Best local craft brewer COOP Ale Works 4745 Council Heights Road Angry Scotsman Brewing, 704 W Reno Ave. Bricktown Brewery, several metro locations Stonecloud Brewing Co., 1012 NW First St., Suite 101 Vanessa House Beer Co., 118 NW Eighth St. Best local tap room Prairie Artisan Ales 3 NE 8th St. Angry Scotsman Brewing, 704 […]
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Best of OKC 2020: Cannabis
Best dispensary Fire Leaf Dispensary several metro locations You don’t need us to tell you there are literally hundreds of cannabis dispensaries all over town, often several on the same corner. Yet, Fire Leaf has managed to distinguish itself and repeats as Best Dispensary after winning in last year’s debut for this category. One […]
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Best of OKC 2020: Life & Wellness
Best place to volunteer Oklahoma Humane Society two metro locations Infant Crisis Services, 4224 N. Lincoln Blvd. Mutt Misfits Animal Rescue Society Oliver and Friends Farm Animal Sanctuary, 20217 N. Indian Meridian, Luther Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, 3355 S. Purdue Ave. Best nonprofit Oklahoma Humane Society two metro locations One of the unforeseen positive […]
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Decades in the making, city set to realize Core to Shore vision
Almost a year after Oklahoma City formally opened sprawling Scissortail Park south of the central business district, three other big park projects that would fulfill the long-held vision of connecting downtown to the Oklahoma River and to the southside are in progress. When plans were drawn to relocate an obsolete and crumbling section of Interstate […]
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OKG Lifestyle: Aly Cunningham
Around OKC EAT: GoGo Sushi WATCH: Fleabag (Amazon Prime) LISTEN: The Mean Hustle Broad Cast (The Spy FM) READ: Front Desk by Kelly Yang LOVE: Sisu Youth Services EXPERIENCE: 2nd Friday Art Walk in Norman Outside OKC EAT: Seven Mile Cafe in Denton, Texas WATCH: Good Mythical Morning (YouTube) LISTEN: Backlisted Podcast READ: “I Was […]
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Halloween Guide: Haunted haunts
From Edmond down to Norman, the metro area is full of opportunities to simultaneously get into the spooky holiday spirit and learn some history during various ghost tours. Author Jeff Provine has been helping lead ghost tours around Norman for a decade, but as his historical expertise has expanded after writing four books for Haunted […]
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OKG Lifestyle: Catherine Sweeney
Around OKC EAT: Chick-N-Beer WATCH: The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) LISTEN: Tales Unveiled podcast READ: @OKC-SPAN Twitter account LOVE: helping turtles cross the road EXPERIENCE: Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts @ OKCMOA Outside OKC EAT: matzo ball soup from Katz’s Delicatessen WATCH: Derry Girls […]
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Music, man
Woodstock 50th Anniversary Celebration Aug. 15-17 Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W. Reno Ave. myriadgardens.org 405-445-7080 Free-$5 In August 1969, New York hosted an event called Woodstock, promising three days of peace and love; Oklahoma City, meanwhile, did not. Fifty years later, the opposite might be true. While Woodstock 50 — which boasted a lineup featuring […]
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Park money
An initiative petition to establish a dedicated fund for neighborhood parks was filed last week. Led by former councilman Ed Shadid, the petition would enact a 1/8th of a cent excise tax earmarked for park programming, capital improvements and operations. If passed, the tax would generate about $14 million in additional funding for Parks & […]
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Mistaken identities
The Comedy of Errors June 6-29 Water Stage Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W. Reno Ave. okshakes.org 405-235-3700 Free-$20 For Oklahoma Shakespeare founder and artistic director Kathryn McGill, some of the laughs in The Comedy of Errors come from attempting to describe the plot. “I’m going to try to explain it,” McGill said. “That’s going to […]