Around OKC
Okie Pokie | Photo Brittany Pickering • Barry (HBO) | Image HBO / provided • Paradise by Toni Morrison | Image Penguin Random House / provided
WATCH: Barry (HBO)
LISTEN: “Slow Down Easy” by John Moreland
READ: Paradise by Toni Morrison
LOVE: Exploding Kittens card game
EXPERIENCE: a weekend drive to Pops in Arcadia
Outside OKC
Nanette (Netflix) | Image Netflix / provided • Jaime by Brittany Howard | Image ATO Records / provided • The Testaments by Margaret Atwood | Image Penguin Random House / provided
WATCH: Nanette (Netflix)
LISTEN: Jaime by Brittany Howard
READ: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
LOVE: Headspace meditation and sleep app
EXPERIENCE: The Gathering Place in Tulsa
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J.D. Baker is a sixth-generation Oklahoma City native and serves as a special assistant to mayor David Holt and is the liaison to the LGBTQ community for the mayor’s office.
J.D. Baker's Picks
If Beale Street Could Talk (movie) | Image Annapurna Pictures / provided • “Evergreen” by Yebba | Image Platoon / Yebba / provided
WATCH: Dear White People on Netflix or Queen Sugar on OWN/Hulu or If Beale Street Could Talk (movie)
LISTEN: “Slow Down” by Mac Ayres, “Let You Down” by Charlotte Day Wilson and “Evergreen” by Yebba
READ: The New York Times Magazine’s The 1619 Project
LOVE: GoGi Go! signature bowl with chicken
EXPERIENCE: Volunteering with friends and strangers at Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
