Just an hour and a half southwest of Oklahoma City, lying in the shadow of the Wichita Mountains, is the unique town of Medicine Park. Known as “America’s Cobblestone Community”, this historic town was founded on July 4, 1908 by Senator Elmer Thomas as a resort for the rich, famous and infamous. Early regulars included [...]
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SXSW 2012 Pt. 1: Rocking The Saddest Block Party of All Time
Half of these people work for a “street team” of one kind or another. Photo by Jordan Bayhylle. Editor’s Note: Because we decided to wear our responsible small-business pants to work everyday for an entire year, we are not making the sojourn to SXSW. Perhaps next year when we have more writers, photographers, and multimedia [...]
Saturday in the Park
Formerly a ghost town except during the annual Festival of the Arts, the new and vastly improved Myriad Gardens recently received a $30 million makeover as part of the $180 million Project 180 plan for downtown. Included in the renovation of the 17-acre park is a repaneled Crystal Bridge (with LED-lighted glass panels to illuminate [...]
The Olympic Village comes to Oklahoma City during the Oklahoma Regatta Festival
The Oklahoma Regatta Festival kicked off this past Thursday Night at the Chesapeake Boathouse with sumptuous food/drinks, fireworks, and music that serenaded ‘World Class Athletes’ from Germany, Italy, Canada and the United States as well as many Oklahoma VIP’s. It was a beautiful evening for a meet and greet with world athletes and their [...]
Mitzi’s Maxim, OR I Once Again Fail Miserably at Joining The Real World
I’m walking down Sunset Boulevard dropping off my resume at every restaurant I see within the area. I hate it. The restaurant manager at these places, usually a middle-aged short man with some unsightly mole or neck hair, always looks me up and down, drunk with the power of decision. He’s always very skeptical [...]
Downtown Oklahoma City Guide Part II: Midtown
This is part two of my three part neighborhood guide about Downtown OKC, covering the Midtown neighborhood. As with the last installment, I have relied heavily on the flat out awesome Lynne Rostochil for her amazing photos and depth of knowledge. Lynne’s comments in are in blue. Midtown is really just the north end of [...]
LA Is Still Rapey: Dispatches from the City of Angels
[Our friend Leah Kayajanian moved to LA last month to follow her comedy dreams and what have you. These are here first impressions.] I’m walking down Hollywood Boulevard. It’s 82 degrees outside, and I’m loving it because I know that it’s 110 in Oklahoma. There’s a man standing next to me. He seems pretty homeless, [...]
Home is Whenever I’m with you, OKC
Let me tell you a story about a girl (me) who was born and raised in Oklahoma, left Oklahoma for Colorado, and is currently burdened by the internal conflict of whether or not she should come back. My father raised me to live by a famous quote by Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, [...]
Womb Gallery: Giving A Whole New Meaning to ‘Art Opening’
Recently, drivers along Broadway Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City have noticed the progress of a mural, painted over two blank white faces of a two- story empty building on 9th Street. With flourescent pinks, radiating diagonal lines, graphic black-and-white eyeballs, and lots and lots of pink- its happy chaos is impossible to miss. This [...]
Oklawhaaa? Totem Pole Park in Foyil
The urge to create massive works of folk art out of scrap and concrete is a uniquely American tendency. There may be the occasional Aussie building a massive Dropbear out of railroad ties somewhere in Queensland, but no nation on earth has a higher density of eccentric backyard sculpture than the USA. This is the [...]
