Oklahoma doesn’t have much exotic food. However, if you look hard, you can find a somewhat authentic Italian place. There also are a couple of nice Mediterranean joints. And for some reason, we have a great selection of Vietnamese food too. But we need to take a page from New England’s handbook and get some Jewish delis.

Harold’s New York Deli in Edison, New Jersey, is the perfect example of how good life can be once you leave the South.

Imagine ordering a sandwich that’s stacked a foot high with nothing but meat and a couple of lettuce leaves. Imagine eating soup with a matzah ball the size of a baby’s head. You’re not dreaming. You’re at Harold’s. Harold loves you.

The 1970s crime thriller “The French Connection” is an impressive film worth watching and is available on Netflix.

The story is about two New York City narcotics detectives who stumble onto a heroin-smuggling job from France.

The two detectives try to intercept and arrest the wealthy French criminal who’s running the drug trafficking syndicate.

Ernest Tidyman adapted the screenplay from the 1969 non-fiction book by Robin Moore.

Gene Hackman earned his first Academy Award in this film for his stunning lead performance as the obsessive Detective “Popeye” Doyle.

Arguably, the single and most important question I ask when scrolling through the intrepid one-liner specs before installing an app is “Yes, but does it work?”

Unfortunately, I find with most apps this is an unattainab ale expectation; far more dependent on motivation and talent than exorbitant budgets or organized displays.

Install any pizza chain’s “quick and easy” app and slowly disintegrate into frustrated hunger pains while using your last calorie to click the tantalizing “order now” button for the 30th time. Disheartened, you come to terms with actually having to call it in and, for at least the time it takes for the pizza to be delivered, contemplating if you do indeed live in the “digital age.”

Everyone thinks his or her grandma cooks better than anyone. From cookies to pot pies, no one’s grandma is better than your grandma.

Then there are those who skip grandma altogether and go straight to mom. I would be guilty of that, but my grandma can still cook anything better than your grandma.

When I was growing up my mom would get an itch to try new recipes and put things together to make something new. Most of the time she succeeded, and the other times the pizza she ordered was excellent, too.

While Oklahoma City is not really known for its local music scene, that does not stop local musicians from plying their trade around the city, and sometimes outside of it as well.

This is the case for local alt rock outfit Thin Skin.

Thin Skin, consisting of Dalton Farr on guitar and vocals, Payton Collins on guitar, Alex Skaggs on bass guitar and backup vocals, and Andrew Dolman on drums, have been around since late 2013.