Nashville’s pop country is a beer commercial
If you were to turn on your radio and tune to a country station right now, you undoubtedly would hear song after song espousing...
Remember to put yourself in someone else’s shoes
(Editor's note: Mike Allen drew this installment of his weekly Sundaze comic on Saturday, May 30, as protests escalated across the country. As NonDoc...
Comparison memes need ‘nuance and details’
I have never — not once — seen these comparison memes demonstrate what their creators believe they demonstrate. I think that speaks to the rushed nature of their creations: A...
‘Time has come to discuss’ the 1911 Nelson lynching in Okemah
OKEMAH — The tragic story of Laura Nelson and her teenage son, L.D., took center stage last week at Okemah’s Crystal Theatre, a mere...
Aluminum or aluminium: Making metal in NE Oklahoma
Those inland ports in the northeast part of Oklahoma just keep bringing 'em in, don't they?
As part of a $200 billion announcement this past...
Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen: ‘They basically voted us out’
Five years after petitioning the Bureau of Indian Affairs for status as a separate tribe, members of the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band remain in...
An ode to Meatballs: The summer I learned to laugh
Sometime in late June 1979, my dad dropped me and a friend off at the Spectrum Twin movie theater in south Tulsa for a...
Coming to theaters: Character Assassination, starring Jackie Chan
I'm far from the best judge of quality cinema, but I've generally enjoyed the many Jackie Chan movies I have watched. It seems like...
Wynwood Walls: The rise and fall of ‘gentlefication’
MIAMI — One of my favorite things to do while in a new city is wander around and take pictures of graffiti. Street art....
Peggy Johnson is more than a protest singer
Peggy Johnson folded away her Navy whites. She packed up her civies, a guitar and the frying pan her mother had given her, and...


















