(6797,1,'2011-03-09 15:22:09','2011-03-09 21:22:09','<a href=\"http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2400000/Abner-and-Gladys-Kravitz-bewitched-2432976-400-320.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 400px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2400000/Abner-and-Gladys-Kravitz-bewitched-2432976-400-320.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" /></a>In case you didn\'t notice, I love Tulsa.\n<div>I love that I was born here, and I feel lucky that I got to grow up where I did, along a little stretch of highway between two little towns just west of Tulsa. My childhood was spent roaming free on my bicycle through my sprawling neighborhood, where the typical lot measured two acres or so.</div>\n<div>Now I live in the middle of town. On barely a quarter of an acre. People walk through my grass, something that\'s just not done by the innocent where I come from. Though I haven\'t seen the movie, I\'ve thought of adopting the line from Gran Torino, \"Get off my lawn,\" as my personal slogan.</div>\n<div>Especially when things like the following happen:</div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n	<li>I find a fully cooked turkey hanging from my mailbox. No note, no message. There was a price tag, though: $47.32.</li>\n	<li>An FBI agent armed to the teeth hangs out in a nondescript vehicle outside my house for hours, divulging only he \"was assigned to watch this street.\"</li>\n	<li>Homeschooled kids knock on my backdoor, trying to sell wrestling tickets \"for school.\" A few hours later, one of the kids\' mother is at my door informing me her son\'s leg had all but been torn off by my 12-pound dog and that I could easily claim the whole mess on my homeowner\'s insurance and would I please send them a check, thank you very much.</li>\n	<li>We were asked to move our infant son\'s crib to another room by a neighboring church upon complaining about their noisy, rowdy youth group that experiments until 10 p.m. two evenings per week to find the maximum volume at which they can squeal their tires, rev their engines and crank their radios.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2008/08/and-taquito-smiled-down-upon-us.html\">I once found a QuikTrip taquito on my back porch</a>.</li>\n	<li> A construction worker on a job nearby stole water from our outside faucet to fill a large bucket nearly every day for a week. I never could get up the nerve to tell him to cut it out.</li>\n	<li>We had a garage sale. We sold a broken TV as-was. Later the buyer called to inform us the TV was broken and that we needed to give his money back. After we reminded him the TV was sold as-was, he said, \"Look, I know that. Here\'s the deal. There are no groceries in my house. We kinda need that money back for food. Meet us at the supermarket?\"</li>\n	<li>Also at said garage sale, our infamous elderly neighbor, whom we know only as \"The Colonel,\" not only quizzed my American-born friend of Guatemalan heritage if she \"had papers,\" but also asked if she\'d like to split and grab a beer with him.</li>\n	<li>After his Jeep was stolen right out of his driveway, The Colonel installed half a dozen security cameras on his premises. We know this because my husband, on whom The Colonel pounces during his yard work and practically orders him to come clean his gun collection, has seen \"the control room.\"</li>\n</ul>\n<div>Gladys Kravitz has nothing on me, y\'all. I\'d rather have a witch with a cute little upturned nose working her magic across the street than have to worry that there\'s something bad enough going on around here that calls for bringing in the feds.</div>\n<div>I still love it here. It\'s just, on some days, I think I\'d trade all of the above fun and laughter for a 30-minute commute to the hubbub of T-Town proper from some outlying bedroom community.</div>\n<div>But only on some days.</div>\n</div>','About That Question Mark Above My Head','','inherit','open','open','','112-autosave','','','2011-03-09 15:22:09','2011-03-09 21:22:09','',112,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/112-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(5698,1,'2011-02-02 16:27:12','2011-02-02 21:27:12','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5550\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=5550\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5550\" title=\"Rhea Lana\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/racks-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Rhea Lana\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\n\nSometimes it\'s fun to go to the mall and while away an afternoon gasping at the numbers on the price tags in children\'s boutiques. But when it\'s time to stock up on toys, furniture and clothes you\'d like your kids to be able to wear without being followed around by Mom or Dad with a pack of Shout wipes, those price tags aren\'t so funny anymore.\n\nCue Rhea Lana, a south Tulsa children\'s consignment event where Tulsa-area parents can save on gently used clothes that aren\'t only priced right, but that also rival what\'s on the racks at overpriced kids\' stores. It\'s also a place where parents can consign their own kids\' clothing and toys, and earn 70 percent by doing it.\n\nAnd to make this news even sweeter, <strong>Rhea Lana wants to give one lucky TDT reader a $50 gift certificate to spend at their sale later this month.</strong>\n\n<!--more-->\n\nTo make sure you don\'t miss this sale, mark this down in your calendar:\n\n<strong>Rhea Lana Tulsa Sale</strong>\nWhen: Feb. 16-19\n<ul>\n	<li>Wednesday, Feb. 16: 9am-8pm</li>\n	<li>Thursday, Feb. 17: 9am-8pm</li>\n	<li>Friday, Feb. 18 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-7pm</li>\n	<li>Saturday, Feb. 19 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-12pm</li>\n</ul>\nWhere: <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/csssaleinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">The Shoppes at Regal Plaza, 105th and Memorial</a>\n\nWhat will you find at this sale (where, by the way, there\'s no cost for parking or for admission)? Baby stuff. Toys galore. Boys\' and girls\' clothing from just about any brand name or boutique you can imagine. Maternity wear. Games. Books. Enough outdoor goodies to make your back yard look like a playground.\n\nBasically, anything and everything that can make your life easier as a hardworking parent by pleasing both your kids and your pocketbook.\n\nTo enter to win a $50 pass to this shopping wonderland, courtesy of Rhea Lana\'s South Tulsa, simply head to the comments section on this post and \'fess up:\n\n<strong>What is your No. 1 bargain-hunting strategy? </strong>\n\nWhether you\'re at a children\'s consignment event at Rhea Lana or sifting through the racks at your favorite vintage shop or barreling down the aisles at the grocery store, what\'s your top trick to saving a buck?\n\n<strong>I\'ll accept entries to this contest until Saturday, Feb. 5, at 10 a.m.</strong> I\'ll let Random.org choose the winner at that time, and I\'ll announce who won the prize shortly after.\n\nAfter you enter and while you\'re waiting to see if you\'re a winner, take a minute to check out <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhea-Lanas-of-South-Tulsa/115747248488308\">the Rhea Lana Facebook page</a> and to <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmailliststart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">put your name and e-mail address on the Rhea Lana mailing list</a>. If you\'re looking for ways to make sure you don\'t miss a single snippet of news on this huge sale, liking Rhea Lana on FB and adding your name to their mailing list are both sure-fire ways to do just that.\n\nYou can also <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssparticipate.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">sign up to become a consignor</a>.\n\nIf you\'re a mom-to-be, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmomstart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">you can sign up for the Rhea Lana pre-sale</a>. You can shop early <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssworkinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">if you want to help as staff at the sale</a>, too.\n\nAnd if you want to learn even more about the Rhea Lana sale, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/\">check them out on their website</a>.\n\nGood luck, everyone, and happy bargain secret sharing!','Win $50 from Rhea Lana\'s South Tulsa','Cue Rhea Lana, a south Tulsa children\'s consignment event where Tulsa-area parents can save on gently used clothes that aren\'t only priced right, but that also rival what\'s on the racks at overpriced kids\' stores.','inherit','open','open','','5549-revision-3','','','2011-02-02 16:27:12','2011-02-02 21:27:12','',5549,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/5549-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(5699,1,'2011-02-07 09:52:00','2011-02-07 14:52:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5550\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=5550\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5550\" title=\"Rhea Lana\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/racks-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Rhea Lana\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\n\nSometimes it\'s fun to go to the mall and while away an afternoon gasping at the numbers on the price tags in children\'s boutiques. But when it\'s time to stock up on toys, furniture and clothes you\'d like your kids to be able to wear without being followed around by Mom or Dad with a pack of Shout wipes, those price tags aren\'t so funny anymore.\n\nCue Rhea Lana, a south Tulsa children\'s consignment event where Tulsa-area parents can save on gently used clothes that aren\'t only priced right, but that also rival what\'s on the racks at overpriced kids\' stores. It\'s also a place where parents can consign their own kids\' clothing and toys, and earn 70 percent by doing it.\n\nAnd to make this news even sweeter, <strong>Rhea Lana wants to give one lucky TDT reader a $50 gift certificate to spend at their sale later this month.</strong>\n\n<!--more-->\n\nTo make sure you don\'t miss this sale, mark this down in your calendar:\n\n<strong>Rhea Lana Tulsa Sale</strong>\nWhen: Feb. 16-19\n<ul>\n	<li>Wednesday, Feb. 16: 9am-8pm</li>\n	<li>Thursday, Feb. 17: 9am-8pm</li>\n	<li>Friday, Feb. 18 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-7pm</li>\n	<li>Saturday, Feb. 19 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-12pm</li>\n</ul>\nWhere: <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/csssaleinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">The Shoppes at Regal Plaza, 105th and Memorial</a>\n\nWhat will you find at this sale (where, by the way, there\'s no cost for parking or for admission)? Baby stuff. Toys galore. Boys\' and girls\' clothing from just about any brand name or boutique you can imagine. Maternity wear. Games. Books. Enough outdoor goodies to make your back yard look like a playground.\n\nBasically, anything and everything that can make your life easier as a hardworking parent by pleasing both your kids and your pocketbook.\n\nTo enter to win a $50 pass to this shopping wonderland, courtesy of Rhea Lana\'s South Tulsa, simply head to the comments section on this post and \'fess up:\n\n<strong>What is your No. 1 bargain-hunting strategy? </strong>\n\nWhether you\'re at a children\'s consignment event at Rhea Lana or sifting through the racks at your favorite vintage shop or barreling down the aisles at the grocery store, what\'s your top trick to saving a buck?\n\n<strong>I\'ll accept entries to this contest until Saturday, Feb. 5, at 10 a.m.</strong> I\'ll let Random.org choose the winner at that time, and I\'ll announce who won the prize shortly after.\n\nAfter you enter and while you\'re waiting to see if you\'re a winner, take a minute to check out <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhea-Lanas-of-South-Tulsa/115747248488308\">the Rhea Lana Facebook page</a> and to <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmailliststart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">put your name and e-mail address on the Rhea Lana mailing list</a>. If you\'re looking for ways to make sure you don\'t miss a single snippet of news on this huge sale, liking Rhea Lana on FB and adding your name to their mailing list are both sure-fire ways to do just that.\n\nYou can also <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssparticipate.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">sign up to become a consignor</a>.\n\nIf you\'re a mom-to-be, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmomstart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">you can sign up for the Rhea Lana pre-sale</a>. 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width=\"500\" height=\"369\" /></a></p>\r\nChampagne, fireworks, swanky parties, stuff to do for the kids and those silly 2011 glasses - you want it all this New Year\'s Eve, and you\'ve got it right here in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Swanky Parties</h2>\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Sobriety Powwow</strong>\r\nWhen: 12pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaconvention.com/\">Tulsa Convention Center</a>, 100 Civic Center\r\nEnjoy dancing, drumming, food and other traditional powwow entertainment at this year’s annual New Years Eve Sobriety Powwow. This event is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Gala at Crowne Plaza Hotel</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 4pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111159658950064&amp;index=1\">Crowne Plaza Hotel</a>, 100 E. Second Street\r\nFor one price, get every NYE party in the hotel. Here\'s the line-up: Imzadi in the Tulsa Ballroom; Mid Life Crisis in Promenade Ballroom; Brian Lee &amp; Friends in the Upper Lobby; a Texas Hold \'Em Tournament, 4pm-7pm; Access to Cigar &amp; Martini Lounge in Oklahoma Ballroom and Photos Now Photography in Lower Lobby. Call Crowne Plaza at (918) 560-2219 to reserve your spot, and if you plan on celebrating with a few glasses of champagne, be sure to ask about the room packages available.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Salsa Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 5:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/New-Years-Eve-2009.jpg\">The Canebrake in Wagoner</a>\r\nGet dinner, a champagne toast, live salsa music and even some salsa lessons at this New Years Eve party at the Tulsa area\'s greenest resort. For information or reservations call (918) 485-1810 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@thecanebrake.com\">info@thecanebrake.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Olive Drop New Year’s Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 7pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"/\">Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville</a>\r\nEnjoy a five-course meal prepared by Outlaws Gourmet Catering, drinks at Copper Bar, and a complimentary champagne toast at midnight, when a large olive will be lowered from the top of Price Tower - which is Frank Lloyd Wright\'s only realized skyscraper, by the way - into a martini glass. Dinner reservations are available with seatings at 7pm and 9pm. Call (918) 336-1000 for room reservations and for a spot at dinner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Clean and Sober New Years Eve Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 8pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okeq.org/\">Dennis R. Neill Equality Center</a>, 621 E. Fourth Street\r\nBoard the S.S. Sensation at the Dennis R. Neill Equality for a clean and sober journey into a high energy dance party with DJ Hot Stick, sumptuous food, vexing games, karaoke, live entertainment and warm conversations. Look also for hors d’ouveres from Chili’s, TGIF, Flemming’s and Swan and non-alcohol punch and smoothies. Ring in the New Year - and remember it! A novel idea. Free admission, but cash donations will be accepted.\r\n\r\n<strong>Velo Ball</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.jasonperryphoto.net/?p=133\">Hey Mambo</a>, 114 N. Boston Ave.\r\nIf you\'re looking for a cycle-centric NYE party, Hey Mambo is the place to be on the last night of 2010. The evening will include a Mustache Cup Goldsprints Roller Race Tournament from Superleggera Cycling and Multisport, a live DJ, hot food from the kitchen of Hey Mambo (which is really yum, if you ask me), Pabst Blue Ribbon on tap, plenty of prizes and photography of the evening by Jason Perry Photography. The restaurant bar (cash or charge) will be in full operation for the evening, too. <a href=\"http://www.jasonperryphoto.net/?p=133\">Individual passes are $35, couples are $60</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crystal Ball: A New Years Eve Masquerade</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsacrystalball.com/\">Enso Bar, Electric Circus and IDL Ballroom, all at 1st and Detroit</a>\r\nGet gussied up in your finest black and white NYE attire and disguise and beguile fellow revelers as you masquerade between three of the hottest clubs in Tulsa into the wee hours of the night. Entertainment includes the beats of the Panic! Crew, Steve Club and DJ Dilation &amp; Jimm-A. <a href=\"http://www.ticketstorm.com/event/skyyvodkapresentscrystalball2011anewyearsevemasquerade/idlballroom/tulsa/5868/\">Tickets are $15 per person or $20 per couple, and VIP packages are $25 per person, $40 per couple</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Speakeasy</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://cosmo-cafe.com/\">Cosmo Cafe &amp; Bar</a>, 3334 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nBe prepared to be transported back to the era of classy attire, sexy jazz and stiff drinks. While you’re partying like it’s 1929, check out free champagne toast at midnight, accompanied by what Cosmo called “fancy stuff on crackers.” Heck, yes.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Wiggin\' Out Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187182407965172\">Lee\'s Bikes</a>, 420 E. Second Street\r\nSee the fireworks in the Blue Dome District at midnight (get more information about that event below) from underneath, but what else, a wig. If it\'s good enough for the folks at Lee\'s, it\'s totally good enough for y\'all. Look for food and drink, and if the weather permits and everyone feels like it, you can also expect a townie ride. Oh, and good company, too. \r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Heaven &amp; Hell Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: Bruhouse Bar &amp; Grill, 3421 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nWear your best angel or devil costume - all the cool kids are doing it. Look also for a live DJ at this Brookside New Years Eve event - might be fun to stop by after watching the ball drop at THE Party on Brookside (see below).\r\n<h2>Performances</h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">EDIT//Take note: This event has been cancelled.</span></strong>\r\n<strong>Sylvia Browne</strong>\r\nWhen: 8pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.milliondollarelm.com/event-center\">Osage Event Center</a>, 951 W. 36 Street North\r\nAlways wanted to have your most pressing, personal questions answered by a psychic? This NYE is your chance. Tickets to see Sylvia are $30, or you can pay $100 and guarantee that you\'ll have your question answered. Stay tuned for the book signing after the lecture.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Jazz Soiree</strong>\r\nWhen: 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okjazz.org/\">Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame</a>, 111 E. First Street\r\nGet performances by Nicole Jackson &amp; the Soultry Sound Band along with a DJ and a midnight champagne toast at the New Years Eve celebration in the heart of downtown Tulsa in the historic Tulsa Depot. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Call (918) 281-8600 or <a href=\"http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2762&amp;pid=6923907\">click here to reserve your tickets</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey</strong>\r\nWhen: 9:15pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.cainsballroom.com/\">Cain\'s Ballroom</a>, 423 N. Main Street\r\nSpend New Years Eve in downtown Tulsa\'s historic Cain\'s Ballroom and see Tulsa\'s homegrown Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey as they play the music of Beyonce, Madonna and Lady Gaga at the same time. Tickets are $19 in advance, $25 in the day of. <a href=\"http://www.protixonline.com/View_Event.asp?id=404\">Get \'em here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Alex Ortiz</strong>\r\nWhen: 10pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.loonybincomedy.com/\">The Loony Bin</a>, 6808 S. Memorial Drive\r\nAlex has both headlined and featured at The Apollo, Funny Bones and The Improvs. He has rocked the stage as opener for Bernie Mac, Damon Wayans, Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, and Bobcat Goldthwaite. And tonight, on New Years Eve, you can see him in Tulsa. <a href=\"https://www.standupmedia.com/securedReservation/loonybin/tulsa/Default.aspx?mp=&amp;member=&amp;club=BCA30415-8E4E-4EC5-817D-52222AC57427&amp;d=12%2f29%2f2010+8%3a00%3a00+PM&amp;s=s&amp;c=edd54cf4-9754-4f32-ac5d-b8b62df856a7\">Tickets are $25</a>.\r\n<h2>For a Family-Friendly New Years Eve</h2>\r\n<strong>Special Two-Hour, Open Bounce</strong>\r\nWhen: 11:30am-1pm\r\nWhere:  <a href=\"http://www.bounceu.com/\">Bounce U</a>, 8922 S. Memorial Drive\r\nRing in the New Year family style at Bounce U with this open bounce. Cost is $8.95 per child and includes poppers, noise makers, cookies and juice. Make reservations at (918) 249-0090.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Year\'s Eve Night Out at the Tulsa Zoo</strong>\r\nWhen: 6pm New Years Eve - 10am New Years Day\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsazoo.org/EducationConservation/ClassesWorkshops/\">Tulsa Zoo &amp; Living Museum</a>\r\nSend your kids for an exciting overnight at the zoo this NYE. Parents, you’ll be free to ring in the New Year any way you choose while your 2nd-5th graders will be hanging out with the animals on this night time adventure. The kiddos will also get a dinner, breakfast and light snack. Cost is $55 per child. Call (918) 669-6600 for reservations or more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve at Bounce U</strong>\r\nWhen: 7pm-1am\r\nWhere:  <a href=\"http://www.bounceu.com/\">Bounce U</a>, 8922 S. Memorial Drive\r\nDrop the kids off and enjoy your evening, parents. The kiddos will be fully supervised and they\'ll enjoy snacks, dinner, a late-night treat, midnight poppers and noisemakers, games and, of course, lots of bouncing. Cost is $40 per child. Make reservations at (918) 249-0090.\r\n\r\n<strong>THE Party! Hahn Appliance Warehouse New Year\'s Eve on Brookside</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"https://www.newyearsevetulsa.com/pages.aspx?pageid=1\">Brookside (Peoria Avenue) between 36th and 39th Streets</a>\r\nThis second-ever event brought the community together last year to share in the excitement of a Times Square-esque, free outdoor street party complete with a lighted ball drop, fireworks, bands and entertainment, and they\'re going to do it even bigger and better to ring in 2011. A choice of outdoor and indoor activities along Brookside guarantees participants of all ages to can comfortably enjoy the festivities, even if our Oklahoma weather rears its ugly head. Look for live entertainment from Eric and the Adams (one of my favorite Tulsa bands) on an outdoor stage and dancing in the VIP Party Tent (<a href=\"https://www.newyearsevetulsa.com/Purchase_Tickets.aspx\">tickets to which are $75 per</a>). All proceeds raised by THE Party will benefit the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve in the Blue Dome District</strong>\r\nWhen: 10pm-1am New Years Eve\r\nWhere: On Elgin Avenue between First and Second Streets\r\nPut a little bit of hip and historic into your New Years Eve celebration this year. Grab the kids (and feed them all manner of Pixie Stix and Fun Dip to keep them awake) and head to the Blue Dome District for some fireworks, as well as warm drinks for both the adults and the kids and beer for those 21 and over.\r\n<h2>The New Year in Motion</h2>\r\n<strong>Race Into the New Year</strong>\r\nWhen: 11:45pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tatur.org/RINY.html\">River Parks West Amphitheater</a>, 2100 W. Jackson Ave.\r\nRun from one year to the next with this sixth-annual 5K race along the Tulsa stretch of the Arkansas River. Look for a fun run, too - it\'ll start a bit earlier, at 11pm - as well as a live DJ, fireworks at the stroke of midnight, prizes and giveaways and champagne on the course. Don\'t miss out on the post-race plethora of food and drink, including black-eyed peas, cornbread, cookies and other treats. The race benefits the Tulsa Police Officers Memorial and supports <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/\">the rebuilding of the Admiral Twin Drive-In</a>. The race fee is $25, or free for kids 5-11. <a href=\"https://secure.getmeregistered.com/get_information.php?event_id=3970\">Register here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Polar Bear Plunge</strong>\r\nWhen: 1:11pm New Years Day (Get it? 1/1/11 at 1:11?)\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tatur.org/PolarPlunge.html\">River Parks West Amphitheater</a>, 2100 W. Jackson Ave.\r\nHow big a boy are ya? If you can complete this race - a two-mile run that sends you plunging into three swimming pools - you\'ll have me convinced that you are all that is man (or woman!) for now and forever. The entry fee is $25 for those who dress in costume and $30 to those who chicken out. Look for free pizza, cold beer and drinks at the race, and the first 300 to sign up for the race get finishers\' tees. Proceeds benefit the River Parks Trail Systems. If after <a href=\"http://runnersworldtulsa.zenfolio.com/p451670097#h10dad90a\">looking at these photos from last year\'s Polar Bear Plunge</a> you still think you\'ve got what it takes, <a href=\"http://tatur.org/polarplungeregister.html\">register here</a>.\r\n<h2>Movies</h2>\r\n<strong>Rocky Horror Picture Show</strong>\r\nWhen: 10pm and midnight showings\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Circle Cinema</a>, 12 S. Lewis Ave.\r\nIt’s the weird and wonderful as newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when they car halts in the rain...and we all know the rest of the story, but who cares? It\'s a classic! You have two chances to see it this New Years Eve at Tulsa\'s own Circle Cinema. While audience participation is encouraged as usual, please leave your water guns and items you\'d normally throw at the screen during this production at home. <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Tickets are $10</a>.\r\n<h2>Where to Find Live Music This NYE</h2>\r\n<strong>Brookside</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.crowcreektavern.com/\"> Crow Creek</a>. Mister Pistol, 8pm.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.ciao-brookside.com/\"> The Primo Room at Ciao</a>. Olivia Duhon and the Frank Brown Trio, 9pm.\r\n\r\n<strong>Catoosa</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com/nightlife/calendar/Pages/CabinCreek.aspx\">Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino</a>. DeeJay Rog Mahal and DJ Ziploc, 8:30pm at Friction; Scott Ellison at 8pm in C:Note; Deuce Eleven at 9pm in Cabin Creek.\r\n\r\n<strong>Claremore</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cherokeestarrewards.com/casinos/willrogersdowns/nightlife/calendar/Pages/default.aspx\">Will Rogers Downs</a>. Nick Gibson and Beer &amp; Chicken Band at 7pm, Iron Dog Saloon.\r\n\r\n<strong>Downtown</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.club209tulsa.com/\">Club 209</a>. Arthouse with DJ Josh &amp; DJ Jitsu, 9pm.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.thehuntclubtulsa.com/\">Hunt Club</a>. Blackwood, 9pm.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>. The Zuits, complete with a countdown and a toast at midnight. 9pm.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Junkie-Live/154298727944419\">Junkie Live</a>. P.D.A. is home and joins Brandon Davis. <a href=\"http://www.ticketstorm.com/\">A ticket</a> gets you into both Junkie and Pink. 9pm\r\n<a href=\"http://themaxretropub.com/\">The Max Retropub</a>. Glam-R-Us, plus a countdown and champagne toast. 9pm.\r\n<a href=\"www.myspace.com/mercury_lounge\">Mercury Lounge</a>. Electric Rag Band and RC Edwards, all for $5. 8pm.\r\n<a href=\"http://thesoundpony.com/\">Soundpony</a>. DJ Sweet Baby Jayzus, 9pm.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000328907311\">Woody\'s Corner Bar</a>. 2 Steps Back, 10pm.\r\n\r\n<strong>North Tulsa</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.milliondollarelm.com/nightlife/music-calendar\">Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino</a>. Ray D. Rowe, 9pm.\r\n\r\n<strong>South Tulsa</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bakers-Street-Pub-Grill/154274264588305\">Baker St. Pub</a>. Crossland for a $10 ticket. 8pm.\r\n<a href=\"www.myspace.com/harvardsportsba\">Harvard Sports Bar</a>. The Moving Company for a $5 cover. 9pm.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsamagoos.com/index.html\">Magoo\'s</a>. Admiral Twin, 9pm.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.riverspirittulsa.com/entertainment/mysticriver/Pages/Home.aspx\">River Spirit Casino, Mystic River Lounge</a>. Revelation: A Tribute to Journey. 10pm.\r\n\r\n<strong>Don\'t see your favorite NYE party or band on this list?</strong> No big - we can fix that. <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">E-mail me with the details</a>.','New Years Eve Tulsa 2010: Where to Celebrate','Champagne, fireworks, swanky parties, stuff to do for the kids and those silly 2011 glasses - here\'s where to get it all this New Years Eve in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','4166-revision-28','','','2010-12-30 16:33:49','2010-12-30 21:33:49','',4166,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4166-revision-28/',0,'revision','',0),(4935,1,'2010-12-31 11:04:52','2010-12-31 16:04:52','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1874','','','2010-12-31 11:04:52','2010-12-31 16:04:52','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4936,1,'2010-12-31 11:06:12','2010-12-31 16:06:12','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1866-2','','','2010-12-31 11:06:12','2010-12-31 16:06:12','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4937,1,'2010-12-31 11:16:02','2010-12-31 16:16:02','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1861','','','2010-12-31 11:16:02','2010-12-31 16:16:02','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4938,1,'2010-12-31 11:17:40','2010-12-31 16:17:40','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1876','','','2010-12-31 11:17:40','2010-12-31 16:17:40','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4939,1,'2010-12-31 11:26:35','2010-12-31 16:26:35','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1858','','','2010-12-31 11:26:35','2010-12-31 16:26:35','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4940,1,'2010-12-31 11:27:24','2010-12-31 16:27:24','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1866-3','','','2010-12-31 11:27:24','2010-12-31 16:27:24','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4941,1,'2010-12-31 11:28:47','2010-12-31 16:28:47','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1837','','','2010-12-31 11:28:47','2010-12-31 16:28:47','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4942,1,'2010-12-31 11:31:37','2010-12-31 16:31:37','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1830','','','2010-12-31 11:31:37','2010-12-31 16:31:37','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4943,1,'2010-12-31 11:35:09','2010-12-31 16:35:09','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1853','','','2010-12-31 11:35:09','2010-12-31 16:35:09','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4944,1,'2010-12-31 11:35:47','2010-12-31 16:35:47','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1857','','','2010-12-31 11:35:47','2010-12-31 16:35:47','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4945,1,'2010-12-31 11:37:10','2010-12-31 16:37:10','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1862','','','2010-12-31 11:37:10','2010-12-31 16:37:10','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4946,1,'2010-12-31 11:37:38','2010-12-31 16:37:38','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1858-2','','','2010-12-31 11:37:38','2010-12-31 16:37:38','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4947,1,'2010-12-31 11:40:52','2010-12-31 16:40:52','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1864','','','2010-12-31 11:40:52','2010-12-31 16:40:52','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4948,1,'2010-12-31 11:44:40','2010-12-31 16:44:40','','Primetime Pizza','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1861-2','','','2010-12-31 11:44:40','2010-12-31 16:44:40','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4949,1,'2010-12-31 11:57:47','2010-12-31 16:57:47','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\n\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \n\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \n\n<!--more-->\n\n<ad>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\n\nTulsa is an incredible city. Appropriately, it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled in the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \n\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs through the streets shouting Merry Christmas could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \n\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \n\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\n\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \n\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \n\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths of it - of Primetime Pizza. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\n\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \n\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\n\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\n\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \n\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \n\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\n\nOversized Dixie cups. \n\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\n\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\n\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\n\nAnd that was before these came along: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\n\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\n\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \n\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\n\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \n\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \n\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \n\nI love the crust bubble. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\n\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \n\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \n\nJust say yes. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\n\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \n\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \n\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\n\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\n\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \n\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \n\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\n109 N. Elm Street\n(918) 299-0939\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\nSeven days, 3-10pm\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\n\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision','','','2010-12-31 11:57:47','2010-12-31 16:57:47','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(4951,1,'2010-12-31 11:59:56','2010-12-31 16:59:56','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\n\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \n\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \n\n<!--more-->\n\n<ad>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\n\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled in the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \n\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs through the streets shouting Merry Christmas could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \n\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \n\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\n\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \n\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \n\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths of it - of Primetime Pizza. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\n\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \n\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\n\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\n\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \n\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \n\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\n\nOversized Dixie cups. \n\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\n\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\n\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\n\nAnd that was before these came along: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\n\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\n\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \n\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\n\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \n\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \n\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \n\nI love the crust bubble. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\n\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \n\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \n\nJust say yes. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\n\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \n\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \n\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\n\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\n\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \n\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \n\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\n109 N. Elm Street\n(918) 299-0939\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\nSeven days, 3-10pm\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\n\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-3','','','2010-12-31 11:59:56','2010-12-31 16:59:56','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(4950,1,'2010-12-31 11:58:52','2010-12-31 16:58:52','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<ad>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. Appropriately, it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled in the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs through the streets shouting Merry Christmas could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-2','','','2010-12-31 11:58:52','2010-12-31 16:58:52','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(4957,1,'2010-12-31 12:03:39','2010-12-31 17:03:39','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\n\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \n\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\n\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \n\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \n\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \n\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\n\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \n\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \n\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\n\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \n\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\n\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\n\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \n\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \n\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\n\nOversized Dixie cups. \n\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\n\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\n\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\n\nAnd that was before these came along: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\n\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\n\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \n\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\n\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \n\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \n\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \n\nI love the crust bubble. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\n\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \n\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \n\nJust say yes. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\n\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \n\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \n\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\n\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\n\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \n\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \n\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\n109 N. Elm Street\n(918) 299-0939\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\nSeven days, 3-10pm\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\n\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-9','','','2010-12-31 12:03:39','2010-12-31 17:03:39','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(4952,1,'2010-12-31 12:00:26','2010-12-31 17:00:26','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled in the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs through the streets shouting Merry Christmas could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-4','','','2010-12-31 12:00:26','2010-12-31 17:00:26','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(4953,1,'2010-12-31 12:00:26','2010-12-31 17:00:26','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled in the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs through the streets shouting Merry Christmas could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-5','','','2010-12-31 12:00:26','2010-12-31 17:00:26','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(4956,1,'2010-12-31 12:02:35','2010-12-31 17:02:35','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-8','','','2010-12-31 12:02:35','2010-12-31 17:02:35','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(4954,1,'2010-12-31 12:01:53','2010-12-31 17:01:53','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs through the streets shouting Merry Christmas could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-6','','','2010-12-31 12:01:53','2010-12-31 17:01:53','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(4955,1,'2010-12-31 12:01:53','2010-12-31 17:01:53','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs through the streets shouting Merry Christmas could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd that\'s a two-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have a slice already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-7','','','2010-12-31 12:01:53','2010-12-31 17:01:53','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(4958,1,'2010-12-31 12:04:04','2010-12-31 17:04:04','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-10','','','2010-12-31 12:04:04','2010-12-31 17:04:04','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(4959,1,'2010-12-31 12:04:04','2010-12-31 17:04:04','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds along with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Neon, root beer and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-11','','','2010-12-31 12:04:04','2010-12-31 17:04:04','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(4961,1,'2010-12-31 12:06:26','2010-12-31 17:06:26','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\n\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \n\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\n\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \n\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \n\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \n\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\n\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \n\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \n\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\n\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \n\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\n\nThe first t you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\n\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \n\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \n\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\n\nOversized Dixie cups. \n\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\n\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\n\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\n\nAnd that was before these came along: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\n\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\n\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \n\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\n\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \n\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \n\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \n\nI love the crust bubble. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\n\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \n\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \n\nJust say yes. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\n\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \n\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \n\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\n\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\n\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \n\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \n\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\n109 N. Elm Street\n(918) 299-0939\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\nSeven days, 3-10pm\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\n\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-13','','','2010-12-31 12:06:26','2010-12-31 17:06:26','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(4960,1,'2010-12-31 12:05:22','2010-12-31 17:05:22','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-12','','','2010-12-31 12:05:22','2010-12-31 17:05:22','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(4967,1,'2010-12-31 12:09:23','2010-12-31 17:09:23','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\n\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \n\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\n\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \n\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \n\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \n\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\n\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \n\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \n\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\n\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \n\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\n\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\n\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \n\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\n\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\n\nOversized Dixie cups. \n\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\n\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\n\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\n\nAnd that was before these came along: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\n\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\n\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \n\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\n\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \n\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \n\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\n\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \n\nI love the crust bubble. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\n\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \n\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \n\nJust say yes. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\n\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \n\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \n\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\n\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\n\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \n\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \n\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\n109 N. Elm Street\n(918) 299-0939\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\nSeven days, 3-10pm\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\n\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-19','','','2010-12-31 12:09:23','2010-12-31 17:09:23','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(4966,1,'2010-12-31 12:08:19','2010-12-31 17:08:19','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-18','','','2010-12-31 12:08:19','2010-12-31 17:08:19','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(4962,1,'2010-12-31 12:06:28','2010-12-31 17:06:28','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-14','','','2010-12-31 12:06:28','2010-12-31 17:06:28','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(4963,1,'2010-12-31 12:06:28','2010-12-31 17:06:28','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, a busy pizza kitchen in full view and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, the owner of Primetime himself. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-15','','','2010-12-31 12:06:28','2010-12-31 17:06:28','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(4964,1,'2010-12-31 12:07:28','2010-12-31 17:07:28','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, owner of Primetime. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-16','','','2010-12-31 12:07:28','2010-12-31 17:07:28','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(4965,1,'2010-12-31 12:07:29','2010-12-31 17:07:29','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly face of David Powers, owner of Primetime. He was hard at work in the kitchen while we put our order in at the register. \r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-17','','','2010-12-31 12:07:29','2010-12-31 17:07:29','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(4968,1,'2010-12-31 12:09:30','2010-12-31 17:09:30','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-20','','','2010-12-31 12:09:30','2010-12-31 17:09:30','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(4969,1,'2010-12-31 12:09:30','2010-12-31 17:09:30','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too.\r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-21','','','2010-12-31 12:09:30','2010-12-31 17:09:30','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),(4970,1,'2010-12-31 12:09:56','2010-12-31 17:09:56','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-22','','','2010-12-31 12:09:56','2010-12-31 17:09:56','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(4971,1,'2010-12-31 12:09:57','2010-12-31 17:09:57','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. A welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-23','','','2010-12-31 12:09:57','2010-12-31 17:09:57','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-23/',0,'revision','',0),(4972,1,'2010-12-31 12:10:56','2010-12-31 17:10:56','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. And a welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-24','','','2010-12-31 12:10:56','2010-12-31 17:10:56','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-24/',0,'revision','',0),(4973,1,'2010-12-31 12:10:56','2010-12-31 17:10:56','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. And a welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, the second-busiest night of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-25','','','2010-12-31 12:10:56','2010-12-31 17:10:56','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-25/',0,'revision','',0),(4974,1,'2010-12-31 12:14:40','2010-12-31 17:14:40','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. And a welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, one of the busiest nights of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-26','','','2010-12-31 12:14:40','2010-12-31 17:14:40','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-26/',0,'revision','',0),(4978,1,'2010-12-31 12:22:21','2010-12-31 17:22:21','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1866-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1876/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1858/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1866-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1837/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1853/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1857/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. And a welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1862/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1858-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1862/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1864/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1874/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, one of the busiest nights of the year for the pizza biz. If you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-30','','','2010-12-31 12:22:21','2010-12-31 17:22:21','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-30/',0,'revision','',0),(4975,1,'2010-12-31 12:14:41','2010-12-31 17:14:41','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1866-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1876/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1858/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1866-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1837/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1853/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1857/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. And a welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1862/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1858-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1862/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1864/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1874/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, one of the busiest nights of the year for the pizza biz. Tonight, if you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-27','','','2010-12-31 12:14:41','2010-12-31 17:14:41','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-27/',0,'revision','',0),(4976,1,'2010-12-31 12:17:05','2010-12-31 17:17:05','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1866-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1876/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1858/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1866-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1837/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1853/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1857/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. And a welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1862/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1858-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1862/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1864/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1874/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, one of the busiest nights of the year for the pizza biz. If you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-28','','','2010-12-31 12:17:05','2010-12-31 17:17:05','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-28/',0,'revision','',0),(4977,1,'2010-12-31 12:17:06','2010-12-31 17:17:06','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nGoing for a fancy dinner out is one thing - a very, very good thing, actually. \r\n\r\nBut cuddling up with your family in a carpet-lined booth at a small-town pizza parlor with a large pie, a two-liter of root beer and a stack of Dixie cups is the stuff memories that last a lifetime are made of. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1866-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4936\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1866-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4936\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa is an incredible city. I think it\'s pretty safe to say that it\'s my favorite. But there are several smaller communities sprinkled along the outskirts of T-Town that are more than worth a visit. \r\n\r\nHistoric communities like Sand Springs, Sapulpa and Claremore come to mind. Downtown Jenks has a lot to offer, too, especially this time of year. That famous scene from It\'s a Wonderful Life in which Jimmy Stewart runs shouting through the streets could just as easily have been in Green Country\'s J-town as Bedford Falls. \r\n\r\nMerry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! \r\n\r\nI\'m sorry. I couldn\'t help myself. My will is weak when it comes to Jimmy Stewart. And movies made in 1946. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4937\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1861-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDuck into a certain pizzeria just off Main Street in Jenks and you could find this: A large pizza, half pepperoni, half supreme. \r\n\r\nAnd an almost-three-year-old boy who really wishes his mother would stop snapping photos so he can have some food already. \r\n\r\nIt\'s all available inside the dining room - all three booths\' worth of it - of Primetime Pizza. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1876/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4938\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1876-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4938\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWord has been going around about Primetime Pizza for quite some time now. <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">Host of the KRMG Morning News Joe Kelley</a>, for one, is a frequent and outspoken devotee of the carryout counter. So is radio dude <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/shelbytradio\">Shelby Travis</a>. And PR heavy hitter and <a href=\"http://tulsagridiron.org/\">Gridiron 2010</a> producer <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/kerrymalone\">Kerry Malone</a>. And pretty much anyone I\'ve ever met from Jenks with tastebuds agree with them.  \r\n\r\nSo when my husband, son and I were driving aimlessly around town last week (as we often do - <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/know-your-town/\">it\'s one of the top ways to know what\'s going on around town</a>, after all) and noticed we were getting hungry, we decided to road trip it to Jenks to find out what all this Primetime Pizza fuss was all about.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1858/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4939\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4939\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you pull up to Primetime is this beautiful, hand-painted, vintage-style outdoor menu board, taller than most of us who don\'t have NBA contracts and wider than I could spread my arms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1866-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4940\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18661-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4940\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hadn\'t even walked into this place and already I was smiling. How\'s that for first impressions? \r\n\r\nThen we walked in to find a long counter, an open, busy pizza kitchen and the shy but friendly, smiling face of David Powers, owner of Primetime.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no soda fountain at Primetime - it\'s styled more for carryout than casual dining - so we bought a two-liter of root beer (the only proper thing to drink with pizza when beer isn\'t available) from the small fridge next to the counter. The staff behind the counter brought us these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1837/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1837.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOversized Dixie cups. \r\n\r\nYou guys? Root beer + Dixie cups = my humbly bred, Oklahoma blood singing in its veins. I\'ve decided I\'ll no longer drink root beer from any other vessel. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4942\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1830-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4942\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis boy, he loves The Root Beer, too. He comes by it honestly. \r\n\r\nWe felt like we\'d struck gold. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1853/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1853.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4943\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd that was before these came along: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1857/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4944\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4944\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHot wings. Not soaked and soggy with wing sauce - a pretty rare find \'round these parts. And a welcome one.\r\n\r\nOh, and they were only $6 for 10 pieces. I hear what you\'re saying - dang is right. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t but 10 minutes from the time we ordered that this arrived: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1862/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe pizza - remember? The one I mentioned before? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1858-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4946\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18581-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. \r\n\r\nYou need a fork to eat this stuff, mostly because you won\'t want to miss out on the goodies that fall to the cardboard on which the pizza is served - yes, when you dine in at Primetime, your pizza comes to your table on a huge square of the corrugated cardboard you often find in the bottom of your pizza box - when you pick it up for a bite. \r\n\r\nWhich is much more than one would expect to get in exchange for $11 and a quarter for a one-topping large, or $15 for a supreme. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1862/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4945\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1862-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4945\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, my favorite thing about eating pizza - the crust bubble. \r\n\r\nI love the crust bubble. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1864/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4947\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4947\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou saw it here first, folks - the first photograph ever of the mysterious interior of a pizza crust bubble. \r\n\r\nOK, so maybe it\'s not the first. In fact, I\'m pretty sure it\'s not. But we\'re all still fascinated, right? And we\'re all still better people now because today we\'ve seen the inside of a pizza crust bubble, aren\'t we? \r\n\r\nJust say yes. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1874/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4935\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1874-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4935\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhile the wings, pizza and root beer in Dixie cups were so good that a week later their deliciosity still invades our thoughts, I think the part we enjoyed most about dining in at Primetime was watching as the staff person at the counter - not even the guy who owned the place, mind you - knew every single customer who came through the door to pick up a pizza and greeted him/her by name. \r\n\r\nEavesdropping on the banter between business owners and regular customers has long been one of my favorite pasttimes. It\'s usually best at breakfast counters and diners, but it was pretty great at Primetime, too. Not only did this staff member ask his customers about their kids and whether or not they\'d won that big game earlier in the week, but he did it all with please, thank you, ma\'am and sir thrown in for good measure. \r\n\r\nThis is still Oklahoma, folks, but that\'s definitely not something you hear very often anymore, even around here. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/dsc_1861-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4948\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_18611-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Primetime Pizza\" title=\"Primetime Pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4948\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s New Year\'s Eve, one of the busiest nights of the year for the pizza biz. If you have time for a short drive, head to Jenks to pick up a pizza from Primetime for your party tonight. Not only will it taste better than the stuff you normally pick up from the chain location up the street, but you\'ll feel pretty awesome that you wrapped up this year and started on a new one on a pretty kick-ass note: By supporting a small, unique part of Main Street Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nWe all know that sausage and peppers with a stellar sauce and a chewy crust can feed the appetite. But pizza that\'s made by your neighbor, that\'s part of the fight to keep small town America from homogenizing into a No Place and that\'s not like any pizza anywhere else in the world? \r\n\r\nThat, my friends, feeds the soul. \r\n\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>\r\n109 N. Elm Street\r\n(918) 299-0939\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">PrimeTimePizza.info</a>\r\nSeven days, 3-10pm\r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Current_Specials.html\">Primetime coupons</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Delivery_Area.html\">Primetime delivery area</a> \r\n<a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/Our_Menu.html\">Primetime menu</a> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631117/restaurant/Tulsa/Prime-Time-Pizza-Jenks\"><img alt=\"Prime Time Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/631117/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(A word about the negative reviews on Urbanspoon: Someone who left a comment preferred a $5 pizza from Cheezies over what they had from Primetime. And...anything I could write after that would be nothing more than extra work for my fingers. Not what I need on a holiday.)','Primetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks','The crust was fluffy on the inside and crispy-crunchy on the outside in the way only a light brushing of butter could accomplish. The sauce was sturdy, but not too bold of a platform for the mound of toppings that comes standard on a Primetime pizza. ','inherit','open','open','','4934-revision-29','','','2010-12-31 12:17:06','2010-12-31 17:17:06','',4934,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4934-revision-29/',0,'revision','',0),(6983,1,'2011-03-15 12:06:53','2011-03-15 18:06:53','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2091\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/mcnellies-mustache-contest/3320759598_f96a806689_o/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2091\" title=\"McNellies Public House\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3320759598_f96a806689_o-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"McNellies Public House\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\n\n<em>This post is part of a <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/tag/st-patricks-day/\">a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick’s Day</a>, one of Tulsa’s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em> \n\nSt. Patrick\'s Day is a big, big deal in Tulsa. Several parties swell and spill out of doors, closing surrounding streets. Green beer foams in mugs and pint glasses all over town. Ladies wear lots of glittery green eyeshadow, guys dig out their old Killians Irish Red t-shirts and kids demand nothing but Lucky Charms for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It\'s a thing, to say the least. \n\nI\'ve been asked before why a midsize city in the south-central U.S. would dive so headlong into an Irish-themed holiday, and I think there are several reasons: First, plenty of folks in this part of the country share an Irish background. And then there\'s that whole gratuitous-and-copious-eating-and-drinking thing. Because we Tulsans are all about eating and drinking. Any time we have an excuse to go overboard, we are so there. \n\nHere are some tips on where to get your grub and drink on in celebration on St. Patrick\'s Day 2011. Following that are tips and tricks to maximize your luck of the Irish as you party hard in Tulsa this year, from where to park to how to call Tipsy Tow to how to party with the huge NCAA crowd that will be downtown for the festivities. \n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"25\"]</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\n\n<h3>Where to Eat in Tulsa for St. Patrick\'s Day</h3>\n<strong>Kilkenny\'s Irish Pub</strong>\nWhere: 1413 E. 15th Street\nFor the most robust set of offerings that could just as well be served in Ireland as in Tulsa, Oklahoma, <a href=\"http://www.tulsairishpub.com/\">get thee and thine to Cherry Street for a meal at Kilkenny\'s Irish Pub</a>. While the menu is about as Irish as it can get during regular times, St. Pat\'s turn the menu positively green. Here are a few of the offerings, just as good during <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/st-patricks-day-stuff-to-do-in-tulsa-grown-ups-edition/\">one of the largest St. Pat\'s day parties in the city</a> as they are year-round:\n<ul>\n	<li>Irish Trio Sampler, with Kilkenny\'s famous Reuben rolls of corned beef rolled in baked pastry, chicken tenders served with Guinness BBQ sauce, and fried spudders topped with Irish Cheddar, bacon and sour cream, $13.99;</li>\n	<li>A menu of seven varieties of Boxty, a traditional Irish dish that\'s common to the rural parts of the country, consisting of a grilled potato pancake stuffed with fillings from corned beef to salmon and creamed leeks. Ranging in price from $9.99-$17.99. And each and every one of them is good. I should know.</li>\n	<li>Traditional Irish Stew, with chunks of seared beef cooked slowly with herbs and veggies, $4.99 for a cup, $5.99 for a bowl;</li>\n	<li>Oysters Graiguenamanagh (or, as they\'re ordered at Kilkenny\'s, Oysters G.), six gulf oysters on the half shell topped with a creamy shrimp, mushroom and Irish bacon sauce, $10.99;</li>\n	<li>Kilkenny\'s Traditional Irish Breakfast, with two eggs, two bangers (Irish sausages), rashers (Irish bacon), a grilled tomato, mushrooms, black pudding and Irish soda bread, $9.99.</li>\n	<li>Guinness BBQ Baby Back Ribs, smothered in a Guinness BBQ sauce, $16.99.</li>\n	<li>Several items on the dessert menu, from the Guinness Chocolate Cake ($5.99 for a slice that can easily feed two or three), Irish Balloons (fried pastry balls dusted with powdered sugar and served with sweet Irish whiskey butter sauce, $3.49), Brown Bread Pudding (baked with Irish whiskey-soaked raisins, $4.49), and Sticky Toffee Pudding (cream-soaked pound cake pan-fried in a sticky, buttery, caramel toffee, topped with nuts, $4.99).</li>\n</ul>\nYeah. In case you can\'t tell, the menu at Kilkenny\'s is huge. Which isn\'t something I normally like in a menu, but on St. Patrick\'s Day, it\'s nice to have lots of choices. Kilkenny\'s is the place to be the day after St. Pat\'s, too - their Irish Coffee does wonders for ringing hears and a sore head. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsairishpub.com/menus.htm\">Read the full Kilkenny\'s menus PDF</a>.\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150102702490563&amp;set=pu.364126615562&amp;theater\">Read the Kilkenny\'s special St. Patrick\'s Day menu insert (Facebook)</a>\n\n<strong>McNellie\'s Public House</strong>\nWhere: 409 E. First Street\n<a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\"> McNellie\'s is home to one of the largest St. Patrick\'s Day celebrations in the city</a>, and it\'s also one of the top places in town to grab a bite of Irish nosh. Here are some of my favorite Irish-inspired items on the menu:\n<ul>\n	<li>The Irish Lunch Special, served with potato leek soup, a 12-ounce Guinness and bread for $5.50;</li>\n	<li>St. Patty\'s Melt, with ground beef grilled with onions and topped with Swiss and American cheeses on marble rye for $8.49;</li>\n	<li>Landlord\'s Cottage Pie, a casserole of chipped beef and mixed veggies in a beef sauce, topped with mashed potatoes and cheese, $10.99.</li>\n</ul>\nThe side of Irish Mashed Potatoes and the Fish and Chips are pretty stellar, too. The beer special this month is Abita Amber, at $3.50 a pint, but that\'s, of course, not by any means the only beer available at this bar, the home of the best beer selection in T-Town. McNellie\'s makes a pretty fabulous Irish Car Bomb, too.\n\n<a href=\"http://mcnellies.com/images/data/attachments/0000/0349/FoodMenu_TULSA.pdf?1289354812\">Read the full McNellie\'s menus (PDF)</a>.\n\n<strong>Brady Tavern</strong>\nWhere: 201 N. Main\nThree words: Bangers and Mash. More words: Made with the amazing sausage from Fassler Hall. So good. If you pride yourself on knowing Irish food, you must try this dish at <a href=\"http://www.bradytavern.com/\">Brady Tavern</a>. <a href=\"http://www.bradytavern.com/eat/\">Read the Brady Tavern menus here</a>.\n<h3>Where To Drink in Tulsa For St. Patrick\'s Day</h3>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3638\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/mcnellies-pub-run-tulsa-kids/img_5190/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3638\" title=\"McNellies Pub Run\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/IMG_5190-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"McNellies Pub Run\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\n\n<strong>Arnie\'s Bar</strong>\nWhere: 318 E. Second Street\nNot only does <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/best-patios-in-tulsa/\">Arnie\'s have the best patio in Tulsa</a>, but it\'s also one of my top choices for getting your Irish drink on this St. Patrick\'s Day. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/st-patricks-day-stuff-to-do-in-tulsa-grown-ups-edition/\">Arnie\'s hosts one of the largest St. Patrick\'s Day parties in town</a>, and the weather will be beautiful - be sure to stop by, especially if it\'ll be your first time. It\'s a must-have Tulsa experience.\n\n<strong>Enso</strong>\nWhere: 1st and Detroit\nCan you say Guinness Milkshake? <a href=\"http://www.ensobar.com/\">The folks at Enso Bar sure can</a>. In fact, it\'s their specialty. Take a break from green beer and try what\'s becoming a Tulsa classic this St. Pat\'s. Plus, Electric Circus is hosting a St. Patrick\'s Day party with live music by \"Unscene\" Trance Progressive with Elliot Post right next door.\n\nOther Irish-inspired drink spots:\n<a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\">McNellie\'s Public House</a>, 409 E. First Street\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsairishpub.com/\">Kilkenny\'s Irish Pub</a>, 1413 E. 15th Street\n<a href=\"http://www.themaxretropub.com/\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Avenue\n\n<h3>Parking, NCAA Tournament and Tipsy Tow: Surviving St. Patrick\'s Day in Tulsa</h3>\n\n<strong>The NCAA Crowd.</strong> In case you haven\'t heard, <a href=\"http://www.bokcenter.com/default.asp?bok=227&objId=480\">Tulsa\'s very own BOK Center is hosting the NCAA playoffs this week</a>, and several thousand extra folks will be around to push the St. Patrick\'s Day partying to new heights. \n\nIf you weren\'t planning to carpool to your party of choice, now is the time to make arrangements. Before you head downtown, consult these parking maps provided by the folks at BOK Center: \n\n<a href=\"http://static.bokcenter.com/documents/DowntownDaytimeParkingSpaces2011.pdf\">Downtown Business Hours Daytime Parking map</a> (because the parties at McNellie\'s and Arnie\'s start at noon)\n<a href=\"http://static.bokcenter.com/documents/DowntownNCAAAfterHoursParkingRoute2011.pdf\">Downtown After Business Evening Parking Map</a>\n<a href=\"http://static.bokcenter.com/documents/DowntownNCAAAfterHoursParkingRoute2011.pdf\">Downtown After Hours Parking Map</a>\n\nI want to say this, too: <em>Be friendly, smiling and warm toward our out-of-town visitors.</em> Offer to give directions to folks who look lost. Let them know about some of the things to do around town this weekend (and if you don\'t know exactly what\'s going on, feel free to refer them to this site). We want these people to enjoy themselves while they\'re here so they\'ll go back home and spread the word about what a hip city Tulsa is. Friendly, welcoming people is where that starts. \n\n<strong>Tipsy Tow</strong>. The folks at AAA Oklahoma are offering their Tipsy Tow service for both St. Patrick\'s Day as well as the NCAA Tournament. Here\'s how it works: Those who imbibe in the alcoholic beverages with a little too much gusto can call <strong>800-222-4357 (program your phone now)</strong> for a swerve-free ride home for both the motorist and one additional person, plus a free tow for their vehicle within a 15-mile radius of the point of pick-up. And no, you don\'t have to be a member of AAA to take advantage of this life-saving service.  Tipsy Tow starts at noon on St. Patrick\'s Day and runs until 10pm on Sunday, March 20 in the metropolitan Tulsa area. (Thanks to <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">Traveling Spork</a> for this great tip.)\n\nWhere\'s your favorite place to get your grub and drink on for St. Patrick\'s Day? Got any leprechaun-worthy survival tips? We\'d love to read about them in the comments. ','Where To Eat and Drink in Tulsa This St. Patrick\'s Day (Plus, tips for surviving parking, driving and the NCAA awesome craziness)','Tulsans love St. Patrick\'s Day. It\'s a chance to eat and drink until we\'re full to bursting. Here are some restaurants and bars to hit on the big day, along with some tips on surviving parking, helping NCAA fans and getting home safely.','inherit','open','open','','6973-revision-10','','','2011-03-15 12:06:53','2011-03-15 18:06:53','',6973,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6973-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(5628,1,'2011-02-04 15:24:01','2011-02-04 21:24:01','<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/0HuToOuc9cA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\r\n\r\nThere\'s been snow on the ground since Monday. Classrooms in the Tulsa area have been dark for days on end. It\'s been too cold to sled or build snowmen. Cabin fever is starting to take root in a serious way.\r\n\r\nWhat does a kid have to do to get a little entertainment around here?\r\n\r\nThe good news? There are options. Get two really exciting ones on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=tulsa-kids-day-out-or-monster-jamneighborhood-talent-show\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Tulsa Kids Day Out (Or, In): Monster Jam/Neighborhood Talent Show','What does a kid have to do to get a little entertainment around here?','private','open','open','','tulsa-kids-day-out-or-in-monster-jamneighborhood-talent-show','','','2011-07-10 11:31:52','2011-07-10 17:31:52','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=5628',0,'post','',0),(5629,1,'2011-02-04 15:23:31','2011-02-04 20:23:31','<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/0HuToOuc9cA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n\nThere\'s been snow on the ground since Monday. Classrooms in the Tulsa area have been dark for days on end. It\'s been too cold to sled or build snowmen. Cabin fever is starting to take root in a serious way.\n\nWhat does a kid have to do to get a little entertainment around here?\n\nThe good news? There are options. Get two really exciting ones on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=tulsa-kids-day-out-or-monster-jamneighborhood-talent-show\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Tulsa Kids Day Out (Or, In): Monster Jam/Neighborhood Talent Show','','inherit','open','open','','5628-revision','','','2011-02-04 15:23:31','2011-02-04 20:23:31','',5628,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/5628-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(4988,1,'2011-01-04 11:33:04','2011-01-04 16:33:04','','Downtown Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1975','','','2011-01-04 11:33:04','2011-01-04 16:33:04','',7476,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1975.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7481,1,'2010-10-11 08:41:39','2010-10-11 13:41:39','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4504549988_7170aaa65d.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nOpening night at ONEOK Field was was killer, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549002/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4504549002_b1e35b8fcb.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503916711/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4503916711_1dc09c9008.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503916831/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2794/4503916831_995cd489a9.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549324/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4504549324_8b6c375833.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549626/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4504549626_6a1c6ae034.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503917331/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4503917331_72360db553.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503917423/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4503917423_64fce7e468.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549824/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4504549824_9e8f335a0f.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4504549988_7170aaa65d.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503918363/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2746/4503918363_e271f2fd59.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503918435/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2764/4503918435_19f2d4dc2f.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nSo, yeah, I had a gnarly time tonight at <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">the Drillers game at ONEOK Field</a>, dudes (yes, I can say gnarly - I grew up in the \'80s, so I\'ve earned it). And I have a feeling Fireworks Friday might be even better, not to mention Family Day Sunday.\r\n\r\nAre you going to hit up a Drillers game this weekend?','Not bad for a historic ballpark opening in my favorite part of town.','Opening night at ONEOK Field was was killer, y\'all.','inherit','open','open','','549-revision-3','','','2010-10-11 08:41:39','2010-10-11 13:41:39','',549,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/549-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(4997,1,'2011-01-04 14:30:58','2011-01-04 19:30:58','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2721\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/restaurants-entertainment-tulsa-business-journal/luchadore-5-20/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2721\" title=\"Luchadore 5.20\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Luchadore-5.20-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Eloté Cafe &amp; Catering</a> owner and chef Libby Auld was serving a table during lunch in her restaurant at 504 S. Boston Ave. last fall when she recognized one of her patrons.\r\n\r\n“I remembered him from Luchapalooza,” Auld said. “He said that was the first time he’d been to Eloté and that while he was here watching the fights he read the menu. He decided to give us a try.”\r\n\r\nRead the rest of this story on <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&amp;SubSectionID=47&amp;ArticleID=52146&amp;TM=52049.08\">the Food page in this week\'s edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Restaurants in entertainment biz increase traffic, sales','<a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Eloté Cafe & Catering</a> owner and chef Libby Auld was serving a table during lunch in her restaurant at 504 S. 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He decided to give us a try.”\n\nRead the rest of this story on <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&amp;SubSectionID=47&amp;ArticleID=52146&amp;TM=52049.08\">the Food page in this week\'s edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Restaurants in entertainment biz increase traffic, sales','<a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Eloté Cafe & Catering</a> owner and chef Libby Auld was serving a table during lunch in her restaurant at 504 S. Boston Ave. last fall when she recognized one of her patrons.','inherit','open','open','','4997-revision','','','2011-01-04 14:30:06','2011-01-04 19:30:06','',4997,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/4997-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(4999,1,'2011-01-04 14:30:58','2011-01-04 19:30:58','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2721\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2721\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2721\" title=\"Luchadore 5.20\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Luchadore-5.20-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Eloté Cafe &amp; Catering</a> owner and chef Libby Auld was serving a table during lunch in her restaurant at 504 S. Boston Ave. last fall when she recognized one of her patrons.\r\n\r\n“I remembered him from Luchapalooza,” Auld said. “He said that was the first time he’d been to Eloté and that while he was here watching the fights he read the menu. He decided to give us a try.”\r\n\r\nRead the rest of this story on <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&amp;SubSectionID=47&amp;ArticleID=52146&amp;TM=52049.08\">the Food page in this week\'s edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Restaurants in entertainment biz increase traffic, sales','<a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Eloté Cafe & Catering</a> owner and chef Libby Auld was serving a table during lunch in her restaurant at 504 S. Boston Ave. last fall when she recognized one of her patrons.','inherit','open','open','','4997-revision-2','','','2011-01-04 14:30:58','2011-01-04 19:30:58','',4997,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/4997-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(5000,1,'2011-01-04 16:21:24','2011-01-04 22:21:24','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-kitchen-helper-tulsa-kids/img_0159/\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-4251  aligncenter\" title=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0159-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" /></a></p>\r\nHappy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader. Yay! Here \'tis:\r\n<blockquote>As a fellow work-at-home mom, could you share some of the things you make for you and your son for lunch? My kids and I are eating chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese right now, mostly because I couldn\'t think of anything better on the fly. Help!</blockquote>\r\nGet my answer on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-lets-do-lunch\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: Let\'s Do Lunch','Happy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader.','private','open','open','','confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-lets-do-lunch','','','2011-07-10 11:38:22','2011-07-10 17:38:22','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=5000',0,'post','',0),(5001,1,'2011-01-04 16:18:33','2011-01-04 21:18:33','Happy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader. Yay! Here \'tis:\n\n<blockquote>As a fellow work-at-home mom, could you share some of the things you make for you and your son for lunch? My kids and I are eating chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese right now, mostly because I couldn\'t think of anything better on the fly. Help!</blockquote>\n\nGet my answer on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-lets-do-lunch\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: Let\'s Do Lunch','Happy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader.','inherit','open','open','','5000-revision','','','2011-01-04 16:18:33','2011-01-04 21:18:33','',5000,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5000-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(5002,1,'2011-01-04 16:21:24','2011-01-04 21:21:24','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-kitchen-helper-tulsa-kids/img_0159/\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-4251  aligncenter\" title=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0159-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" /></a></p>\r\nHappy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader. Yay! Here \'tis:\r\n<blockquote>As a fellow work-at-home mom, could you share some of the things you make for you and your son for lunch? My kids and I are eating chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese right now, mostly because I couldn\'t think of anything better on the fly. Help!</blockquote>\r\nGet my answer on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-lets-do-lunch\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: Let\'s Do Lunch','Happy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader.','inherit','open','open','','5000-revision-2','','','2011-01-04 16:21:24','2011-01-04 21:21:24','',5000,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5000-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(5004,1,'2011-01-04 16:21:24','2011-01-04 21:21:24','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-kitchen-helper-tulsa-kids/img_0159/\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-4251  aligncenter\" title=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0159-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" /></a></p>\r\nHappy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader. Yay! Here \'tis:\r\n<blockquote>As a fellow work-at-home mom, could you share some of the things you make for you and your son for lunch? My kids and I are eating chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese right now, mostly because I couldn\'t think of anything better on the fly. Help!</blockquote>\r\nGet my answer on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-lets-do-lunch\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: Let\'s Do Lunch','Happy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader.','inherit','open','open','','5000-revision-3','','','2011-01-04 16:21:24','2011-01-04 21:21:24','',5000,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5000-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(5005,1,'2011-01-04 16:22:56','2011-01-04 21:22:56','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-kitchen-helper-tulsa-kids/img_0159/\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-4251  aligncenter\" title=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0159-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" /></a></p>\r\nHappy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader. Yay! Here \'tis:\r\n<blockquote>As a fellow work-at-home mom, could you share some of the things you make for you and your son for lunch? My kids and I are eating chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese right now, mostly because I couldn\'t think of anything better on the fly. Help!</blockquote>\r\nGet my answer on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-lets-do-lunch\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: Let\'s Do Lunch','Happy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader.','inherit','open','open','','5000-revision-4','','','2011-01-04 16:22:56','2011-01-04 21:22:56','',5000,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5000-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(5006,1,'2011-01-04 16:40:41','2011-01-04 21:40:41','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tasha Does Tulsa Run Training 2009 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856441399/\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3856441399_2edbe92e61.jpg\" alt=\"Tasha Does Tulsa Run Training 2009\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></p>\r\nSometimes, it can all be too much.\r\n\r\nThe New Year arrives and suddenly we find ourselves fretting and stressed out as the result of one resolution too many. We begin to lose hope that we\'ll achieve any of the goals that seemed so feasible on New Year\'s Eve.\r\n\r\nDon\'t throw in the towel just yet.\r\n\r\nSee what some of the top experts in our state advise in my recent feature on page 58 of <a href=\"http://okmag.com/online/January11.html\">the January 2011 edition of Oklahoma Magazine</a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Health 360: The Timeless Advice','The New Year arrives and suddenly we find ourselves fretting and stressed out as the result of one resolution too many. We begin to lose hope that we\'ll achieve any of the goals that seemed so feasible on New Year\'s Eve. ','publish','open','open','','health-360-oklahoma-magazine','','','2011-01-04 16:40:41','2011-01-04 21:40:41','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=5006',0,'post','',0),(5007,1,'2011-01-04 16:40:14','2011-01-04 21:40:14','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tasha Does Tulsa Run Training 2009 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856441399/\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3856441399_2edbe92e61.jpg\" alt=\"Tasha Does Tulsa Run Training 2009\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></p>\nSometimes, it can all be too much.\n\nThe New Year arrives and suddenly we find ourselves fretting and stressed out as the result of one resolution too many. We begin to lose hope that we\'ll achieve any of the goals that seemed so feasible on New Year\'s Eve.\n\nDon\'t throw in the towel just yet.\n\nSee what some of the top experts in our state advise in my recent feature on page 58 of <a href=\"http://okmag.com/online/January11.html\">the January 2011 edition of Oklahoma Magazine</a>.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Health 360: The Timeless Advice','The New Year arrives and suddenly we find ourselves fretting and stressed out as the result of one resolution too many. We begin to lose hope that we\'ll achieve any of the goals that seemed so feasible on New Year\'s Eve. ','inherit','open','open','','5006-revision','','','2011-01-04 16:40:14','2011-01-04 21:40:14','',5006,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5006-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(5008,1,'2011-01-04 16:41:00','2011-01-04 21:41:00','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-kitchen-helper-tulsa-kids/img_0159/\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-4251  aligncenter\" title=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0159-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Sage Culinary Studio Kitchen Helper\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" /></a></p>\nHappy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader. Yay! Here \'tis:\n<blockquote>As a fellow work-at-home mom, could you share some of the things you make for you and your son for lunch? My kids and I are eating chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese right now, mostly because I couldn\'t think of anything better on the fly. Help!</blockquote>\nGet my answer on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-lets-do-lunch\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: Let\'s Do Lunch','Happy New Year, Tulsa Kids readers! I got something pretty exciting over the holiday weekend - my first question from a reader.','inherit','open','open','','5000-autosave','','','2011-01-04 16:41:00','2011-01-04 21:41:00','',5000,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5000-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(5009,1,'2011-01-04 16:42:28','2011-01-04 21:42:28','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tasha Does Tulsa Run Training 2009 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856441399/\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3856441399_2edbe92e61.jpg\" alt=\"Tasha Does Tulsa Run Training 2009\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></p>\nSometimes, it can all be too much.\n\nThe New Year arrives and suddenly we find ourselves fretting and stressed out as the result of one resolution too many. We begin to lose hope that we\'ll achieve any of the goals that seemed so feasible on New Year\'s Eve.\n\nDon\'t throw in the towel just yet.\n\nSee what some of the top experts in our state advise in my recent feature on page 58 of <a href=\"http://okmag.com/online/January11.html\">the January 2011 edition of Oklahoma Magazine</a>.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Health 360: The Timeless Advice','The New Year arrives and suddenly we find ourselves fretting and stressed out as the result of one resolution too many. We begin to lose hope that we\'ll achieve any of the goals that seemed so feasible on New Year\'s Eve. ','inherit','open','open','','5006-autosave','','','2011-01-04 16:42:28','2011-01-04 21:42:28','',5006,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5006-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(5013,1,'2010-12-28 17:52:09','2010-12-28 22:52:09','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4844\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tulsa-blogger-meetup-movie-night-edition/duncanchristopher/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4844\" title=\"Duncan Christopher Movie\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/duncanchristopher.jpg\" alt=\"Duncan Christopher Movie\" width=\"417\" height=\"604\" /></a>\r\n\r\nCalling all Tulsa bloggers! I have a little somethin-somethin for you to put into your calendars.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Movie Night Edition</strong></h2>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Jan. 5, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Circle Cinema</a>, 12 S. Lewis Ave.\r\n\r\nFor our first meetup of 2011 we\'ll cuddle up in <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Tulsa\'s own independent movie house</a> and watch <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/rock-n-roll-dreams-of-duncan/\">an independent movie that was made right here in T-Town</a>.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/u0fuhyx-uyU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/u0fuhyx-uyU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nYes! We get a private screening of the award-winning film <a href=\"http://www.duncanchristopherthemovie.com/\">The Rock \'n\' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher</a>! All to our freaking selves! For free!\r\n\r\nThis movie sold out so fast at <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/07/tulsa-united-film-festival-2010-rundown/\">Tulsa United Film Festival this summer</a> that it wouldn\'t surprise me if you missed out. But everything\'s OK now. Because you\'re going to get to see this film in its full glory, all in the Quad at Circle Cinema, which is, in my humble opinion, one of the coolest places in Tulsa, even when it\'s not full of bloggers and screening a movie about Tulsa\'s underground, super-competitive karaoke scene.\r\n\r\nOh, and another thing? Duncan Christopher star Jack Roberts will talk to us a bit about the movie, and the team over at the Tulsa-based public relations firm <a href=\"http://engineroompr.com/\">The Engine Room Creative Communications</a> will tell us about the grassroots social media and PR campaign they\'re building to take this movie to college campuses across the nation.\r\n\r\nAnd there may or may not be an appearance from a certain famous character from the movie:\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GKc3p5Fmkkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GKc3p5Fmkkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nYeah. Word\'s on the street. I also hear there will be Duncan swag a-plenty.\r\n\r\nLike I mentioned above, <strong>admission to this event is free</strong>, but I probably won\'t let you in unless you have <strong>a donation, however small, of nonperishable food to contribute to the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a></strong>. I\'ll have a karaoke superstar to bounce you if you try to sneak in, so if I were you, I wouldn\'t chance it.\r\n\r\nAnother thing? Only the first 45 folks to show up at this event get a seat. So get there strong, get there early, because these blogger meetups have been running at a, uh, somewhat larger capacity than just 45 heads.\r\n\r\nSee y\'all there!','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Movie Night Edition','Calling all Tulsa bloggers! I have a little somethin-somethin for you to put into your calendars.','inherit','open','open','','4839-revision-13','','','2010-12-28 17:52:09','2010-12-28 22:52:09','',4839,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4839-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(5014,1,'2011-01-05 09:22:10','2011-01-05 14:22:10','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4844\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tulsa-blogger-meetup-movie-night-edition/duncanchristopher/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4844\" title=\"Duncan Christopher Movie\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/duncanchristopher.jpg\" alt=\"Duncan Christopher Movie\" width=\"417\" height=\"604\" /></a>\r\n\r\nCalling all Tulsa bloggers! I have a little somethin-somethin for you to put into your calendars.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Movie Night Edition</strong></h2>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Jan. 5, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Circle Cinema</a>, 12 S. Lewis Ave.\r\n\r\nFor our first meetup of 2011 we\'ll cuddle up in <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Tulsa\'s own independent movie house</a> and watch <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/rock-n-roll-dreams-of-duncan/\">an independent movie that was made right here in T-Town</a>.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/u0fuhyx-uyU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/u0fuhyx-uyU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nYes! We get a private screening of the award-winning film <a href=\"http://www.duncanchristopherthemovie.com/\">The Rock \'n\' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher</a>! All to our freaking selves! For free!\r\n\r\nThis movie sold out so fast at <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/07/tulsa-united-film-festival-2010-rundown/\">Tulsa United Film Festival this summer</a> that it wouldn\'t surprise me if you missed out. But everything\'s OK now. Because you\'re going to get to see this film in its full glory, all in the Quad at Circle Cinema, which is, in my humble opinion, one of the coolest places in Tulsa, even when it\'s not full of bloggers and screening a movie about Tulsa\'s underground, super-competitive karaoke scene.\r\n\r\nOh, and another thing? Duncan Christopher star Jack Roberts will talk to us a bit about the movie, and the team over at the Tulsa-based public relations firm <a href=\"http://engineroompr.com/\">The Engine Room Creative Communications</a> will tell us about the grassroots social media and PR campaign they\'re building to take this movie to college campuses across the nation.\r\n\r\nAnd there may or may not be an appearance from a certain famous character from the movie:\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GKc3p5Fmkkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GKc3p5Fmkkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nYeah. Word\'s on the street. I also hear there will be Duncan swag a-plenty.\r\n\r\nLike I mentioned above, <strong>admission to this event is free</strong>, but I probably won\'t let you in unless you have <strong>a donation, however small, of nonperishable food to contribute to the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a></strong>. I\'ll have a karaoke superstar to bounce you if you try to sneak in, so if I were you, I wouldn\'t chance it.\r\n\r\nAnother thing? Only the first 45 folks to show up at this event get a seat. So get there strong, get there early, because these blogger meetups have been running at a, uh, somewhat larger capacity than just 45 heads.\r\n\r\nSee y\'all there!','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Movie Night Edition','Calling all Tulsa bloggers! I have a little somethin-somethin for you to put into your calendars.','inherit','open','open','','4839-revision-14','','','2011-01-05 09:22:10','2011-01-05 14:22:10','',4839,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/4839-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(5052,1,'2011-01-06 23:30:38','2011-01-07 05:30:38','<object width=\"496\" height=\"304\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BStf7HibDco?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BStf7HibDco?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nIf you read <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=blog/4154\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>, chances are that you and the kids are gonna spend Saturday morning at Joe Momma\'s checking out the Saturday Morning Book Club there.\r\n\r\nBut parents? Call the babysitter, because Saturday night belongs to you. <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=babysitter-worthy-5-browns\">Here\'s what you can do with it</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Babysitter Worthy: The 5 Browns','Call the babysitter, Tulsa parents - Saturday night belongs to you.','private','open','open','','the-5-browns-babysitter-worthy-tulsa-kids','','','2011-07-10 11:36:46','2011-07-10 17:36:46','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=5052',0,'post','',0),(5053,1,'2011-01-06 23:28:53','2011-01-07 04:28:53','<object width=\"496\" height=\"304\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BStf7HibDco?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BStf7HibDco?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\"></embed></object>\n\nIf you read <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=blog/4154\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>, chances are that you and the kids are gonna spend Saturday morning at Joe Momma\'s checking out the Saturday Morning Book Club there.\n\nBut parents? Call the babysitter, because Saturday night belongs to you. <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=babysitter-worthy-5-browns\">Here\'s what you can do with it</a>.\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Babysitter Worthy: The 5 Browns','','inherit','open','open','','5052-revision','','','2011-01-06 23:28:53','2011-01-07 04:28:53','',5052,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5052-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(5056,1,'2011-01-07 11:05:57','2011-01-07 16:05:57','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_1995/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5057\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1995.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5057\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSometimes, in an effort to do Tulsa from every possible angle, my little family and I find ourselves willing to do crazy things. \r\n\r\nCrazy things like fly a video camera suspended from two giant balloons through downtown Tulsa. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nMy sweet husband found <a href=\"http://geekdadbook.com/\">The Geek Dad book</a> in his Christmas stocking this holiday season. If you all have this book at home (and something tells me many of you do), flip to page 103. My bet is that there you\'ll find a tutorial on how fashion a box that will not only hang suspended from helium-filled balloons, but that will also snugly hold a Flip camera. \r\n\r\nCue the lightbulb moment. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_1988/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5058\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1988.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5058\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOff to <a href=\"http://www.costumespartyandevents.com/\">Ehrle\'s Party Supply</a> in search of balloons we went. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_1932/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5059\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1932-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5059\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe folks at Ehrle\'s are, I guess, somewhat accustomed to this type of zaniness. They didn\'t even give us \"now exactly what planet are you from?\" looks or accuse us of citizen espionage when we told them our plan. When we asked if they could help us figure out how many balloons and how much helium we\'d need to lift an 8-ounce box and camera, they happily - enthusiastically, really - did some quick product research to help us. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_1936/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5060\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1936-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5060\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEhrle\'s hooked us up, y\'all. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_1940/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5061\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1940.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5061\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTwo three-foot, bright orange balloons in hand (or rather, squished between us in our tiny car), it wasn\'t long before we were downtown and ready to get our mischief on. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_1957/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5062\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1957.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5062\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHere\'s what I had envisioned: Our balloons-and-camera-and-kite-string contraption floating gracefully somewhere along the 10th story level of Boston Avenue between 5th and 3rd Streets, a la the Macy\'s Thanksgiving Day Parade. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_2008/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5063\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_2008.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5063\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr, a la Tulsa\'s Christmas/Holiday/Festivus Parade of Lights. \r\n\r\nWhichever, really. What was important to me was the view - my idea of it, at least.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_2012-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5064\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_2012.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5064\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut Boston was its usual windy self, and it was just too much for our lightweight, floaty little parcel. \r\n\r\nSo we moved northeast in search of calmer atmospheric conditions. \r\n\r\nBut alas, my dream, it wasn\'t meant to be - at least, not in the way I had envisioned it. \r\n\r\nBut we had fun anyway. Here\'s video proof (warning to those who watch: There\'s lots of pavement and nausea in your future). \r\n\r\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/jdKIwaC7uvg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/jdKIwaC7uvg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nOur advice? Every once in awhile, take the time and have the courage to pursue your crazy, impulsive urges, especially where flying or floating is involved. \r\n\r\nEven if it means the suits downtown pull out their phones, dial up the police and rest their thumbs on the call button when they see you doing it. \r\n\r\nAt least it was just a camera attached to our balloons instead of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax\">an exploited, manipulated young child</a>. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/unidentified-flying-object/dsc_1941/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5065\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1941.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Balloons\" title=\"Downtown Balloons\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5065\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWait...what? ','Unidentified Flying Object','Sometimes, in an effort to do Tulsa from every possible angle, my little family and I find ourselves willing to do crazy things. ','publish','open','open','','unidentified-flying-object','','','2011-01-07 14:02:57','2011-01-07 19:02:57','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=5056',0,'post','',4),(5784,1,'2011-02-09 22:28:51','2011-02-10 03:28:51','<a title=\"El Rio Verde by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4112492926/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/4112492926_ed3142ed72_o.jpg\" alt=\"El Rio Verde\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" /></a>\n\nHaving lived in Tulsa for more than a quarter century, I\'ve had my share of meals that by most accounts would fall into the Mexican genre of food.\n\nSet down in front of me on technicolor Fiestaware has been everything from a cheese-doused, deep-fried chimichanga filled with Rotel and composite chicken to handmade tamales I had to order either in Spanish or by number from one of those back-lit menu boards we know from snack bars at high school basketball games.\n\nI know I just painted the opposite ends of the spectrum of what could feasibly be called Mexican food in the lower Midwest. But, here\'s the deal: I\'m not one of those food writers who leads a concurrent life as a food snob. Sure, I like fine food and dishes that resonate with authenticity. But, I also like bagged tortilla chips and several brands of canned enchilada sauce. I\'d eat the dishes I described in the preceding paragraph with equal satisfaction. And vigor. And by dirtying the same number of napkins.\n\nA secret: All the great food writers are messy eaters. Don\'t let anyone ever tell you otherwise. This is one of the easier ways to aspire to greatness in our lives.\n\nSince my opinion on the importance of authenticity of cuisine is neither here nor there, I\'m also not one of those food writers who is hellbent on globetrotting to discover how different foods are \"supposed to be prepared.\" I\'ve never been to Mexico, but I have shopped in grocery stores that, for a certain red-headed, SPF-60 addict, required an English-Spanish dictionary.\n\nAll of that said (yes, I\'m about to get to the actual food part of this post), I love to get my nosh on at El Rio Verde.\n\n<a title=\"El Rio Verde by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4111727895/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2635/4111727895_277a34a815_o.jpg\" alt=\"El Rio Verde\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" /></a>\n\nAt 38 N. Trenton, just off Admiral and Utica, its safe to say the location is right for authentic Mexican food. The decor is spot on, too.\n\n<a title=\"El Rio Verde by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4112493202/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2766/4112493202_0280d2d418_o.jpg\" alt=\"El Rio Verde\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a title=\"El Rio Verde by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4112493844/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2540/4112493844_d8540fa375_o.jpg\" alt=\"El Rio Verde\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" /></a>\n\nWhile conservative talk radio personality Neal Boortz isn\'t exactly my top pick for best-ever radio show host, I love what I heard him say once about Mexican food restaurants. He likes \'em bright, he likes \'em gaudy and he likes \'em pretty darn near offensive to the eye. The more cacophonous and contrived the decor, he says, the better the food.\n\nI couldn\'t agree more.\n\n<a title=\"El Rio Verde by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4111728539/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2583/4111728539_04dae0a629_o.jpg\" alt=\"El Rio Verde\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" /></a>\n\nThis, ladies and gents, is the fabled El Rio Verde wet burrito. It\'s one of the first things folks hear about when they come into town and ask where to get some good food - food that distinctly Tulsa. \n\nWhat it is: A steering-wheel-sized flour tortilla packed with pulled beef (or pork or chicken), refried beans, fresh pico de gallo, rainbows, ponies and baby giggles. It\'s smothered in a rich enchilada sauce and topped with a few hands full of queso blanco. Sour cream and fresh guac are stacked on top almost humorously, like eyes.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4111728405/\" title=\"El Rio Verde by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2550/4111728405_21bb79b8cc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"El Rio Verde\" /></a>\n\nAnyone still feeling snooty about authentic Mexican food? I know a lot of folks say that once cheese and refried beans come into the mix, a dish ceases to be authentic Mexican food. To those people I say, fine. \n\nAll the more for me.\n\nFor all of this my debit card was charged a mere $6, a bargain for a platter-sized lunch, and I was allowed to continue to sit at my table to chatter with my friend and dining buddy, and our basket of housemade tortilla chips and salsa were refilled regularly. We didn\'t even hear a tisk-tisk. My buddy and I, we were in real-girl heaven.\n\nGirls, don\'t let anyone tell you it\'s not ladylike to eat the entire thing. I did, and no one looked at me sideways. \n\nGuys, if you can\'t eat a whole wet burrito, you\'d better have the cash for a tip to make up for it. You can\'t slack on the machismo in a place like El Rio Verde and expect to get away with it.\n\n<a title=\"El Rio Verde by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4112492926/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/4112492926_ed3142ed72_o.jpg\" alt=\"El Rio Verde\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" /></a>\n\nHave you made your way to El Rio Verde? What do you order there? I hear the breakfast is good enough to send a person right back to bed.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630524/restaurant/TU-Kendall-Whittier/El-Rio-Verde-Tulsa\"><img style=\"border: none; height: 146px; width: 200px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630524/biglink.gif\" alt=\"El Rio Verde on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','El Rio Verde: The Wet Burrito','This, ladies and gents, is the fabled El Rio Verde wet burrito. It\'s one of the first things folks hear about when they come into town and ask where to get some good food - food that distinctly Tulsa. ','inherit','open','open','','354-autosave','','','2011-02-09 22:28:51','2011-02-10 03:28:51','',354,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/354-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(5782,1,'2011-02-09 17:50:55','2011-02-09 22:50:55','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5550\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/rhea-lana-south-tulsa-2011/racks/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5550\" title=\"Rhea Lana\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/racks-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Rhea Lana\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSometimes it\'s fun to go to the mall and while away an afternoon gasping at the numbers on the price tags in children\'s boutiques.\r\n\r\nBut when it\'s time to stock up on toys, furniture and clothes you\'d like your kids to be able to wear without being followed around by Mom or Dad and a fresh pack of Shout wipes, those price tags aren\'t so funny anymore.\r\n\r\nCue <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/\">Rhea Lana, a south Tulsa children\'s consignment event</a> where Tulsa-area parents can save on gently used kids\' stuff. It\'s also a place where parents can consign their kids\' clothing and toys and earn 70 percent by doing it.\r\n\r\nAnd to make this news even sweeter, <strong>Rhea Lana wants to give one lucky TDT reader a $50 gift certificate to spend at their sale later this month.</strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nFirst things first: To make sure you don\'t miss this sale, mark this down in your calendar:\r\n\r\n<strong>Rhea Lana Tulsa Sale</strong>\r\nWhen: Feb. 16-19\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Wednesday, Feb. 16: 9am-8pm</li>\r\n	<li>Thursday, Feb. 17: 9am-8pm</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Feb. 18 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-7pm</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Feb. 19 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-12pm</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/csssaleinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">The Shoppes at Regal Plaza, 105th and Memorial</a>\r\n\r\nWhat you find at this sale (where, by the way, there\'s no cost for parking or for admission): Baby stuff. Toys galore. Boys\' and girls\' clothing from just about any brand name or boutique you can imagine. Maternity wear. Games. Books. Enough outdoor goodies to make your back yard look like a playground.\r\n\r\nBasically, anything and everything that can make your life easier as a hardworking parent by pleasing both your kids and your pocketbook.\r\n\r\n<strong>To enter to win a $50 pass to this shopping wonderland</strong>, courtesy of Rhea Lana\'s South Tulsa, simply head to the comments section on this post and \'fess up:\r\n<h2><strong>What is your No. 1 bargain-hunting strategy? </strong></h2>\r\nWhether you\'re at a children\'s consignment event at Rhea Lana or sifting through the racks at your favorite vintage shop or barreling down the aisles at the grocery store, what\'s your top trick for saving a buck?\r\n\r\n<strong>I\'ll accept entries to this contest until Saturday, Feb. 5, at 10 a.m.</strong> I\'ll let Random.org choose the winner at that time, and I\'ll announce who won the prize shortly after.\r\n\r\nAfter you enter and while you\'re waiting to see if you\'re a winner, take a minute to check out <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhea-Lanas-of-South-Tulsa/115747248488308\">the Rhea Lana Facebook page</a> and to <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmailliststart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">put your name and e-mail address on the Rhea Lana mailing list</a>. If you\'re looking for ways to make sure you don\'t miss a single snippet of news on this huge sale, liking Rhea Lana on FB and adding your name to their mailing list are both sure-fire ways to do just that.\r\n\r\nYou can also <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssparticipate.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">sign up to become a consignor</a>.\r\n\r\nIf you\'re a mom-to-be, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmomstart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">you can sign up for the Rhea Lana pre-sale</a>, which means you get first dibs on all the cutest baby goodies. You can shop early <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssworkinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">if you want to help as staff at the sale</a>, too.\r\n\r\nIf you want to learn even more about the Rhea Lana sale, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/\">check them out on their website</a>.\r\n\r\nGood luck, everyone, and happy bargain secret sharing!','Win $50 from South Tulsa Rhea Lana’s','Cue Rhea Lana, a south Tulsa children\'s consignment event where Tulsa-area parents can save on gently used clothes that aren\'t only priced right, but that also rival what\'s on the racks at the boutique kids\' stores.','inherit','open','open','','5549-revision-9','','','2011-02-09 17:50:55','2011-02-09 22:50:55','',5549,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/5549-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(5783,1,'2011-02-09 21:55:53','2011-02-10 02:55:53','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5550\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/rhea-lana-south-tulsa-2011/racks/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5550\" title=\"Rhea Lana\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/racks-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Rhea Lana\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSometimes it\'s fun to go to the mall and while away an afternoon gasping at the numbers on the price tags in children\'s boutiques.\r\n\r\nBut when it\'s time to stock up on toys, furniture and clothes you\'d like your kids to be able to wear without being followed around by Mom or Dad and a fresh pack of Shout wipes, those price tags aren\'t so funny anymore.\r\n\r\nCue <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/\">Rhea Lana, a south Tulsa children\'s consignment event</a> where Tulsa-area parents can save on gently used kids\' stuff. It\'s also a place where parents can consign their kids\' clothing and toys and earn 70 percent by doing it.\r\n\r\nAnd to make this news even sweeter, <strong>Rhea Lana wants to give one lucky TDT reader a $50 gift certificate to spend at their sale later this month.</strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nFirst things first: To make sure you don\'t miss this sale, mark this down in your calendar:\r\n\r\n<strong>Rhea Lana Tulsa Sale</strong>\r\nWhen: Feb. 16-19\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Wednesday, Feb. 16: 9am-8pm</li>\r\n	<li>Thursday, Feb. 17: 9am-8pm</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Feb. 18 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-7pm</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Feb. 19 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-12pm</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/csssaleinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">The Shoppes at Regal Plaza, 105th and Memorial</a>\r\n\r\nWhat you find at this sale (where, by the way, there\'s no cost for parking or for admission): Baby stuff. Toys galore. Boys\' and girls\' clothing from just about any brand name or boutique you can imagine. Maternity wear. Games. Books. Enough outdoor goodies to make your back yard look like a playground.\r\n\r\nBasically, anything and everything that can make your life easier as a hardworking parent by pleasing both your kids and your pocketbook.\r\n\r\n<strong>To enter to win a $50 pass to this shopping wonderland</strong>, courtesy of Rhea Lana\'s South Tulsa, simply head to the comments section on this post and \'fess up:\r\n<h2><strong>What is your No. 1 bargain-hunting strategy? </strong></h2>\r\nWhether you\'re at a children\'s consignment event at Rhea Lana or sifting through the racks at your favorite vintage shop or barreling down the aisles at the grocery store, what\'s your top trick for saving a buck?\r\n\r\n<strong>I\'ll accept entries to this contest until Saturday, Feb. 12, at 10 a.m</strong> I\'ll let Random.org choose the winner at that time, and I\'ll announce who won the prize shortly after.\r\n\r\nAfter you enter and while you\'re waiting to see if you\'re a winner, take a minute to check out <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhea-Lanas-of-South-Tulsa/115747248488308\">the Rhea Lana Facebook page</a> and to <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmailliststart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">put your name and e-mail address on the Rhea Lana mailing list</a>. If you\'re looking for ways to make sure you don\'t miss a single snippet of news on this huge sale, liking Rhea Lana on FB and adding your name to their mailing list are both sure-fire ways to do just that.\r\n\r\nYou can also <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssparticipate.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">sign up to become a consignor</a>.\r\n\r\nIf you\'re a mom-to-be, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmomstart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">you can sign up for the Rhea Lana pre-sale</a>, which means you get first dibs on all the cutest baby goodies. You can shop early <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssworkinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">if you want to help as staff at the sale</a>, too.\r\n\r\nIf you want to learn even more about the Rhea Lana sale, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/\">check them out on their website</a>.\r\n\r\nGood luck, everyone, and happy bargain secret sharing!','Win $50 from South Tulsa Rhea Lana’s','Cue Rhea Lana, a south Tulsa children\'s consignment event where Tulsa-area parents can save on gently used clothes that aren\'t only priced right, but that also rival what\'s on the racks at the boutique kids\' stores.','inherit','open','open','','5549-revision-10','','','2011-02-09 21:55:53','2011-02-10 02:55:53','',5549,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/5549-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(5057,1,'2011-01-07 10:48:38','2011-01-07 15:48:38','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1995','','','2011-01-07 10:48:38','2011-01-07 15:48:38','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1995.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5058,1,'2011-01-07 10:49:45','2011-01-07 15:49:45','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1988','','','2011-01-07 10:49:45','2011-01-07 15:49:45','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1988.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5059,1,'2011-01-07 10:50:52','2011-01-07 15:50:52','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1932','','','2011-01-07 10:50:52','2011-01-07 15:50:52','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1932.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5060,1,'2011-01-07 10:51:29','2011-01-07 15:51:29','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1936','','','2011-01-07 10:51:29','2011-01-07 15:51:29','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1936.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5061,1,'2011-01-07 10:53:28','2011-01-07 15:53:28','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1940','','','2011-01-07 10:53:28','2011-01-07 15:53:28','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1940.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5062,1,'2011-01-07 10:54:28','2011-01-07 15:54:28','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1957','','','2011-01-07 10:54:28','2011-01-07 15:54:28','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1957.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5063,1,'2011-01-07 10:55:20','2011-01-07 15:55:20','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_2008','','','2011-01-07 10:55:20','2011-01-07 15:55:20','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_2008.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5064,1,'2011-01-07 10:56:12','2011-01-07 15:56:12','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_2012-2','','','2011-01-07 10:56:12','2011-01-07 15:56:12','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_2012.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5065,1,'2011-01-07 10:58:17','2011-01-07 15:58:17','','Downtown Balloons','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1941','','','2011-01-07 10:58:17','2011-01-07 15:58:17','',5056,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSC_1941.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),