Before I write anything else this week, I want to send my thoughts and condolences to the family and friends of Jeff Rogers.
As you may have seen, Jeff – the owner/ operator of Cowboy Ranch, Yo! Pablo, and a wide variety of other metro restaurants, bars, and clubs over the years that seemed to shut down just as fast as they opened – died on Friday morning, about 24 hours or so after Pete Bryziki of OKC Talk published a fair but brutal takedown that exposed Jeff’s various business, tax, and legal troubles.
Pete – a message board journalist who briefly owned and nearly ran the Oklahoma Gazette into the ground – curiously deleted his article without explanation after the news of Jeff’s passing hit social media on Friday. The cached version is still available here.