Tulsa Zach Bryan Shoots His Shot Oklahoma loves a hometown star. Cassidy McCants 23 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Beer, Pizza And—What the Hell—Prose A beloved prose-centered reading series (not a makeout sesh) makes a comeback. Cassidy McCants 13 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa For a Good Time Call Caitlin Cook “Since writing on toilet walls is done neither for critical acclaim nor financial reward, it is the purest form of art. Discuss.” Cassidy McCants 13 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Reel Twisted: Forging Community Through Film In 2021, Tulsa added two much-needed film festivals to its CV: the all-online Greenwood Film Festival, which debuted in the midst of the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre... Cassidy McCants 11 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa If The Spot Is Moroccan, Then Do Come A‑Knockin’ Notes of Marrakesh 315 S. Trenton Ave. Tulsa August 24, 2024 The façades of Trenton Avenue’s 300 block, particularly on the east side — home to Maples 918 Tacos & Cassidy McCants 30 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Yevtushenko Reads Yevtushenko: A 92nd Birthday In Two Languages Yevtushenko Reads Yevtushenko WOMPA Tulsa July 19, 2024 If you haven’t been to WOMPA yet, I’ll start by saying it’s unlike anything else in the city. It Cassidy McCants 28 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa You Might Be A Redneck If… Trae Crowder The Loony Bin Tulsa July 12, 2024 If you were on social media in 2016 and missed Trae Crowder’s “Liberal Redneck” series, the algorithm might’ve determined Cassidy McCants 19 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa One Part Cuisine, One Part Community, Mix, Repeat The Great Tulsa Cookbook Swap Mother Road Market Tulsa June 13, 2024 When I entered the Mother Road Market patio at 6 p.m. on a sweltering early summer evening Cassidy McCants 21 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Pixels, Pasties, Dice And Derrieres 2nd Annual Geeks & Cheeks Nerdlesque Show Chimera Ballroom Tulsa May 18, 2024 A truth that embarrasses me: Before last weekend, I’d only been to one burlesque show ever. Cassidy McCants 24 May 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa How To Capture The Uncapturable (In Sports, Music & Everything In Between) “Knockout Punches and Barroom Weepers: Writing About Sports and Music“ 101 Archer April 18, 2024 What do music and sports have in common? They defy words, for starters — an irony Cassidy McCants 25 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Discomfort Breeds Discovery At A Tulsa Music-Poetry Smash Poetry & Music Smash-Up Living Arts of Tulsa March 13, 2024 Apparently Zhenya Yevtushenko, our emcee for last Friday’s Poetry & Music Smash-Up, had been dreaming of this “one-night-only” Cassidy McCants 24 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa A Christening For A Listening Room John Moreland, Ken Pomeroy, and Justin Bloss Saint Cecilia’s Tulsa Feb. 23, 2024 One of my favorite shows in the last decade took place at Old Church Center, a Cassidy McCants 29 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Do I Detect A Hint Of Urbanism With That Ghanoush? Maple Ridge Grocer 1810 S. Cincinnati Ave. Tulsa Since McNellie’s Pub opened in 2004, the McNellie’s Group has established a foothold for itself as a major dining enterprise Cassidy McCants 21 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Throughline From Woody Guthrie to Billie Holiday Is Shorter Than You Think Tahira Clayton Woody Guthrie Center Tulsa Dec. 9, 2023 What do Woody Guthrie and Billie Holiday have in common? A recent concert teased out some answers to that question, anchored Cassidy McCants 14 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Boo, Hiss, Splat, Singalong: 70 Years of Old-Timey Antics at the Spotlight “The Drunkard and the Olio“ 70th Anniversary Show Nov. 11, 2023 Spotlight Theater Tulsa What’s that odd white building along the Cry Baby Hill route, with the geometric fountain, Cassidy McCants 17 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Boot Scootin’ Boogie: Tulsey Town Two-Step Brings Back The Honky Tonk For The Best Tulsa Time In A Long Time Inaugural Tulsey Town Two Step VFW Post 577 Community Hall Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 When’s the last time your big Friday night plans involved two-stepping at the VFW? If Cassidy McCants 16 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Step into the Ring: Poet Quinn Carver Johnson, a Pink Cowboy Hat, and an Epic Tale of Queer Pro Wrestling Quinn Carver Johnson in Conversation with Karl Jones Magic City Books’ Algonquin Room Sept. 28, 2023 Slipping into Magic City Books on a quiet night for the launch of Quinn Cassidy McCants 5 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Branjae Manifests The Vibe When I think of Tulsa’s Branjae, I think of discipline, performance, energy. “Who’s a manifester?” she asked us, the sometimes awkward but incredibly enthusiastic crowd at Thelma’s Cassidy McCants 31 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
