Herpetology, defined as the study of snakes and amphibians, is a topic that can be daunting or downright terrifying for many individuals. However, the hobby has grown quite an enthusiastic fan base in recent years.
Clubs like the Oklahoma City Herpetological and Invertebrate Society and the Tulsa Herp Club have been around for decades. These groups are an excellent spot...
Unlike some of the more visible team sports, clay pigeon shooting sports may be new to many. They consist primarily of three types: skeet, trap and sporting clays, but they all involve shooting a shotgun at a clay target. But there’s much more to it – and lots of opportunity for fun.
“We can get you started, from the...
In its first year, the Creative Quills Writing Group had a booth at the El Reno Burger Day Festival. Twenty-five authors, still unpublished at the time, filled the group’s table with their business cards. The following year, the table was covered with 25 newly published books. What started as a workshop during poetry month in 2015 has blossomed into...
A true Tulsa hometown company since 1988, Becco Contractors Inc. started small. General superintendent Chad Smith tells how his dad started Becco in the family garage with a backhoe, a dump truck, a trailer and five employees ... and their first job was digging a dog’s grave for $88.
Becco grew by focusing on municipal, county and state needs, and...
Over the last several months, Brent Douglas has learned a lot about the principles of action and reaction – although they’re not the kinds of lessons you’ll find in a physics textbook. Instead, the performer whose voice and phone-call shtick brought consistent laughs to a generation of Tulsa-radio listeners has been applying this newfound knowledge to stand-up comedy.
And...
Oklahoma has no shortage of quality businesses that foster healthy work environments while positively contributing to the diverse fabric of our state. But what, exactly, makes a company great? The answer is hard to pinpoint, but when you see it, you know. Happy employees are the most obvious tell that a business is succeeding – this typically indicates a strong work culture, great benefits, collaboration, flexibility and capable management.
Oklahoma Magazine’s Great Companies to Work For feature highlights many of these successful businesses in a comprehensive listing. From accounting firms to health care institutions, tribal enterprises and universities, this feature showcases the state’s stand-outs.
If you seem to have more time on your hands lately, you’re not alone. Many people, perhaps those who loved to paint as children, have returned to the hobby as adults at a variety of venues across the state.
“The Edmond Fine Arts Institute is comprised of visual and performing art classes available year round,” says executive director Shannon Price....
Piedmont native Deborah Gay’s love of horses began at age four or five, and she’s never given up her spurs.
Living on twelve acres in Piedmont, Gay and her husband, Bob, started taking in needy horses ... but the situation got out of hand. So, they relocated to 160 flat prairie acres in El Reno. And in July 2013, they...
The timeline for construction on the National BMX Headquarters in Tulsa has looked like a BMX dirt-track race itself: loaded with jumps, berms and rollers. The project has been beset with delays, including negotiation breakdowns in 2017 and the change of the construction site from Expo Square to the current Evans-Fintube location north of downtown. Then, a few months...
A lifelong artist with a printmaking degree from the University of Central Oklahoma, Sarah Day-Short aimed to make art her career. Starting out, she focused on drawing and detail-oriented work, like custom pet portraits. However, these projects left her feeling boxed in; she wasn’t able to put as much creativity into the work as she wanted.
Enter abstract. To break...
