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The Actors’ Actors
Will Carpenter was a second-grader in the mid-1970s in the industrial city of Milwaukee, Wis., when he was first exposed to theater.
“They took our class to the Repertory Theater in Milwaukee. It was a great theater,” he recalls. “We were watching a kid’s show; there were dinosaurs and big costumes and sets, and the lights are on in this...
Down on the 101
When George Washington Miller (“G.W.”) first saw the tall bluestem grass and wild rye spread across northeastern Oklahoma in 1879, he didn’t just see prairie country. He saw raw possibility, an opportunity to build an empire inspired by the legends and myths he dragged from his Kentucky home. This, he realized, was the Wild West, and he and his...
Dine And Dash
Not so long ago, Oklahoma City’s food truck fare was not for the faint of heart.
The only offerings to be found required a fierce appetite for both food and danger. This had more to do with location than with the quality of the food itself. For intrepid diners, venturing into crime-riddled parts of south Oklahoma City yielded a cornucopia...
Get Social To Get Fit
Smart phones, tablets, computers – much of the time we are sucked in, zoned out and mindlessly glued to them, disconnected from other people, going through the motions of our day-to-day and waiting for our next text message, email or Facebook update so that we may lock our eyes back onto a screen.
Forget the threat of a zombie apocalypse....
Oklahomans of the Year
It isn’t an easy task to be recognized as an Oklahoman of the Year by Oklahoma Magazine. After all, ours is a state whose history emerges from strong, independent men and women of mixed backgrounds forging a society.
Of course, in Oklahoma, being granted this honor also means competing with country music stars and world-class athletes – two of our...
The State of Estates
Lottie Stevens runs a successful estate sale and appraisal company in Tulsa. Photo by Casey Hanson.
Estate sales are like the older, wiser sister of garage sales. They matured, got an education and saw the world. When there are goods to be sold, many people call specialists like Lottie Stevens, a professional appraiser who runs Sales by Lottie, an estate...
The Cowboy Way
It is perhaps the single, ubiquitous image of American culture, both in the subconscious of her people and in her global image. It has been glorified in literature and in film well before the latter had the benefits of color or sound. It’s the pejorative used by American critics but also the grudgingly admired singular image praised by people...
Build It Like Beckham
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The Lux Life
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