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 >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…
Read More >Designing a New Dew
Afleet of new Mountain Dew flavors will hit store shelves in April, one of which will bear the artwork of Edmond resident Ben Stone. He is one of three winners from the Mountain DEWmocracy Design Challenge, a competition to create new packaging. He found the Mountain Dew contest on Facebook, which started with a not-so-simple…
Read More >Mentor
In 2002, everything that could have gone wrong in Tom Pace’s business world did. He was depressed, suicidal and without hope. That’s when he met his mentor, Malcolm Hall, and his life changed forever. Pace published his life story titled “Mentor: The Kid & The CEO.” Pace says, “Without a mentor, I wouldn’t be alive…
Read More >DNA Galleries
Less than two years ago, Dylan and Amanda Bradway established DNA Galleries in the historic Plaza District of Oklahoma City. Since then, their space has become a hub for urban contemporary art, exposing lovers of the craft to the unique style, as well as giving artists an outlet for their craft. “There are a lot…
Read More >The Fluidity of Movement
Most people would be discouraged by a high wall or drainage ditch in their path, but such things are welcome obstacles for practitioners of a French martial art called parkour. It’s been around for decades, but it wasn’t until James Bond chased discipline co-founder Sébastien Foucan through a Madagascar construction site in Casino Royale that…
Read More >Art With a Chain Saw
If a chain saw is Tom Zimmer’s brush, then lengths of white pine, catalpa and walnut are his canvases. Instead of creating a flower bouquet still life or a sun-splashed canyon landscape, Zimmer painstakingly crafts logs and dead tree trunks into intricate, lifelike sculptures using nothing but the terrifying, all-devouring power tool rarely associated with…
Read More >Eden Sharmaine
Independent progressive rock band, Eden Sharmaine, is constantly experimenting. First they added a saxophone, then a violin. Now, they’re blending metal breakdowns into folk songs and tinkering with other genres in unexpected ways. Something must be working, because on December 14th, exactly one year after their first concert at a tiny Oklahoma City venue, Eden…
Read More >Bronco Billy
A man in a cowboy hat, desperately clinging to a bucking steed as it kicks up red Oklahoma dirt, is the most iconic image of the Sooner State’s history and culture. History books and museums are full of Western tales with cowboy heroes, but the reality is that new Western tales are still being lived…
Read More >Mountain Biking
Mountain biking can be a fun, challenging sport for skilled cyclists and beginners alike. Participants ride off-road or on wooded trails on bikes specially-designed for demanding terrain. Cyclists have been modifying bikes for off-road riding since the 1800s, but it wasn’t until the 1980s when the sport entered the modern era and it has grown…
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…
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