The Oklahoma Beer Alliance has worked closely with the Oklahoma Legislature and the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement (ABLE) Commission to support Senate Bill 1928 and House Bill 1349. SB 1928 would add to Oklahoma law the following: Allow retail spirit licensees to sell curbside and deliver alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and spirits in […]
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Food Issue: In good spirits
It wasn’t so long ago when Oklahoma bartenders had to go to great lengths to tap into the nation’s ever-expanding array of specialty bitters, mixers and bar tools while also being stifled by the state’s strict and confusing blue laws. Barkeep Supply has stepped in to allow the metro’s more ambitious mixologists to explore more […]
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Special dinner at Mary Eddy’s Kitchen x Lounge highlights bourbon’s rise in popularity
A special dinner at Mary Eddy’s Kitchen x Lounge highlights bourbon’s rise in popularity.
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Valley of the dolls
Delbridge Honanie’s Palhik Mana A Norman curator awakened six Native American spirits through representative paintings, textiles, jewelry, ceramics and carved figures for a Hopi art exhibition opening Friday at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. As assistant curator of Native American and non-Western art, Heather Ahtone focused on half a dozen katsina spirits of the […]
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In the opening scene of writer/director Gilbert Chan’s film, we also learn that if someone dies at that time, one minute until midnight, his or her soul will not rest in peace. Tan (newcomer Tedd Chan) tells his fellow recruits this while regaling them with ghost stories on the floor of their barracks. They’re in […]
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The Apparition
This is the real estate conundrum vexing the cute couple at the tell-tale heart of The Apparition, Ben (Sebastian Stan, Captain America: The First Avenger) and Kelly (Ashley Greene, The Twilight Saga). It’s all because, unbeknownst to his beaut beau, Ben took active part in a paranormal psychology experiment headed by a fellow student (Tom […]
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Like it dirty?
Although the name now applies to all sorts of cocktails, “martini” originally meant the recipe of five parts gin to one part dry vermouth. An olive was allowed, and even a touch of bitters. You could shake or stir; it was still a martini. The name now describes everything from the original to a glorified […]
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Green guzzling
Of the three main categories of booze — wine, beer and spirits —the former is by far the most difficult to produce organically, at least in the U.S. Thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s certification process, organic wines cannot contain added sulfites, which are chemicals added to wines to inoculate against bad bacteria. “American […]