Located in Hennessey, Sparky’s offers everything from pasta to salads, sandwiches, wraps and pizza. Breakfast and brunch menu items include a litany of sandwiches, as well as cinnamon rolls, burritos and hearty platters. For lunch, Sparky’s specialty (and it’s self-proclaimed obsession) is the chicken sandwich – and there’s a whole section of the menu dedicated to its iterations. Try...
Ramen, sushi, bowls, oh my! Mizu has everything you crave on a cold winter day.
Starters kick your meal off with a bang. Try the octopus salad, hot karaage (fried chicken), gyoza (potstickers) or spicy edamame. Next, you can’t go wrong with one of many ramen dishes. Classics include the seafood, with spicy broth, shrimp, scallops, narutomaki (cured fish) and...
Thanks to RSU TV – northeastern Oklahoma’s public-television station – and its senior producer-director, Bryan Crain, I was recently able to co-produce and direct a documentary that I’ve been itching to do for a long time. Called Tulsa Terrors, it’s all about the direct-to-home-video horror-movie boom of the mid-1980s and how it was ignited right in T-town. I was...
What is it that is so compelling about the idea of a ghost town? Wind blowing through tall, unkempt grasses around the crumbling remains of buildings. Ancient town signs decaying and hanging haphazardly from old posts. Buildings standing creepily derelict is enough to pique the interest of even the most casual observer. These sorts of scenes fill the imagination...
Congressman and former University of Oklahoma quarterback J.C. Watts once said: “I like to call the ethos I grew up with ‘Oklahoma values.’ But you’d be just as accurate if you said ‘American values.’ Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that’s American.”
And what’s more American than sports? Baseball has...
In a world saturated by video games, anime, comic books, and popular TV shows and films, cosplaying is a popular way to show enthusiasm and form a community of like-minded individuals. The term ‘cosplay,’ short for costume play, was coined sometime in the mid-1980s, but the activity has been around long before that.
“Cosplaying is a hobby and artistic expression...
Founded in 1969, The American Art Therapy Association describes art therapy as a mental health profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families and communities through active art-making, creative processes, applied psychological theory and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
While this activity may not be the most popular form of therapy in and of itself, the field continues to...
The state of Oklahoma and the Winter Olympics have something in common: both harbor athletes who are passionate about the sport of curling. And those Okie enthusiasts are hoping others will want to slide into the fun.
Curling is a sport in which two teams of four players each slide granite rocks, also called stones, down a sheet of ice...
Enabled in part by the intersection of numerous railroads and a massive western livestock market, Oklahoma National Stockyards emerged during 1910 as a public livestock market in southwest Oklahoma City. Massive packing plants simultaneously arrived next door to ‘the Yards,’ producing all kinds of meat products. These included Morris & Company, which later became Armour & Company, as well...
Sporting events appeal to a broad range of people – from die-hard fans to those just looking for a fun night out on the town. If you’re on the hunt for another team to follow or just an event to visit, support one of these Oklahoma-based sporting franchises.
OKC Dodgers Baseball
The Oklahoma City Dodgers “has been continuous since 1962,” says...
