Home & Garden
Everything Under The Sun One of the most diverse shopping experiences in Edmond, The Market has over 100 showrooms under one roof. Each of the stores is individually owned. Taken together, they offer a huge range of home and garden accessories – furniture, rugs, indoor and outdoor decor items and art. Shoppers will also find…
Read More >Blood Tells Stories
Motion and direction. Acceleration and velocity. These are the governing principles of Tom Bevel’s work. And he’s not a calculus professor or an engineer. He’s a forensic investigation expert that specializes in blood spatters. Bevel’s a patient man. His discipline demands it. At a violent crime scene, bloodstains abound. And each stain – each blood…
Read More >The Trials Of War
Edmond soldier 1st Lt. Michael Behenna faces the charge of premeditated murder of a suspected terrorist, Ali Monsour Mohammed, while interrogating him near Beiji, Iraq. Now the interpretation of that day – May 16, 2008 – rests in the hands of an Army general considering a clemency packet, as well as an Army Appellate Court….
Read More >Powerhouse
Bryan Turner, owner of Red Rock Builders, is passionate about conservation. He’s also passionate about his occupation, home building. And he’s found a way to give equal time to both – he married his passion to his work. Taking a concept developed by Edmond Electric, Red Rock constructed the e4home, one of the most conservation-conscious…
Read More >Hitting The Trail
They fight the elements. They fight their own bodies. Most of all, they fight to finish in time. Trail runners, participants in one of Oklahoma’s – and Edmond’s – fastest-growing sports, take running off the jogging paths and onto the dirt. “People are getting off the beaten path. They want to do something different,” says…
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Full Color Gardening Now that the snow’s gone, Edmondites have gardens on their minds. This time of year Davison’s Nursery’s Jayson Davison gets inundated with questions about how to put together a mind-blowing garden. Davison gets asked a lot about plant hardiness. Oklahoma’s summer heat can be rough, but there are lots of options out…
Read More >Cooking the Competition
Not everybody gets to go to the Big Show. To compete you must be among the best of the best. Your team needs to be state champions. You need to be among the top five of your class. You have to be on your game and you have to be cooking. Really cooking. Platt College…
Read More >Edmond Arts Festival
Shirley GibbonsNationally known artist, Shirley Gibbons may choose conventional mediums and subjects, but her approach is anything but conventional. Gibbons works primarily in oils, but often experiments with watercolors and pastels. “When I started painting, everybody was working with oils," she said." "So that’s how I started out, and I just fell in love with…
Read More >Big Man, Bigger Heart
Edmond resident Shane Hamman is, literally, the strongest man in the world. As a power lifter he set 14 world records and won gold medals at the 1994 and 1995 Weightlifting World Championships. As a weightlifter he set 27 American records, making him the strongest weightlifter in America. He competed in the Olympics. He’s lifted…
Read More >In Edmond, In Need
Edmond resident Amelia Taylor did everything right. When she was diagnosed with clinical depression, everything went wrong. With her crippling illness, regular work isn’t in the cards for her. A full-time mother, she works whenever and wherever she can to make ends meet, but her depression still holds her back. She’s not on welfare and…
Read More >Down Home Derrick
Native Edmondite Devin Derrick doesn’t need a lot of attention. But he’s about to get some. He’s comfortable with himself, at ease with his place in the world and satisfied with his natural gift – the gift of voice. An up-and-comer in the world of country music, he just signed an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart…
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