Issue: January 2012

Name: Rumble the Bison Have you had a lot of free time this season? The off-season didn’t change my schedule much. I already work year round doing events and appearances. From birthday parties to bar mitzvahs, trade shows to school shows. You name it, I’ve done it. Married, single or just grazing? I feel like…

The phrase “silverware available upon request” printed on the menu is an indicator that the new Blue Nile Ethiopian Cuisine, 3209 S. Broadway, is more than a restaurant, it’s a dining experience. Dining in Ethiopia is characterized by eating from the same plate, even placing food in the mouth of another diner from one’s own…

Jason Epps, owner and chief instructor at Pride Martial Arts in Edmond, knows what it’s like to be threatened and want to fight. He grew up in a rough area of Dallas and was continually threatened by classmates. As the only Caucasian in a gang-related at-risk neighborhood, Epps said he was the kid that everyone…

What began for Catherine Godwin, as the normal task of grant writing for a local company ended up opening her eyes to an entirely surprising and disconcerting array of statistics. Those statistics screamed to the Edmond mother, “Do something!” and so she did. What Godwin learned was the impact of the number of Oklahoma’s incarcerated…

Not long ago, a telephone was just a device that let you talk to someone who was beyond shouting range. A few waves of advancement later, many of us carry movie-quality video cameras (that also happen to make phone calls) in our pockets. Coupled with the advent of YouTube, for the first time in history,…

Amy Eldridge believes every time a baby’s life is saved, the world changes for the better. Eldridge is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Love Without Boundaries, which helps orphaned children in China by providing medical assistance, nutrition, education, foster care and facilitating adoption. Based in Edmond, Love Without Boundaries works with more…

An antique armoire. A half-empty bottle of glass cleaner. A worn pair of blue jeans. Cans of green beans. An old collection of dolls. Oriental rugs. Rolls of toilet paper. This hodge-podge assortment and more is what can be found and purchased at estate sales. “The craziest thing we have sold yet were military flight…

Before the invention of television, families gathered around the radio to listen to live broadcasts of music, drama, comedy, news and weather. Although technology has changed from ‘The Golden Age of Radio,’ live radio programming remains part of the American lifestyle. Tamara Walker, Edmond resident, unexpectedly found her niche in the Internet version of radio….

College and professional sports programs across the nation have found a new way to build strong, unstoppable players, and the key is an invention by Edmond resident and former football star Steve Zabel. “The Tug” is filled with water and it uses inertia to offer a new spin on the millennia-old game tug-of-war. Disc-shaped and…