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Suggested Donation $2 SUGGESTED DONATION ISSUE 60 MAGIC IN THE MUNDANE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE EYE OF OKLAHOMA’S BHADRI VERDUZCO AND CURBSIDE VENDORS Explore With NEW Arts District | Automobile Alley | Bricktown | City Center | Midtown SEE MORE OF OKLAHOMA CITY BY BIKE FAMILY FUN Myriad Gardens Platform Crystal Bridge, Mo’s Carousel, Children’s Garden & more! $1 to unlock Rides are just 12¢/minute. BIG EVENTS Century Center, Ballpark & Arena Platforms Cox Convention Center, Bricktown Ball Park & Chesepeake Arena Events! Dockless Lock to any DASH friendly bike rack. A NIGHT OUT Automobile Alley & Midtown Platforms Over 20 Bars & Breweries and 65 Restaurants on the Loops! Easy to access Use cash, BCycle app, or key fob. Get Your Ticket to Ride Today! Download Token Transit to get your streetcar Find and Unlock DASH with the App. pass right on your phone. Visit okcstreetcar.com to learn more.. Visit spokiesokc.com/downloads.html Explore With NEW A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR MARCH 2020 Arts District | Automobile Alley | Bricktown | City Center | Midtown >> Nathan Poppe discusses street photography, our reader survey and 4 Angelina Stancampiano shares her a Valentine’s Day flower campaign update passion for nature and how to visit a state park without acting like an animal 6 Then and Now illustrates how far Oklahoma has come and how much SEE MORE OF work needs to be done 9 Curbside vendors used disposable OKLAHOMA CITY BY BIKE cameras in a photo essay focusing on street photography 16 Oklahoma-based street photographer Bhadri Verduzco talks about finding magic in the mundane 22 Help spread the word about Curbside FAMILY FUN and the OKC Day Shelter with shareable Myriad Gardens Platform cut-out cards Crystal Bridge, Mo’s Carousel, Children’s Garden & more! 26 Nazarene Harris explores Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” and its connection to Oklahoma Curbside vendor Rose holds one of the many bouquets she created for the 2020 Valentine’s Day flower campaign. [Photo by Nathan Poppe] 29 On the Move highlights Richard as he settles into an apartment after 25 years $1 to unlock of experiencing homelessness Rides are just 12¢/minute. elcome back to Curbside. We’ve got a picture perfect issue focusing its lens on street photography and the social impact of COVER CREDITS: Bhadri Verduzco is pictures. When people ask me what I enjoy most about work, I a graphic designer and photographer. As his almost always mention capturing the visual side of these career as a commercial designer developed, W his passion for photography was born from the pages. It’s a privilege to get invited into the lives of our vendors who are transitioning out of homelessness. Every new need to create once again without constraints. issue means I get the chance to learn something new about them. I also love The cover photo was made by sitting and seeing their photos make it into these pages and hearing the meaning behind waiting above a resting security guard. It was a creative breakthrough as he learned the value each photo. You can see several images in this issue alongside a feature about of visualizing the scene before it happens. the talented Tulsa-based street photographer Bhadri Verduzco. A special BIG EVENTS Follow his work on Instagram at @bvstreet. thank you to him for sharing his passion and sparking the idea for our vendors Century Center, Ballpark & Arena Platforms to follow his lead by hitting the streets with disposable cameras. “I appreciate the opportunity to share my work Cox Convention Center, Bricktown Ball Park & Chesepeake Arena Events! through Curbside,” Bhadri said. “I hope these Also, we have an important announcement in the form of our very first reader photos bring your readers a bit of the joy I had Dockless survey. We’re always curious about our audience, and how you’re making them.” interacting with these pages. 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Those petals went a long way in ending 1724 NW 4th St. OKC, OK 73106 A NIGHT OUT homelessness in OKC. We can’t wait to share more flowery news in the near Address: 405-415-8425 Automobile Alley & Midtown Platforms future. Stay tuned. See you again next month. General inquiries: 405-628-2367 Over 20 Bars & Breweries and 65 Restaurants on the Loops! Easy to access Vendor assistance: Email: [email protected] Use cash, BCycle app, or key fob. The Curbside Chronicle is Oklahoma City’s street paper. Get Your Ticket to Ride Today! It was created to provide both a voice and employment Follow us on social media at @CurbsideOKC for people experiencing homelessness. Our vendors Download Token Transit to get your streetcar Find and Unlock DASH with the App. buy magazines at 75 cents per issue and sell them for pass right on your phone. a suggested $2. They keep the profit. Thanks for your NATHAN POPPE A PROGRAM OF THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE support in ending homelessness in OKC. Visit okcstreetcar.com to learn more.. Visit spokiesokc.com/downloads.html GOOD TO KNOW Practical advice from passionate people moody — barred owl and bald ea- gle eat rodents, thus ingesting the Don’t act like an animal poison. at a state park By Angelina Stancampiano LEAVE NO TRACE Take nothing. Leave nothing. Un- less you’re bringing a trash bag to Welcome to our column, Good to Know. The idea is to explore topics — in a quick and easy pick up litter or taking a nice, safe way — that can be part of your everyday life. We hope it'll both entertain and educate a on-trail photo for the ’Gram. Staying broad collection of readers who are mindful about everything from food and fun to politics on trails is important for maintaining and public transportation. the landscape, but also for your own safety. You don’t know when you might hit a cactus, a trap, poison ivy or a biting animal. Beautiful wild- >> Picture someone wearing to roadsides and into other danger- flowers aren’t visible from the trails head-to-toe polyester in shades of ous situations. if they’re tread on all spring, and khaki — or is it green in this light- they’re not there next year if you’re ing? There’s also an embarrassing See an animal you think is aban- picking them and not allowing them hat and hiking boots. Hi! It’s me, doned or sick? A raccoon stumbling to replenish seeds. Taking fossils, your friendly park ranger. I wear around in the daytime? It’s always a plants and even turtles — I’ve seen a lot of hats besides the green one good idea to call one of our great re- it all — is against the law and rob- for my job, and right now I’m here hab facilities, a game warden or an- bing future visitors from enjoying to translate the resources of our imal control. It’s hardly ever a good those wonders. parks — whether they’re ancient idea for you to intervene. The an- geologic features, weird looking imal kingdom is a brutal place and GO NOW fungi or the cultural heritage of only the strongest survive. A chick an area — to visitors. It’s hard to might’ve been pushed from the Oklahoma has dozens of remark- believe, but spring break is just nest because it was sick, or a fawn’s able — and remarkably different — around the corner. Got any plans? mother might be watching you from state parks. The northwest provides How about visiting a state park? across the field after she left her rocky, salty and sandy wonders eas- newborn in a hiding place. You ily accessible from OKC. Head to the Sequoyah State Park — located may be keeping the mother deer northeast for lakes galore and hun- 150ish miles northeast of OKC — is away from her young. Make a phone dred-foot-tall shortleaf pines. Did my park, and it’s home to thousands call before you make the choice of I mention the crazy rock hideouts of species of flora and fauna. We jumping to conclusions. at Robbers Cave and Civilian Con- have a number of them represent- servation Corps structures at Osage ed by animal ambassadors at our And please, oh please, don’t try to Hills? Or the dinosaur tracks and nature center. Our most senior res- keep a wild animal as a pet. That’s highest point at Black Mesa? Go see ident is Taurus, a 40-year-old bald both illegal and stinky. Believe me. for yourself and greet my comrades eagle. He lives in captivity due to a It’s illegal to take in any wild animal. in khaki. powerline injury 25 years ago. We Let’s avoid that potential fine.
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