Issue: February 2009

Last summer six theology students from Edmond’s Herbert W. Armstrong College stood on the edge of history. Actually, they stood on the history. Their work in Jerusalem unearthed what may be the most significant archaeological discovery of the decade. They uncovered key pieces of what archaeologists believe to be the palace of King David—the very…

Guys, women know you're scared, and yes, they've heard all your excuses. That one about Valentine's Day being invented by greeting card companies has got to stop. Chick flicks alone don't cut it and chocolate alone is not a foolproof gift. But don't despair. These stores specialize in quick, painless and perfect gift shopping for…

Valentine’s Day is commonly recognized as a celebration of love and relationships. But for many, Valentine’s Day is nothing more than a yearly reminder of their single status. And for dating singles, Valentine’s Day can be a 24-hour blitz of mind games littered with encrypted code transmitted by the opposite sex. Singles need all the…

Edmondite Donna Watson changed the lives of more than 2,000 homeless people around the nation–with one email. Winter takes a huge toll on the homeless. The freezing cold weather makes their already rough lives even rougher. People can help but don’t know how. Watson has the answer. One morning, picking up the newspaper and walking…

To describe a wedding as a momentous occasion is among the bigger understatements in life.So it’s no surprise that people whose businesses revolve around the ceremony take their jobs quite seriously. From the dress and the flowers to the food and the music, it takes a lot of planning, patience and perseverance to pull off…

Walking into Edmond’s newest boutique, Retropolitan, is like taking a step back in time. Even before you reach the door, looking at the windows filled with flashback bands like Kansas, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Croce, you know-this place is different. Located in Spring Creek Village next to Tiger Lily, its psychedelic rug and…

Chuck House Edmond’s Chuck House boasts the best chicken fry in the universe. The bragging began almost 30 years ago with the restaurant’s first location at 10th and Meridian in Oklahoma City. Owner Jay Thurber says the Chuck House, with a new location at 700 South Broadway, still maintains bragging rights. The new Edmond restaurant…

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,…

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…

Public art says a lot about a city. It memorializes its history, its people and its values. Tulsa sculptor Rosalind Cook is a public art maven. Her work lives in Vatican City, Russia and countless U.S. cities from coast to coast. Now it lives in Edmond, too. With the installation of Cook’s “Come Unto Me”—a…

Americans want things fast. Fast food, speedy deliveries and quick stops. For awhile they wanted speed with their dating, too. For a decade speed dating was all the rage with relationship seekers. It caught on quickly—and disappeared just as quickly. Speed dating was the brainchild of California rabbi Yaacov Deyo. He developed it as a…