Oklahoma- urban prairie?

Oklahoma gift shop and cafe is one of the many independent businesses in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.

When I hear of Oklahoma I also think of the southern US State and the prairie (and Garrison Keillor's wonderful radio show A Prairie Home Companion: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/)

The word “Oklahoma” is derived from the Native American Choctaw words words “okla” and “humma”, meaning "red people”- so with Manchester's proud socialist, union and communist history it seems well chosen.

This is what they have to say for themselves: “A colourful creative cafe and burgeoning eclectic wonderful gift shop not to mention art house DVD rentals with over 850 titles...trading for the last 8 years... Fairtrade coffees, recycled plastic work surfaces, baked sweet potatoes, jumbo oreo smoothies, skippy shakes, ice cream floaters, homemade lemonade, norlander rye... bread toasties.... finger monsters, spud guns, fortune fish, bonfirm bracelets, day of the dead cushions, classic hardware jewellery, lush hand screen printed lampshades, music boxes and more stocking fillers than you can shove in a stocking... to name just a few of the delights awaiting ... wonder through the large oak doors and into consumer heaven!”

Follow them by popping in in person or if you can't manage that, on Twitter: www.twitter.com/oklahomacafe

By the way,  if you are disappointed that this post was not about Oklahoma! the musical, well, you had best mosey along to Stockport Plaza for the Plaza youth production of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical. Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th October and worth going if only just to see the wonderful Stockport Plaza Art Deco theatre: www.stockportplaza.co.uk