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Sarah McPhail was envisioning her dream home long before she and her husband found their ideal location to build in Tulsa. “I always knew I wanted to design my dream home, even while I was majoring in interior design at the University of Oklahoma,” Sarah says. “Our first ‘starter home’ was an exercise in restraint. I knew then I would...

Batman and Robin. Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Laverne and Shirley. Sometimes working with a partner is simply the way to go. Of the dynamic duos making it work in the world of Oklahoma businesses, Sheryl Chinowth and Lee Cohen are definitely in the running. The married pair started Chinowth & Cohen Realtors in...

During a visit to the Pawnee Bill Ranch in Pawnee, a climb to the top of the rock observation tower provides an expansive view of the present-day ranch as well as the hundreds of acres of Blue Hawk Peak, the former showplace home of Gordon William “Pawnee Bill” Lillie. Gordon Lillie, who gained the nickname “Pawnee Bill” while living and...

The rest of the nation caught up with Oklahoma when President Barack Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act Monday. The legislation makes the bison the U.S. National mammal. Oklahoma made the bison, or buffalo, its official state animal in 1972. Kansas and Wyoming have also adopted the bison as a state animal. Bison are a symbol of Native American culture...

Professional Image 3D started its venture into 3D printing out of the necessity to solve a problem with packaging a chocolate sculpture. “We had a huge, hollow chocolate turkey, and the head kept breaking off in packaging,” says Rick Radford, director of operations for Professional Image 3D. “They needed a way to package that. We couldn’t do it with our...

“Tulsa is a great tennis city.” These are Vince Westbrook’s words, and he should know. Westbrook, head men’s tennis coach at the University of Tulsa, is the face of tennis in Tulsa, with 25 years of experience coaching at TU and a 375-263 career record. From May 19 through 30, TU will be host to the NCAA Division I Tennis Championships. This...

Urban is chic. It’s the buzzword of city planning committees across the state. It wasn’t that long ago that Oklahomans were accustomed to following “urban” with “decay.” But Oklahoma City and Tulsa are adding “renewal” to the vocabularies of those city planners. The cities have proven it works. It has worked so well that urban is cropping up in...

Feb. 14 can be a draggy and depressing day for those without special plans, but this year a select and happy group of Tulsans walked with a spring in their step. That’s because they had been treated, the night before, to a four-hour, ten-course dinner that, though wine was not provided, left them laughing and as bubbly as champagne. “I’m...

Each year, thousands of people come to the Philbrook Museum of Art to see its premiere collection of artwork. These visitors expect to see beautiful paintings and intricate sculptures as well as the beautiful architecture and landscaping that the facility itself offers. Now, the Philbrook is introducing its guests to a new type of art: the art of reduction. Philbrook...