Avid readers keeping up with the current paranormal-fantasy scene will recognize Sherrilyn Kenyon’s name. With 60 published books across multiple series — and more than 50 of those titles landing on the New York Times best-seller list — the popularity of her work is undeniable. But Kenyon is not one to rest on her laurels, […]
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Music Made Me: Cami Stinson
Credit: Trawick Images Etta James, Her Best (1997) Another compilation CD, but by the time I got a hold of these artists, they’d already moved mountains. Like Patsy, Etta has this grit and soulful sound I admire and am drawn to. Her effortless and witty phrasing opened my ears to phrasing and texture. I covered […]
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Barry spritzer
Rock has The Beatles, jazz has Miles Davis, rap has Tupac, and adult contemporary has Barry Manilow. The man who became an icon for molding “Mandy,” “Copacabana (At the Copa)” and “Can’t Smile Without You” into chunks of pop-culture history is a natural showman with a gleaming voice, penchant for flashy stage attire and a […]
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What the flux?
That’s right: a time machine. Gary Weaver (pictured) is rebuilding a DeLorean DMC-12 to the exact specifications of the famed DeLorean time machine, as constructed by Doc Brown in the 1985 film “Back to the Future,” starring Michael J. Fox. Weaver’s car is about 99 percent identical to the car in the movie, with the […]
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Ward 3
It’s been nearly a decade of loud guitars for Jim Ward. The Texas native achieved worldwide fame with his original group, hardcore’s At the Drive-In, then by starting the rock band Sparta. The buzzing in his ears must have gotten to him, because in the middle of the aughts, he ditched the electric for an […]
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Missing: one TARDIS
Kind of. The iconic blue police box is missing, but it’s not the made-in-Gallifrey TARDIS variety (that’d be Time and Relative Dimension in Space) — it’s the variety that a dad and daughter built themselves. According to KFOR-TV, Tom Iadevaia and his daughter, Kaitlyn, of Little Axe, built the 300-pound structure to sit in their […]
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So Money
Asked a few years ago what it’s like to go from top of the charts to playing amusement parks, as he will again Saturday at Frontier City, Eddie Money replied, “I’m just glad people still want to see me.” He may be a shameless self-promoter — 35 years in the business can do that to […]
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How to not screw up
With small businesses comprising 99.7 percent of all employer firms, he said it’s important owners follow these six pieces of post-recession advice: —Focus on your business model, not the economy. —Don’t make dramatic changes. —Stop fretting about the bad times; look at the long term. —Buy a weaker competitor while prices are low. —Take time […]
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Shoot from the hip
With a foreword by actor James Garner, fellow Oklahoman, the hardcover features photographs and essays, all highlighting specific features of the state that Cook finds to be particularly unique. His subjects include everything from landscapes to the different lifestyles residents lead. “Oklahoma is my birth state, and I feel a strong connection to the land […]
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Birds of summer
Having just moved to a tree-filled lot near a creek, I was curious what all the chatter was about. I began noticing the variety of birds, like the small, blue-gray speedster in the flower beds and the orange-mohawked punk rocker that gathered twigs outside my window. An entire Crayola box of birds flitted around my […]