Tulsa There Was Very Little Día de Los Muertos at the Día de Los Muertos Pickleball Tournament If we’re fortunate, the ancestors might still look down and smile. Z.B. Reeves 8 Nov 2024 · 3 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 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 Reggie Watts Isn’t Going To Get To The Point Reggie Watts, With Openers Casey Rocket, Simon Fraser, Cepeda Cheeks and Val Werner Blue Whale Comedy Festival Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa August 24, 2024 Reggie Watts tickled me first through Z.B. Reeves 3 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Misery Wrapped In A Pink Bow Charlotte Bumgarner: “Promise” EP Release Show LowDown Tulsa Aug. 16, 2024 For a singer-songwriter whose songs feature on a Spotify playlist named “broken love songs to feed your misery,” Charlotte Z.B. Reeves 25 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa This Art Deserves Better Jordan Vinyard: Command + C, Command + C, Command + CTAC Gallery Tulsa Aug. 2 – 24, 2024 Kinetic sculpture — sculpture that moves — is a tough beast to tame. It tends to move slowly, Z.B. Reeves 9 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Willi Carlisle Hits Close To Home Willi Carlisle: The Critterland! Tour Mercury Lounge Tulsa July 11, 2024 In Willi Carlisle’s song “Tulsa’s Last Magician,” an aspiring trickster lives and dies on the side streets Z.B. Reeves 21 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Every Song Has To Start Somewhere I Can’t… Write a Song! Workshop TCC McKeon Center for Creativity Tulsa June 22, 2024 Songwriting is a strange art, hard to explain, harder to practice. The art of Z.B. Reeves 30 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Our Pun-dolences To The Losers Welcome To PUNderland: The Great Philbrook Pun-Off Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa June 21, 2024 I love it when Philbrook does something outside their realm of expertise. During his eight Z.B. Reeves 28 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa The Night Chappell Roan Came To Town Chappell Roan: Midwest Princess Tour Cain’s Ballroom June 5, 2024 Watch Chappell Roan’s recent videos on social media and you’ll see crowds ballooning: huge and storied attendances Z.B. Reeves 14 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Talking To God In A Tulsa Jazz Club The John Hanrahan Quartet Performs “A Love Supreme” LowDown May 4, 2024 The liner notes to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme are sublime. Coltrane describes his album as a Z.B. Reeves 10 May 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Herbie Hancock Can Be Your Grandpa For A Night Herbie Hancock Tulsa Performing Arts Center April 7, 2024 It was a privilege to watch Herbie Hancock cavort around a stage with a keytar. I hope you got to see Z.B. Reeves 19 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Woody Guthrie Lives In Beat Root Revival Beat Root Revival Mercury Lounge March 28, 2024 England’s Ben Jones and Ireland’s Andrea Magee make up Beat Root Revival, an acoustic duo that combines the best of Z.B. Reeves 7 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Dombrance & The Collapse Of Meaning Dombrance Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa March 9, 2024 The character of Dombrance — with his red suit, black tie, distinctive mustache, and high-energy beats — was well-received, and deservingly so, at Cain’ Z.B. Reeves 18 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Low-Brow and High-Brow Come Together At Philbrook’s New Show Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa Through April 28 Remember lenticular? It’s that style of art with a glossy, shifting surface, where the image Z.B. Reeves 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Opening Act Steals The Show Bandelier and David Hernandez Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 20, 2024 What could have been Bandelier’s triumphant re-entry into 2024 show life was, both by accident and by fault, Z.B. Reeves 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
