Another grave has been added to the chain restaurant cemetery along NW Expressway.

Yesterday afternoon, while stuck at a red light, I noticed that the On The Border location at Hefner Parkway and NW Expressway has closed, joining the likes of T.G.I. Friday’s, Red Lobster, and countless others (Applebee’s, Golden Corral, etc.) as yet another mediocre chain to bite the dust along this busy Northwest OKC thoroughfare.

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A Democratic lawmaker from Oklahoma is taking on the stereotype that liberals hate guns, love taxes, and suck at pandering to wacko voters.

Yesterday afternoon, the Oklahoma Senate Appropriations Committee advanced SB 50 by a 19-3 margin.

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There’s a major relaxing crisis developing in Weatherford!

According to KOKH Fox 25’s David Chasanov, the town’s folk—or at least one man simply known as “Robby”—are on the verge of revolution after the city destroyed a charming and “historic” gazebo that was built way, way back in the… 1990s.

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There’s been a leadership shake-up in one of Oklahoma’s biggest state agencies.

Thanks to a tip via The Ogle Mole Network, we’ve learned that OMES Executive Director Rick Rose—the head-bangin’ lead singer of the famed OKC hair metal outfit Erotic Suicide—has apparently dumped Deputy Director Jerry Moore, Chief Administrative Officer Lauren Kelliher, and a few other agency underlings in a recent leadership purge.

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Grab your tinfoil hats and pop some colloidal silver! Oklahoma lawmakers are working overtime this week to tackle moronic conspiracy theories that don’t even technically exist.

This Thursday, an Oklahoma Senate committee will waste taxpayer dollars discussing SB 430.

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In my ten-plus years of reviewing Oklahoma City restaurants, I rarely get a chance to stop by a James Beard-anointed eatery. My beat is usually taco trucks, greasy spoons, and other deliciously off-the-beaten-path dives that only win awards if they stuff a Gazette "Best Of" ballot.

But, for my lovely fiancée’s birthday, I wanted to take her to a very impressive restaurant – Black Walnut, 100 NE 4th St., in Deep Deuce.

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It’s been a rough day for makers of styling mousse, SmartOnes™, and Flomax.

Yesterday afternoon, legendary Oklahoma athlete, coed chaser, and on-air urinator Dean “The Stream” Blevins announced that after 42 years of handsomely reading a teleprompter, he will be retiring as News 9’s sports director later this year, ending a nearly half-century reign atop the OKC metro sports broadcasting scene.

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Ryan Walters is working extra hard to follow the guidance of his hero!

Because the King James Bible is apparently too complex for Oklahoma students, Ryan Walters and OSDE recently filed a purchase order request to stock every Oklahoma elementary school classroom with dumbed-down biblical teaching materials—ensuring that students can be properly indoctrinated into Christian lore and propaganda without all those pesky big boring words.

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One of the most troubling things to happen in our country over the past year or so – and there have been a lot of them – has been the meteoric and disturbing rise of U.S. Senator Marcuswayne Mullin into a mainstream media brand.

Like a Red Rooter, he's always on call to rush out to Face The Nation, Meet the Press, or any cable outlet in need of a Trump loyalist, and flush and clear the propaganda pipes with a steady stream of verbal sewage.

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Pour a little National Merit out for a scholar.

Yesterday afternoon, former OU President David Boren—one of the most powerful, influential, and a-bit-too-friendly politicians in Oklahoma history—died at the age of 83.

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