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OKC's thriving 39th Street District is booming harder than ever with renewed spirits, recent additions, and new monthly Rainbow Crawl events.

Tags: Metro, LGBTQIA+, 39th Street District, The Gayborhood, Pride in OKC, Rainbow Crawls, Halloween, Point A Gallery, Other Options, Friends Food Pantry, HIV/AIDS

Tags: Chicken-Fried News, oklahoma gazette, chicken fried news, Oklahoma County Clerk, David Hooten, News

After winning the battle against Stage IV ovarian cancer, Tarah Warren found a way to pay it forward to those still fighting.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Oklahoma Gazette, Citizen Spotlight, OKC Citizens, Tenaciously Teal

New Candyman film reflects on the darker aspects of America's past and present

Tags: Film, film, film review, review, candyman, horror, jorfan peele

Tags: Best Of Intro & Extras, Oklahoma Gazette, Best of OKC, reader's poll, 36th year, food, drink, arts, culture, entertainment, life, wellness, goods, services, cannabis, covid

Tags: Film, deadCenter Film Festival, deadCenter, Jacob Leighton Burns, Zachary Burns, Shifter, sci-fi, horror, Video

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Fiction Issue, fiction, Oklahoma Gazette, Gazette reader, Jeremy Lowe, poetry, poem, Franz’ Cure, vampire

An Oklahoma judge blocked a law that presents medical abortion as an option. But is this backed by science?

Tags: State, Big If True, Oklahoma Gazette, factchecking Oklahoma, factchecking, abortion, medical abortion, Oklahoma County Judge Don Andrews, temporary injunction, Assistant Solicitor General Bryan Cleveland, medication abortion, mifepristone, misoprostol, progesterone, pregnancy, Contraception, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, abortion pill reversal, Dr. George Delgado, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, control group, Issues in Law and Medicine, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Locally produced podcast Tales Unveiled uses a fictional frame to share supernatural stories from real Oklahomans.

Tags: Arts, Dennis Spielman, Jeff Provine, supernatural encounters, Tales Unveiled, arts and culture, arts, culture, entertainment, halloween, Uncovering Oklahoma, Geoff DeRoot, Haunted Oklahoma City, Overholser Mansion, Skirvin Hotel, Tower Theatre, Medicine Park, El Reno, Parallel Forest, Wichita Mountain, Route 66, supernatural, Haunted Norman, Guthrie, Stone Lion Inn, hauntings, haunted spaces, haunted, Manvel Avenue Coffee Co., Chandler, haunted encounters, ghosts

Halloween provides an increase of historic and spooky haunted tours around Oklahoma City metro area.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Halloween, arts and culture, arts, culture, entertainment, haunted haunts, haunts, hauntings, haunted houses, Haunt the Hern, Edmond, Norman, metro area, OKC metro, ghost tours, Haunted America, Jeff Provine, Oklahoma City, Guthrie, Tonya McCoy, Kingman Building, Kingman Agricultural Implement Company, Bricktown Brewery, Bricktown, TapWerks Ale House, Myriad Botanical Gardens, Skirvin Hotel, ghosts, ghost stories, Main Street, Sooner Theatre, Murray Humphreys, Al Capone, Edmond Historic Ghost Tours, Haunt Old Town, Scary Tales at the Overholser Mansion

Interactive mystery game Murder at the Juke Joint benefits Oklahoma Black Film Festival.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Murder at the Juke Joint, Ice Event Center & Grill, Oklahoma Black Film Festival, Murder at the Juice Joint, Night of Mystery, Lazara Gonzalez, Anthony Crawford Jr., Oklahoma Black Film, murder mystery, halloween, arts and culture, arts, culture, entertainment, murder mystery dinner, improvisation

Whether it’s with scary stories, costume parties, trick-or-treating or all of the above, Oklahoma’s going all out to celebrate Halloween.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Oklahoma City Halloween events, halloween, haunt the Hill, Capitol Hill, 51st Street Speakeasy, OKC storySlam, Dunlap Codding, Mosters and Margaritas, Vanessa Beer House Company, Halloween Bar Crawl, Boo ’n Brew and Boo Bash, OKC Zoo, Haunt the Zoo, Hotel Habana Halloween Festival, Muttster Mash, Fassler Hall

Drac & the Swamp Rats brings “classic monster rock” to Blue Note Lounge on Halloween.

Tags: Music Features, Drac & the Swamp Rats, halloween, costumes, Blue Note Lounge Oklahoma City, oklahoma city live music, halloween concert, costume concert, Blue Note Lounge

Past editors look back on Oklahoma Gazette’s 40 years and reflect on its success.

Tags: Metro, Oklahoma City, news, Oklahoma Gazette, OKG40, OKG 40, Bill Bleakley, historic preservation, local journalism, journalism, The Oklahoman, Randy Splaingard, Rod Lott, Phil Bacharach, Murrah Bombing, alternative news weekly, alt weekly, Penn Square Bank, yuppies, yuppie, editorial page, opinion, commentary

Historian Bob Blackburn reflects on Oklahoma City’s major changes throughout the past 40 years.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Bob Blackburn, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City, news, Oklahoma Gazette, OKG40, OKG 40, Bill Bleakley, historic preservation, oil and gas, local economy, arts, entertainment, food, drink, local journalism, alternative weekly, alternative voice, Penn Square Bank, First National Bank, Cheever’s Cafe, Cheever’s, MAPS, Oklahoma City Thunder, Chris Paul, OKC Thunder, Thunder, Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Bricktown, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Hornets, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, mediocrity