Tulsa - Midbrow (Page 12)

tulsa, oklahoma, rodeo, cowboy, queer, LGBTQ+

It's Giving Rodeo

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

Mitch Gilliam

1 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

I’m Shifting Into Fall Soup Mode

Tulsans are spoiled by soup choice, and these five selections are just a drop in the stockpot.

Becky Carman

1 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

tulsa, music, indigenous, poetry, jazz, rock, folk

An Evening of Ceremony: Joy Harjo’s Native Jazz-Rock

Our world moves fast, and something special happens when these four focus on a center point—almost like an incantation.

Kathryn Parkman

1 Nov 2024 · 2 min read

The Soothing Sounds Of Gonkulation

Ten bucks got me a whole night of creative laboratory action, a few new pals, and—as usual—a fresh appreciation for the mischievous, investigative, risk-taking chops of the friendly artists who gather around the One Aux cable.

Alicia Chesser

25 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

The Founder of Sand Springs Might Have Been a Real Weirdo (Or Worse)

Russell Cobb’s newest history, Ghosts of Crook County, traces the life—and the alleged fraud—of Charles Page, that scion of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, whose name graces a statue and street signs along the Arkansas River.

Z.B. Reeves

25 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Dang Clarinet!

The Austin-based Miró Quartet, along with clarinetist David Shifrin, delivered a show that was by turns technically thrilling, culturally edifying, emotionally satisfying, and—wouldn’t you know it—swinging.

Z.B. Reeves

24 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

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.

Mitch Gilliam

20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Ten Tulsa Rappers Share Whys And Rhymes

Go big or go home. That’s the sentiment I always get watching an Aaron Sawyer performance. The emcee, battle rapper, and mental health advocate has performed on many Tulsa stages throughout his career, all while helping to build platforms and cultivate relationships within Tulsa hip-hop.

Ryan Anderson

18 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right

When people talk about being American, they’re inevitably talking about the flavor of American that they themselves are. Being an American is different for the recently-arrived Hmong mother of two than it is for the white suburban housewife whose British ancestors colonized Native land.

Z.B. Reeves

18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Talking Shop with Jad Abumrad

The Lorton Performance Center’s 635 seats were all full as the former host of WNYC’s RadioLab took the stage as part of TU’s Presidential Lecture Series.

Z.B. Reeves

13 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

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

“Jass” As It Was Written

The Sanctuary — a dimly lit Chicago nightclub where jazz, blues, and poetry collided — was a pivotal place in the movie Love Jones, where a young poet named Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) attempts to woo Nina Mosley (Nia Long), an aspiring photographer.

Ryan Anderson

27 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

The Perks Of Being The Wallflowers

I don’t think “ordinary” is pejorative. Without at least some artists finding contentment as part of a greater tradition, what would happen to jazz or ballet or opera?

Becky Carman

26 Sep 2024 · 4 min read

Hip-Hop’s New Area Code

Hip Hop 918 Guthrie Green Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024 It’s been 23 years since Ludacris and the late Nate Dogg dropped their hit single “Area Codes.” 918 wasn’t

Ryan Anderson

23 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

May We Interest You In Some Tasteful Trombone Sliding?

Tulsa Symphony Orchestra: Coleman, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024 I first heard the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra at the final concert of their 2023 – 2024

Yvonne Hazelton

20 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

Everything Fits Together For Creations In Studio K

Tulsa Ballet: Creations In Studio K Tulsa Ballet Sept. 14, 2024 Blink and you’ll miss it: the moment when, at the end of one of the most irresistible duets

Alicia Chesser

20 Sep 2024 · 5 min read

18 Artists, Seven Countries: One Quilt Hanging In Tulsa

TELEPORTAL: “Homeward” TAC Gallery Tulsa Through Sept. 28 Probably the craziest sound bite to come out of the recent presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald

Cassidy Petrazzi

13 Sep 2024 · 4 min read

“Waitress” Cooks

Theatre Tulsa: “Waitress” Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa Sept. 8, 2024 Fair warning: I’m going to exercise about as much restraint in my use of cooking-related metaphors in

Alicia Chesser

13 Sep 2024 · 4 min read