It’s all well and good to say you’re a friend of the library; you can go to the library from time to time, check out a book, read some journal articles, watch a puppet show, grab a nap…but when it comes down to it, what have YOU done for the Library lately? The library [...]
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Old Paris Flea Market: Family Business
It isn’t exactly a newsflash anymore- Times are tough. I think we can all agree that the economy sucks. Shopping is no longer America’s favorite pastime, and for most of us the days of shopping in shiny high-tech malls, by catalog, or over the internet have lost most of their glamour. To regain some of [...]
I Want To Go To There: Super Cao Nguyen
When I first moved here, I thought Super Cao Nguyen might be a dance club. The neon palm trees on twenty-fifth street didn’t exactly scream Supermarket to me. Now, they call to me all the way from two blocks south, beckoning me to the city’s Asian grocery Mecca.
Finding Your Style through Fashion: Not Your Typical Fashion Article
It’s 2011 and the standard New Years resolution is to lose weight. How many people actually stick to that? Let’s try something that is just as good as losing weight, can last a lifetime and doesn’t require an hour of visiting the treadmill each day. Style and Fashion are closely related but are two separate [...]
The Funky Flavor of Oklahoma History at Roxy’s
By Sean Murphy There is something fundamentally attractive about the old neighborhoods that draw me to Norman. Maybe it is that general appeal of homes converted to new purposes such as apartments for college students, or maybe it is the downtown area’s preservation of some of the oldest buildings in Oklahoma. Maybe I have seen [...]
Mayridge Thrift
By Holly Leach Hey everyone, I’ve been cruising the southside of OKC lately and have found some really cool places…I will tell you about them all in due time, but let’s start with something close to my heart: Thrift stores and resale shops I love going to thrift stores. “Why?,” you may ask. The [...]
Shameless Self Promotion
Here at OKC.net, we value our awesome contributors. However, until we start rolling in the dough, our admiration will have to be expressed in ways other than monetary. Our solution? Allowing each contributor to plug something they are either working on or involved in; a “Shameless Self-Promotion”, if you will. This once-a-week feature will hopefully [...]
Cheese 101!
So, I was having a late lunch Thursday afternoon at Café 501 in Classen Curve, and though I like to pretend at age 29 I know how to properly walk in heels, apparently I do not. Walking back to the car, I tried to maneuver around a Mercedes by stepping into some freshly laid dirt, [...]
I Want To Go To There:: Urbanology
by Grace Gordon Urbanology is a recently opened vintage home decorating shop located behind Mockingbird Manor at 4417 N. Western Avenue. This shop is curated and cultivated by a woman whose eye for interior design aesthetic remains unparalleled. That woman is Tammy Switzer. Tammy Switzer hails from the “feel good” school of interior decorating. [...]
I Want to Go To There: Moore Than You Might Expect…
Article By Sean Murphy Photos by Amber Westin Normandin I am the co-owner of a craft consignment store called Handmade with HeART in Moore, Oklahoma. Where? Moore. You know, the place you drive by on I-35 on your way from Edmond or Oklahoma City to Norman. Believe it or not, there is more in Moore [...]
