I’m Just Me
Eight-year-old Tiffany Thompson would open a book, and as she read, the words would spiral around, slide off the page and rearrange themselves into a mess of symbols. She thought everyone read like this, navigating the moving and dancing words, but…
Read More >Life Goes On
On a bright sunny August day in 2010, Davis glanced down for a second while driving her truck from OSU to her parents’ house north of Edmond. That glance made her truck shift…
Read More >Old Iron
As a young man “��� barely a teenager “��� Jerry Martin was fascinated by motorcycles and the life of a man on a bike. It seems as though every young man…
Read More >Citizen Back-Up
When Edmond resident Aubrey King enrolled in the inaugural class of the Edmond Police Department’s Citizens Academy, he had a personal reason. His own son was a…
Read More >FOOD: Edmond Wine Shop
It was a 1965 cabernet that changed the life of Vance Gregory. It seduced the young man, leading him on a 40-year journey through the twisted vines of grapes to owning the…
Read More >HOME: Toxic Overload
For 24 years, Karen Munger’s husband fought fires and sifted through the ashy rubble of destroyed properties and burned-out homes. He also breathed in the chemicals and toxins released from scorched plastics and synthetic materials and hundreds of other poisonous substances that haunted the air and burned the lungs. “He was always very careful about…
Read More >One-Way Ticket
Ashley Amend poured everything into her tech startup business, one which created touch screen programs for kiosks. But when her business started struggling, she knew she had to start anew. Amend was ready for a change and a break from the business world; she was ready for something different. But for Amend, different meant extreme….
Read More >LOCAL BREWS
Venture into 2nd Street Wine Company in Edmond, and beers of every flavor, boldness and color greet you like an army of suds and hops. From the usual suspects — nationally-known brews like Sam Adams or Boulevard — to the more generic Corona and Tecate, customers of the Edmond package store have a wide variety…
Read More >IT’S ALL IN THE HIPS
It’s a Tuesday night, and women are undulating to the snaky and mournful sounds of ouds, the reedy flutelike whistle of the double mijwiz and the staccato heartbeat of the doumbek drums. Lamees Amar leads the intermediate class of belly dance students at the AALIM Dance Academy, Oklahoma’s only nonprofit professional belly dancing school. She…
Read More >HOME: Top 5 Outdoor Spaces in Edmond
Despite the sometimes wild weather of Oklahoma, spring and summer bring an opportunity for families to venture into the great outdoors and play. Here are five great places in Edmond that children, athletes, and even pets can enjoy. 1. Edmond Dog Park Edmond resident Elizabeth Gutierrez takes her Shih Tzu mix, Chewy, to Edmond’s Dog…
Read More >ARTS: CELTIC PUNK
If you’ve hit any of the metro’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, you may have heard the Righs play. For those more hardcore into the local punk or Sca scene, you’ve definitely heard them at places like The Diamond Ballroom, the Opolis in Norman or The Conservatory. For the group of six, most hailing from Edmond,…
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