Bill Bishop’s Commentary (“Counterpoint: Paying the price,” Jan. 19, Gazette) is frustrating and loaded with half-truths. The idea that Texas liquor laws have a negative impact on selection and price in that state is an outright fallacy. Most major cities in Texas have robust selections in grocery and chain stores, and have thriving niche liquor […]
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OKC Chamber CEO’S chronology is incorrect
Regarding the Point/Counterpoint Commentary in the Jan. 19 Oklahoma Gazette by Roy Williams (“Point: Revise outmoded liquor laws”), president and CEO of Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, and Bill Bishop (“Counterpoint: Paying the price”), owner of The Grape Wine & Spirits in northwest Oklahoma City: Bishop makes several very valid points regarding the very […]
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Whittington wit
Texas, meet Italy. Italy, meet Texas. Austin-based singer/ songwriter Daniel Whittington will showcase his tunes at 8 p.m. Saturday at “Norman’s Little Italy,” aka Othello’s, 434 Buchanan in Campus Corner. Touring to support his latest album, “Things Change,” Whittington certainly has lots of practice, having performing since he was 11 in his father’s blues band. […]
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Where’s the beef?
Animals that are grass-fed are much leaner, and because of their diet, they have nutrients that are not present in meats that are grain-fed. PlumRich Beef, owned by Hans Plum and Bart Richey, is one local company that provides locally raised, grass-fed Texas longhorn meat to local retailers and restaurants, plus by arrangement to individual […]
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Ray’s way
Ray Wylie Hubbard and John Fullbright8 p.m. Friday-Saturday The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinleywww.bluedoorokc.com 524-0738 $25 advance, $30 door He received his big break via Jerry Jeff Walker, who turned his track, “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother,” into a hit in 1973. That inaugurated a 15-year stretch of good times and wild partying (or […]
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Rogers’ will
Randy Rogers Band 9 P.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday Wormy Dog Saloon 311 E. Sheridan www.wormydog.com 601-6276 $50 Friday, $30 Saturday Not all metro music fans want to spend their New Year’s Eve with The Flaming Lips; some seek something a little more grounded in reality. That’s where red-dirt favorite Randy Rogers Band steps […]