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Mitch Gilliam

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They Don't Call Him Trombone Shorty For Nothing Tulsa

They Don't Call Him Trombone Shorty For Nothing

In a world currently defined in measures of cruelty, Cain’s on this night contained only cheer.

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Mitch Gilliam
28 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Burgin’ Out with Bad Mitch: Finding Tulsa’s Best Okie Burger Tulsa

Burgin’ Out with Bad Mitch: Finding Tulsa’s Best Okie Burger

Tulsa’s burger scene is massive, rich with lore, and worth exploring.

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Mitch Gilliam
12 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Friends In Unknown Places Tulsa

Friends In Unknown Places

"The Dose: A Psychedelic Comedy Experience" made good on at least one promise: people onstage were definitely tripping balls.

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Mitch Gilliam
24 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
tulsa, music, goth, whittier bar Tulsa

Welcome To The Goth Gae Grief Dance

Under a looming autocracy, this dark dance and goth night brought the medieval Danse Macabre to the top of my mind.

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Mitch Gilliam
24 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
tulsa, movies, circle cinema, film, horror Tulsa

Godzilla Really Is That Big

The tone of the film offered a stark contrast to the rock ‘em sock ‘em Godzilla who’s come to fight the likes of King Kong in multi-million-dollar spectacles.

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Mitch Gilliam
22 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
tulsa, oklahoma, rodeo, cowboy, queer, LGBTQ+ Tulsa

It's Giving Rodeo

Oklahoma, even at its most “country,” is more than just angry white men in MAGA hats.

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Mitch Gilliam
1 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck Tulsa

Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck

What do you call a gay cowboy? Until recently, your uncle might have said ​“a jolly rancher,” but the collective pop culture mind now turns immediately to THE gay cowboy: Orville Peck.

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Mitch Gilliam
20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Lot-A-Burger Staves Off Extinction Tulsa

Lot-A-Burger Staves Off Extinction

Lot-A-Burger 928 W. 23rd St. Tulsa Sept. 5, 2024 I just know a burger hate to see me comin’. Though not on the level of a George Motz, I consider

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Mitch Gilliam
8 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
“Latch Is Love”: Beloved Bar Cat Honored With Second Annual Bar Fest Tulsa

“Latch Is Love”: Beloved Bar Cat Honored With Second Annual Bar Fest

Latch Fest 2024 Whittier Bar Tulsa Aug. 9 & 10, 2024 Sitting side by side at Whittier Bar on a slow afternoon, Latch Fest organizers Laura Voth and Bradley Metcalf

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Mitch Gilliam
16 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Car Troubles, An Ill-Fated Tour & Not That Kind Of Swim Meet Tulsa

Car Troubles, An Ill-Fated Tour & Not That Kind Of Swim Meet

First Annual Swim Meet Chimera Tulsa July 27, 2024 I’m writing this at noon on a 95° Thursday from an Iron Skillet in Weatherford, Texas. AAA should be here

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Mitch Gilliam
6 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Thunderwof’s Hip-Hop Is No Joke Tulsa

Thunderwof’s Hip-Hop Is No Joke

Thunderwof Mixtape Release: “Boys Don’t Cry But, Wofs Shed Tears.” Heirloom Rustic Ales Tulsa July 19, 2024 If you’ve been to a comedy show in Tulsa in the

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Mitch Gilliam
26 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Doomgazing Under The Post-Hardcore Umbrella Tulsa

Doomgazing Under The Post-Hardcore Umbrella

Nightosphere / Porcelain / Facet / Sun Vow Whittier Bar Tulsa July 3, 2024 If you’ve been reading our reviews from Tulsa for a minute, you’ll know Whittier Bar is as

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Mitch Gilliam
15 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Horror Hounds At The Art House Cinema: It’s The Graveyard Shift Slumber Party Tulsa

Horror Hounds At The Art House Cinema: It’s The Graveyard Shift Slumber Party

Graveyard Shift Slumber Party: Neon Slime Circle Cinema Tulsa July 6, 2024 “Furiosa Edges Garfield in Worst Memorial Day Weekend Since 1995.” Whenever I’m doompilled over World War 3,

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Mitch Gilliam
14 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
It’s Been Cowboy Carter For 121 Years At The Boley Rodeo Tulsa

It’s Been Cowboy Carter For 121 Years At The Boley Rodeo

121st Annual Boley Rodeo Boley, OK May 25, 2024 Next weekend, Tulsa Tough will attract thousands of visitors to our city. Throngs of out-of-state and out-of-country travelers will revel in

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Mitch Gilliam
3 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Global Metal ​“Family” Unites, 2 Minutes To Tulsa Tulsa

Global Metal ​“Family” Unites, 2 Minutes To Tulsa

2 Minutes to Tulsa The Vanguard & Cain’s Ballroom March 29 – 31, 2024 A few years back, Swedish old-school metallers Screamer popped into Tulsa, and my band, Blind Oath,

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Mitch Gilliam
7 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa, Oakland Metal Bands Rip & Tear In Unlikely Space Tulsa

Tulsa, Oakland Metal Bands Rip & Tear In Unlikely Space

Necrot / Ectospire / Dust Lord Whittier Bar Tulsa Feb. 11, 2024 Oklahoma has long harbored a love for the Heavy Arts. Black Sabbath played their second to last show here in

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Mitch Gilliam
25 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
A Lavish Happy Toussaint Birthday Tulsa

A Lavish Happy Toussaint Birthday

Allen Toussaint Birthday Celebration Fassler Hall Tulsa Jan. 12, 2024 As downtown Tulsa continues to grow in both its human and business populations, a few nightlife haunts stay consistent. Fassler

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Mitch Gilliam
22 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Cuban Rhythms, Frank Ocean And Whatever The Hell Else: A Night At The Colony Tulsa

Cuban Rhythms, Frank Ocean And Whatever The Hell Else: A Night At The Colony

Lil’ Big Band The Colony Nov. 24, 2023 Turkey and holiday starches are known to tank folks, but Thanksgiving is traditionally a huge day for Tulsa’s service industry. Expats

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Mitch Gilliam
8 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
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