In three years, sharp-shooting Trae Young has gone from lighting up the gym at Norman North High School to being one of the National Basketball Association’s best players.
The 6-foot-1 point guard, a starter in February’s NBA All-Star Game, has averaged around 30 points and 9 assists per game in his second season with the Atlanta Hawks. That’s up from...
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum wants this year’s commemoration to acknowledge the past while looking toward a different future.
Nearly everyone living in Oklahoma a quarter-century ago recalls that tragic moment, 9:02 a.m. April 19, when 168 people died. Reverberations from the...
For Tulsa rock ’n’ rollers, the mid-’70s were nothing less than pure gold. Hometown hero Leon Russell was back and firing off projects and ideas and recording sessions from his Church Studio base.
The clubs were chock-full of great musicians – some drawn to town by Russell and his entourage, and others who were homegrown, lucky and blessed enough to...
If the thought of staying at home for the foreseeable future is making you a bit antsy, fear not! There are plenty of ways to stay entertained (and even productive) during this time of quarantine. Following are a few ideas to try.
Get a workout in
Whether you’ve got hundreds of feet to exercise or just a few, there are a...
County health departments, including OKC-County and Tulsa Health Departments, do not offer testing for COVID-19 (coronavirus).
Any individual who develops symptoms such as fever, cough, and/or difficulty breathing, and has been in close contact with a person known to have COVID-19 or has recently traveled from an area with ongoing spread of COVID-19 should contact their health care provider...
Oklahoma Magazine reached out to the Oklahoma State Department of Health to create a public service announcement regarding coronavirus. Here are responses to some of your questions about the disease, answered by Amanda Shoemate, epidemiologist with the Oklahoma State Department of Health Acute Disease Service. For more information go to cdc.gov.
Around Town
Another March, another True/False Film Festival, and another round of cajoling you to go to Columbia, Missouri, to catch this unusual event.
If just one person has driven 5 hours from Tulsa or 6½ hours from OKC to check out True/False, then this column has succeeded. The special festival, which emphasizes nonfiction films of both the crowd-pleasing and experimental...
Everything you need for sprucing up your house and yard can be found at the Tulsa Home and Garden Show on March 12-15 at Expo Square. Stick around Expo Square for the canine athleticism featured at the Tulsa Dog Training Club Agility Trials from March 13 to 15.
You don’t want to miss the first welcome of spring at Tulsa...
Immerse yourself in the world of singing, dancing, rainbows, glitter and hugs at Oklahoma City’s Cox Convention Center when Trolls Live runs March 6-8. Kids of all ages can enjoy the hoops fun of the famous Harlem Globetrotters, who visit OKC’s Chesapeake Arena on March 14 and Tulsa’s BOK Center on March 15. The ultimate in monster truck racing...
Artist Frank Buffalo Hyde is featured at Gilcrease Museum’s exhibition I-Witness Culture, running through May 10, with a focus on Native Americans’ use of social media and the representation of today’s Native peoples. With a March 15 debut, Tulsa Treasures: Private Collections in Public is an exhibition at Philbrook Museum of 18th-century French objects, regional art, furniture and more....
