Articles by Chris J. Zähller

years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared only a por­tion of the pho­tos I shot dur­ing the race, rel­e­gat­ing the remain­der to Flickr. Since then Flickr have changed their terms of ser­vice. I’m cur­rently mov­ing many of my pho­tos from the plat­form to this blog.  For this move, I’ve… Read More …

A pair of Oklahoma’s pre­mier song­writ­ers shar­ing a stage should draw a crowd. But if it’s Monday night the week before finals in a uni­ver­sity town, maybe not.

In 1957 a young archi­tect named Herb Greene returned to his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, to teach. Working along­side his for­mer pro­fes­sor mod­ernist Bruce Goff and oth­ers, he helped develop the American School of architecture.

My friend RT Valine and his wife Jackie were vis­it­ing the Bureau one evening and we got to dis­cussing food and cook­ing. The Valines live in rural Allen, Oklahoma. When the con­di­tions are right, they have access to wild morel mushrooms.

My first encounter with the music of My Brightest Diamond was a track on a RED + HOT com­pi­la­tion. During the sum­mer break, my neighbor’s teenage daugh­ter and her friend used to hang out in my liv­ing room and spin CDs on my hi-fi. One day she brought over Dark Was the Night, the fif­teenth entry in the RED + HOT series.

It’s been years since the Dollyrots played Oklahoma City. But for­tune finally favored the city’s denizens: last April they opened for Bowling for Soup

Here are the pre­vi­ously unpub­lished black and white pho­tos from elec­tronic world fusion group Beats Antique play­ing the Diamond Ballroom in 2012. You can view the color images here.

I’m mov­ing the bulk of my Flickr pho­tos to their new per­ma­nent home. Back in 2012 I posted some pic­tures of elec­tronic world fusion group Beats Antique at the Diamond Ballroom. Here are the remain­ing color pho­tos from the show. I’ve posted the remain­ing black and white images as well.

As part of my cleanup of my Flickr account, here are some pho­tos of LYNX I took at the Diamond Ballroom in 2012. LYNX opened for Beats Antique dur­ing their Animal Mechanique tour.

This writer had only one offi­cial assign­ment (cov­er­ing gritty soul-singer Opal Agafia) at the big out­door stage on fes­ti­val Saturday. Red Dirt leg­end Randy Crouch pre­ceded her. Unfortunately, his set coin­cided with my only chance to eat din­ner before I had to be back