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Hometown sports teams connect us all to the American and human experience and to one another, says Caroline Lowery, program officer at the Oklahoma Humanities Council. “Sports are a way to educate, enlighten and empower Oklahomans to explore their own personal narrative,” she says. “Sports teach us about ourselves, our communities and our shared cultural experiences.” These concepts are explored in...

Darryl Starbird was just a kid when America began its deep love affair with the car. In the mid-20th century, Americans, finished with Europe and tired of war, returned home to play, and their favorite toy was the automobile. It rapidly became a steel symbol of the American dream, an emblem of hard work. Like America, it was full...

As Oklahoma considers the prospect of passenger train service between its two largest cities, rail’s most ardent proponents may soon be its youngest. The Eastern Flyer, a passenger train proposed to run between Midwest City and Sapulpa, has been transformed into the Polar Express, boarding most days through Dec. 28 from Bristow. This is the first year Iowa Pacific (which...

For a person who really didn’t like hanging Christmas lights when he was a child, Chuck Downs has made a big turnaround. His family’s holiday lights display in Norman has become such a huge event that it was featured in ABC’s Great Christmas Light Fight in 2013. Downs enjoyed participating in the show, but says it was hectic. “It really didn’t...

My childhood fare was far from fancy, but I miss it every time I need comfort. My mom’s specialty was stroganoff with canned cream of mushroom soup and hamburger, a dish I haven’t had since I was a teenager, but it haunts my dreams to this day. Luckily for Oklahoma City diners who miss what mom used to make,...

Todd Pyland Creative director and principal at TPC – Todd Pyland Creative/Talmadge Powell Creative, a boutique ad agency and event planning company. Wearing: Jacket, pants and shoes by Paul Smith; a T-shirt by BetterBoxProject.org, a campaign to end chronic homelessness by Mental Health Association Oklahoma, whose mission is to provide sustainable, affordable housing for people who have been living on the streets. Is...

Great companies are all around this state. Lots of them – both large and small – offer attractive incentives, benefits and bonuses to attract the best and brightest minds and bodies. Every employee has his or her idea of what makes a great company; no two lists are going to be the same. Likewise, companies operate in different, unique...

Continuing Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art examines works at the crossroads of a certain time and a very specific place in the exhibition Macrocosm/Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism in the American Southwest. Featuring art by nearly 40 American painters and sculptors, the show includes more than 60 pieces of Abstract Expressionism created from inspiration from the landscapes of Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma,...

One of the best things about Thanksgiving is the leftovers. Turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes – the Thanksgiving spread only grows more flavorful the next day. On the now-legendary Friends episode, Ross Geller discusses the Thanksgiving sandwich his sister, Monica, makes. It includes a host of fillings, including a piece of bread soaked in gravy, known as the...

On Nov. 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood set out in her car for Oklahoma City to meet with a national representative from her union and a reporter from The New York Times. With her, witnesses say, were documents substantiating Silkwood’s claims that workers at the Kerr-McGee Corp. Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Crescent, Okla., were endangered due to corner-cutting at...