In last year’s Food Issue, we highlighted several concert venues — Chesapeake Energy Arena, The Jones Assembly, Opolis — where you can see a nationally touring act and also eat a better than decent meal. This year, we’d like to offer a variation on the theme and serve up a menu of restaurants where, in […]
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Food Issue: Soul food
First We Dance, Then We Greet, Then We Eat 2-4:30 p.m. Feb. 15, March 21 and April 18 SixTwelve 612 NW 29th St. sixtwelve.org 405-208-8291 $20-$75 Growing up in New York City suburb Rockland County, Marie Casimir belonged to a community of open doors. “I had access to lots of different cultures, but within that […]
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Food Issue: Market move
Crows Farm Markets has been a vendor at OSU-OKC Farmers Market since before it was even known by that name. Claudia Crow said her family started selling various items in 1987 at Pottawattamie County Farmers Market and then at the farmers market at Penn Square Mall, which eventually became the OSU-OKC Farmers Market in 1996. […]
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Sandwich artistry
If you are going to make a sandwich, you might as well have some fun with it. Each month, the chefs at Guyutes team up with Oklahoma Gazette to bring readers a fresh take on cannabis-infused dishes. “We’re gonna do a bacon, arugula, cucumber and egg sandwich, a play on a BLT,” Matt Pryor said. […]
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Hello kitty
The Cat in the Hat Through Feb. 9 Lyric Theatre 1727 NW 16th St. lyrictheatreokc.com 405-524-9312 $20-$25 When Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, introduced The Cat in the Hat in 1957, he might have committed a double homicide. “It may be hard for us to appreciate what a giddy shock The Cat in the Hat […]
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Ode to meatloaf
Besides fruitcake, I can’t think of a more derided food item at the butt of jokes in popular culture than meatloaf, but I’m a fan of the savory loaf. Much how everyone used to hate Brussels sprouts because they’d only eaten them steamed, I think poor preparations have created generations of meatloaf haters. My wife […]
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Raw power
Norman’s Psychotic Reaction recorded Messiahs of Voltage over two days in 2015, and more than four years later, the band was ready to release it. “It’s been a long time coming,” guitarist and vocalist Robert Layton III said of the album that was released online Jan. 21. “I finally had the time off from work […]
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Cover: People count
When D’Metryus Lacopo, 24, got an apartment with his husband in December, it was a major triumph. Not only would they have a space to make their own, but also they were ending a struggle of sleeping on the streets, in parking garages and in their car. “As a married couple, it’s really hard to […]
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Higher competition
Buds and Brawls 7:00 pm Feb. 8 Farmers Public Market 311 S. Klein Ave okcfarmersmarket.com 405-232-6506 $25-150 When Chase O’Grady was watching alongside hundreds during the cannabis kickboxing matches inside a tent in a front yard in Newcastle in December, he knew the concept was ready to be taken to the next level. On Feb. […]
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Cover: Dragged up
Drag has completely changed Shantel P. Mandalay’s life. Ms. Shantel, as she is known, especially at Drag Queen Story Hour, said drag helped her feel accepted. During the day, Ms. Shantel is an elementary school teacher named Shane, which he said was very tough when he first started. “I’m an educator, so when I first […]