Steeped in History
A stay at new bed and breakfast The Monastery at Forest Park is a way of coming into close contact with a remarkable past. Once home to Oklahoma oilman and politician Robert S. Kerr, the nearly century-old property at…
405 Magazine - November 2020
A Choice to Improve Lives
In 2010, Ladonna felt alone for the first time in 52 years. Multiple family illnesses led to untimely deaths, leaving her to fend for herself despite her own struggles with bipolar disorder, severe social anxiety and eventually multiple sclerosis.…
House of Cards
For Oklahomans of a certain age, saying “I knew Pody Poe” is a little like claiming they were at Woodstock in 1969: If it were true in all cases, his casino would have been the size of Devon Tower. …
Giving Thanks for Pinot
Pinot at a Thanksgiving dinner is such a commonly suggested pairing that it’s fair to wonder how it became so common. “Pinot and poultry, not just turkey, work beautifully together,” says Amie Hendrickson, an Oklahoma City certified sommelier…
French Flair, Baked Bliss
Trisha O’Donoghue of Quincy Bake Shop moved to Chicago when she was 25 in what she calls the “best biggest move of my life.” The Oklahoma City native had been working as a server and bartender at Red Rock…
Pastry Pleasures
One of the easiest ways to settle the old Pop-Tart vs. Toaster Strudel feud from childhood is to make stops at Stitch Cafe and The Market at Commonplace, where you’ll find grown-up versions of both. Daniela Cooper of…
2020’s Best New Restaurants
For at least the past four years, observers have been predicting the bursting of Oklahoma City’s restaurant expansion bubble. In 2018 and 2019, we saw more than 30 local restaurants per year added to the options, and we wrung…
Spurring Smiles
Les Thomas Sr. gets chills every time he recalls his lightbulb moment, more than 7,400 miles away from home, serving at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait in October 2006. He had just finished rapping an original song,…
Sweater Season
Two words sum up this season’s preferred way of dressing: cozy and comfortable. Sweaters are more than obliging, with trendy cropped versions to knee-grazing cardigans to sweeping dusters. Sweaters this fall go beyond basics; they’re statement-making pieces that can…
’Casting a Wide Net
Podcasts are to the ’20s what blogs were to the aughts, only on steroids and with AirPods. Fifteen years ago, a study reported that 32 million Americans read blogs. Today there are, according to podcasthosting.com, more than 1…
