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Article by Helen Grant/Video by Kenny Madison. It is something of a spectator sport to walk into Elemental Coffee and order your favorite bean while roaster Micah Metheny is carefully crafting the next batch of Groove, Pursha, or Saucha over in the next room. In addition to providing coffee, Elemental Coffee also sells locally-produced food, [...]
If your ambitions on wrapping up your Christmas shopping have yet to come into fruition, worry not. In these pages you will find a bevy of local shops where patrons do not suffer from overcrowding and high-stakes parking. Some locations will even let you schedule time to shop outside of normal business hours and, most [...]
When it comes to planning a military campaign, Patton’s got nothing on me. The war in question involves fighting the hordes of holiday shoppers that will descend upon the malls and numerous retail outlets on the day after Thanksgiving – more fondly referred to as “Black Friday”. In order to successfully accumulate the greatest amount [...]
Lee’s Sandwiches 3300 N. Classen Blvd $1-$5 Oklahoma City, OK 73118 (405) 601-2161 I generally scorn the idea of publishing an article about a chain restaurant. I’m a big believer in supporting local businesses, and Lee’s Sandwiches isn’t local. I really should be talking about the almost equally good banh mi available just [...]
The Girlie Show was as busy as ever Friday night as attendees filed into the OKC Public Farmer’s Market off Klein St in OKC to shop the booths of new and returning female crafters and artisans. Even in The Girlie Show’s 8th year, the organizers kept the mix fresh and lively. The line wrapped around [...]
Yesterday we brought you #10-6 of the most disquieting entries in the Netflix instant catalog; today we bring you the top 5. Once you see these movies, you cannot un-see them. Ready? OK. 5. I Think We’re Alone Now I’m sorry to do this to you, but I had to put this movie on the [...]
When people say “There’s nothing good on Netflix Instant”, I experience the same knee-jerk reactionary impulse to prove them wrong as when people complain, “There’s nothing to do in Oklahoma City.” I half-jokingly say that Netflix is mankind’s greatest invention, but in my heart of hearts, I believe it. If it weren’t for Netflix, I’d [...]
Ah, Oklahoma City in the fall: once empty box stores are temporarily reborn as Halloween supply stores; changing foliage and college football supporters compete to fill the landscape with reds and oranges; outsized pumpkins roll onto outsized lawns in historic neighborhoods. There’s something invigorating in the air. With another oppressive summer behind us and [...]
I’m going to let you in on one of the dirty secrets of veganism. This is the secret that I tell to people who find out that I’m vegan and immediately say: “Do you eat tofu? I tried it once and didn’t like it. I don’t know how you can eat that stuff!” Yes, tofu [...]
What is there to say about the fair? You could say it’s maybe the the purest manifestation of Americana. Conversely, you could say it’s a good place to go to laugh at people who don’t realize they’re being subjected to a unique brand of cruelty disguised as ironic cultural consumption. You could say it’s a [...]
