Hair Style
It’s not often that celebrities turn to Oklahoma for fashion tips. But Edmond mom Kristen Creamer and her sister, Kim Marable, put the finishing touches on outfits for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s daughter, Violet, and Courtney Cox-Arquette’s daughter, Coco, with the stylish hair clips they design called Ribbies Clippies. Creamer’s daughter, Reagan, was almost…
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 >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 >Pulling Together for One of Our Own
Teresa Dixon entered the tunnel in late 2008 when her doctor diagnosed her with terminal Polycystic Liver and Kidney disease. Her need for a new liver pushes the boundaries of the definition of “immediately.” The National Transplant Assistance Fund (NATF) is working feverishly to make sure there’s a light at the end of Dixon’s tunnel….
Read More >Snowbirds of a Feather
Snow comes wet and it comes dry. You can rip it, shred it and tear it up. It’s all the same to snowboarder 54-year-old Charlie Bingham and his 19-year-old daughter, Lisa. Says Bingham, “I really get pumped when the snow is coming down. I’m into big powder days and big jumps. I like the steep…
Read More >Walking the Line
I scan the road from the northeast lane to the southwest lane. It’s difficult to see. Other than squad car lights, nearly burnt out signs from a run-down liquor store provide the only illumination. “The line” stretches 112 feet. It marks the trajectory of a pedestrian—already en route to the hospital—hit by a sport utility…
Read More >Senior Cabaret Brings Best to Edmond
Elvis. Willie Nelson. Jerry Lee Lewis. Nelson Eddy. Joan Colee, veteran singer, actor and tap dancer, assembled the best of the best entertainers. With them she formed the Oklahoma Seniors Cabaret. Originally from Hugo, Oklahoma, Joan studied the performing arts extensively in California after graduating from high school. After seeing the huge variety of performing…
Read More >Everday Angels
Recently, I lost my purse. Well, I didn’t exactly lose it. I left it in a shopping cart at a Wal-Mart parking lot. Don’t even ask how I did such a thing. Suffice to say, I’m still trying to figure it out myself. I didn’t notice it was gone until I got home and reached…
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