In 2007, an Oklahoma City University team won a national softball championship. Rachel Cope was on that team. From this experience she learned two things that would guide her future life as a restaurateur: the value of teamwork and the joy of success.
What she didn’t know at this point was that she was destined to be a restaurateur. She...
Despite Oklahoma’s strong tradition in amateur bowling, the state had rarely hosted major events in the sport until recently.
The U.S. Bowling Congress had its nationals in 1985 and 1993 in Tulsa, and the Professional Bowlers Association had tour competitions at 66 Bowl in Oklahoma City in the 1960s and at The Lanes at Coffee Creek in Owasso in 2005.
Today,...
Sports fans can enjoy a bit of everything.
America’s favorite pastime goes strong through the month. You can catch the Tulsa Drillers at home at the ONEOK Stadium June 6-11 and 20-25, and the OKC Dodgers at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark June 1-4, 13-18 and 20-25. Softball fanatics won’t want to miss the Women’s College World Series, taking place June...
Savannah is a city (literally) draped in the feathery wisps of Spanish Moss trees. It’s also symbolically draped in history – with a heritage as strong as the towering, whispering pines and as steady as the rolling tides of the marsh.
Aloe vera plants and palm trees soften the landscape, while florals decorate town squares, encircling the austere historic statues...
Tierra del Fuego is about as far south as you can get while still being in civilization. It’s the land at the End of the World – the extreme southern tip of Argentina, just across the mythical Strait of Magellan in Patagonia. The island is also the jumping off point for stout-hearted Antarctica adventurers.
The gateway into Tierra del Fuego...
Every industry has a coveted award – the pinnacle of success for which one aims. Films have Oscars. Music has Grammys. TV has Emmys. Journalism has the Pulitzer. And what do we, your beloved lifestyle magazine in the region, have? That’s right – The Best of the Best Awards.
Take a look around town and you’ll likely see businesses displaying...
Lori Beth McDonald thinks honeybees are fascinating. She loves the taste of honey, is sold on its dietary benefits and enjoys creating food and skincare products from her 40 hives. It’s a win all around for the owner of Tulsa’s Okie Bee Farms, who started her business after she was laid off from an IT job.
Honey, McDonald says, is...
Oklahoma’s favorite son Will Rogers once said: “We do more talking about progress that we do progressing.” And in some Oklahoma cities, progress often looks like orange traffic cones, delays and detours.
Other progress has threatened one treasured asset in our small Oklahoma towns in the past century: the main street districts and historic downtown centers that reflect ample history...
Arnell Dean made his career choice as a teenager, thanks to Emergency, which ran on NBC for six seasons in the 1970s. The show’s paramedics, Roy DeSoto and Johnny Gage with Los Angeles County’s fictonalized Squad 51, were Dean’s heroes.
“I watched it religiously,” says Dean, a 40-year emergency medical technician with EMSA in Oklahoma City. “Every episode, they saved...
Though he has lived in Los Angeles and Dallas and even made it into the top three of Bravo’s reality competition Top Chef, chef Joshua Valentine always comes home, and he’s always been a proud Oklahoman.
Valentine is one of the fortunate handful of culinarians who can say that they went through the apprenticeship program with chef Kurt Fleischfresser at...
