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Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age

Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

March 19, 2025

Admittedly, It’s A Rough Time To Get Obsessed With An Egg Dish 

Reader, I can’t stop eating the Two-Egg Soft Scramble at Maple Ridge Grocer

This One Goes Out To The Theatre Kids

“[title of show]” is a perfectly-delivered love letter to a genre

March 14, 2025

Open Thread: I’m Begging Someone To Talk To Me About Severance 

Every Friday, we turn The Pickup over to the readers.

March 14, 2025

Patricia Wolf Made Me Listen

Reviewing “Sounds of Hope,” Wolf’s meditation on ecology, sound, and intentionality

March 13, 2025

“SAMURAI” Was Made For Me Personally 

Philbrook’s new show is a thorough and entertaining explication of samurai life and artifact

March 12, 2025

My Brush With Immortality Involved A Small Mouse And A Lot of Borax

Boxing squirrels, piles of guts and more about taxidermy than you ever stopped to consider

March 12, 2025

A New Day for Lisa Moss

She spent half her life in prison for the death of her abusive husband. Three decades later, the first woman released under the Oklahoma Survivors’ Act is reclaiming her time.

March 11, 2025