Whether you celebrate with your extended family or just a small group of friends, Thanksgiving stands alone as a holiday where people of all beliefs and backgrounds can come together to break bread and be thankful. Traditions abound, and you and your family – whether by blood or by choice – can start making them now. There are...
Breea Clark was elected mayor of Norman, Oklahoma’s third-largest city, in February. She is the youngest woman and the first millennial in the post. She is also director of the J.C. Penney Leadership Program at the University of Oklahoma. She earned her juris doctor at OU and served on Norman’s city council. We caught up with Clark and got...
Adan Salas rises with the sun and arrives at El Hidalguense on Tulsa’s east side. There are fresh, fluffy, corn tortillas to be made (“and when we’re crowded, that’s a lot of tortillas,” he says), chickens to be roasted, sour cream to be concocted, and mole – dark, complex, slightly sweet, with hints of chocolate – to be prepared....
Go northeast from Tulsa’s skyscrapers. Half an hour or so later, leave the interstate and head out on a winding country road. Go through the one-stoplight town of Adair, and then it’s nothing but weathered tin barns and low-slung houses.
Down an even narrower side road and you’re on Angie Faughtenberry’s 413 Farm.
Big, curious dogs surround you. (“They’re working dogs,”...
Passion rules at this joint, where self-described “nerds about flavor” challenge culinary imagination with a philosophy of “good food is our best advertising.” Among the homemade items are salt-and-vinegar chips, onions and peppers. Favorites include shrimp-and-cheddar grits with bacon-mushroom gravy and a coffee-encrusted pork loin topped with a port wine demi-glace and served with rosemary Parmesan risotto and charred...
The Mule in OKC offers cold beer and “hot melts” with many quirky, gooey variations of sandwiches, or “sandies” as they’re called on the menu. Choices include the Croque Madame with sourdough bread, Black Forest ham, gruyere, Dijon mustard, gravy and a sunny side up egg. Other favorites include the Grand Lake Monte Cristo (with white bread, peanut butter,...
Nestled near East 21st Street and South Yale Avenue in Tulsa, Sweets and Cream is a new ice cream shop specializing in homemade, build-your-own ice cream sandwiches. Customers can choose from a dozen cookie types, a dozen ice cream flavors and two brownies (along with some sugar-free and gluten-free options). The shop, with room for parties and other...
This Tulsa-based chain has locations sprinkled across Oklahoma and, while décors vary, the menu of classics remains. Recently added choices include California burritos, stuffed with smoked chicken, pico de gallo, Mexican rice and guacamole and served with cowboy beans, tortilla chips, salsa and queso. For many, Tuesday night means all-you-can-eat ribs (and sides) from 4 p.m. until they sell...
Air perfumed with pine, eucalyptus, lavender, jasmine and orange blossoms wafts in on ocean breezes. Red tile roofs, white-washed architecture, bougainvilleas and towering trees stand along ridges and terraces overlooking the Pacific.
This is Santa Barbara, California, the most Mediterranean city in the United States.
The city’s signature look did not come until the 20th century. Chumash natives inhabited the region...
A 1980s home in Tulsa’s Maple Ridge neighborhood has shed its original character to become a modern residence with abundant amenities.
Upon first impressions, the 5,000-square-foot, two-story home still seems traditional, but its interior has an updated, sophisticated look. Simplicity was the key to this stunning renovation.
David Trebilcock, the face behind this project, has been a fixture in Tulsa’s construction business...
