A man we assume was already sufficiently over-caffeinated stole an 18-wheeler Pepsi truck late last month. The soda truck thief, Steven Allen Hart, jumped into the truck and drove off with it while workers were unloading product from the back. The truck’s actual driver had to jump out as Hart made his getaway. The man’s […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Purloined playthings
Hustler Hollywood in Tulsa was victim of a heist last week when a car drove directly through its entry doors and the robber absconded with about $300-$400 worth of lingerie and sex toys. Police told KOTV that the suspect knew the store’s layout because he ran directly to the section to steal the items. It […]
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Building honor
Making the community more user-friendly is part of what Urban Land Institute Oklahoma is celebrating with its fifth annual Impact Awards. The Impact Awards honor projects that represent the best practices in land use and development. The awards are the headline event each year for ULI Oklahoma, which supports promoting and maintaining prospering communities through […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Relocation bonus
George Kaiser Family Foundation funds many community and philanthropic programs and initiatives in and around Tulsa. The Kaiser Foundation celebrated the opening of the 100-acre Gathering Place earlier this year with a free concert by The Roots. Now the foundation is making national headlines with the announcement of the Tulsa Remote program, which offers $10,000 […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Striped heroes
Not all heroes wear capes, and one in particular in Tulsa is wearing a striped uniform and carrying a whistle. If you have attended a youth sporting event over the last 20 years, you’ve no doubt seen it: an irate parent berating a volunteer or underpaid referee because they blame the ref for their child’s […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Mor chik’n
Sometimes, the Chicken-Fried News staff desperately tries to keep Environmental “Protection” Agency administrator Scott Pruitt out of its pages. After all, we want to be fair to everyone from this fair state that manages to reset Oklahoma’s “number of days without a national embarrassment” counter. But Pruitt is, as U.S. Sen. John “Not That One” […]
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Roamin’ holiday
John Calvin Abney album release show 8 p.m. Saturday The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave. bluedoorokc.com 405-524-0738 $20 Whenever John Calvin Abney needed to step away from life and think, he would cross the street from his old house on Tulsa’s S. Yale Avenue and visit the historic Route 66 diner Tally’s Good Food […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Amazon priming
Specifics of Tulsa’s proposal to entice online retailer Amazon to build its second headquarters in the Sooner State remain a mystery due to an open records loophole.
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Chicken-Fried News: A Wild Teenager Appears
Drivers should always be on the lookout for stray teens.
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Tulsa’s John Moreland plays his 2017 finale Dec. 2 at Tower Theatre
A once avid sneaker collector, Moreland now tries to keep focused on his songwriting craft.