65 entries and more than 2,000 participants and 200 volunteers. Gazette‘s Halloween Parade 2012 emcee Liz Dueweke This year, Gazette’s Halloween Parade will showcase […]
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Looking ahead
Better Block OKC essentially takes a block or two of underutilized or blighted streetscape and inexpensively transforms that area using art, culture, pop-up businesses and other methods. For example, vendors set up shop in an urban section for a night, while the appearance of the area is transformed with transitory improvements, such as trees, benches […]
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O yeah!
After all, this is the group that named a song “Peggy Sue Pepperoni Pants” and seriously considered naming its debut album after a Harley-Davidson T-shirt slogan. So when I asked its members to let their iPods do the talking, they were all about the unconventional interview style. For every question I asked, they answered with […]