Tulsa 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 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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa 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 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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa 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
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 “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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa 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
Tulsa “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 this Alicia Chesser 13 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Big Dam Poetry Indigenous Language Poetry Night Woody Guthrie Center Tulsa Aug. 31, 2024 The story in Tulsa this Labor Day weekend was all about the Big Dam Party, and amid the celebration Lindsey Smith 8 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
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