Sweet Treats

If you’ve got a hankering for sweet treats this holiday season but aren’t sure where to start, there are a bevy of locations in Tulsa and OKC that can help. Tulsa: Barbee Cookiesbarbeecookies.com Oh Honey Cookie Co.ohhoneycookieco.com Nouveau Chocolatenouveauchocolate.com Cricket and Fig Chocolatecricketandfig.com OKC: Bricktown Candyfacebook.com/bricktowncandy Apple Tree Chocolateappletreechocolate.com Eileen’s Colossal Cookieseileenscookies.com OKC Sweetsokcsweets.com

Around Town

Where can you go to enjoy a festive atmosphere alongside delicious food and drink? We’ve got you covered. Tulsa: Roosevelt’srooseveltstulsa.com Hodges Bendhodges-bend.com Bird and Bottlebirdandbottletulsa.com Ti Amo Ristorante Italianotiamotulsa.com Smoke Woodfire Grillsmokewoodfiregrill.com OKC:  Vastvastokc.com Whiskey Cake Kitchen and Barwhiskeycake.com Flintflintokc.com Mary Eddy’s Dining Roommaryeddysokc.com Mickey Mantle’s Steakhousemickeymantlesteakhouse.com
On a recent Saturday night in autumn, eager dinner guests filled a normally quiet coffeehouse – Foolish Things, on the fringes of downtown Tulsa. A server brought the first of the seven course dinner: a tart with roasted beet ganache, whipped goat cheese and pomegranate in a walnut crust.  It didn’t taste like beets or cheese, but like a rich,...

Scene December 2022

Planning Ahead: Continuing Care  Arranging for retirement – and, more importantly, how you want to spend the latter years of your life – can be daunting, but decisions you make today can offer security in the future. It’s one of the reasons why senior living communities continue to grow in popularity. Many are designed to provide residents with the amenities...
Oklahomans are (quite literally) lighting up the sky to celebrate a joyous holiday season, and nowhere in the state do the lights twinkle brighter than Ardmore, which offers one of the state’s biggest holiday extravaganzas. The awe-inspiring, 1.5-mile drive through the Festival of Lights display in the city’s sprawling Regional Park – complete with an ice rink – is Ardmore’s...
More than any other time of the year, the holiday season awakens cravings. Whether it’s a unique flavor that’s perfect in the winter months or the nostalgia of grandma’s spiced apple pie, December is a time of indulgence. While giving in to that proverbial sweet tooth is enjoyable in the moment, there’s a way to find a balance. Experts...
With the holidays drawing near, many are engaging in online shopping to get in a festive mood. Some of those shoppers don’t realize, however, that this season can add greater fraud and phishing risks – whether they’re from the additional purchases or just from letting defenses go down as the spirit of giving takes over.  Jack Kelley, assistant vice president...

Luxury in Lummi

The island is a skinny, nine-mile-long spatula, serving up thick slices of scenic country road bicycling, mountain hiking and world-class kayaking under the curious eyes of leaping black and white orca whales. Lummi (rhymes with yummy) Island, Wash., lies just shy of the Canadian border, off the coast near Bellingham, protected on its western flank by the San Juan Islands....
Just a couple of blocks off Oklahoma 66, down Pine Street in Catoosa, sits the D.W. Correll Museum, an incredible repository of rocks, minerals, fossils, antique cars and carriages, jewelry, bottles and decanters, toys, model ships and autos – and more. There’s so much, in fact, that the collection takes up two buildings.  At every turn, you’ll find something intriguing....