Animal Man
Take a glance at Edmond resident Tom Palmore’s animal paintings, and you’ll swear they’re photographs. Take a closer look and you’ll see the fur is thousands of careful brushstrokes, and the colorful flare in those expressive eyes came from an artist’s palette. Just as Palmore is renowned for his mastery of the craft, he’s loved…
Read More >Talking Fast
Maneuvering a speeding motorcycle through busy traffic is dangerous enough without the distraction of a ringing cell phone or the temptation to fiddle with the volume control on an iPod. Three University of Central Oklahoma students and entrepreneurs put an end to those and other problems for cyclists with a practical option for riders who…
Read More >Experimental Notes from The Non
Fingers fly across fretboards, nothing but dark blurs against the glow of bright lamps that backlight the stage and everyone on it with pure, white radiance. The musicians, four of them, are little more than silhouettes casting rays like sunbeams through a fine, fog machine mist. The sound flowing from the amplifiers undulates between crisp,…
Read More >POW Makes The Great Escape
Longtime Edmond resident Pendleton Woods spent his 21st birthday stuffed in a crowded German boxcar in the dead of winter, moving just a few miles at a time so trains carrying Nazi troops could pass. He was a prisoner of war, captured during a reconnaissance patrol behind enemy lines with seven other American soldiers on…
Read More >Broomball
A thousand years ago, battle-hardened Vikings engaged in a brutal, often-deadly sport called knattleikr. Although details of the game are mostly lost to the ages, it’s known that it was played on the frozen Icelandic countryside and that entire villages got in on the action. Matches would begin at dawn and last until dusk, tournaments…
Read More >Clash of the Choirs
Two Oklahoma Christian University students took part in “Clash of the Choirs,” a hit NBC talent contest miniseries which aired live four consecutive nights in December. The reality show challenged five celebrity musicians to return to their hometowns and assemble choirs to compete in New York City for a $250,000 donation to a charity in…
Read More >Meant2B
Between interview questions, streams of dialogue crisscross our table in a low-lit cigar lounge as rising stars and R&B foursome Meant2B hold several conversations at once. They discuss sports, the best places to find a late dinner, decry the flaws of the iPhone and smooth-talk a waitress into bringing out a bowl of Chex Mix…
Read More >Off and Rowing
A landlocked state known for its flat plains and high winds might be the last place some would expect to find a rowing team, but at UCO, a coach from Connecticut is training a team of 45 co-eds for just such an endeavor, one she says Oklahomans should expect to see much more of. After…
Read More >Allstar Motors
The vehicle you drive can say a lot about who you are, especially in the corporate world. If you drive a car as grand as a Mercedes-Benz, it’s important to make sure that it’s running the way it’s supposed to, and if something goes wrong, that you take it to a quality repair shop that…
Read More >Rejuvena Smartlipo
As we age, many of us put on unwanted pounds in all the wrong places. Sometimes endless hours at the gym and years of dieting simply aren’t enough to help us find the body we would like to have. Maybe we’d like to look the way we did ten years ago or improve an area…
Read More >A Step Back in Time
“I’ve always been crazy about things that have wheels,” said Joe Hurly of Guthrie. “When I was in school, it was the days of muscle cars and two-door hard tops. Cars were a way of life back then — your dates, drive-in movies, drive-in restaurants — that’s how I developed my love of cars, and…
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