The Legend of the White Dog
Nelson King may never have opened his wildly popular restaurant White Dog Hill in Clinton, Oklahoma, if he had ignored the ghostly messages coming from the glove box of his sister’s car.
Sinking Stereotypes: How Women are Sinking Stereotypes in Male-Dominated Sport of Fishing
The sun was just starting to glow on the horizon along Fort Myers, Florida when 55 boats slid out into the ocean to hunt for the elusive king tarpon.
What Happens to The Stuff We Leave in Hotels
Jo Licata wasn’t sure what to do with the 6-foot-tall stuffed dinosaur in her office. The massive Barney doll had been left at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square last year, and it was Licata’s job to dispatch it. But who would take a giant stuffed animal on short notice?
The Fire Gods of Carrier, Oklahoma
On Monday, the night sky above Oklahoma City’s Bricktown will erupt in an explosion of light, noise and music. Crowds of gaping mouths sighing “oooh” and “aah” accompany the bombastic display of colors that race into the sky, detonating into spectacles of sizzling brightness that paint the night with celebration and American pride.
Choctaw Code Talkers of WWI
October 1918 The Americans were losing World War I, the Great War, when 19 men from Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation set foot in southern France to fight for a country that did not even recognize them as citizens.
How Zane Woods Will Change the World
Zane Woods is going to change the world.
That change may not come today, it may not come tomorrow and it may not even come during Woods’ own lifetime, but he will, without a doubt, change the world.
Evolve or Dissolve - the Ongoing Evolution of Desmond Mason
“I’ve always been the outsider,” Desmond Mason said, his tall, NBA-sized frame squashed in the small metal coffee shop chair. “I’m an outsider in the art world. I was an outsider in the basketball world.
Trap, Neuter, Release
On a dark Thursday night that promised rain, MaryDoris Casey was creeping around some dumpsters behind a row of fast food restaurants and wading through overgrown lots filled with the detritus of empty soda cups and food bags.
Oklahoma Native Americans Tame Twisters with Sacred Rituals
Just over a year ago, tribal elder Gordon Yellowman watched on the TV news as a mile-wide tornado roared toward the homes of his Cheyenne-Arapaho people in Oklahoma.
On Iconic Route 66, German, Italian POWs Lie In Oklahoma Graves
Along America's most fabled road, Route 66, lie the almost forgotten graves of German and Italian prisoners of war brought to Oklahoma some 70 years ago and who now rest in the red soil of a former Wild West pioneer outpost.
Inspiration to Action - Actor Gary Sinise fights for disabled vets
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Rusty Dunagan was seven weeks into his second tour of combat when a bomb took almost everything but his life.
The Vintage Doll
The Vintage Doll, Mimi LaRue, is adorable in a 1950s-style pink and white dress, white stellar heels and flesh-toned hose with that iconic black seam down the back. Her lips are as red as cherries and her eyes flutter with that cat-like swoop of liquid black eyeliner. But it’s her hair that ties the whole look together.
Reason to Believe Ranch
Five-year-old Luke Mays of Guthrie sways with a natural rhythm as the giant white-and-gray horse beneath him trots through the soft reddish dirt in the barn at the Reason to Believe ranch.
Skating Polly
The girls look like little pixie fairies–just so tiny and young and full of the energy that butterflies and hummingbirds seem to have. It’s hard to visualize these two teenage girls–one 18 and the other 13–as the new powerhouses in punk/pop music.