Millions tuned in for the Super Bowl, but what viewers did not see was an ad featuring a former Choctaw family who left home to treat their son with medical cannabis. Amy Bourlon-Hilterbran moved with her family to Florence, Colorado, in 2014. “My husband Jason and I are from Oklahoma, born and raised. Choctaw,” Bourlon-Hilterbran […]
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Valentine’s Day: Modern love
Valentine’s Day spending in the United States is projected to grow this year even as fewer people are celebrating the holiday, as the market is fueled by those in the 35-44 age group and people ages 25-34, according to National Retail Federation. Research from NRF finds that the average person spends $161.96 — men in […]
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Valentine’s Day: Family man
Asking The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne a question he hasn’t heard before seems almost impossible. He has collaborated with Yoko Ono and Kesha and played Madison Square Garden and Beverly Hills, 90210’s Peach Pit in his more than 35-year career. But after he and Katy Weaver were married last month on the roof of Plenty […]
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Valentine’s Day: Valentine’s variety
7th Annual Valentine’s Affair 9 p.m. Saturday Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. adelewolf.com 405-673-6162 $25-$40 Celebrate the “good, the bad and the ugly of love and romance” with Valentine’s Affair presented by Adèle Wolf’s Burlesque and Variety Show 9 p.m. Saturday. “We work hard to make our events inclusive for a diverse […]
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Commentary: Paper money
Late last year, a candidate for public office was interviewed by Oklahoma Gazette for an election preview story, and everything went perfectly well — at least until the interview ended. As the reporter got up to leave, the candidate had the temerity to ask if he could read the story before it went to press. […]
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Weight list
Restaurant food challenges have existed for decades. The earliest known challenge was in St. Louis at Crown Candy Kitchen, which has been in operation since 1913. In more than a century, only about 30 people have successfully finished five 24-ounce milkshakes or malts in 30 minutes. Perhaps the most famous food challenge is down Interstate […]
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Euphonius food
Not long ago, concert venues mostly had the same menu as high school football game concession stands: canned-cheese nachos, maybe a pickle or a soft pretzel, if you were really lucky a hamburger heated who knows how. Recently, mercifully, more local music venues are offering food you might actually want to, you know, eat. Carefully […]
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Youth protection
Sara Cunningham is the founder of Free Mom Hugs, an organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ rights. She went viral last year after volunteering to be a stand-in mom at same-sex weddings where couples’ parents refuse to attend. But before she became an advocate, Cunningham thought being gay was an ultimate offense to God. “Our youngest […]
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Forward momentum
Suzy Thompson and her husband Steve Wampus Reynolds got their start in 2002 at Opolis, the Norman music venue at 113 N. Crawford Ave., operating a small coffee shop. Thompson had long fostered an interest in cheesemongering, and around that time, a group of supportive University of Oklahoma professors urged her to start a shop. […]
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Commentary: Care giving
President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided for expansion of Medicaid on a state-by-state basis, and since 2014, 37 states and the District of Columbia have approved expanding Medicaid coverage to persons making below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Newly elected Gov. Kevin Stitt, who wants to run Oklahoma like a business, […]