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H&8 Festival celebrates local food and music

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The quaint corners of the Midtown district in Oklahoma City are mostly quiet during the day. But one night a month, from the spring to the fall, the H&8th Night Market brings the downtown area alive with vibrant food trucks and live music. The nickname H&8th stands for the intersection where the event takes place, between Hudson and northwest 8th street. “The point of all this is to create an Oklahoma City night on the town,” said Brian Bergman, event coordinator for H&8th. “In the four-plus years we’ve been an event, Hudson Street was empty businesses, now they are full.”…

Alivia Rawls

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Alivia Rawls, 17, has dirty blond hair, lives in south Tulsa, and “love, love, loves creative writing.” Growing up with a homeless father with a mental illness has made her a determined person, even though he is not around. His situation helped Rawls become passionate about raising awareness of people with mental illnesses and advocating for them. Rawls also relies on creative writing as a stress outlet. The young writer was raised in a single-parent home and has three older siblings. At age 16, Rawls graduated from Oklahoma Virtual High School and received a full-tuition scholarship to the University of…

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