Is it Monday? That means it’s time for another installment of Beer Review Monday! The virtuous, backpack-clad Thunder play the hated (boo!) LA Lakers in the second round of the NBA Playoffs, and OKC.NET is ready to roll. Beer at 11 a.m.? It’s in the name of journalism (and preparation for the game this evening…you [...]
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Hipsters, Like Yetis, are Hairy and Don’t Exist
The very funny comedian and UCB performer Alex Fernie had this to say on his blog recently: “Let’s stop using the word “Hipster” as if it means anything. It doesn’t. If you can use it to describe equally the characters in Girls, the chicks wearing Indian feathers at Justice’s Coachella set, and 40 year old [...]
I Will Strike Down Upon Thee With Great Vengeance and Furious Anger: Thunder-Mavericks Game 3
The Thunder has been rolling in the playoffs so far, and no nobody’s more excited about than we here at OKC.NET. Throughout the entire playoffs series, certain OKC.NET staffers have been watching the game and shouting Pulp Fiction quotes at the television to describe our feelings about things in the games. The Thunder-Mavs series has been [...]
Hear, Hear: I Take on Listener at The Society
Tuesday night at the Society saw four bands, a garage crowded with concertgoers, a gallery full of artwork – and one Boston Terrier. The dog in question, Baybee, belonged to So Called Savages frontman Bradlee Meredith and wove in and out of groups of people chatting between sets. The show, which was slated to begin at [...]
Get In The Groove: Review of Record Store Day
For decades, all kinds of technologies have promised to replace the vinyl record, but those perfectly round black discs are a lot like the resilient cockroach, an under-estimated creature that breezed through the ice age and ultimately outlasted its supposedly fiercer competitors. Indeed, vinyl has triumphed over every bright, shiny, new technology that has tried [...]
Moments of Silence
My father used to joke that a cup of coffee saved his life. Whether that was his typically dry wit, or the use of gallows humor as an attempt to cope with something horrific, I don’t know. You see, my father is David Page, who works for The Journal Record, and was in the old [...]
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Bombing
Everyone has a story for where they were April 19, 1995. Some people were close enough to hear the explosion; others were called by friends and family or heard about it on the news. One of my friends was at work at the State Health Department over a mile away, and the shock wave broke [...]
In Memoriam
On this day, seventeen years ago, I awoke to sunlight streaming through my bedroom window, and my mother’s voice calling me to get up. At this point in my life, I had dropped out of high school to care for her after major back surgery as she could not care for herself. My Mom had [...]
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks at State Capitol
National Civil Rights leader and political activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke briefly at the state capitol today about the legacy of racial violence in America and the racially motivated shootings in Tulsa over Easter weekend. Here are his remarks in their entirety.
Smart ALEC?
Monday evening may have marked the end of the standard work day for many Oklahomans around the metro, but for a few it was the start of a protest. As always happens in the lead-up to such things, the OKC.NET email and social media accounts were buzzing. “Protest at the governor’s mansion!” implored one message [...]
