Issue: April 2007

Many fashion designers allude to the fact that it’s not the cost, the color or even the material of a clothing product that’s most important. It’s how it fits your body. Hanna Roller, owner of Alteration Station on north Boulevard, totally agrees. Sitting inside a small brick building, her two-section room is scattered with string,…

One Edmond restaurant is serving up entertainment as exotic as their cuisine. Namaste' Indian Cuisine offers more than curry to spice up their meal; diners can also enjoy the shimmy-shaky bling-bling of belly dancing performed by "A Mirage Dance Company " dancers. Patrons even have an opportunity to learn the art of belly dancing themselves…

If you come to the Edmond Library on a Thursday night, you'll find a few surprising creatures along with the typical bookworm. Like adults and children, dogs enjoy having their noses planted in a good book, too. Last summer, the Edmond Library started an innovative program called Children Reading to Dogs (CRTD), formerly named FIDO…

For most people, childhood aspirations are far-fetched. Few end up as rock stars, actors, models, super heroes or astronauts. But, for Wes Hart, his childhood dream of becoming an actor actually came true. After finishing a six-week understudy role as Gaston, in “Beauty and the Beast” at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hart is currently on…

Corsages. Taffeta. Lace. Extended curfew. All these words conjure up memories of bygone proms. But for low-income girls across the nation, a magical night to remember may not be possible without help from a few benefactors. Prom season is well underway and in the spirit of the fairy godmother, Oklahoma’s own Serendipity and Prom Wishes…

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…

When the weather changes, most people turn to their radio or television to see what they need to wear, what precautions they need to take and whether or not school will resume the next day. However, without cameras, microphones or a large production studio, one of the most accurate weather forecasting companies in North America…

Edmond’s own University of Central Oklahoma has finished remodeling K-UCO TV Channel 6, the student-run broadcast station that serves both higher education and the community. New FCC guidelines prompted the station to make the switch from analog to digital technology. But combined staff and student efforts initiated the studio’s facelift and UCentral’s name change. General…