Oklahoma City is a “great ecosystem” for software developers, said Clevyr’s Matt Williamson. “I’ve been doing this myself in Oklahoma City since 1995, so I’ve been around and seen a lot. And I would say that the culture in Oklahoma City now is just phenomenal for developers,” Williamson said. “Almost every day, you can go […]
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Stable market
While prices in the Oklahoma medical cannabis market seemed to be dipping in the spring, six months later, they have held steady and, in some cases, have risen. A multitude of factors are responsible for the stagnation in sticker prices, according to dispensary owners and budtenders. Gary “Turbo” Webb manages Green Plus, 1120 S. Air […]
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40 years: Retrospective Gazette
Today, almost a quarter of the Oklahoma City metro reads Oklahoma Gazette for fiercely local news and entertainment. But when it was first founded in 1979, it was a small monthly neighborhood publication only really covering historic preservation and neighborhood issues. In 1982, Randy Splaingard became the publication’s first full-time journalist after working nearly a […]
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40 years: City changes
Oklahoma City as we know it was unrecognizable 40 years ago. While physical changes — like the contemporaneous influx of entertainment and eatery options — are obvious, the attitudes of city residents were also drastically different in 1979 and in the following decades. “1979 was important for a lot of reasons,” said Bob Blackburn, executive […]
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To the future!
As we celebrate Oklahoma Gazette’s 40th anniversary, another milestone has recently passed that is of a more private nature. It has been just over one year since I purchased Tierra Media Group, the parent company of Oklahoma Gazette, from founder Bill Bleakley. And in many ways the journey to this place was personal and a parallel to […]
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Freedom fighters
Freedom Oklahoma aims to build off a successful year for Oklahoma’s LGBTQ+ community by focusing more on diverse sects of the community and advocating for more issues. With October being LGBT History Month, Allie Shinn, Freedom Oklahoma executive director, said the organization is reflecting on recent history to inform what is next to come. The […]
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Lebanese taste
After growing up in Lebanon, Charlie Khalaf’s schooling and career in marketing has taken him to Dubai, New York, Tampa and eventually Tulsa. At each stop, he searched in vain for a restaurant that could replicate the flavors he grew up eating. He had to move to Oklahoma City to take matters into his own […]
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Tribute hotel
The Ellison Hotel, set to open in 2021, will stand in The Triangle at Classen Curve and work in partnership with Ralph Ellison Foundation. It will mark Marriott International’s first foray into Oklahoma under its Tribute Portfolio brand, which focuses on independent boutique hotels “rooted in their local community.” The 75,000 square-foot hotel will house […]
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Accessible cannabis
A slew of new emergency rules for Oklahoma’s medical cannabis program went into effect last week, among them a reduced state fee for disabled veterans. As of Sept. 14, veterans with 100 percent disability status from U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs will be able to receive a patient license for a discounted fee of $20. […]
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Gentle giant
Mammoth Processing, a two-man operation based just south of downtown Oklahoma City, brings a cannabis flower enthusiast’s approach to its concentrates. “Ninety percent of the time, we smoke flower, and 10 percent of the time, for ease and discretion, I smoke a cart. Mammoth is for flower lovers,” co-owner Derek Kern said. “If you don’t […]