Tulsa The Book Fair Grows Up Magic City Books’ Adult Book Fair NEFF Brewing Sept. 21, 2023 I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived at Magic City’s Adult Book Fair. Like many Z.B. Reeves 28 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Rappers Meet Up With Poets To Pärlā Pärlā Creative Festival Presents: Open Mic Poetry & Hip-Hop Night Letterman’s Lounge Sept. 21, 2023 “Good poets talk about the loss. Great poets teach you how to win.” These Ryan Anderson 27 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Messy, Slippery, Smart, Terrifying Jazz Delivers For This Trying Time NOLATET LowDown jazz club Sept. 16, 2023 Last Saturday night, I saw the New Orleans-based NOLATET play at LowDown, the Arts District’s basement jazz club. Made up of Brian Z.B. Reeves 22 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa An Evergreen Band Finds A Fresh Peach Perch Tom Skinner’s Science Project Thelma’s Peach Aug. 30, 2023 Thelma’s Peach is tiny inside and out. There’s a neon peach emanating a warm glow from above Becky Carman 21 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Outsider Sound-Makers Plug In One Aux: An Open Mic for the Sonically Curious Heirloom Rustic Ales Sept. 13, 2023 Tulsa’s experimental music scene has grown steadily over the last decade, becoming a fertile Brad Rose 20 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Challenging Appropriation From A Tiny World Stage The Chinese Lady September 10, 2023 World Stage Theatre Company You wouldn’t know it to look at the space from the street, but in a tiny studio on the Alicia Chesser 15 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa I Went To The Super Bowl of Classical Music Tulsa Symphony brings in a guest to shake up an old favorite. Tulsa Symphony Opening Night September 9, 2023 Tulsa Performing Arts Center Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 — the one Z.B. Reeves 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa “We’re Gonna Stay” Women and non-binary muralists make their mark Sunny Dayz Mural Festival Sept. 9, 2023 Pearl District “You know when you’re an Okie and you’re trans and you think, Alicia Chesser 12 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Black Moonscapes Deliver First Friday Hope, Not Hype “Moonscapes & Earthshine” + TAF First Friday Programming September 1, 2023 TAF Studio 101 / Archer Studios As someone who tends to lose hours of my one wild and precious life to Alicia Chesser 8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Tulsa, We Have A Situation: Revived Open Mic For Musicians Makes Magic The Situation August 28, 2023 Fassler Hall What’s The Situation? It’s an open mic night with a live band, but it’s so much more than that. It’ Ryan Anderson 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Jazz Raises Monday Nights From The Dead I am a jazz simpleton. Everything about a live jazz performance is as astonishing to me as a no-look pass (and I am probably even worse at playing basketball than Becky Carman 6 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa “Drown Or Swim” New play recasts Oedipus's mother as a dancer navigating the modern age. What stories does the body tell? As we learn more about how our cells carry the Alicia Chesser 5 Sep 2023 · 4 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
Tulsa Femme And Queer Oklahomans Raise Voices In Group Show In April, The Oklahoman reported that Oklahoma ranked lowest in gender equity nationally. Additionally, Equaldex ’s 2023 Equality Index placed the state at #47 for LGBTQ+ rights. These metrics, along Jenny Wu 30 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Hannah Dasher’s Country Rock Is Large And In Charge If you like country music and haven’t heard of Hannah Dasher, I’d bet some honey-buttered biscuits on that fixing to change. Seeing is believing, and I bore witness Mitch Gilliam 25 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Honky Tonk Hero Serves Up Country Crooning If you have, as Junior Brown sang, spent “too many nights in a roadhouse,” you can now get your fill of country music and cold drinks during daylight hours on Becky Carman 23 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Taking Art To The Moon And Back Linda Lopez & Mathew McConnell: Live from the Moon Aug. 4 — Sept. 24, 2023 108|Contemporary On Christmas Eve in 1968, three American astronauts aboard the spacecraft Apollo 8 became Jenny Wu 22 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Lucky Find In The Dumpster Fire: Hot Messes Tackle Hot Topics At Tulsa Story Slam “OK, So” Story Slam: Hot Mess Aug. 11, 2023 Living Arts of Tulsa The literary theorist Roland Barthes believed it was a photographer’s job to “shock” — in other words, Alicia Chesser 17 Aug 2023 · 3 min read