405 Magazine

1 week ago | 405magazine.com | Matt Kirouac

Summer in Oklahoma City is the season for road trips and lazy lake days, for ice cream cones and patios. It’s also high time for a frozen cocktail. As the temperature rises, so too does our appetite for icy drinks, and fortunately for us, OKC is teeming with crafty versions of the cold stuff. Here’s where you should be drinking — and what to order — this summer. As much a rite of passage for OU students as it is for bar-goers in need of refreshment, The Mont is the stuff of potable legend.

1 month ago | 405magazine.com | Jake Durham

Jana Gridley, like many working women, was trying to juggle family, faith and professional life. She searched for community, posting to social media and looking for a local women’s Christian group, but one did not seem to exist. “I’d been doing all the networking things,” she said. “Mom groups, women’s events, church volunteering—but nothing tied it all together. I wanted one place where I didn’t have to explain who I was or why I worked.

1 month ago | 405magazine.com | Matt Kirouac

From tasting menus to tiered tea towers, culinary art is a well-trod medium, but in Norman, one brewery bills itself as “liquid art.” When Oklahoma laws changed in 2016, allowing breweries to sell product direct to customers, it christened a potable renaissance for a state still dusting off Prohibition-era regulations. Seemingly overnight, craft breweries began to boom, and in the upper echelon was 405 Brewing Co. in Norman.

2 months ago | 405magazine.com | Bennett Hill

A celebration for master craftsmen and women across our state and beyond, the annual Festival of the Arts returns to Bicentennial Park at the end of this month. From photography and paintings to mixed media and jewelry, the creative energy pulsing through downtown will be palpable. With the artistic landscape being painted in the heart of our city, it seems only fitting to craft something ourselves, and what better place to start than in your own closet?

2 months ago | 405magazine.com | Matt Kirouac

With food, it’s often the fondest memories from childhood, spent around a dinner table or helping in the kitchen, that imprint the most. And even in the most elaborate fine dining restaurant, the humblest nostalgia can manifest amid caviar and jamón ibérico. For Jeff Chanchaleune, the vaunted chef/owner of Ma Der Lao Kitchen, it all comes back to chicken noodle soup. It’s a homespun dish, free of pretense and packed with familial comfort, that many can relate to in some form.